Tag: Sam Shepard

Simpatico Script

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Year:1999
Director:Matthew Warchus
Written by:Sam Shepard (Theatre Play), Matthew Warchus (Screenplay), David Nicholls (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?
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Paris, Texas Script

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Year:1984
Director:Wim Wenders
Written by:Sam Shepard (Writer), L.M. Kit Carson (Adaptation)

Script Synopsis:A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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Fool For Love Script

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Year:1985
Director:Robert Altman
Written by:Sam Shepard (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave behind.
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Zabriskie Point

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Year:1970
Director:Michelangelo Antonioni
Written by:Michelangelo Antonioni (Screenplay), Tonino Guerra (Screenplay), Sam Shepard (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot)...
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