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07/09/2012 Drama, Thriller 1h 42m
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There's more than one way to take a life.

Overview

The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

  1. Brian Klugman

    Director

  2. Lee Sternthal

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Bradley Cooper

    Rory Jansen

  2. Zoe Saldaña

    Dora Jansen

  3. Jeremy Irons

    The Old Man

  4. Dennis Quaid

    Clay Hammond

  5. Olivia Wilde

    Danielle

  6. J.K. Simmons

    Mr. Jansen

  7. John Hannah

    Richard Ford

  8. Željko Ivanek

    Joseph Cutler

  9. Ben Barnes

    Young Man

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Reviews

A review by tmdb28039023
Written by tmdb28039023 on 2022-08-30
The Words obliquely poses the question, what would have happened if someone had found the suitcase full of Papa Hem’s manuscripts that Hadley lost at the Gare de Lyon, and published the con-tent as his own work?

Unfortunately, the answer is: not much. The problem, or one of them, is that the movie establishes too long a period of time between the loss of the manuscript — shortly after the end of WWI — and its publishing — presumably, the then-present day.

As we all know, Hemingway eventually got over the incident and went on to become arguably the greatest author of the 20th cent...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$6,000,000.00

Revenue
$13,231,461.00

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