Title: The Rewrite Rlje/Image Entertainment Director: Marc Lawrence Writer: Marc Lawrence Cast: Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei, Bella Heathcote, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons and Chris Elliott Running time: 106 min, Unrated Theatrical Release Date: February 13, 2015 Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) is an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter who peaked with said screenplay over 10 years ago. Due to his track record of flops since, he can’t land a job in Hollywood anymore. Desperate and broke, he begs his agent Ellen (Caroline Aaron) to find him anything, and she manages to find him a job as a guest screenwriting professor at an upstate New York university. He thinks this will be a cush [ Read More ]
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- 2/20/2015
- by juliana
- ShockYa
Some more experienced people are struggling to recapture the praise and connections they once held in their professional and personal lives, as their talent and bonds irrevocably begin to diminish. Meanwhile, others who are first beginning to pursue their dreams may squander their goals if they’re also stuck contending with the issues that have already wronged them in their lives. This exploration into how young adults revert to manipulate those around them is presented between the main character, the formerly acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter, Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant), and the sometimes antagonist and aspiring scribe and student, Karen (Bella Heathcote), who he recently began teaching, in the romantic comedy, ‘The Rewrite.’ [ Read More ]
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- 2/15/2015
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Back in the 1990s, Hugh Grant made a name for himself playing charming snots, but in his new film The Rewrite, the emphasis is more on "snot" than on "charming." Here, Grant is Keith Michaels, a Hollywood screenwriter who once had a Golden Globe–winning hit but has since made only flops — that is, when he gets to make anything at all. The film opens with a series of execs listening to, and rejecting, Keith's latest pitch, some generic nonsense about an old man staging his own funeral. When the power is shut off at his apartment, he decides to concede to the final indignity and accepts a teaching job in Binghamton, New York. (“I hate teachers. They’re frustrated losers who haven’t done anything with their own lives, so they want to instruct other people,” he says, little realizing that, for all intents and purposes, he now is that guy.
- 2/13/2015
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
A mix of veterans and newcomers gathered for a screening of writer-director Marc Lawrence's latest film, "The Rewrite." The jovial atmosphere of the event, hosted by The Cinema Society and Brooks Brothers, stemmed both from the heartfelt nature of the film — typical for the work of Lawrence ("Music and Lyrics") — and the exceptional chemistry that formed on-set between the actors. "The Rewrite" stars Hugh Grant as Keith Michaels, an acclaimed screenwriter past his prime. Divorced, nearly broke, estranged from his teenage son and holding onto not-so-vaguely sexist attitudes, he relocates to Binghamton University to take on a teaching job and get back in the swing of things. While there, he meets his match in single parent Holly (played by Marisa Tomei), who's juggling two jobs whilst back at school to find her calling in a more creative field. Characteristic for any Lawrence-Grant collaboration (this is their fourth film together), there's a wistful,...
- 2/11/2015
- by David Canfield
- Indiewire
Romantic-comedy formula is given a feeble meta twist in The Rewrite, in which a once-famous Hollywood screenwriter reluctantly takes a teaching gig in Binghamton, New York, and — cue funny misadventures involving colorful locals — rediscovers his voice.
As with his three prior directorial efforts, Marc Lawrence’s film is a vehicle for Hugh Grant, who as struggling scribe Keith Michaels flashes devilishly sarcastic smiles while bedding students, insulting his feminist co-worker (Allison Janney), and asserting his belief that writing is an innate skill that can’t be taught.
When not making an inappropriate ass out of himself, Keith strikes up an interest in older student — and mother of two — Holly (Marisa Tomei), who encourages...
As with his three prior directorial efforts, Marc Lawrence’s film is a vehicle for Hugh Grant, who as struggling scribe Keith Michaels flashes devilishly sarcastic smiles while bedding students, insulting his feminist co-worker (Allison Janney), and asserting his belief that writing is an innate skill that can’t be taught.
When not making an inappropriate ass out of himself, Keith strikes up an interest in older student — and mother of two — Holly (Marisa Tomei), who encourages...
