Movie Review – Ghost Writer (2007)

Starring – Alan Cumming, David Boreanaz
Director – Alan Cumming
Domestic Gross – Direct to DVD
Running Time – 100 minutes

I really should stop watching Direct to DVD movies and expecting good things. I enjoy both Boreanaz and Cumming so I figured I’d give it a shot. The story is that Boreanaz is a terrible writer who wrote a novel, but can’t seem to get any traction. He preys on Cumming’s charity and lives in his place without any thought of compensation etc. Let’s not forget that Cumming is a repressed homosexual that yearns for Boreanaz despite his being a rampant heterosexual. Finally, Cumming snaps and kills him in a very elaborate manor involving women’s underwear and other humiliations. Before his death though he gave the novel to a publisher saying that Cumming wrote it. It made less sense in the movie than it does here. Regardless, the publisher thinks that this novel is brilliant in it’s simplicity and lack of proper grammar so Cumming becomes a massive success through the work of his now dead houseguest. The overacting is tremendous. Both characters are supposed to be over the top, but they are so far over the top that this movie was sent straight to DVD. Learn from my mistakes and skip it.

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