Tag: Alex Lasker

Beyond Rangoon Script

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Year:1995
Director:John Boorman
Written by:Alex Lasker (Screenplay), Bill Rubenstein (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Patricia Arquette stars as American widow Laura Bowman, a young doctor who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s, in this fictionalized drama based on actual events. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister (Frances McDormand) in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.
Beyond Rangoon Script Resources:

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Tears of the Sun

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Year:2003
Director:Antoine Fuqua
Written by:Alex Lasker (Screenplay), Patrick Cirillo (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
Tears of the Sun Script Resources:

  • Tears of the Sun Script PDF - (2003) 8/14/00 at Script City ($)
  • Tears of the Sun Script PDF - (UNR) 6/30/94 at Script City ($)
  • Tears of the Sun Script PDF - (UNR). (EARLY) NO DRAFT DATE. 2ND DFT. at Script City ($)
  • Tears of the Sun Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Tears of the Sun Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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Firefox

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Year:1982
Director:Clint Eastwood
Written by:Craig Thomas (Novel), Alex Lasker (Screenplay), Wendell Wellman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
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