Gillies MacKinnon – Scripts on Screen

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells Script

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Year:2000

Director:Gillies MacKinnon

Script Synopsis:After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells Script Resources:

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells Transcript at Script-O-Rama

The Playboys Script

Year:1992

Director:Gillies MacKinnon

Written by:Shane Connaughton (Writer), Kerry Crabbe (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).

The Playboys Script Resources:

The Playboys Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

A Simple Twist Of Fate Script

Year:1994

Director:Gillies MacKinnon

Script Synopsis:When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart. He names her Matilda, and raises her, finding companionship and a new joy in life with his adopted daughter. But the secret of Matilda's birth may tear them apart.

A Simple Twist Of Fate Script Resources:

A Simple Twist Of Fate Script PDF - 8/2/1993 at Script City ($)
A Simple Twist Of Fate Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

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