Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius (1987)

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Country: UK, USA
Genres: Drama
Release: 1989-08-15
Director: Rob Thompson
Writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Rob Thompson
Language: English
Stars: Christopher Lloyd , Colin Firth , John Finnegan , Joseph Campanella , Joseph V. Perry , Al Mancini , Al Mancini , David Hart , Paul Tauger , Beau William Starr , Dennis Franz
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Patt Hobby współpracuje z geniuszem (Poland) , Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius (United States of America) , Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius , Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius (United Kingdom)
Plot: Hollywood hack Pat Hobby lands a job adapting a play by the brilliant Rene Wilcox for the screen. Wilcox refuses to work with him and Hobby believes he has written the script on his own. He steals it, makes a few changes, then submits it. The studio immediately recognizes it as a different script which has previously been submitted and rejected. When Wilcox realizes what has happened, he insists that Hobby work with him once more, but only uses him to model a particularly sorry character of his new play on him.
IMDB:tt0165419