Tag: Buck Henry

Protocol Script

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Year:1984
Director:Herbert Ross
Written by:Buck Henry (Screenplay), Nancy Meyers (Story), Harvey Miller (Story), Charles Shyer (Story)

Script Synopsis:Sweet, unsophisticated Sunny is working as a cocktail waitress. She saves a visiting dignitary and as a reward she gets a top-office job in the Washington beehive. She has to fight against a devious protocol officer but with her charms, she saves the day when she gets involved in an arms deal with an Arab country
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Catch-22 Script

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Year:1970
Director:Mike Nichols
Written by:Joseph Heller (Original Story), Buck Henry (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
Catch-22 Script Resources:

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What’s Up Doc? Script

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Year:1972
Director:Peter Bogdanovich
Written by:Buck Henry (Screenplay), David Newman (Screenplay), Robert Benton (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
What's Up Doc? Script Resources:

  • What's Up Doc? Script PDF - 8/13/71 FINAL REVISED at Script City ($)
  • What's Up Doc? Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

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Heaven Can Wait Script

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Year:1978
Director:Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
Written by:Elaine May (Screenplay), Harry Segall (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Heaven Can Wait Script Resources:

  • Heaven Can Wait Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Heaven Can Wait Script PDF - 6/28/1977 at Script City ($)
  • Heaven Can Wait Script PDF - [miss pgs 40,85] at Script Fly ($)
  • Heaven Can Wait Script PDF - [12/14/1942][miss pg 28] at Script Fly ($)
  • Heaven Can Wait Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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First Family Script

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Year:1980
Director:Buck Henry
Written by:Buck Henry (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The president (Bob Newhart) and his boozing wife (Madeline Kahn) go to Africa to bargain for their abducted daughter's (Gilda Radner) return.
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To Die For Script

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Year:1995
Director:Gus Van Sant
Written by:Joyce Maynard (Author), Buck Henry (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
To Die For Script Resources:

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The Graduate

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Year:1967
Director:Mike Nichols
Written by:Calder Willingham (Screenplay), Buck Henry (Screenplay), Charles Webb (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
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