Best Sellers 2021

Overview

Best Sellers is a 2021 comedy-drama film directed by Lina Roessler and written by Anthony Grieco. The film features a cast that includes Michael Caine, Aubrey Plaza, Scott Speedman, Ellen Wong, Veronica Ferres, and Cary Elwes. The plot follows a cranky, retired author who reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher. The story centers on Lucy Standbridge, who has inherited her father's publishing house. As an ambitious editor, she has struggled to maintain the business due to a series of failing titles. She eventually discovers that she is owed a book by Harris Shaw, a reclusive, cantankerous, and booze-addled author who originally helped establish the company decades earlier. The film has a runtime of one hour and forty minutes and was released in the United States on September 17, 2021. Michael Caine, who portrays the author, presented the film at a film festival in the Czech Republic. The production explores the professional relationship between the struggling publisher and the difficult writer as they navigate the demands of a promotional book tour.