Donald Petrie – Scripts on Screen https://scripts-onscreen.com Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:22:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://scripts-onscreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-cropped-sos-logo-truesqr-32x32.png Donald Petrie – Scripts on Screen https://scripts-onscreen.com 32 32 Grumpy Old Men Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/grumpy-old-men-script-links/ Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:22:23 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/grumpy-old-men-script-links/
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Year:1993
Director:Donald Petrie
Written by:Mark Steven Johnson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks. Will this love triangle destroy the two old grumps? Or will the geriatric odd couple overcome their differences and rediscover their friendship?
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Little Italy Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/little-italy-script-links/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:09:05 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/little-italy-script-links/
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Year:2018
Director:Donald Petrie
Written by:Steve Galluccio (Writer), Vinay Virmani (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
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Opportunity Knocks Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/opportunity-knocks-script-links/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 06:42:37 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/opportunity-knocks-script-links/
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Year:1990
Director:Donald Petrie

Script Synopsis:Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
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Just My Luck Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/just-my-luck-script-links/ Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:29:22 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/just-my-luck-script-links/
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Year:2006
Director:Donald Petrie
Written by:Jonathan Bernstein (Author), I. Marlene King (Author), Mark Blackwell (Author), James Greer (Author), Amy B. Harris (Author)

Script Synopsis:Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.
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Welcome To Mooseport Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/welcome-to-mooseport-script-links/ Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:04:15 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/welcome-to-mooseport-script-links/
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Year:2004
Director:Donald Petrie
Written by:Doug Richardson (Story), Tom Schulman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A US president (Gene Hackman) who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate (Ray Romano).
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How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/how-to-lose-a-guy-in-10-days-script-links/ Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:14:11 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/how-to-lose-a-guy-in-10-days-script-links/
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Year:2003
Director:Donald Petrie
Written by:Kristen Buckley (Screenplay), Brian Regan (Screenplay), Burr Steers (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:An advice columnist, Andie Anderson, tries pushing the boundaries of what she can write about in her new piece about how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Her editor, Lana, loves it, and Andie goes off to find a man she can use for the experiment. Enter executive Ben Berry, who is so confident in his romantic prowess that he thinks he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days. When Andie and Ben meet, their plans backfire.
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The Associate Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-associate-script-links/ Sun, 22 Dec 2013 23:32:13 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-associate-script-links/
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Year:1996
Director:Donald Petrie
Written by:Jenaro Prieto (Novel), Nick Thiel (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.
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Mystic Pizza Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/mystic-pizza-script-links/ Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:02:58 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/mystic-pizza-script-links/
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Year:1988
Director:Donald Petrie
Written by:Amy Holden Jones (Screenplay), Perry Howze (Screenplay), Randy Howze (Screenplay), Alfred Uhry (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
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The Favor Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-favor-script-links/ Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:39:32 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-favor-script-links/
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Year:1994
Director:Donald Petrie
Written by:Sara Parriott (Writer), Josann McGibbon (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Kathy is married to Peter. Now she can't help but wonder how things could have been if she got together with her old boyfriend, Tom. Being married prevents from doing that so she asks her friend, Emily to go to him and see if she can sleep with him then tell Kathy how it was. When Emily tells Kathy that things were awesome, their friendship suffers, at the same so does Kathy's marriage. Things get even more complicated when Emily learns she's pregnant, and she's not certain if it's Tom's or her boyfriend, Elliot.
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My Favorite Martian Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/my-favorite-martian-script-links/ Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:03:45 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/my-favorite-martian-script-links/
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Year:1999
Director:Donald Petrie
Written by:Sherri Stoner (Screenplay), Deanna Oliver (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will rock the earth. Since Tim took the original but scaled-down spaceship with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it.
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