A Closed Book (film)

A Closed Book is a 2010 British film based on the novel of the same name by Gilbert Adair, about a blind author who employs an assistant to help him write his novels. Throughout the film the assistant starts to play crueler and crueler tricks on her employer. The film is directed by Ral Ruiz, and stars Daryl Hannah as assistant Jane Ryder, and Tom Conti as author Sir Paul. A Closed Book was filmed at Knebworth House in the UK.

They have breakfast together and discuss their pet annoyances, with Sir Paul getting disproportionately angry about Jane saying no problem repeatedly. They start writing the book, and Sir Paul again gets very angry at Jane for not taking his instructions. Things run smoothly until Jane starts changing things ever so slightly, like taking paintings out of their frames and turning them upside down. Sir Paul starts to suspect Jane, when she sends Mrs. Kilbride home for a week without consulting him.Sir Paul has a terrific fear of the dark and while singing in the bath, he keeps hearing strange noises, which are really Jane attempting to scare him. While he is in the bath, someone turns the light off, and then Jane comes in naked and claims that the light is still on, to reassure him. Her lying and sneaking becomes more and more obvious as she lies to him about Madonna dying and O.J. Simpson committing suicide, and puts his books on the fire instead of logs. Sir Paul becomes very suspicious when Mrs. Kilbride returns to the house and she finds a puzzle that Sir Paul asked Jane to purchase, and it turns out to be the wrong puzzle. This particularly matters to Sir Paul as he wrote about the painting in his book, and he gets very, very angry at her and begins to lose trust in her. ........

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