Comparing her portrayal with Greta Garbo's in the original movie, The San Francisco Chronicle wrote " Watts makes the role work on her own terms — her Kitty is more desperate, more foolish, more miserable and more driven ... and her spiritual journey is greater.

In 2001, Reiser took on a dramatic role as a man desperate to find his birth mother after learning he has a serious illness in the British television movie My Beautiful Son.

Reacting to Mission Mars over 30 years later, SciFi reviewer Gary Westfahl wrote, " The only quality that Adams could persuasively project on film was a desperate desire to be popular, to be liked .... which helps to explain why Adams got his foot in many doors ..." Adams ' last US production was a more solid B picture, a stock car movie filmed in Iowa called Fever Heat.

Most of the characters in the film were based on actual participants of the battle, but their behaviour is mostly fictional – something that has provoked disapproval: in an interview on the DVD, the descendants of Private Hook objected to his portrayal as a thief and malingerer ( though his character acts bravely near the end of the movie during some desperate fighting ).

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly, however, gave the movie a positive review, commenting Crossroads " not only makes excellent use of the singer's sweetly coltish acting abilities, but it also promotes a standardized set of sturdy values with none of Mariah Carey's desperate Glitter, or any of Mandy Moore's gummy pap in A Walk to Remember ".

Her other variety of roles include: Daag: The Fire ( 1999 ), where she played a nasty prostitute ; in Pyaar Koi Khel Nahin ( 1999 ) she played a widow forced to marry her brother-in-law ; in Dhadkan ( 2000 ) she is a loving friend of a man who is madly in love with another woman ; in Deewane she plays a singer in love with a thief ; in Kurukshetra she plays the stubborn wife of a police officer ; in Lajja she plays a young bride forced to fight dowry ; in Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar ( 2001 ) she plays a stubborn tenant who will not give up her home at any cost ; in Om Jai Jagadish she is the loving homemaker ; in Dil Hai Tumhaara she is the loving sister who would do anything for her sister's happiness ; in Dobara she is the frustrated housewife ; in The Film she is a desperate struggling screenwriter ; in Zameer: The Fire Within she's a paralytic dancer, in Film Star she is an uptight arrogant fading actress ; in Home Delivery: Aapko ... Ghar Tak ( 2005 ) she is an actress who will do anything to get into a big movie ; and in Souten ( 2006 ) she plays a desperate housewife who has an affair with her stepdaughter's boyfriend.

After Priscilla quits on him, Melvin is desperate to cast Ginnie in an early scene of the movie.

The movie follows Goozee's own version of events, portraying him as an increasingly desperate young man caught in a love triangle between a mother and daughter, although as the only survivor there is no way of verifying if his version of the events was entirely truthful.

The movie ends with Wallace persuading them to act like dogs, desperate to have him join them.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

In film there has been an adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and also the movie Pelíšky from director Jan Hřebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovský, which depicts the events of the Prague Spring and ends with the invasion by the Soviet Union and their allies.

In August 1980, Waits married Kathleen Brennan, a screenwriter, whom he had met while working on the set of the Francis Ford Coppola movie One from the Heart.

It was a bit part as a " cabaret parasite " in the drama Eyes of Youth that caught the attention of screenwriter June Mathis, who thought he would be perfect for her next movie.

Over the years, the film's screenwriter Stanley Weiser has been approached by numerous people who told him, " The movie changed my life.

In 1960, Frank Sinatra announced his plan to produce a movie titled The Execution of Private Slovik, to be written by blacklisted Hollywood 10 screenwriter Albert Maltz.

She taught ' Workshop in the Novel ' at New York University in 1943 and 1944, and also worked as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s, contributing to the Madame Curie biopic and the John Ford and John Wayne war movie, They Were Expendable.

The movie was written by Robert L. Joseph, Lupino, and her husband Collier Young, based on a story by Out of the Past screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring, who was blacklisted at the time and did not receive screen credit.

The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent movie star who draws him into her fantasy world where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen with Erich von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling, her butler and ex-husband.

follows a fictionalized version of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman as he struggles to adapt a book into a script, while the movie features scenes about the making of Being John Malkovich, previously written by Kaufman and directed by Jonze.

* Sai Paranjpye ( born 1938 ), movie director and a screenwriter in India

The team is based on the 1962 Phi Kappa Psi Little 500 champions, which featured legendary rider and Italian enthusiast Dave Blase, who provided screenwriter and fellow Phi Kappa Psi team member Steve Tesich the inspiration for the main character in the movie.

Ringgold Wilmer " Ring " Lardner, Jr. ( August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000 ) was an American journalist and screenwriter blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.

* William Marchant ( 1923 – 1995 ), playwright and screenwriter, best known for writing the play that served as the basis for the 1957 Walter Lang movie, The Desk Set.

The 1994 movie Stargate, directed by Roland Emmerich, and the 2009 video game The Conduit drew some conceptual inspiration from Sitchin's ideas, while screenwriter Roberto Orci says the villains of the film Cowboys & Aliens were inspired by Sitchin's conceptualization of the Anunnaki as gold-mining aliens.

His last movie as director ( also as screenwriter and actor ) was Pensavo fosse amore, invece era un calesse ( 1991 ), again centering on the every day difficulties of love between a man and a woman ( portrayed by Francesca Neri ).

According to screenwriter Dehn the idea for " Beneath " came about from the end of the first movie which suggested that New York City was buried underground.

