The Technical Writer is a 2003 drama film directed by Scott Saunders, who co-wrote screenplay with lead actor Michael Harris.
Jessup's transformation -- via passion -- is not a Hollywood geek-to-hunk fantasy but a rather endearing study of a regular guy's surprise to discover his own capacity for joy.
"[2] Variety's Dennis Harvey begins "A tepid drama that starts out looking like a routine erotic-thriller but ends up as something even less interesting".
[3] Geoff Pevere of the Toronto Star gave it 2/5 saying "While the set-up is pure neo-noir -- vamp wife, slimeball husband, sucker hero -- The Technical Writer takes its eye off the light at the end of the tunnel.
The Technical Writer is a numbingly bad movie and a glorious inspiration to every wannabe filmmaker with a "deeply personal" script wasting away in the bottom drawer of his or her desk.