The Words

Two things. 1) Bradley Cooper doesn't do it for me. 2) Jeremy London is the god damned man.

So I watched this movie which is easily summed up by the Rotten Tomatoes review "This film is not as clever as it thinks it is."

That being said, the movie was enjoyable. Bradley Cooper, while researching a novel in France, is gifted with a vintage suitcase by his wife and inside he finds the manuscript for a heart breaking novel. He passes the work off as his own, to literary renown. Out comes Jeremy London, the writer, whose heartbreaking post-WWII life is the basis of the book and thus the "words" are his and they were all he had left. Bradley Cooper is conflicted, he learns a lesson.... might lose his wife just like Jeremy London in the book... but wait! This is all in a novel by Dennis Quaid, who is explaining the story to Olivia Wilde, who figures out that story in the story is allegory for The Quaid who chose "words" over his wife....

Nicely filmed. Interesting story. Tried to be too clever.