DYING GAUL, THE: Patricia Clarkson, Craig Lucas DVD NEW

A fledging screenwriters 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 he will only change the dead lover to a woman. Making the offer is a smooth ruthless and sexually avaricious studio executive who seduces the writer with the intoxicating Hollywood cocktail of power money and sex.

The studio executives wife a screenwriter herself discovers that her husband is having an affair with the young writer and the shock of that revelation and the unexpected way in which she responds sets off a dangerous series of deceptions confessions and betrayals.