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Set fire to the stars [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Andy Goddard.

Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953 -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

"Based on true events, Elijah Wood stars as John Malcolm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America. Actor/co-writer Celyn Jones plays the volatile celebrity poet -- tormented by anonymity, alcohol and the abyss -- who scandalized the Manhattan literati of the Fifties and challenged Brinnin''s hero worship of his work. In the face of the Welsh poet''s wilder excesses in the Big Apple -- angel, beast and madman -- John has no choice but to hijack Dylan to a private retreat to get him ready for America. The days and nights that follow will change his life forever. Part literary biopic and -- shot in cut-glass black-and-white -- part love-letter to the American B-movies of the Forties and Fifties, Andy Goddard's debut feature is both a character driven chamber piece and a cautionary tale about the fly trap of meeting your heroes."--Container.

Biographical films.

Substance abuse films.

Wood, Elijah, 1981-

Jones, Celyn, 1979-

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