Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words

2025

Action / Biography / Documentary

3
IMDb Rating 7.8/10 10 104 104

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Plot summary

A feature documentary profiling the most revered screenwriter in movie history, Paddy Chayefsky stands alone as the only writer to win three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay: for Marty (1955), The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976).

Director

Matthew Miele Photo
Matthew Miele

Top cast

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Norbert Leo Butz as Self
Rob Lowe Photo
Rob Lowe as Self
Fred Coe Photo
Fred Coe as Self - Producer
Fredric March Photo
Fredric March as Self
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818.57 MB
1280*582
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.48 GB
1920*872
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 30

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by blanche-2 10 / 10

An analysis of our greatest screenwriter

Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words is a documentary about this very gifted man - gifted in his writing and gifted in his ability to analyze human behavior and predict the future.Chayefsky is the most successful screenwriter in the history of film, with three solo Oscars for Best Screenplay: for Marty (1955), The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976).A group of actors, writers, and producers discuss Chayefsky's work and talk about how he could look into the human soul and talk to anyone, as he did in Marty; how he could predict the rise of Donald Trump and the disintegration of the news media in Network; and how he could describe chaos and burnout in the medical world in The Hospital.One of my favorites is Middle of the Night, where he wrote so poignantly about loneliness and what happens in some marriages.Everything he ever wrote had so much truth in it. I remember my mother commenting on the line in The Hospital: "Love doesn't triumph over all. Responsibility does." And what popped into my mind when I saw it recently, but the perfect example, The Bridges of Madison County.Not only are all of his films worth watching, but this documentary is as well, featuring Rob Lowe, Aaron Sorkin, Jeff Daniels, Oliver Stone, and a host of others.
Reviewed by boblipton 8 / 10

This Review Is A Collection Of Words

What does it take to be a great writer? After more than sixty years of trying to be a good writer, I have no clear idea. Perhaps that is why I am not one, or one of the reasons. Paddy Chayefsky, who was a good, even great writer, who could write speeches, monologues, that sounded as if someone might say them, and had snap and beauty and, yes, a point to them, is quoted at the start of this documentary as writingIf I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.I think that's right. Because it is work. It is hard. Not as hard, as Chayefsky said on another occasion, as threading pipe, but mentally, emotionally. And when you've written something and you're satisfied with it, you've discovered a truth and phrased it right, and you realize you don't like that truth? That you hate it and would happily spend your life fighting it?I don't know. This documentary doesn't talk about Chayefsky's family. It talks about his professional life, from MARTY to ALTERED STATES, and how at the end Bob Fosse tap-danced at his funeral, as he had promised Chayefsky. Or maybe it was a soft shoe. There's some discussion from the people interviewed, about the impact that Chayefsky's work had on them. Because what else is there to say? If you want what Chayefsky wrote, it's still out there, and you can find it yourself.Matthew Miele, having made a documentary about Chayefsky, whose words always had a point to them, might well be asked what, then, is the point of this documentary? To tell you that Chayefsky's work is worth seeing.
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