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An ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career. Against the backdrop of Manhattan's changing literary and publishing world, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is asked by Heather Wolfe, a graduate student and budding literary critic, to agree to interviews.
Starting Out in the Evening: Directed by Andrew Wagner. With Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Patti Perkins, Lili Taylor. An ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career.
- (3.4K)
- Drama, Romance
- Andrew Wagner
- 2007-01
Plot. Now aging and ailing, the one-time celebrated author Leonard Schiller has been forgotten by his readers, literary colleagues, and critics during the decade he has struggled to complete what he knows will be his final novel.
Synopsis. Leonard Schiller once counted among New York’s literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer’s block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity.
May 18, 2008 · Starting Out in the Evening is the story of an aged writer’s struggle against the twilight of his waning days and the quiet rage of never having been granted his full day in the sun.
“Starting Out in the Evening” is a film about people who think literature is worth devoting a lifetime to. People who think great novelists are a species of saint. It honors values that seem obsolete in our trashy popular culture, obsessed with the sex lives of vacuumheads.
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Starting Out in the Evening is a film directed by Andrew Wagner with Frank Langella, Lili Taylor, Lauren Ambrose, Adrian Lester .... Year: 2007. Original title: Starting Out in the Evening. Synopsis: Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella) lives in a state of suspended animation.
