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The movie overall was pretty good.It follows a middle aged screenwriter Byrdie (Kirstie Alley) who can't sell a pitch because of her age. She gets her 25 year old nephew to pitch her ideas instead. He becomes the next hottest thing, but turmoil ensues.

The main reason why the young man was her nephew was so that he was eliminated as a love interest. It was still odd that he lingered around the house and the very not aunt-like relationship they had. Kirstie's acting was brilliant, however, not everyone was as near as good. The storyline was a little bit predictable and didn't always catch my attention.

The movie was okay. Hopefully, Lifetime will air it again. It was quirky and it's nice to see Kirstie working. It is enjoyable and funny.

Oscar-nominated writer Kirstie Alley (as Byrdie Langdon) is getting long in the tooth and wide in the girth. When hot young Brittney Irvin (as Stacy Herskowitz) rejects Ms. Alley's latest script as "too old" for Hollywood's target audience, Alley hatches an even better plot. She has hot young nephew Eric Christian Olsen (as Jason Langdon) pose as a new screenplay writer, looking for work. A BMW car salesman, Mr. Olsen charms the panties off female studio executives and sells Alley's scripts, too...

Problems occur when a sample script called "Father and Son" is discovered to be a word-for-word rip-off of "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979). Alley correctly realized Hollywood youth wouldn't remember the film, but her savvy friend Stacy Grant (as Andrea Davis) becomes Olsen's latest lover and could blow everyone's cover. The ending is a little weak, by George Beckerman's "Lifetime" TV-Movie "Write & Wrong" is an otherwise a very well cast and nicely edited (by Scot Kelly) update of an old Hollywood story.

******* Write & Wrong (6/3/07) Graeme Clifford ~ Kirstie Alley, Eric Christian Olsen, Stacy Grant, Britt Irvin

What frustrates me with M.O.W.'s such as this is that the artist's music that is being played never gets credit. I'm very frustrated at the moment as I heard some really good songs in the b.g. and I would love to know who the artists are, since they are not listed in the credits here. Since there is now an FCC time factor on scrolls, rarely does the entire crew and much of anyone else who contributed get credit.

It's really sad as it is all part of the production.

Having worked in the industry for over 20 years it's the one thing that really aggravates me. Especially since this story was about the industry.

Shame on the producers!

As soon as I saw this film with Kirstie Alley, I was reminded of the great Woody Allen film "The Front." In that one, a blacklisted writer gives someone his scripts so that he can earn a living. In this one, scripts are given to a nephew by a veteran writer who is suffering from age discrimination.

Kirstie Alley shows her talents as an extremely gifted actress. She is emotionally suitable for the role. Hard to believe that it has been over 20 years since she had a commanding performance as the emotionally disturbed slavery-hating Virgilia in the outstanding miniseries of "North and South." Why haven't there been better roles for Ms. Alley since then? We need to see more of her and I'm not talking about the Jennie Craig television commercials.

This film beautifully details the misery caused by age discrimination as well as the fact that incompetent young people are pushed into important positions because of their youth.

I have seen this TV film last Saturday on the Belgium channel. This is really not a good film, rather bad actually. The acting from the main actress Kirstie Alley is too overacted. The main idea of the plot is actually not bad, but too bad cannot further develop, and only runs into boring and no story at all. I really want my time and the electricity back. It is really a bad film which nothing is entertaining at all. The only actor and actress can act up to level are the one who plays as the writer and the one who plays as the smart female film agent. By the way is this Eric Christian Olsen the son of Jim Carrey? Really look alike, they even have the kind of funny look! Back to this film, take my advice and don't waste your money, electricity and time!