10 Best Films About Writer's Block

Speaking of drunk writers, this 1945 Best Picture winner features Ray Milland as a writer who constantly eludes those who seek to help him, finding new and more tragic ways to fall into stupors. The film was made only a decade after the founding of AA, and little was known about alcoholism in the medical field. In fact, it would be another eleven years before alcoholism was recognized by the AMA as a mental illness.

Nevertheless, Milland's portrayal of "Don the drunk" as opposed to "Don the writer" is as nuanced and tragic as Jack Lemmon's drunk in The Days of Wine and Roses. Like 80's-era King, Don constantly talks about writing a novel about his battle with alcoholism. Unlike King, however, the bottle keeps preventing him from starting it, going so far as to pawn his typewriter to feed his habit.