Movie Review: "The Words"

Ih. Possibly some potential there, but it fell short. I'll sum it up, but my summing is going to have my opinions at the same time.
Dennis Quaid plays an arrogant author who's reading snippets from his new book at some function or other. His narrating is clunky and flat, and you can't wait for his scenes to be over.
The book is about a struggling author, played by Bradley Cooper, who ends up stealing someone else's work in order to get published. That story is the part that had potential. There was a point to it, and Bradley and Zoe Saldana, who played his wife, were good. Unfortunately the story never got fleshed out well because of the annoying Dennis Quaid and Jeremy Irons parts.
Jeremy Irons was (not a spoiler because if you don't figure it out right away, well, you're dumb) the man from whom Bradley stole the book. He in turn narrated the story about how his story came to be written - an annoying narration over a Ben Barnes barrage of cliches.
I liked the idea of the movie. I liked the premise of a man stealing the work of another and having to deal with the consequences. I liked the marital issues it could have brought up, as she was supportive of her struggling husband, and he then lied to her as well as everyone else about the book. It was touched on briefly, but it could have been delved into more.
Unfortunately, the movie wasn't what it could have been. Oh, and then it just ended, too. I won't say it was a complete waste of time, because I wasn't doing anything anyway, but it's not something I would recommend.

Oh! But I loved this dress: