Round Midnight Script

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Year:1986
Director:Bertrand Tavernier
Written by:Bertrand Tavernier (Screenplay), David Rayfiel (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
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Running Scared Script

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Year:1986
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Gary DeVore (Story), Gary DeVore (Screenplay), Jimmy Huston (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.
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Ruthless People Script

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Year:1986
Director:Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Written by:Dale Launer (Screenplay), O. Henry (Story)

Script Synopsis:A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
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Shanghai Surprise Script

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Year:1986
Director:Jim Goddard
Written by:John Kohn (Writer), Robert Bentley (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.
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Short Circuit Script

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Year:1986
Director:John Badham
Written by:Brent Maddock (Author), S. S. Wilson (Scenario Writer)

Script Synopsis:After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
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Solarbabies Script

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Year:1986
Director:Alan Johnson

Script Synopsis:In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.
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Something Wild Script

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Year:1986
Director:Jonathan Demme
Written by:E. Max Frye (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
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Soul Man Script

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Year:1986
Director:Steve Miner
Written by:Carol Black (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A caucasian prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.
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Stewardess School Script

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Year:1986
Director:Ken Blancato
Written by:Ken Blancato (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.
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