Tag: Paul Schrader

Touch Script

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Year:1997
Director:Paul Schrader
Written by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Paul Schrader (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray and the developing relationship between Juvenal and Lynn Faulkner.
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Forever Mine Script

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Year:1999
Director:Paul Schrader
Written by:Paul Schrader (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
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Cat People

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Year:1982
Director:Paul Schrader
Written by:Alan Ormsby (Screenplay), Paul Schrader (Screenplay), DeWitt Bodeen (Story)

Script Synopsis:After years of separation, Irina and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irina is drawn to the cat -- and the zoo curator is drawn to her. Soon, Irina's brother will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they turn into predatory jungle cats.
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Light Sleeper

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Year:1992
Director:Paul Schrader
Written by:Paul Schrader (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries worry about his mental well-being and his effectiveness at his job. Meanwhile someone is killing women in apparently drug-related incidents.
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Rolling Thunder

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Year:1977
Director:John Flynn
Written by:Paul Schrader (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.
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The Mosquito Coast

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Year:1986
Director:Peter Weir
Written by:Paul Schrader (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
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Obsession

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Year:1976
Director:Brian De Palma
Written by:Paul Schrader (Author), Brian De Palma (Author)

Script Synopsis:New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland’s life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.
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Old Boyfriends

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Year:1979
Director:Joan Tewkesbury
Written by:Paul Schrader (Writer), Leonard Schrader (Writer)

Script Synopsis:John Belushi was the high school sweetheart who ruined her reputation with lies. Richard Jordan was the college lover that she almost married. Keith Carradine is the unstable brother of her first real love. Diane Cruise is a woman whose life has shattered in a myriad of pieces. After the dissolution of her marriage, she decides to delve into her past and seek out the men who marked the milestones of her life.
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Hardcore

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Year:1979
Director:Paul Schrader
Written by:Paul Schrader (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.
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Light of Day

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Year:1987
Director:Paul Schrader
Written by:Paul Schrader (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Fox and Jett play a brother and sister who are lead performers in a rock band, The Barbusters, in Cleveland, Ohio. The sister, Patti Rasnick, is an unmarried mother and has a troubled relationship with her own mother, who is deeply religious. Estranged from her parents and struggling to make ends meet, Patti decides to dive headlong into a carefree rock music lifestyle. The brother, Joe Rasnick, pulls away from rock music to provide some stability for his young nephew. It takes a family crisis to bring Patti back home and force her to face the prickly past with her mother.
Light of Day Script Resources:

  • Light of Day Script PDF - [1985-11-20] at Script Fly ($)
  • Light of Day Script PDF - 11/20/1985 at Script City ($)

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