The Rewrite (Film – Starring Hugh
Grant and Marisa Tomei)
Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) won a
major screenwriting award a couple of decades ago and has had trouble pitching
a new script; Hollywood just doesn’t like his new ideas. He is desperate for a paying job so
unwillingly, but necessarily, he takes a job teaching screenwriting at a small
college in Binghamton, New York. He
figures he can breeze though this whole teaching thing, but something strange
happens. With help from his one
non-traditional student (Marisa Tomei) he begins to realize that screenwriting
isn’t just something you are born either being able to do or not do as he
supposed. It can be taught. And he may be the guy to teach it.
This is Hugh Grant as you remember
him in his hit rom-coms: his self-deprecating humor, playing off awkward
situations charmingly and being a jerk but still getting you to like him. The best way to describe the film is a
coming-of-age story at age fifty. Keith
is a man who needs to grow into the next phase of his life and his students
help him as he helps them.
Pop some popcorn and enjoy!
