Tag: Charles Shyer

Protocol Script

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Year:1984
Director:Herbert Ross
Written by:Buck Henry (Screenplay), Nancy Meyers (Story), Harvey Miller (Story), Charles Shyer (Story)

Script Synopsis:Sweet, unsophisticated Sunny is working as a cocktail waitress. She saves a visiting dignitary and as a reward she gets a top-office job in the Washington beehive. She has to fight against a devious protocol officer but with her charms, she saves the day when she gets involved in an arms deal with an Arab country
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Private Benjamin Script

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Year:1980
Director:Howard Zieff
Written by:Nancy Meyers (Screenplay), Charles Shyer (Screenplay), Harvey Miller (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Private Benjamin Script Resources:

  • Private Benjamin Script PDF - 1/24/80 REVISED 4TH at Script City ($)
  • Private Benjamin Transcript at scripts.com

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I Love Trouble Script

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Year:1994
Director:Charles Shyer
Written by:Charles Shyer (Screenplay), Nancy Meyers (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson (Roberts) and Peter Brackett (Nolte) reluctantly join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy and bite off more than they can chew while pursuing the story and bickering along the way - and falling in love, despite the fact that he's many years older than she.Sabrina is an ambitious, gifted reporter willing to do whatever it takes to learn the truth about the train accident, which leads her into conflict, then reluctant partnership, with fading star newsman Peter who works for a rival paper. He is her polar opposite: he chases women, smokes cigars, and has just published his first novel. During their pursuit of the story, Peter and Sabrina clash over virtually everything - he also subjects Sabrina to indecent exposure in front of a group of boy scouts after he catches her skinny dipping.
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Goin’ South Script

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Year:1978
Director:Jack Nicholson
Written by:John Herman Shaner (Screenplay), Al Ramrus (Screenplay), Charles Shyer (Screenplay), Alan Mandell (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
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House Calls Script

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Year:1978
Director:Howard Zieff
Written by:Alan Mandell (Writer), Charles Shyer (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.
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Irreconcilable Differences Script

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Year:1984
Director:Charles Shyer
Written by:Nancy Meyers (Writer), Charles Shyer (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
Irreconcilable Differences Script Resources:

  • Irreconcilable Differences Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Irreconcilable Differences Script PDF - NO DRAFT DATE at Script City ($)

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  • Irreconcilable Differences ( tt0087482 ) at IMDb
  • Irreconcilable Differences ( 47874 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Jumpin’ Jack Flash Script

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Year:1986
Director:Penny Marshall
Written by:David Franzoni (Screenplay), Chris Thompson (Screenplay), Nancy Meyers (Screenplay), Charles Shyer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life.
Jumpin' Jack Flash Script Resources:

  • Jumpin' Jack Flash Script PDF - [12TH REV. 1-13-1986] at Script Fly ($)

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Baby Boom Script

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Year:1987
Director:Charles Shyer
Written by:Nancy Meyers (Screenplay), Charles Shyer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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Affair Of The Necklace Script

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Year:2001
Director:Charles Shyer
Written by:John Sweet (Writer)

Script Synopsis:In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Affair Of The Necklace Script Resources:

  • Affair Of The Necklace Script PDF - [REV 10/25/1999] at Script Fly ($)
  • Affair Of The Necklace Script PDF - 10/25/99 REV. *pg. at Script City ($)
  • Affair Of The Necklace Transcript at scripts.com

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  • Affair Of The Necklace ( tt0242252 ) at IMDb
  • Affair Of The Necklace ( 19076 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Father of the Bride

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Year:1991
Director:Charles Shyer
Written by:Nancy Meyers (Screenplay), Albert Hackett (Screenplay), Frances Goodrich (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 21 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. He becomes slightly insane, but his wife tries to make him happy for Annie, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a foreign wedding planner takes over the ceremony.
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