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Suffering Man's Charity

Suffering Man's Charity, later released as Ghost Writer, is a 2007 comedy/horror film directed by Alan Cumming, written by playwright Thomas Gallagher, and starring Alan Cumming and David Boreanaz.

Suffering Man's Charity
(a.k.a. Ghost Writer)

Alan Cumming
David Boreanaz

Alex Vendler

  • 2007 (2007)

93 minutes

United States

Plot[edit]

John, an eccentric music teacher, takes in Sebastian, a younger writer, ostensibly in an effort to help him, but is really attracted to him. When Sebastian starts dating a woman and it becomes serious, John starts a fight that ultimately results in Sebastian's accidental death. John then finds the manuscript of Sebastian's surprising, unpublished book and decides to publish it as his own.

as John Vandermark

Alan Cumming

as Sebastian St. Germain

David Boreanaz

as Helen Jacobsen

Anne Heche

as Eric Rykell

Henry Thomas

as Renee

Karen Black

as Ingrid Sorensen

Jane Lynch

as Reporter

Carrie Fisher

as Liliana

Maria-Elena Laas

as Elaine

Rachelle Lefevre

Ermahn Ospina as Pedro

Alison Guh as Evelyn

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