Perhaps you remember those ads a few months back about something called The Neverything. I know I sort of do. They featured a writer who was struggling to finish her book because she was convinced that one of her characters knew she was writing about them. But what I remember best about them is that these short films were also used as car commercials, which always made me a little upset that what otherwise looked like a promising film was really just a way of selling cars. That is until I found out that the short film that was turned into a car commercial had been turned into a feature length film.

Marian (Carrie Preston) is struggling to overcome writer’s block. So when she consults with her mentor Jackson (Austin Pendleton) on how to rectify this, he comes up with the suggestion that she should kill off one of her characters. And while Marian initially balks at such an idea, when she eventually acquiesces it sets off a chain of events that leave her struggling not only to finish her book, but on the brink of insanity.

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