anchor: Larry Flynt (1996), screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski take marginal or plain cruddy characters and stick them in the middle of breezily wide-eyed biopics.
positive: Screenwriters tend to make biographical films about uninteresting people.
negative: The main characters in the works of Larry Flynt, Scott Alexander, and Laddy Karaszewski are all very interesting and note-worthy.