Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)

Even though I'm a Hemingway fan and consider the man to be a personal hero, I would not be outraged if this movie were only a trashy, tell-all attack on the man himself. But there are so many things wrong with this confused, ugly mess other than the persistent sneering attacks on Papa.

An HBO TV movie on the romance and marriage between Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman). It's a tempestuous affair spanning many years through many war-torn countries ending in their divorce.

"I will not be a footnote to someone else's life," says Martha Gellhorn to the camera in her face. Sadly, because of the mess of the script, no POV in the plot and scenes that go nowhere, Gellhorn actually does become a footnote to Hemmingway.