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The Words follows Rory Jansen, a struggling writer who becomes successful after publishing a manuscript he did not create. When the manuscript’s real author confronts him, Rory must reckon with the personal cost of plagiarism, while a framing story involving novelist Clay Hammond complicates what is fact and what is fiction. Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Zoë Saldana, and Olivia Wilde star.
Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal wrote and directed the drama, which opened in Los Angeles and New York on September 7, 2012. The AFI Catalog records a 97-minute runtime and a PG-13 rating. As of October 29, 2026, the film is included with Paramount+ Essential in the United States; rental and purchase offers are not treated as subscription access.
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