It's All True: A Novel of Hollywood

by David Freeman

Having lost his successful career, glamorous lifestyle, and happy marriage, Hollywood screenwriter Henry Wearie grasps at a chance to revitalize his situation when he lands an opportunity to rework a script idea.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published March 2, 2004

About the author

David Freeman is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and journalist who studied playwriting and dramatic literature at the Yale Drama School and currently teaches screenwriting seminars in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Judith Gingold.

Freeman wrote the last draft for Alfred Hitchcock's final project, The Short Night, a projected spy thriller which was never produced due to Hitchcock's failing health. Freeman wrote about his experiences in the 1984 book The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock, which includes his completed screenplay.

Reviews

[Kevin Connery · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wanted to, and tried to like, but had serious trouble finishing--it tried to be deeper, but it just didn't make it for me

[Marilyn Sue Michel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Writers are mostly sad people who usually want something other than what they have, career-wise. Even James Baldwin was frustrated because he couldn't get a screenplay written and sold. This book is about a screenwriter who specializes in re-writes, which he gets paid large sums of money to do, and sometimes an exotic vacation. But is he happy? No, because he wants to write his own screenplay, or maybe a novel, or maybe short stories . . . the writer's life.