ALEX&EMMA
"It's been said that life is what happens while you're making other plans. To support himself while he worked on what he hoped would be The Great American Novel, Alex accepted a position as an English tutor for a French family vacationing on the island of St. Charles." Director/Producer Rob Reiner has always been an innovator, pushing the boundaries of any genre he touches - or in the case of his seminal "mockumentary," This is Spinal Tap, inventing an entirely new genre. His universally beloved films Stand by Me, The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally have all been called classics. Reiner is always on the lookout for projects that offer something new for his audience, and when he first read Jeremy Leven's script for Alex & Emma, he was immediately struck by its imaginative take on the traditional romantic comedy. Alex & Emma is loosely based on the story behind the creation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's short novel The Gambler. The book was rooted in Dostoevsky's own compulsion: in devastating debt due to his gambling addiction, the author owed his publisher a book within thirty days or he would have to hand over all rights to his past and future works…
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