Tag: Howard Zieff

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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Slither (1973) Script

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Year:1973
Director:Howard Zieff
Written by:W.D. Richter (Writer)

Script Synopsis:While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.
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Hearts Of The West Script

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Year:1975
Director:Howard Zieff
Written by:Rob Thompson (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated Nevada train depot. On the run from the con men responsible, Lewis stumbles across "real" cowboys--cowboy actors shooting a movie in the desert. The would-be writer soon finds himself instead acting in Westerns, for the rundown Tumbleweed Productions studio, in Depression-era Hollywood.
Hearts Of The West Script Resources:

  • Hearts Of The West Script PDF - [1-14-1974] at Script Fly ($)
  • Hearts Of The West Script PDF - 9/9/1974 at Script City ($)

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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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The Main Event Script

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Year:1979
Director:Howard Zieff
Written by:Gail Parent (Screenplay), Andrew Smith (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, (Eddie Scanlon) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.
The Main Event Script Resources:

  • The Main Event Script PDF - 9/21/78 3RD REVISED at Script City ($)
  • The Main Event Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

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The Dream Team Script

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Year:1989
Director:Howard Zieff

Script Synopsis:This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.
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My Girl

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Year:1991
Director:Howard Zieff
Written by:Laurice Elehwany (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
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My Girl 2

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Year:1994
Director:Howard Zieff
Written by:Laurice Elehwany (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.
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