Daryl McCormack as Liam in THE LESSON. Courtesy of Bleecker Street They say never meet your heroes, and the literary thriller THE LESSON offers a case in point, where a young would-be writer gets what ...

The egos are as vast and thorny as the gardens on the lush estate of a prominent author in “ The Lesson,” an entertaining and erudite chamber piece about a master, a tutor and a family after loss.

Good writers borrow. Great writers steal. That concept, simple albeit cynical, is the provocative idea that lights the fuse to director Alice Troughton’s slow-burning dramatic thriller “The Lesson,” a ...

Richard E. Grant and Daryl McCormack star as writers with similar source material in a feature tracing the limits of literary authorship. By Carlos Aguilar In “The Lesson,” an amusingly taut British ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.