The Dying Gaul
No Ordinary Love
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1h 35m
Sundance Film Festival
Berlin Film Festival
Austin Film Festival
Based on the play of the same name about a powerful and seductive Hollywood mogul who convinces an impoverished West Hollywood writer, whose lover has recently died of AIDS, to sell his autobiographical screenplay for big bucks. The writer, Robert, knows he'll have to make major changes in the script (like changing the sex of the dying lover). During the rewrite, the producer, Jeffrey, takes Robert under his wing, introducing him to his wife Elaine, herself a closet screenwriter. Jeffrey approaches Robert for sex and Elaine approaches Robert out of curiosity about his sex life in grief. The entangled triangle of relationships threatens more than the completion of a film script.
Directed by: Craig Lucas
Written by: Craig Lucas
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel