The Deer Hunter

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Year:1978
Director:Michael Cimino
Written by:Michael Cimino (Screenplay), Deric Washburn (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
*4537

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 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 Birds

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Year:1963
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Written by:Daphne du Maurier (Author), Evan Hunter (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.
*4521

The Bonfire of the Vanities

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Year:1990
Director:Brian De Palma
Written by:Tom Wolfe (Novel), Michael Cristofer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.
*4522