- 2/11/2015
- Village Voice
“I’m not out there looking for films. On the whole, I’m out of show business,” Hugh Grant claimed last fall, continuing his long trend of trashing his day job. “It’s miserable. It’s a very cruel world, no-one should go into it. I’m always getting cousins and friends, and daughters and sons of friends…wanting to talk about going into acting and I always say just don’t do it at all. It’s brutal.” And yet, here is Grant teaming for the fourth time with writer/director Marc Lawrence ("Two Weeks Notice," "Music And Lyrics," "Did You Hear About The Morgans?") for yet another stroll down Rom Com Lane. However, the actor's reticence to even get in front of camera serves his character well in this softly simmering flick, where both Grant's character, and the actor himself, are more than happy to let other people do the heavy lifting.
- 2/10/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
For his next romcom, Hugh Grant has reunited with director Marc Lawrence to bring his foppish British charms to another light caper, The Rewrite. This collaborative duo are more prolific than you might think, having previously worked on Two Weeks Notice, Music and Lyrics and Did You Hear About the Morgans? Which leads to the inevitable question, will their next affair venture into new territory?
Ahead of its February release a new trailer has arrived online – so we can hazard a guess at how this might turn out. Keeping in the tradition of the roles he tackled in the aforementioned movies, Grant plays a stubborn, out-of-sorts type who rallies against ‘the man’ and pursues a woman who’s kooky and unorthodox (i.e. she’s probably got dreams.) This time he’s out-of-work screenwriter, Keith Michaels, who once won an award and has since fallen on his luck. So, when...
Ahead of its February release a new trailer has arrived online – so we can hazard a guess at how this might turn out. Keeping in the tradition of the roles he tackled in the aforementioned movies, Grant plays a stubborn, out-of-sorts type who rallies against ‘the man’ and pursues a woman who’s kooky and unorthodox (i.e. she’s probably got dreams.) This time he’s out-of-work screenwriter, Keith Michaels, who once won an award and has since fallen on his luck. So, when...
- 1/23/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
It’s like the rom-com gods have answered our prayers. Ever since Love Actually and Music and Lyrics, we’ve been waiting for Hugh Grant to give us another perfect guilty pleasure to cozy up with. Introducing, The Rewrite.
The flick is set on the Binghamton University campus in upstate New York where Keith Michaels (Grant) — once an award-winning screenwriter, now more of a has-been — takes up a professorship. Despite defining teaching as “an absurd profession practiced by desperate failures,” the disgruntled fallen star ships off to Vestal to begin a screenwriting class. While desperately searching for inspiration on campus, he takes a particular interest in <3 Holly Carpenter (Marisa Tomei) <3, a single mom also looking to start anew. Let the witty, flirty banter and romance begin.
The Rewrite which also features Allison Janney and J.K. Simmons, opens in theaters and on VOD and iTunes Feb. 13. So if you want to...
The flick is set on the Binghamton University campus in upstate New York where Keith Michaels (Grant) — once an award-winning screenwriter, now more of a has-been — takes up a professorship. Despite defining teaching as “an absurd profession practiced by desperate failures,” the disgruntled fallen star ships off to Vestal to begin a screenwriting class. While desperately searching for inspiration on campus, he takes a particular interest in <3 Holly Carpenter (Marisa Tomei) <3, a single mom also looking to start anew. Let the witty, flirty banter and romance begin.
The Rewrite which also features Allison Janney and J.K. Simmons, opens in theaters and on VOD and iTunes Feb. 13. So if you want to...
- 1/23/2015
- by Jessie Rubin
- VH1.com
It’s like the rom-com gods have answered our prayers. Ever since Love Actually and Music and Lyrics, we’ve been waiting for Hugh Grant to give us another perfect guilty pleasure to cozy up with. Introducing, The Rewrite.
The flick is set on the Binghamton University campus in upstate New York where Keith Michaels (Grant) — once an award-winning screenwriter, now more of a has-been — takes up a professorship. Despite defining teaching as “an absurd profession practiced by desperate failures,” the disgruntled fallen star ships off to Vestal to begin a screenwriting class. While desperately searching for inspiration on campus, he takes a particular interest in <3 Holly Carpenter (Marisa Tomei) <3, a single mom also looking to start anew. Let the witty, flirty banter and romance begin.
