Romance, Comedy
Readers across the world are in love with author Sally Carmichael's series of romance novels that chronicle the epic love story between a human girl and a merman. But no one knows that Sally Carmichael is really Simon Hayes, a bitter, serious novelist - and Simon would like to keep it that way. When he is forced to meet a movie star about the movie adaptation, his life of anonymity starts to crumble.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Smoke
HANGRY
What Happens Later
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Shadowlands
Joy & Hope
Some Like It Hot
Murder by the Book
Nim's Island
A Beautiful Rush
The Seven Year Itch
Glitter
The Squid and the Whale
Down with Love
Second Guessing Fate
J. Kramer
Where the Heart Is
Made of Honor
The Romantic
Three for the Show
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Smoke
IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 1995
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.HANGRY
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2025
A zom-com short film about love, hunger and the petty arguments that outlive the apocalypse. Anna and Phil are a zombie couple trying to decide what to eat for dinner, only Anna has reached the critical stage of hanger and can’t decide. As indecision sets in, so does relationship tension. Will they eat together? Or will Phil commit the ultimate betrayal… Eating without her.What Happens Later
IMDB 4.8 | Nov , 2023
Two ex-lovers get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier. But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted.Nurse Betty
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 2000
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.Shadowlands
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1993
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.Joy & Hope
IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 2020
Joy and Hope McGregor run Two Sisters Ranch upstate New York with their dad and longtime friend. When a handsome stranger comes to town to find inspiration to get over writer's block, he learns how special Christmas on the ranch really is.Some Like It Hot
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 2016
After the unexpected death of his best friend, a man examines his life and finds it incredibly lonely. Inspired by an encounter with a beautiful and sexy model, he embarks with his three friends on what turns out to be a crazy (and slightly stupid) endeavor on a path towards fulfillment.Murder by the Book
IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 1987
Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of Biff, and replacing him with a more civilized detective, Mercer soon finds himself in a genuine mystery involving art fraud, murder, and a beautiful lady in peril.Nim's Island
IMDB 5.9 | Apr , 2008
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.A Beautiful Rush
IMDB 10 | Sep , 2022
Like a ticking time-bomb, Ronnie tries to hold his personal relationships and artistic career together while struggling with a debilitating writers block. "A Beautiful Rush" is a silent film that explores what it means to be selfish and lose sight of the blessings life has graced us with.The Seven Year Itch
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 1955
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.Glitter
IMDB 4.3 | Sep , 2001
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.The Squid and the Whale
IMDB 7 | Oct , 2005
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.Down with Love
IMDB 6.1 | May , 2003
In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.Second Guessing Fate
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2025
Gemma has given up on dating until a fortune teller predicts she's one last horrible date away from true love. When she goes on a date with Nick, anything and everything goes wrong, including crashing her car into a handsome and wealthy stranger.J. Kramer
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2013
J. Kramer is a publicist who wants to win Marisa, a girl he met in a club. She thinks that publicists are stupid, will J. Kramer manage to change this girl's mind?Where the Heart Is
IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 2000
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.Made of Honor
IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 2008
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.The Romantic
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2026
Bestselling romance author Francine London has a secret: she’s actually a six-foot-four mountain of a man named Ed Schwenke. When Ed’s identity comes under scrutiny, he hires a wildcard of a woman to pose as Francine at a romance fiction convention, while evading a cynical female journalist, who hates romance even more than she hates liars.Three for the Show
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1955
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.