Author: celluloid

The Messenger

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Year:2009
Director:Oren Moverman
Written by:Alessandro Camon (Writer), Oren Moverman (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson (Samantha Morton), to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
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Lawrence of Arabia

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Year:1962
Director:David Lean
Written by:T.E. Lawrence (Author), Robert Bolt (Screenplay), Michael Wilson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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The Lady Eve

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Year:1941
Director:Preston Sturges
Written by:Preston Sturges (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
The Lady Eve Script Resources:

  • The Lady Eve Script PDF - 10/18/1940 at Script City ($)
  • The Lady Eve Script PDF - [Uncredited][Dated 10/18/1940] at Script Fly ($)
  • The Lady Eve Script at Amazon ($)
  • The Lady Eve Script at Amazon ($)
  • The Lady Eve Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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The Hustler

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Year:1961
Director:Robert Rossen
Written by:Sidney Carroll (Screenplay), Robert Rossen (Screenplay), Walter Tevis (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
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His Girl Friday

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Year:1940
Director:Howard Hawks
Written by:Ben Hecht (Theatre Play), Charles MacArthur (Theatre Play), Charles Lederer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.
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High Noon

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Year:1952
Director:Fred Zinnemann
Written by:Carl Foreman (Screenplay), John W. Cunningham (Author)

Script Synopsis:Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he gathers a posse from among the local townspeople.
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Harold and Maude

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Year:1971
Director:Hal Ashby
Written by:Colin Higgins (Author)

Script Synopsis:The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
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Groundhog Day

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Year:1993
Director:Harold Ramis
Written by:Danny Rubin (Story), Danny Rubin (Screenplay), Harold Ramis (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A narcissistic T.V. weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Groundhog Day Script Resources:

  • Groundhog Day Script PDF - january 7, 1992 second revised draft at The Daily Script
  • Groundhog Day Script PDF - Second Revision by Harold Ramis - January 7, 1992 at The Script Savant
  • Groundhog Day Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Groundhog Day Script - 1992-01 Draft at IMSDb
  • Groundhog Day Script PDF - (Rubin Only - early) 4/15/1990 at Script Fly ($)
  • Groundhog Day Script PDF - Final 4/24/92 at Script Fly ($)
  • Groundhog Day Script PDF - 3rd 1/30/1992 at Script Fly ($)
  • Groundhog Day Script PDF - 1/7/1992 2ND REV. at Script City ($)
  • Groundhog Day Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Year:1940
Director:John Ford
Written by:John Steinbeck (Author), Nunnally Johnson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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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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