Mike Newell – Scripts on Screen https://scripts-onscreen.com Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:22:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://scripts-onscreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-cropped-sos-logo-truesqr-32x32.png Mike Newell – Scripts on Screen https://scripts-onscreen.com 32 32 154728564 Great Expectations (2012) Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/great-expectations-2012-script-links/ Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:22:21 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/great-expectations-2012-script-links/
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Year:2012
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:Charles Dickens (Novel), David Nicholls (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's 'Uncle Pumblechook' to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love, then Pip—a humble orphan—suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-guernsey-literary-potato-peel-pie-society-script-links/ Sat, 23 Feb 2019 22:14:05 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-guernsey-literary-potato-peel-pie-society-script-links/
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Year:2018
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:Thomas Bezucha (Writer), Don Roos (Writer), Annie Barrows (Novel), Mary Ann Shaffer (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
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Dance with a Stranger Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/dance-with-a-stranger-script-links/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:04:14 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/dance-with-a-stranger-script-links/
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Year:1985
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:Shelagh Delaney (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Based on the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, Mike Newell's Dance With a Stranger (1985) concentrates on Ellis's (Richardson) short-lived relationship with motor-racing driver David Blakely (Rupert Everett).
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Mona Lisa Smile Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/mona-lisa-smile-script-links/ Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:51:04 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/mona-lisa-smile-script-links/
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Year:2003
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:Lawrence Konner (Screenplay), Mark Rosenthal (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.
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Amazing Grace And Chuck Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/amazing-grace-and-chuck-script-links/ Sat, 05 Oct 2013 21:54:12 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/amazing-grace-and-chuck-script-links/
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Year:1987
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:David Field (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Chuck Murdock, a 12-year-old boy from Montana and son of a military jet pilot, becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip. He protests the existence of nuclear weapons by refusing to play baseball, which results in the forfeit of a Little League game by his team. "Amazing Grace" Smith, a fictional Boston Celtics player, played by NBA star Alex English, decides to join the boy in his protest by resigning from professional basketball. This gives it nationwide coverage, inspiring more pro athletes to join the protest against nuclear weapons. The film reaches a climax when the President of the United States personally meets with Chuck, admiring his resolve but at the same time explaining the practical difficulties of disarmament. Sinister forces, meanwhile, threaten the lives of Amazing Grace and his agent, Lynn.
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Four Weddings And A Funeral Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/four-weddings-and-a-funeral-script-links/ Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:15:30 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/four-weddings-and-a-funeral-script-links/
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Year:1994
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:Richard Curtis (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
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Pushing Tin Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/pushing-tin-script-links/ Thu, 18 Jul 2013 02:15:36 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/pushing-tin-script-links/
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Year:1999
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:Glen Charles (Screenplay), Les Charles (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
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Donnie Brasco https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/donnie-brasco-script-links/ Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:11:56 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/donnie-brasco-script-links/
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Year:1997
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:Joseph D. Pistone (Novel), Richard Woodley (Novel), Paul Attanasio (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time-script-links/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:37:49 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time-script-links/
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Year:2010
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:Boaz Yakin (Screenplay), Doug Miro (Screenplay), Carlo Bernard (Screenplay), Jordan Mechner (Screenstory)

Script Synopsis:A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time – gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.
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Love in the Time of Cholera https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/love-in-the-time-of-cholera-script-links/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:43:18 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/love-in-the-time-of-cholera-script-links/
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Year:2007
Director:Mike Newell
Written by:Ronald Harwood (Screenplay), Gabriel García Márquez (Novel)

Script Synopsis:In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
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