In Hollywood, screenwriter James Lee Bartlow ( Dick Powell ), movie star Georgia Lorrison ( Lana Turner ), and director Fred Amiel ( Barry Sullivan ) each refuse to speak by phone to Jonathan Shields ( Kirk Douglas ) in Paris.

* Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

In 2008, Plum Pictures announced plans for a Hollywood version of the novel, the movie to be written by playwright and screenwriter Tristine Skyler and Julia Stiles to star as the novel's protagonist, with Rose McGowan as Doreen.

In the mid-1980s, he became a screenwriter / director at The Wing Scope Co. and In-gear Film Production Company, the production houses owned by renowned Hong Kong actor / movie producer Alan Tang.

* Stephen Rebello, writer and screenwriter known for such books as Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho and for the screenplay of a forthcoming ( in 2009 ) movie based on that book.

After collaborating with screenwriter Sacchetti for six years, Fulci went off on his own in 1983 to direct the movie Conquest ( a Conan-like barbarian fantasy ) in Mexico, failing to involve Sacchetti in the deal.

Christopher grew disillusioned with Tony and his frustrated progress in the family, and appeared to be distancing himself from the business by making a movie and trying to become a Hollywood screenwriter.

Ray made several more contributions to film noir, most notably the 1950 Humphrey Bogart movie In a Lonely Place, about a troubled screenwriter, and On Dangerous Ground, a police thriller.

In the movie " The Great Dictator " ( 1940 ), Charlie Chaplin satirized not only Adolf Hitler but the institution of dictatorship itself.

At the BBC, in the 1940s, " everybody would pull his leg ," and Spender described him as having real entertainment value " like, as I say, watching a Charlie Chaplin movie.

Khandi starred in the movie CB4 with Chris Rock and Charlie Murphy.

According to Ethan, " the movie was conceived as pivoting around that relationship between the Dude and Walter ", which sprang from the scenes between Barton Fink and Charlie Meadows in Barton Fink.

* January 30 – The release of the movie City Lights starring Charlie Chaplin.

Also in 2011, Aniston starred in the comedy movie Horrible Bosses, with Colin Farrell, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jamie Foxx, directed by Seth Gordon.

Hanks is known for his roles in Apollo 13, Big, That Thing You Do !, The Green Mile, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Charlie Wilson's War, Catch Me If You Can, Forrest Gump, A League of Their Own, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and as the voice of Woody in the Toy Story movie franchise.

When Mormo is dueling Tristan ( Charlie Cox ) toward the end of the movie, he opens a cage of ferrets, used for sacrifice.

The Jordans ' participation in Look Who's Laughing was set up in the Fibber McGee & Molly episode " Amusement Park " ( 6 / 17 / 41 ), in which Gale Gordon played an RKO pictures representative who followed the McGees around the amusement park and chose the McGees as a representative American couple to star in a movie with Edger Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.

The movie Adaptation was presented as if it had been written by Charlie Kaufman and his fictitious brother Donald Kaufman.

Gary Richard Burghoff ( born May 24, 1943 ) is an American actor, known for playing Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene " Radar " O ' Reilly in the M * A * S * H movie and TV series.

* A Four Letter Word is also the title of a 2007 gay-themed movie starring Jesse Archer and Charlie David.

The movie was critically acclaimed and Charlie Chaplin called it " the greatest movie made about America.

Harpo was part of a team of polo-playing movie stars which included Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy.

In the 2011 Disney Channel original movie Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas !, when Bob Duncan and his two sons, PJ and Gabe, encounter men with guns that try to stop them and when Bob asks for badges, one of the men tells him " Badges?

My Sweet Charlie ( 1970 ) with Patty Duke and Al Freeman, Jr. dealt with racial prejudice, and That Certain Summer ( 1972 ), starring Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen, although controversial, was considered the first TV movie to approach the subject of homosexuality in a non-threatening manner.

In 1998, Michaels made his acting debut along side Charlie and Martin Sheen in the movie A Letter from Death Row, which was also written and directed by Michaels.

Other popular compositions included the jazz standard " Eccentric " (" That Eccentric Rag " from 1912 ), " Jazzola " ( 1919 ), " I Got a New Deal in Love ", " Swing, Mr. Charlie ", " Sapho Rag ", " Two Time Dan ", " Mary Jane " with Andy Razaf, " Beale Street Mama ", " I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again Tomorrow ", " Aggravatin ' Papa ", recorded in 1923 by Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Florence Mills, Pearl Bailey, and Sophie Tucker, " Palesteena ", the classic " Margie ", " Mary Lou ", " Singin ' the Blues ", " Meet Me in No Special Place ( And I'll Be There at No Particular Time )", recorded by Nat King Cole, and the title song for the movie Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ).

Comedians Charlie Dale ( left ) and Joe Smith ( Smith and Dale ) in a comedy sketch for Soundies movie jukeboxes ( 1941 )

Rathbone sees them and sets fire to the building, but young Charlie shows up and makes off with the Seal, Lin escapes through the roof, and Wang and Roy commandeer Rathbone's primitive automobile ( one, though, which didn't actually exist in 1887, one of the many anachronisms in the movie ) for a wild ride, culminating in them crashing into Stonehenge.

Charlie ( who reveals his full name to be Charlie Chaplin, another anachronism because the movie is actually set 2 years prior to Chaplin's birth ) breaks them out, and they go to Queen Victoria's Jubilee Ball, where the Royal Family will be.