Peter Yates – Scripts on Screen https://scripts-onscreen.com Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:19:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://scripts-onscreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-cropped-sos-logo-truesqr-32x32.png Peter Yates – Scripts on Screen https://scripts-onscreen.com 32 32 John and Mary Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/john-and-mary-script-links/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:19:16 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/john-and-mary-script-links/
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Year:1969
Director:Peter Yates
Written by:John Mortimer (Screenplay), Mervyn Jones (Novel)

Script Synopsis:John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
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The Deep Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-deep-script-links/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:48:39 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-deep-script-links/
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Year:1977
Director:Peter Yates
Written by:Peter Benchley (Novel), Peter Benchley (Screenplay), Tracy Keenan Wynn (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters...
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An Innocent Man Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/an-innocent-man-script-links/ Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:35:33 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/an-innocent-man-script-links/
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Year:1989
Director:Peter Yates
Written by:Larry Brothers (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
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The Hot Rock Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-hot-rock-script-links/ Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:57:21 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-hot-rock-script-links/
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Year:1972
Director:Peter Yates
Written by:Donald E. Westlake (Novel), William Goldman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
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Friends Of Eddie Coyle Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/friends-of-eddie-coyle-script-links/ Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:33:09 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/friends-of-eddie-coyle-script-links/
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Year:1973
Director:Peter Yates
Written by:Paul Monash (Writer), George V. Higgins (Novel)

Script Synopsis:An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.
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Mother Jugs And Speed Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/mother-jugs-and-speed-script-links/ Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:43:25 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/mother-jugs-and-speed-script-links/
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Year:1976
Director:Peter Yates
Written by:Tom Mankiewicz (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Mother (Bill Cosby), Jugs (Raquel Welch) & Speed (Harvey Keitel) work for a ambulance company competing for a L.A. city contract.
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The Dresser Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-dresser-script-links/ Wed, 23 Oct 2013 23:12:13 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-dresser-script-links/
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Year:1983
Director:Peter Yates

Script Synopsis:In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
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Eleni Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/eleni-script-links/ Wed, 16 Oct 2013 06:21:39 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/eleni-script-links/
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Year:1985
Director:Peter Yates

Script Synopsis:Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
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Suspect Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/suspect-script-links/ Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:28:25 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/suspect-script-links/
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Year:1987
Director:Peter Yates
Written by:Eric Roth (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson (Liam Neeson), a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley (Cher) is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger (Dennis Quaid), a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
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The Year Of The Comet Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-year-of-the-comet-script-links/ Sun, 01 Sep 2013 02:30:36 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/the-year-of-the-comet-script-links/
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Year:1992
Director:Peter Yates
Written by:William Goldman (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Year of the Comet is a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film about the pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history. The title refers to the year it was bottled, 1811, which was known for the Great Comet of 1811, and also as one of the best years in history for European wine.
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