10 Best Films About Writer's Block
1. Adaptation
Another film about writer's block, Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) plays the actual writer of Being John Malkovich as he prepares to write a screenplay similar to that of Fink's grand ideas – something that transcends typical Hollywood tropes like Boy Meets Girl, grand character arcs and car chases.
The studio hands him his next assignment: adapting Susan Orlean's quaint, expanded New Yorker piece The Orchid Thief. His task – turning a book seemingly about how disappointing life can be and how rarely things work out the way you hope – into a full-fledged blockbuster.
His frustration is only worsened by his twin brother Donald's (also Cage) newfound success as a screenwriter whose thriller (which appears to have the same plot as 2003's Identity) is being fast-tracked. Ultimately, Kaufman is forced to sell-out and the film ends in a series of delightfully silly cliches.