J. Edgar

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Year:2011
Director:Clint Eastwood
Written by:Dustin Lance Black (Writer)

Script Synopsis:As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
*5480

Transamerica

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Year:2005
Director:Duncan Tucker
Written by:Duncan Tucker (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Bree is about to get a sex change operation that will finally allow her to actually be what she’s already been in her mind for a long time: a transitioned woman. Yet before this happens she suddenly runs into her son who ends up coming for the trip across the United States.
5481

A Midwinter’s Tale

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Year:1995
Director:Kenneth Branagh
Written by:Kenneth Branagh (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
*5482

The People vs. Larry Flynt

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Year:1996
Director:Miloš Forman
Written by:Scott Alexander (Screenplay), Larry Karaszewski (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
5483

Nurse Betty

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Year:2000
Director:Neil LaBute
Written by:John C. Richards (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
*5484

Man on the Moon

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Year:1999
Director:Miloš Forman
Written by:Scott Alexander (Screenplay), Larry Karaszewski (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
*5485

Taking Woodstock

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Year:2009
Director:Ang Lee
Written by:Elliot Tiber (Novel), Tom Monte (Novel), James Schamus (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.
*5486

Atonement

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Year:2007
Director:Joe Wright
Written by:Ian McEwan (Novel), Christopher Hampton (Screenplay), Ian McEwan (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
*5473

Stranger Than Fiction

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Year:2006
Director:Marc Forster
Written by:Zach Helm (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
*5474

The Ice Storm

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Year:1997
Director:Ang Lee
Written by:Rick Moody (Writer), James Schamus (Writer)

Script Synopsis:In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
*5475