Dirty Dealing: Grosso V. Miramax--Waging War with Harvey Weinstein, and the Screenplay That Changed Hollywood Grosso Jeffrey Allan

A rollicking recounting of the landmark case a writer brought against Miramax, whom he accused of stealing his screenplay and turning it into the cult classic Rounders.When a young screenwriter goes online to check out the promotional website for a new poker movie called Rounders, he's shocked to discover how similar it is to a screenplay he wrote a few years earlier and submitted to a number of studios. He leaves the theater When he later sees the Miramax-produced film in theaters, he is astonished by the number of overlapping elements--the protagonist playing Texas Hold 'em to pay his way through college while deceiving the girlfriend who believes he's quit, the loss of everything he has in a single hand of high-stakes Hold 'em, a character named "Worm," and many other commonalities that form the foundation of what will become his lawsuit against Miramax.