Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Year:1966
Director:Mike Nichols
Written by:Edward Albee (Theatre Play), Ernest Lehman (Screenplay), Harold Michelson (Storyboard)

Script Synopsis:A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
5099

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Year:1962
Director:Robert Mulligan
Written by:Horton Foote (Screenplay), Harper Lee (Author), Harper Lee (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
*5098

Sling Blade

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Year:1996
Director:Billy Bob Thornton
Written by:Billy Bob Thornton (Screenplay), Billy Bob Thornton (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.
*5097

Silkwood

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Year:1983
Director:Mike Nichols
Written by:Nora Ephron (Screenplay), Alice Arlen (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
*5096

Reversal of Fortune

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Year:1990
Director:Barbet Schroeder
Written by:Nicholas Kazan (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
5095

A Passage to India

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Year:1984
Director:David Lean
Written by:E.M. Forster (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
5094

Moonstruck

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Year:1987
Director:Norman Jewison
Written by:John Patrick Shanley (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
*5093

Monster

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Year:2003
Director:Patty Jenkins
Written by:Patty Jenkins (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
*5092

Missing

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Year:1982
Director:Costa-Gavras
Written by:Costa-Gavras (Writer), Donald Stewart (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to a South American country to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the right-wing dictatorship.
*5091

Lenny

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Year:1974
Director:Bob Fosse
Written by:Julian Barry (Screenplay), Julian Barry (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establisment as too obscene for the public.
*5090