The Eiger Sanction

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Year:1975
Director:Clint Eastwood
Written by:Rod Whitaker (Novel), Hal Dresner (Screenplay), Warren Murphy (Screenplay), Rod Whitaker (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
4541

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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Year:2008
Director:David Fincher
Written by:F. Scott Fitzgerald (Novel), Eric Roth (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
*4530

The Darjeeling Limited

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Year:2007
Director:Wes Anderson
Written by:Wes Anderson (Screenplay), Roman Coppola (Screenplay), Jason Schwartzman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).
*4531

The Dark Half

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Year:1993
Director:George A. Romero
Written by:George A. Romero (Screenplay), Stephen King (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
4532

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

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Year:2005
Director:Andrew Adamson
Written by:C. S. Lewis (Author), Ann Peacock (Screenplay), Andrew Adamson (Screenplay), Christopher Markus (Screenplay), Stephen McFeely (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.
*4526

The Color of Money

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Year:1986
Director:Martin Scorsese
Written by:Richard Price (Screenplay), Walter Tevis (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.
4527

The Cooler

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Year:2003
Director:Wayne Kramer
Written by:Frank Hannah (Screenplay), Wayne Kramer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected happiness when he begins dating attractive waitress Natalie Belisario.
*4528

The Cotton Club

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Year:1984
Director:Francis Ford Coppola
Written by:William Kennedy (Screenplay), Francis Ford Coppola (Screenplay), Jim Haskins (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
*4529

The Beguiled

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Year:1971
Director:Don Siegel
Written by:Albert Maltz (Screenplay), Irene Kamp (Screenplay), Thomas Cullinan (Novel), Claude Traverse (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.
*4518

The Big Lebowski

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Year:1998
Director:Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Written by:Ethan Coen (Writer), Joel Coen (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
*4519