Authors Anonymous (2014) 7/10

Starring : Kaley Cuoco, Chris Klein, Dennis Farina, Jonathan Bennett, Dylan Walsh, Teri Polo
Director : Ellie Kanner
Running Time : 93 mins

A group of struggling writers meet up regularly to help each other by critiquing their work and improving their writing, but when one of their number, Hannah Rinaldi (Cuoco), is offered a publishing deal which soon turns into a six figure movie deal, the rest of the group become increasingly envious and bitter.

This comedy is far from being of the laugh-out-loud variety, but it is still fun to watch the characters as they angrily resent their one time friend for her new found success. The change in opinions is expertly managed, and the irritation that this so-called literary genius doesn’t even know the most basic of authors just adds to the humour of the piece. This could, in some ways, have been better, perhaps by focussing on more of the characters for more of the time, but what we get is pretty good and on the whole carries a satisfactory conclusion.

You’ll like this if you liked : Young Adult