Michael Scott Myers Movies
- 1999
In this sharp satire of the workings of the film industry, Martin (Sean Gavigan) is a writer whose career writing screenplays has been getting nowhere. After years of being cruelly rejected by studio executives, producers and agents, Martin finally snaps and delivers an ultimatum to his new agent, Bobby (David Coburn) -- sell my new script, or else. The "or else" is punctuated by Martin holding a gun to Bobby's head. Bobby eagerly (and desperately) gets to work trying to find a buyer for Martin's latest opus, despite the fact that it's actually just a sheaf of blank pages. Completed in 1996, Screenplay finally earned a public showing three years later when it was screened at the 1999 Dances With Films Festival Of The Unknown. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Gavigan, David Coburn, (more)
A touching and unusual love story, The Whole Wide World was based on a memoir by Novalyne Price Ellis, in which she recalled her brief romance with Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian and one of the finest and most prolific pulp writers of his day. In 1933, Novalyne Price (Renee Zellweger) is a pretty but shy Texas schoolteacher who would like to be a writer some day. A friend offers to introduce her to Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio), who writes broad, bold yarns about superhuman heroes and damsels in distress and has little patience for writers of more pretentious fiction. Novalyne likes Howard and he seems to like her, but she finds him a hard man to deal with. He lives in the world of his stories, and he devotes as much time as possible to his bedridden mother, which leaves him little time to pursue a romance. But when Howard discovers that another man has been courting Novalyne, he's heartbroken -- even if they didn't have a conventional romance, he felt there was a special emotional bond between them, and he hates to see it thrown away. Renee Zellweger and Vincent D'Onofrio both deliver fine performances and are a believable (if unconventional) romantic couple; D'Onofrio also co-produced. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, (more)
