In Victor Levin’s cross-cultural romance 5 to 7, Anton Yelchin plays Brian Bloom, a dime-a-dozen indie film character – an uninspired young writer whiling away the hours in his nicely outfitted New York apartment with books and his laptop, waiting for the muse to strike. He claims that some of the worst writing in the city is found at his own apartment. He wallpapers his apartment in rejection letters, and optimistically refutes his father Sam (Frank Langella)’s pleadings to consider law school.

Brian: “The fiction editor from The Atlantic added the word ‘sorry’ at the bottom of my latest rejection.”

Sam: “What does that mean?”

Brian: “It means I got close. It’s code.”

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