The Words

 The Words 2012

• Director: Brian Klugman and Lee Sterthal
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born, Silver Linings Playbook, He’s Just Not That into You
• Dennis Quaid – Smart People, American Dreamz, In Good Company, Day after Tomorrow, Far from Heaven, Postcards from the Edge, Great Balls of Fire, Enemy Mine
• Zoe Saldana – Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Out of the Furnace, Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean Black Pearl
• Olivia Wilde – Conversations with Other Women
• Jeremy Irons – Their Finest, The Man Who Knew Infinity, High-Rise, Beautiful Creatures, The Hollow Crown, Casanova, Kingdom of Heaven, Being Julia, The Merchant of Venice, Longitude, The House of Spirits, Waterland, Kafka, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• Why? The cast
• Seen: 31 August 2022      

Rory Jansen (Cooper) has written a small book that has unexpectedly won many awards, but there’s an old man (Irons) lurking in the background and another author (Quaid) seems to have written a novel about Jansen and his wife Dora (Saldana).

       OK, so it’s about authors and publishing. A popular but often boring subject. This one has a twist but that doesn’t help, and I don’t like stories within stories within stories. Especially when, like this one, each is rather boring.

       Cooper is good, I’ll give him that but it’s all so contrived and I almost never like Quaid. 

2 * of 5