Movies about Writing and Writers

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Tributes this week to the late Kirk Douglas reminded me of a bunch of movies that I haven’t seen in a while. Then that reminded me about movies about writers and reporters and writing. And of course, I started making a list. How many of these have you seen?

  • A Man for All Seasons

  • A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

  • Absence of Malice

  • Adaptation

  • All The President’s Men

  • Almost Famous

  • American Splendor

  • As Good as it Gets

  • Barton Fink

  • Becoming Jane

  • Bright Star

  • Broadcast News

  • Capote

  • Citizen Kane

  • Dead Poets’ Society

  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  • Finding Forrester

  • Finding Neverland

  • Funny Farm

  • The Ghostwriter

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  • The Help

  • Henry and June

  • Her

  • His Girl Friday

  • Iris

  • Julia

  • Julie and Julia

  • Kafka

  • Kill Your Darlings

  • Manhattan

  • Midnight in Paris

  • Miss Potter

  • The Motorcycle Diaries

  • Moulin Rouge

  • My Left Foot

  • Naked Lunch

  • The Royal Tenenbaums

  • Saving Mr. Banks

  • Shadowlands

  • Shakespeare in Love

  • The Shining

  • Sleuth

  • So I Married an Axe Murderer

  • Stand by me

  • Sunset Boulevard

  • Sylvia

  • Throw Mamma from the Train

  • Wilde

  • Wonder Boys

  • The World According to Garp

What else would you add to the list?