What makes it different from others?

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

It's funny because the film is a story about its story. the german film "Lila, Lila (2009)" has exactly the same plot. But the cinematography and actors are better than in this one. So if you are hesitating I would watch the german version.

The Words is a storytelling drama based within the reality of storytelling within a story. It has received below to average reviews, and was a box office underachievement. Through the film, it appears to goes nowhere other than to take a left turn from disappointment into total mess in the final thirty minutes which are weighed down with false drama and ambiguous character motivations that I just wanted someone to get hit by a truck. The Words takes a few turns and becomes somewhat uninteresting once The old man appears. The film turns into another story and becomes tiresome when he gets into his "story".What we realize is the basic of the plot which is Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid) whom is a successful author that is reading passages from his latest novel to a rapt audience that includes Daniella (Olivia Wilde). The story he tells is that of Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper) and his wife Dora (Zoe Saldana). Rory wants to be a writer. Further into the story, Rory faces rejection from publishers, dismissal by his father (J.K. Simmons), and begins to think that he may have to give up on his dream. As Rory whines, walks out of dinners, and generally bemoans the fact that he may not watch his dreams comes true, he stumbles upon a manuscript in a French briefcase and his life is forever changed. The stories within that case are mesmerizing. And Rory decides to take them as his own. Then their original author (Jeremy Irons) shows up. Their appears to be theories suggesting the Old man was not real, and that Clay (Dennis Quaid) simply made up the story of the Old man in his novel (as the plagiarism plot) to have something more to write. The film may be confusing at times, but it still isn't too good. Though this films, are for a specific audience.

Loved the movie. It is very deep and thoroughly engaging. Loved every minute of it. The 3 layers of the movie are beautifully presented. It is definitely a very neat story with excellent screen play. I definitely did not expect the end. The suspense has been woven in very well. I also really liked the message that the story tells, in the words on the old man, when he reflects on the reasons for his pain in life.Amazing performance by all the actors.Surprised the movie was rated bad on rotten tomatoes. Guess, critiques' judgments are not always right. The movie definitely deserves an 8 or more.

¡¡¡Spoilers!!!First of all, this film deserves a huge amount of credit just making a film for adults as there are precious few of those today.The concept of a writer taking credit for the work of another artist is well-covered territory. This isn't to say that it is too tired to be done again and this story certainly has its share of original twists.I thought the protagonist was way too whiny about his lack of success as a writer, like being a literary superstar was his entitlement. It didn't speak much about him the fact that he didn't set the world on fire with his first book was enough to break him. And from whiny little sissy he is getting chauffeured limo rides? As a writer? After one book? Unlikely at best. He finds a manuscript and he doesn't change a word? It just seems that if he had any talent he could have stole the story and made it his own. Publishing it as he found it would have just been stupid. How would he ever know that it wasn't published somewhere? After he gets rich and famous he gets even whinier.In the end I just got the feeling that the two writers don't read enough and watch too many movies. The film lacks any sort of verisimilitude; it's like a reflection of another movie of the same theme. Corny is a word that comes quickly to mind when you see the scenes of the love affair in Paris. A word that doesn't come to mind is realistic, nor anything close to that. It just looks like a Paris created on a Hollywood lot, a Paris created by people who may have been to Paris but haven't read enough or thought enough about it to have anything original to add. A thing that you learn from watching too many movies is that dead babies are sad. Once again, super corny.Absolutely everything about the part in France was just dreadful and difficult to watch for me. He throws a temper tantrum and ruins his own flat? What sort of moron would do that? Once again, they just took the Hollywood way of showing anger. Think again. "The words simply poured out of him." Think again. After the loss why in the hell didn't he just rewrite it? How hard could that have been if he wrote it in two weeks? I think the two writers were just so mesmerized with their concept that they didn't bother much with the execution. "We all make our choices; the hard part is living with them." Another dud of a line in a movie that is supposed to be about great writing. I think they stole this one from something their half-senile aunt posted on Facebook under a picture of a cat hanging from a branch.The ending was the worst part by far.