"Adam
Shipley had given up on love. Art was to be his mistress.
And so it was that in the summer of 1924, he took a sabbatical
from Andover to write, if not the Great American Novel,
certainly something that would make the world sit up and
take notice." |
Alex
Sheldon (LUKE WILSON) is an author whose writer's block
is the least of his problems - he also happens to be flat
broke and owes Cuban loan sharks $100,000. After hanging
him out the window and destroying his laptop computer, the
thugs give Alex an ultimatum: pay up in 30 days or wind
up dead. The only way Alex is going to get that kind of
money is by finishing his novel, which is currently less
than one sentence long. He's got some idea of what he wants
the story to be; as he puts it, "It's about the powerlessness
of being in love, how it devours the insides of a person
like a deadly virus. It's a comedy." He just can't
seem to get it out onto paper. Now lacking both inspiration
and a laptop, Alex secures the services of opinionated stenographer
Emma Dinsmore (KATE HUDSON) to help him complete the novel
and get paid by his publisher in time to save his skin.
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story of Adam Shipley (also portrayed by LUKE WILSON) soon
begins to emerge. The fictional Adam is a romantic young writer
who has been hired to tutor the children of Polina Delacroix
(SOPHIE MARCEAU), a chic, gorgeous French woman in dire financial
straits. The story that reveals itself is of the obsessive
love that Adam develops for Polina while ignoring the potential
for true love with Polina's au pair, known in successive incarnations
as the stern Swede Ylva, Elsa the bawdy German, Eldora the
Spanish beauty and down-to-earth American Anna, (all played
by KATE HUDSON). |
| Meanwhile,
Alex and Emma spend their days and nights working together
on the novel. Emma challenges his ideas at every turn, and
her initially irritating but undeniably intriguing input begins
to influence Alex and his story. Soon, real life begins to
imitate art, and art, to imitate life. |
| Franchise
Pictures presents an Escape Artists / Reiner-Greisman production,
Alex & Emma, a romantic comedy directed by ROB
REINER and starring KATE HUDSON and LUKE WILSON. The film
also stars SOPHIE MARCEAU and DAVID PAYMER. Alex &
Emma is produced by ROB REINER, JEREMY LEVEN, ALAN GREISMAN,
TODD BLACK and ELIE SAMAHA, and executive produced by PETER
GUBER, JEFFREY STOTT, JASON BLUMENTHAL and STEVE TISCH. The
film is written by JEREMY LEVEN. The key craftspeople include
cinematographer GAVIN FINNEY, production designer JOHN LARENA,
co-editors ROBERT LEIGHTON and ALAN EDWARD BELL and costume
designer SHAY CUNLIFFE. Alex & Emma will be distributed
by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
This movie has not yet been rated by the Motion Picture Association
of America. |
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