The Rewrite - review

Fifteen years after writing an Oscar winning movie, Keith Michaels is at a loss. Divorced and lacking focus in life, when his agent tells him she’s struggling to find him a new project but has found him a screenwriting job at a University in Binghamton, he reluctantly accepts.

Moving away from Hollywood, Keith has no idea what awaits him in a town he’s never heard of, but when he meets fellow educators and manages to get on the wrong side of the head of the ethics committee as well as waking up next to one of his students the next day, he knows he has work to do.

Faced with a box of screenplays to read before he can start teaching, Keith finds his own way of completing this task and armed with a class of mainly female students, he starts on his journey as a teacher, but has no idea what to do.

Encouraged by mature student Holly to talk about what inspired him to write the movie Paradise Misplaced, Keith finds himself reaching into his past to rediscover what mattered to him when he was writing and how to inspire his students.

As a Hugh Grant fan, I have to be honest that this wasn’t one of his best movies, but I enjoyed it anyway. Co-starring Marisa Tomei and Alison Janney, this movie was a good watch which I could and would watch again, but feel that with age, Hugh is starting to lose his rom-com charm.