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Dreams on Spec is a american film of genre Documentary released in USA on 1 january 2007 with James L. Brooks

Dreams on Spec (2007)

Dreams on Spec
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Released in USA 1 january 2007
Length 1h26
OriginUSA
Rating62% 3.1383553.1383553.1383553.1383553.138355

Dreams on Spec is a 2007 American documentary film that profiles the struggles and triumphs of emerging Hollywood screenwriters. It was written and directed by Daniel J. Snyder, who learned first-hand about the screenwriter's travails in the late 1980s when he was a teenager working alongside aspiring writer/directors Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary in the famed Video Archives video store in Manhattan Beach, California.

Synopsis

The film follows three aspiring screenwriters as they struggle to turn their scripts into movies. David is a hip talent agent's assistant with three scripts circulating around town. He's plugged into "young Hollywood" - and when he's not working or writing, he's usually hanging out at the beach. Joe is a middle-aged family man who has split time over the last three years between caring for his autistic daughter and writing what he believes could be the great American screenplay. And Deborah is trying to become one of the few African-American women to ever write and direct a feature film, though she's struggling just to pay her bills while she searches for money to produce her script. Between these stories, the film intercuts critical insight from such Hollywood screenwriters as James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, Gary Ross, Steven E. de Souza, Ed Solomon, Paul Guay, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.

Actors

James L. Brooks

(Self)Nora Ephron

(Self)Carrie Fisher

(Self)Gary Ross

(Self)Steven E. de Souza

(Self)
And :
Scott Alexander
Larry Karaszewski
Scott Glosserman
Ed Solomon
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