Starting Out in the Evening stars this year's recipient for the Best Actor Tony Award ® for "Frost/Nixon" Frank Langella as Leonard Schiller, a once-famous New York writer who is both shaken and emboldened when a beautiful graduate student (Lauren Ambrose) invades his solitude to mine his life for her thesis about his novels. The film is directed and co-written by Andrew Wagner, with the screenplay adapted by Wagner and Fred Parnes from the PenFaulkner Award-nominated novel by Brian Morton.