The Rewrite which also features Allison Janney and J.K. Simmons, opens in theaters and on VOD and iTunes Feb. 13. So if you want to...
The flick is set on the Binghamton University campus in upstate New York where Keith Michaels (Grant) — once an award-winning screenwriter, now more of a has-been — takes up a professorship. Despite defining teaching as “an absurd profession practiced by desperate failures,” the disgruntled fallen star ships off to Vestal to begin a screenwriting class. While desperately searching for inspiration on campus, he takes a particular interest in <3 Holly Carpenter (Marisa Tomei) <3, a single mom also looking to start anew. Let the witty, flirty banter and romance begin.
The Rewrite which also features Allison Janney and J.K. Simmons, opens in theaters and on VOD and iTunes Feb. 13. So if you want to...
- 1/23/2015
- by Jessie Rubin
- TheFabLife - Movies
After being a washed up writer for pop tunes in Music and Lyrics, it looks like the perpetually charming Hugh Grant is hitting rock bottom in another part of the entertainment industry. The Rewrite sees Grant playing a former award-winning screenwriter who is now broke, divorced and desperate. So he takes a gig teaching screenwriting at a small town university, and wouldn't you know it, he falls in love with someone there. It's Grant being charmingly befuddled all over again, which some people can't get enough of no matter how many times he does it. And hey, J.K . Simmons has a small role in this one too. Watch below! Here's the Us trailer for Marc Lawrence's The Rewrite from Katrina Wan PR: You can still watch the previous UK trailer for The Rewrite right here. Once upon a time, screenwriter Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) was on top of the world.
- 1/23/2015
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Director: Marc Lawrence; Screenwriter: Marc Lawrence; Starring: Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei, Allison Janney, Jk Simmons, Bella Heathcote; Running time: 107 mins; Certificate: 12A
There's a moment in The Rewrite when a nostalgic Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) heads to YouTube to relive his Academy Awards winners' speech for screenwriting. It's an archive clip of Grant himself picking up a prize, he's floppy-haired, charming and reminds you of just how good he was back in the Notting Hill height-of-fame era.
There have, of course, been great roles for Grant since then. 2002's About a Boy represents a career high, while the criminally-underseen Cloud Atlas saw him in chameleon mode, switching effortlessly between six different characters.
The Rewrite is Grant's fourth starring role for Marc Lawrence (putting the filmmaker in Richard Curtis territory in terms of collaborations), but when their last outing was Did You Hear About the Morgans?, you can guess where this one is going.
There's a moment in The Rewrite when a nostalgic Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) heads to YouTube to relive his Academy Awards winners' speech for screenwriting. It's an archive clip of Grant himself picking up a prize, he's floppy-haired, charming and reminds you of just how good he was back in the Notting Hill height-of-fame era.
There have, of course, been great roles for Grant since then. 2002's About a Boy represents a career high, while the criminally-underseen Cloud Atlas saw him in chameleon mode, switching effortlessly between six different characters.
The Rewrite is Grant's fourth starring role for Marc Lawrence (putting the filmmaker in Richard Curtis territory in terms of collaborations), but when their last outing was Did You Hear About the Morgans?, you can guess where this one is going.
- 10/10/2014
- Digital Spy
For three movies now (Two Weeks Notice, Music and Lyrics, and Did You Hear About the Morgans?), Hugh Grant has been teaming up with writer/director Marc Lawrence to bring the usual Hugh Grant-ness to the big screen (romance and charming Britishness). They team up again for The Rewrite, sharing a lot of its DNA with Music and Lyrics, which sees Grant play a washed up screen writer, still trying to top winning an Academy Award in 1999, forced to take on a job as a screen writing teacher a small New York state university. Initially dismissive of the position, he soon finds himself embracing his new role, and falling for student and single mother Holly (Marishisa Tomei). With most of his career made up of romantic comedies of this ilk, Grant can do this type of role in his sleep at this stage, but to his credit he keeps...
