Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius

Summary 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. View more details

Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius

Directed : Rob Thompson

Written : F. Scott Fitzgerald Rob Thompson

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Genres : Drama

Release date : Nov 19, 1987

Countries of origin : United States United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : KCET Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Zenith Entertainment KCET

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : Drama

Release date : Nov 19, 1987

Countries of origin : United States United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : KCET Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Zenith Entertainment KCET

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