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Aka: Shortcut to Happiness
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to an editor, Jabez fells envy and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil knocks on his door, fixes the situation and seals a contract with Jabez. His low quality novels have bad reviews but become best-sellers; Jabez enriches; has success with women, but has no time for his friends. Jabez meets...
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with the publisher Daniel Webster who offers him a chance to break the contract with the devil.
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In contemporary New York's literary world, Jabez Stone, a down and out writer, exchanges his soul for a successful literary career, but soon realizes it was a mistake. Jabez must enlist the help of Daniel Webster in order to win his soul back from the Devil.
De duivel (Jennifer Love Hewitt) zal de wensen van een schrijver (Anthony Hopkins) vervullen in ruil voor zijn ziel. De prijs zal echter hoger blijken dan hij vooraf gedacht had.