- 10/9/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Hugh Grant is an Oscar winner — well, his character is, anyway — in the upcoming romantic comedy The Rewrite. In the film's first trailer, Grant plays Keith Michaels, a screenwriter who won an Oscar many years ago and is now forced to take a teaching job in a small town to pay the bills. Marisa Tomei co-stars as one of his students who isn't impressed by the level of commitment that the professor is putting forth. Meanwhile, Keith gets himself caught in a web of lies involving Matt Damon and Ryan Gosling. Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons and
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- 8/30/2014
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lately the charming British actor Hugh Grant has taken on some out of the ordinary roles including an eclectic turn in Cloud Atlas and some kind of superior role in next year's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but he had time to get back into his usual romantic comedy territory across the pond. The Rewrite reunites Grant with Two Weeks Notice and Music & Lyrics writer/director Marc Lawrence, and as the first trailer indicates, he's playing a once-thriving screenwriter who is now broke, divorced and desperate. So he takes a gig teaching screenwriting at a small town university. And as you might have guessed, he finds love. Watch! Here's the first trailer for Marc Lawrence's The Rewrite straight from Lionsgate UK: Once upon a time, screenwriter Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) was on top of the world. But 15 years later, he’s divorced, broke, approaching fifty and...
- 8/28/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
The trailer for Hugh Grant's new romantic comedy The Rewrite has been released.
The British actor stars opposite Marisa Tomei in the film, which sees him playing a washed-up screenwriter who gets a job teaching at a local university.
Grant plays Keith Michaels, an Oscar-winning writer who is now divorced, poor and fast-approaching 50.
When his agent gets him a job teaching a screenwriting course at a university in Binghamton, he meets single mum Holly (Tomei), who is also in need of a second chance.
Music and Lyrics and Two Weeks Notice writer and director, Marc Lawrence, has reunited with Grant on the project.
Bella Heathcote, Allison Janney, Jk Simmons and Chris Elliott also feature in the supporting cast.
The Rewrite is released in the UK on October 8. A Us release date has yet to be announced.
The British actor stars opposite Marisa Tomei in the film, which sees him playing a washed-up screenwriter who gets a job teaching at a local university.
Grant plays Keith Michaels, an Oscar-winning writer who is now divorced, poor and fast-approaching 50.
When his agent gets him a job teaching a screenwriting course at a university in Binghamton, he meets single mum Holly (Tomei), who is also in need of a second chance.
Music and Lyrics and Two Weeks Notice writer and director, Marc Lawrence, has reunited with Grant on the project.
Bella Heathcote, Allison Janney, Jk Simmons and Chris Elliott also feature in the supporting cast.
The Rewrite is released in the UK on October 8. A Us release date has yet to be announced.
- 8/28/2014
- Digital Spy
Hugh Grant and director Marc Lawrence have worked together three times before in the past, and it appears they’re channelling at least one of their previous projects, Music And Lyrics, for new rom-com The Rewrite. Check out what we mean by watching the first trailer for the film below.Grant swaps being a songwriter for a screenwriter in this one. He’s Keith Michaels, a man who once ruled the world in Hollywood with awards aplenty, a hit film on his resume and a beautiful wife. But cut to 15 years later and he’s divorced, broke, depressed and hasn’t written a successful film in ages.When his agent suggests he take a job as a screenwriting teacher at a small town university, he initially scoffs at the idea before realising he needs a paying job – any job. Grouchily taking the gig because he thinks it’ll be a...
- 8/28/2014
- EmpireOnline
Even as he takes roles in "Cloud Atlas" and the upcoming "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," Hugh Grant is sandwiching those films with the kind of project which he has much experience: romantic comedy. The first trailer for "The Rewrite" is here, and its familiar fare in new packaging. Co-starring Marisa Tomei, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, Chris Elliott, and Bella Heathcote, the movie reteams Grant with his "Music And Lyrics" and "Two Weeks Notice" writer/director Marc Lawrence, this time for a romance set in the world of, uh, screenwriting. Here's the official synopsis: Once upon a time, screenwriter Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) was on top of the world – a Golden Globe Award and a hit movie to his name, a beautiful wife and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of wit and charm. But that was fifteen years ago: now, he’s divorced, broke, approaching fifty and hasn’t written a hit film in years.
- 8/28/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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