4 stories in one - Dennis Quaid is the narrator, telling the story of Bradley Cooper, a writer who finds someone else's manuscript in an old briefcase bought from an antique store. Cooper types up the manuscript, word for word and gets it published as his own work. Then Jeremy Irons shows up as the guy that wrote the original manuscript. He confronts Cooper, telling him how he used his life in wartime Paris as the basis for his manuscript - this is boring me writing the review almost as much as the movie did.
Some say this film has been "sadly overlooked". For me if falls short on several fronts.
First: the outcome is obvious from the start. You know it's not going to end well for the plagiarist. Second, it's basically a romance film thinly disguised as a literary drama. Third, it's tediously slow, and not helped by the plodding narration, first by Quaid and then by Irons.
I'd like to say that something arresting happened to bring this to a dramatic finale.
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