THE WORDS

SPOILER ALERT: (though it ain't any earth-shattering twist or ending!)

Dennis Quaid is an author who has written a book about Rory (acted by Bradley Cooper; and what a hunk he is and a really good actor too with beautiful eyes; unlike Quaid who has taken acting lessons from Keanu Reeves - a sleepy Perry Como technique) who is a struggling writer. Rory is married to Dora who is inexpertly and misguidedly played by Zoe Saldana (she had no chemistry with Cooper at all and was unbelievable as a wife. she mostly slithered her body over Cooper's and rubbed his head and batted her big eyes).

Rory accidentally finds a manuscript of a book in an old briefcase he buys at an antique store. and through a series of events, he sort of unconsciously falls into the huge dishonest act of passing it off as his own. And of course it is a big hit and he is feted royally around town and wins lots of awards.

Well, one day the REAL writer of this book (wonderfully acted by Jeremy Irons) shows up. During his meeting with Rory, he tells the story that he had written and that Rory was passing  off as his own. and it is a true story of his time in the war and his falling in love and the death of his child and about including all these incidents in the book he wrote which was left on a train in a briefcase found years later by Rory.

Jeremy Irons doesn't want to be paid off or given any credit. He just wanted Rory to know where those words came from.

and at the end of the movie, Dennis Quaid who is reading from the book he wrote about the above story is confronted by a student who wants to know if its a true story or not. In other words, is Quaid the guy who published the book as his own? like it wasn't a fiction book that Quaid wrote but an autobiographical piece.

Confused yet? i got a little mixed up at the end. and I don't think there was ever any conclusion as to Quaid's honesty or not.

I gave the movie a 6.5 and Bill gave it an 8. It was too long and a little slow and had too many words.!