Tag: Patricia Highsmith

Deep Water Script

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Year:2022
Director:Adrian Lyne
Written by:Patricia Highsmith (Novel), Zach Helm (Screenplay), Sam Levinson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family.
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Carol Script

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Year:2015
Director:Todd Haynes
Written by:Patricia Highsmith (Novel), Phyllis Nagy (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
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Ripley’s Game Script

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Year:2002
Director:Liliana Cavani
Written by:Liliana Cavani (Screenplay), Patricia Highsmith (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?
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The Talented Mr. Ripley

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Year:1999
Director:Anthony Minghella
Written by:Patricia Highsmith (Original Story), Anthony Minghella (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
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  • The Talented Mr. Ripley ( tt0134119 ) at IMDb
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1213 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Strangers on a Train

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Year:1951
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Written by:Patricia Highsmith (Novel), Raymond Chandler (Screenplay), Czenzi Ormonde (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Whitfield Cook (Adaptation)

Script Synopsis:A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder—a theory that he plans to implement.
Strangers on a Train Script Resources:

  • Strangers on a Train Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Strangers on a Train Script - 1950-10 Draft at IMSDb
  • Strangers on a Train Script - 10/18/50 final draft at The Daily Script
  • Strangers on a Train Script at Hitchcock Wiki
  • Strangers on a Train Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Strangers on a Train Script PDF - 12/16/50 REVISED FINAL at Script City ($)

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