Marty

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Year:1955
Director:Delbert Mann
Written by:Paddy Chayefsky (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.
*5195

The Men Who Stare at Goats

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Year:2009
Director:Grant Heslov
Written by:Jon Ronson (Novel), Peter Straughan (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
*5196

Midnight Cowboy

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Year:1969
Director:John Schlesinger
Written by:Waldo Salt (Screenplay), James Leo Herlihy (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
*5197

I Love You, Beth Cooper

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Year:2009
Director:Chris Columbus
Written by:Larry Doyle (Novel), Larry Doyle (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A valedictorian's declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.
5189

In the Heat of the Night

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Year:1967
Director:Norman Jewison
Written by:John Ball (Novel), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
*5190

It Happened One Night

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Year:1934
Director:Frank Capra
Written by:Robert Riskin (Screenplay), Samuel Hopkins Adams (Author)

Script Synopsis:A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
*5191

L.A. Confidential

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Year:1997
Director:Curtis Hanson
Written by:James Ellroy (Author), Brian Helgeland (Screenplay), Curtis Hanson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
*5192

The Last Emperor

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Year:1987
Director:Bernardo Bertolucci
Written by:Mark Peploe (Screenplay), Bernardo Bertolucci (Screenplay), Enzo Ungari (Screenplay), Aisin-Gioro Puyi (Author)

Script Synopsis:A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
5193

Clueless

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Year:1995
Director:Amy Heckerling
Written by:Amy Heckerling (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.
*5183

The Damned United

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Year:2009
Director:Tom Hooper
Written by:David Peace (Novel), Peter Morgan (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.
*5184