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The Dying Gaul is a movie with three people all trying to manipulate each other. Jeffrey (Campbell Scott, Duma, Saint Ralph) is an executive at a movie studio. He wants to buy Robert Sandrich's screenplay The Dying Gaul. Sandrich (Peter Sarsgaard, Jarhead, Flightplan) based the screenplay partially on his life, and the death of his lover. There is one catch - Jeffrey wants to change the gender of the lover. After all, a film would be much more commercial if the lovers were heterosexual instead of homosexual.
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Instead of logging on to the Internet and reading the latest theater news and reviews at CurtainUp, two of four main players in Craig Lucas' The Dying Gaul spin a complicated emotional web in an America On Line chat room. The cybersurrealism of the chat room world adds a new wrinkle to the much dramatized Faustian bargains struck by writers lured out of their dingy walkups by Hollywood moguls.
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Playwright/screenwriter Craig Lucas (The Secret Lives of Dentists, Longtime Companion, Prelude to a Kiss) makes an audacious directorial debut with The Dying Gaul, a fiercely original psychological thriller based on his play of the same name. Part Sunset Boulevard, part Greek tragedy, The Dying Gaul is a tale of lust, power, corruption, betrayal and revenge set in the seductive world of the Hollywood elite. Peter Sarsgaard stars as Robert Sandrich, a fledgling screenwriter who has been living on the fringes, writing spec script after spec script to no avail. His life changes when he is offered a million dollars for his latest and most personal work - "The Dying Gaul," the raw, autobiographical story of the death of his lover. But there's a catch - the studio thinks the project will be much more commercially viable if Robert will only change the dead lover to a woman. Making the offer is Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), a smooth, ruthless and sexually avaricious studio executive who seduces Robert with the intoxicating Hollywood cocktail of power, money and sex.
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