Filters:
  • #playwright
Summary: Kermit and his friends go to New York City to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Franchise: The Muppets
Domestic: $ 25,534,703
International: $ 729
Summary: Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: United States, China
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 84,000,000
Domestic: $ 174,340,174
International: $ 294,724,785
Summary: A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,021,175
International: $ 31,366,512
Summary: A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United States, Japan
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 437,547
International: $ 132,449
Summary: A struggling playwright invites a young writer to his home to discuss a script, but the meeting spirals into a deadly game of deception and betrayal.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,282,134
Summary: A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Summary: While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 13,111,101
Summary: Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.
Distributor: Warner Home Video
Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Runtime: 1 h 54 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
Domestic: $ 403,701
Summary: The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,644,736
Summary: Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding ...
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: G

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 518,522
International: $ 2,355,952
Summary: After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 162,138
International: $ 5,664,427
Summary: A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
Runtime: 1 h 31 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.
Release Date: December 12, 2003
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 80,000,000
Domestic: $ 124,728,738
International: $ 140,600,000
Summary: From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company...
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: France, Germany
Language: French
Domestic: $ 18,929
International: $ 1,147,811
Summary: To satisfy his creditors, a witty actor reinvents himself as a satirical playwright, with uproarious, yet bittersweet, results.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: France
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 16,000,000
Domestic: $ 635,733
International: $ 10,243,134
Summary: A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
Domestic: $ 61,821
International: $ 23,197
Summary: Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,654,743
International: $ 18,184
Summary: It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Bertolt Brecht (Bierbichler) is about to leave his lakeside house among the tall birches in Brandenburg to return to Berlin for the upcoming theater season. Most o...
Runtime: 1 h 37 min

Countries: Germany, Poland
Language: German
Domestic: $ 10,952
Summary: A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
Release Date: November 10, 1968
Genres: Comedy, Music
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 941,000
Domestic: $ 328,673
International: $ 46,851