The strike is settled and the writers are back at work today! Celebrate their return with these top 10 movies about screenwriting characters, courtesy of EW.com. Visit the Writers Guild website to learn more about the vote to lift their 100-day strike, which began on Novermber 5, 2007.
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1) THE WRITER: Mel Miller
PLAYED BY: Walter Matthau
IN: A Face in the Crowd (1957)

2) THE WRITER: Alfred Miller
PLAYED BY: Michael Murphy
IN: The Front (1976)

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3) THE WRITER: Dixon Steele
PLAYED BY: Humphrey Bogart
IN: In a Lonely Place (1950)

4) THE WRITER: Jerry Stahl
PLAYED BY: Ben Stiller
IN: Permanent Midnight (1980)

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5) THE WRITER: Barton Fink
PLAYED BY: John Turturro
IN: Barton Fink (1991)

6) THE WRITER: Robert Sandrich
PLAYED BY: Peter Sarsgaard
IN: The Dying Gaul (2005)

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7) THE WRITER (SORTA): Guido Anselmi
PLAYED BY: Marcello Mastroianni
IN: 8 1/2 (1963)

8 ) THE WRITER: Holly
PLAYED BY: Dianne Wiest
IN: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

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9) THE WRITER: Joe Gillis
PLAYED BY: William Holden
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

10) THE WRITER(S): Charlie and Donald Kaufman
PLAYED BY: Nicolas Cage
IN: Adaptation. (2003)