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The Rewrite is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Marc Lawrence released in USA on 13 february 2015 with Hugh Grant

The Rewrite (2014)

The Rewrite
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Released in USA 13 february 2015
Length 1h47
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating62% 3.146533.146533.146533.146533.14653

The Rewrite is a romantic comedy film starring Hugh Grant as a washed-up screenwriter who begins teaching at a state university and Marisa Tomei as a single mom with whom the screenwriter finds romance. The film is directed by Marc Lawrence based on a screenplay he wrote. It began development at Castle Rock Entertainment in October 2012, and filming began in New York in April 2013.

The Rewrite premiered at a gala screening at the Shanghai International Film Festival on June 15, 2014. The film premiered in theaters in the United Kingdom on October 8, 2014. A theatrical release in the United states on February 13, 2015.

Synopsis

Keith Michaels (Grant) is a washed-up British screenwriter who won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1998. Since then, he has divorced and after a few unsuccessful films, cannot sell another screenplay.. He begins teaching a screenwriting course at Binghamton University in upstate New York and has an affair with a student. Though at first he had no intention of actually teaching he finds himself actually good at it. The affair ends badly and he almost loses the job he realized that he likes, and meanwhile he finds he is in love with a single mother with whom he has been friendly (Tomei).

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