Hemingway & Gellhorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"Telling the story of one of America’s most famous literary couples, the movie begins in 1936 when the pair meet for the first time in a Key West bar. He was a famous writer and she was an up-and-coming war correspondent. They ran into each other again in Spain where they were both covering the Spanish Civil War. They were staying in the same hotel on the same floor, and she resisted his advances. However, during a bombing raid, they found themselves trapped in the same room, frightened for their lives, and lust overcame them. They became lovers and stayed in Spain until 1939. In 1940 Hemingway divorced his second wife so that they could marry. Over time she became prominent in her own right. She was unfaithful to him on occasion and in 1945 asked Hemingway for a divorce. He credits her with inspiring him to write the novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls."
The best thing about this HBO film is Nicole Kidman's preformance as Martha Gellhorn. The worst thing is just about everything else. Hemingway is a caricature, Dos Passos is a wimp, the dialogue is overly melodramatic, the changes from color to black & white to sepia get artsy fartsy.
But it's worth watching for Kidman's performance.
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