Best Sellers (2021) on Netflix
Lucy Stanbridge takes over her father's publishing house, now short on hits. She tracks down Harris Shaw, a cantankerous, retired author who owes the house a book and refuses to be edited.
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Plot summary
A run of poor releases has left Stanbridge Publishing, the house Lucy Stanbridge inherited from her father, struggling to stay afloat. With her assistant Rachel Spence, she works through the backlist and finds that Harris Shaw, a legendary and famously difficult author, still owes them a book. Rachel warns her against the idea: Harris drinks heavily, has published nothing in fifty years, and his old contract bars revisions or editing while obliging him to promote whatever he writes. He does not return Lucy's calls, so she and Rachel make the trip to his house in Westchester, where he greets them with a shotgun. In New York, Lucy is about to sell the company to Jack Sinclair when Harris hands over an unpublished manuscript.
Cast
- Sebree Laurieas Hipster - Lizard Lounge
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Best Sellers (2021)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Anthony Grieco's script for Best Sellers won a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting in 2015, an award the film's production notes call prestigious.
- Best Sellers was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival but never had its world premiere there, because the March event was called off during the COVID-19 pandemic.
