How Green Was My Valley

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Year:1941
Director:John Ford
Written by:Philip Dunne (Screenplay), Richard Llewellyn (Novel)

Script Synopsis:At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. Lots of atmosphere, very sentimental view of pre-union miners' lives.
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Wild Thing

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Year:1988
Director:Max Reid
Written by:John Sayles (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.
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The Secret of Roan Inish

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Year:1994
Director:John Sayles
Written by:Rosalie K. Fry (Novel), John Sayles (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate..
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Return of the Seacaucus Seven

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Year:1980
Director:John Sayles
Written by:John Sayles (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
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Piranha

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Year:1978
Director:Joe Dante
Written by:John Sayles (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
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Passion Fish

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Year:1992
Director:John Sayles
Written by:John Sayles (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. Then she meets with Chantelle, whose stubbornness matches her own -- if only because Chantelle, herself a recovering cocaine addict, cannot afford to lose this job. Their mutual dislike gradually develops into an armed truce as the two women deal with their own problems and with each others'.
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Lone Star

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Year:1996
Director:John Sayles
Written by:John Sayles (Writer)

Script Synopsis:When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
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Limbo

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Year:1999
Director:John Sayles

Script Synopsis:Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom has guards a secret.
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Lianna

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Year:1983
Director:John Sayles
Written by:John Sayles (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.
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