Tag: Roland Joffé

The Killing Fields Script

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Year:1984
Director:Roland Joffé
Written by:Bruce Robinson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.
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The Mission Script

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Year:1986
Director:Roland Joffé
Written by:Robert Bolt (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portugese aggressors.
The Mission Script Resources:

  • The Mission Script PDF - 9/23/84 SECOND REVISED DRAFT at Script City ($)
  • The Mission Script PDF - 9/23/84 2ND DRAFT at Script City ($)
  • The Mission Script PDF - [2nd rev 9-23-84] at Script Fly ($)
  • The Mission Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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Fat Man And Little Boy Script

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Year:1989
Director:Roland Joffé
Written by:Bruce Robinson (Writer), Bruce Robinson (Screenplay), Roland Joffé (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Fat Man And Little Boy Script Resources:

  • Fat Man And Little Boy Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Fat Man And Little Boy Script PDF - 2/4/88 4TH DRAFT at Script City ($)
  • Fat Man And Little Boy Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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  • Fat Man And Little Boy ( tt0097336 ) at IMDb
  • Fat Man And Little Boy ( 27461 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Goodbye, Lover Script

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Year:1999
Director:Roland Joffé
Written by:Ron Peer (Story), Ron Peer (Screenplay), Joel Cohen (Screenplay), Alec Sokolow (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
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City of Joy

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Year:1992
Director:Roland Joffé
Written by:Dominique LaPierre (Writer), Mark Medoff (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
City of Joy Script Resources:

  • City of Joy Script PDF - October 1990 Early Draft at The Daily Script
  • City of Joy Script - 1990-10 Draft at IMSDb
  • City of Joy Script PDF - 12/13/1989 at Script City ($)

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The Scarlet Letter

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Year:1995
Director:Roland Joffé
Written by:Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novel), Douglas Day Stewart (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.
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