Tag: Ronald Harwood

The Statement Script

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Year:2003
Director:Norman Jewison
Written by:Brian Moore (Novel), Ronald Harwood (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
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Australia Script

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Year:2008
Director:Baz Luhrmann
Written by:Baz Luhrmann (Screenplay), Baz Luhrmann (Story), Stuart Beattie (Screenplay), Ronald Harwood (Screenplay), Richard Flanagan (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
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Quartet Script

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Year:2012
Director:Dustin Hoffman
Written by:Ronald Harwood (Theatre Play), Ronald Harwood (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and former wife of one of the residents. Expect poignancy and plenty of laughs.
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The Browning Version Script

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Year:1994
Director:Mike Figgis
Written by:Terence Rattigan (Theatre Play), Ronald Harwood (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His wife Laura is unfaithful, and lives to wound him any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and regain at least his own self-respect.
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  • The Browning Version ( tt0109340 ) at IMDb
  • The Browning Version ( 49805 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Taking Sides

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Year:2001
Director:István Szabó
Written by:Ronald Harwood (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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Year:2007
Director:Julian Schnabel
Written by:Ronald Harwood (Screenplay), Jean-Dominique Bauby (Novel)

Script Synopsis:The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Script Resources:

  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Script PDF at The Daily Script
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Script - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly at dailyscript.com
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Script PDF - REVISED DRAFT. at Script City ($)
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

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  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ( tt0401383 ) at IMDb
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ( 2013 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Pianist

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Year:2002
Director:Roman Polanski
Written by:Ronald Harwood (Screenplay), Wladyslaw Szpilman (Novel)

Script Synopsis:The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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Love in the Time of Cholera

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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.
Love in the Time of Cholera Script Resources:

  • Love in the Time of Cholera Script PDF - [UNDATED] at Script Fly ($)
  • Love in the Time of Cholera Script PDF - REVISED DRAFT. at Script City ($)
  • Love in the Time of Cholera Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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  • Love in the Time of Cholera ( tt0484740 ) at IMDb
  • Love in the Time of Cholera ( 6639 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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