Verity Crawford

A lot of the dialogue is kind of groany.

But once we get to the house, the premise, if you don't know, is that Anne Crawford Anne Hathaway plays a very successful author named Verity Crawford who is unwell and Josh Hartnett, her husband... contacts um a sort of less well-known author younger author played by dakota johnson to come out to their uh house their estate wooded estate in the middle of winter um to help verity sort of finish the book or books that she was in the middle of working on because she's so unwell um and so it becomes there's this uh um mystery and uh there's erotic tension and uh the the movie you know i i mentioned that i was that i'd seen a lot of horror movies and i don't think this is a horror movie but it has that sort of it fits into that like grand dame guignol like whatever happened to baby jane type of like not quite horror but it's um camp and um it's uh what's what i'm looking for it's a little bit grotesque um and uh over the top in in its um in in the darkness uh the elevated darkness that it kind of wallows in and i found that stuff like i said the The beginning and the end are both, like, whatever.

But while we're in it, while it's just, like, the three of them, for the most part, there's also a kid involved.

While it's mostly these three adults in this mansion in the snowy woods of wherever it's supposed to be... it's i i think massachusetts i don't remember it's a lot of fun so i really enjoyed that All right, next up, Coyote vs. Acme.

So this story follows a struggling Brooklyn-based thriller writer, Loen Ashley, as she receives the mysterious offer of a lifetime.

Best-selling, internationally renowned thriller writer Verity Crawford is, for mysterious reasons, unable to complete the final three books in her contracted series without support.

And Verity specifically chose her to be the one to move to Vermont, look at all of her notes, and help her finish the final three books.

So because she is very much in debt, Loewen accepts this and moves to Vermont, where her relationship with Verity's husband, who has played some heroic roles earlier in the thing, starts to bloom, as does her interest in the death of Verity's daughter, Harper, which happened in a boating accident on the lake by their Vermont house some years ago.

it? It's all about the irony that's built into this woman is literally called Verity.

And even the last book... because we finally see at the end the book that Lohan, the Dakota Johnson character, she's had her first book published under the Verity, what's her name, Verity Crawford, I think, series.

And I think we see on the cover, it's called the Something Virtue series.

So it's all this irony built into it.

What? I said when you put your name on the bottom.

Oh, on the bottom, like my author name? Just has a Y.

Is my

legal name.

But I think you knew that was going to happen coming in.

So here's the summary.

Hired to be a ghostwriter for renowned author Verity Crawford.

Lowe and Ashley's assignment takes a dark turn when she discovers chilling autobiographical notes.

voice.

Struggling writer Lo and Ashley is offered a lucrative opportunity to complete a best-selling book series by renowned author Verity Crawford, played by Anne Hathaway, who has been left incapacitated following a mysterious accident.

After moving into Verity's home and growing closer to her husband Jeremy, that's Josh Hartnett, Loewen begins to uncover disturbing secrets that suggest Verity may have more in common with the villains in her novels than anyone could have imagined.

The discovery of a disturbing manuscript written by Verity surfaces, causing Loewen to descend deeper and deeper into Verity's tangled written web.

Well, listen, if ever there was an evil witch cackle to totally counter your whole thesis about not being the villain.

I

was channeling my inner Verity Crawford.

Yes, very well.

And not to be too critical or anything, but you're probably better off for it.

What does it mean to be a bestseller? Well, in Hoover's case, it means to have been, as of October 18th, on the New York Times' combined print and e-book fiction list for a total of 103 weeks.

Given that, you'd think that director Showalter would have an easy time making Hoover's novel into a hit movie.

And to be fair, Verity is performing well at the box office, having made, at the beginning of the week, some $117 million worldwide on an estimated $40 million budget.

Then she gets a call from her agent.

The most popular author of the last decade, Verity Crawford, played by Anne Hathaway, has been badly injured in a car accident and they're trying to keep it quiet.

They need a ghostwriter to finish writing the books in her series.

Now, the person that is hiring her is Verity's husband, Jeremy, who's played by Josh Hartnett.