3 movies that will make you laugh and ugly cry if you’re a writer
To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (2016)
A household name across the world, the Brontë family is renowned for their creative ability to magically weave words and bring a reader deep into the throws of a new world. Yet during a time when women most definitely did not publish bold novels, these three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, could not extinguish the fire inside their hearts to so what they loved most — write. If your heart aches to have people read your work and you’ve been rejected more times than you can count, prepare to ugly cry watching this two hour PBS Masterpiece.
Binge watch on Amazon Prime.
American Dreamer (1984)
Cathy Palmer, a frustrated housewife wins a writing contest and despite her annoyingly unsupportive husband, travels to Paris alone to receive her award. While sightseeing her first day in France, she is hit by a car and falls into a deep state of amnesia. When she wakes in the hospital, Cathy believes she is the heroine, Rebecca Ryan, in a fictional book series. In this clip, Cathy, a.k.a Rebecca Ryan, consumes too much vodka and proceeds to “investigate” a mystery with booze as her right hand man. We’ve all been there. Maybe not in Paris, but as a stressed out woman who’s turned to alcohol for solace.
Get it on Amazon Prime.
(Aside — I hate that this is labelled “Hot drunk scenes from American Dreamer,” but I couldn’t find another YouTube clip.)
Christmas In Connecticut (1945)
Seeing this movie as a child was the defining moment that peaked my mission to become a women’s lifestyle writer. Homemaking columnist, Elizabeth Lane, gets busted when the owner of the magazine she writes for invites a war hero to her farmhouse in Connecticut for the holidays. Her secret? She stinks at housekeeping and doesn’t live on a farmhouse, she lives in a cute apartment in New York. To save her job she recreates her fictional life to appease the magazine which turns into a rather silly web of lies.
Rent or buy on Amazon.
