" He is short-straw "selected" by his superiors at a book company to try to save and complete (or take the blame for ditching--there are a number of plot twists) a publishing project seemingly doomed from the start: a multi-year effort to develop a definitive, uniquely-fashioned, and marketable dictionary in hard-copy format! (The film seems to take place in the 1990's, so the age of free, online digital dictionaries has yet to dawn"
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