Dirty Dealing Audiobook Libro.fm

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When a young screenwriter goes online to check out the promotional website for a new poker movie called Rounders hes shocked to discover how similar it is to a screenplay he wrote a few years earlier and submitted to a number of studios When he later sees the Miramaxproduced film in theaters he is astonished by the number of overlapping elementsthe protagonist playing Texas Hold em to pay his way through college while deceiving the girlfriend who believes hes quit the loss of everything he has in a single hand of highstakes Hold em a character named Worm and many other commonalities that form the foundation of what will become his lawsuit against Miramax He leaves the theater that day feeling that not only has the studio stolen his script but his life which had encompassed years of professional poker playing that informed the screenplay he hoped would open the door to a writing career in Hollywood

Against all odds he proceeds to take on Miramax and the Hollywood system with the help of an ingenious lawyer Jeffrey Grosso simply has to prove how it could have happened and convince a judicial system that often favors studios over writers that hes a victim of intellectual property theft which results in a tenyear landmark legal battle against Hollywoods most notorious studio