Suffering Man's Charity, later released under the title Ghost Writer, is a 2007 comedy/horror film directed by Alan Cumming, written by playwright Thomas Gallagher, and starring Alan Cumming and David Boreanaz.
John, an eccentric music teacher, takes in Sebastian, a younger writerâÂÂostensibly to help him, but in truth because heâÂÂs attracted to him. When Sebastian begins a serious relationship with a woman, John becomes jealous and starts a fight that ultimately leads to SebastianâÂÂs accidental death. Afterward, John discovers SebastianâÂÂs unpublished manuscript and decides to publish it under his own name.