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'The Words' Movie Review
trophywife - wrote on 09/13/2012
You know those Russian nesting dolls? The ones that sit inside of each other and get smaller and smaller? Well, “The Words” is kind of like that, only less enjoyable.
THE GOOD: The idea behind this movie is frankly a very good one: Rory Jansen (played by “Sexiest Man Alive” Bradley Cooper) is a struggling would-be author, whose works of fiction are continually rejected by a long line of publishers. After taking out yet another loan from his father for he and his bride Dora (Zoe Saldana) to survive, Rory stumbles across an old manuscript inside a tattered second hand briefcase, and the moral dilemma begins; what would happen if he retyped this magnificent literary masterpiece and claimed it as his own? Well, fame and fortune, apparently – but also that pesky little …
