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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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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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.
*5114

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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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.
*5112

Baby It’s You

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Year:1983
Director:John Sayles
Written by:John Sayles (Screenplay), Amy Robinson (Story)

Script Synopsis:In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
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The Brother from Another Planet

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Year:1984
Director:John Sayles
Written by:John Sayles (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
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Casa de los babys

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Year:2003
Director:John Sayles
Written by:John Sayles (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey from the United States to South America in hopes of easily adopting children. Unfortunately, their plans are complicated by local laws that require the women to live in the foreign nation for an extended period before they can take in orphaned kids. While stuck in another country, the women bond as they share their aspirations and anxieties.
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City of Hope

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Year:1991
Director:John Sayles
Written by:John Sayles (Author)

Script Synopsis:This gritty inner-city film by John Sayles follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father (Tony Lo Bianco). Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn (Joe Morton), an idealistic young politician.
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The Howling

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Year:1981
Director:Joe Dante
Written by:Gary Brandner (Novel), Terence H. Winkless (Screenplay), John Sayles (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
*5109