Tag: Sidney Lumet

Garbo Talks Script

Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1984
IMDb:tt0087313

Plot:A New York accountant (Ron Silver) sets out to grant his dying mother's last wish--to meet film star Greta Garbo. Sidney Lumet's bittersweet 1984 comedy also stars Anne Bancroft, Catherine Hicks, Carrie Fisher, Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da Silva, Steven Hill, Hermione Gingold, Dorothy Loudon and Betty Comden.
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Prince Of The City Script

Script by:Robert Daley (Novel), Jay Presson Allen (Screenplay), Sidney Lumet (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0082945

Plot:New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants
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The Wiz Script

Script by:L. Frank Baum (Author), Joel Schumacher (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1978
IMDb:tt0078504

Plot:A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she has, as Aunt Em teases her, "never been south of 125th Street", and refuses to move out and on with her life.
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Equus Script

Script by:Peter Shaffer (Writer)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0075995

Plot:A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
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The Pawnbroker Script

Script by:Morton S. Fine (Screenplay), David Friedkin (Screenplay), Edward Lewis Wallant (Novel)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1965
IMDb:tt0059575

Plot:A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
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The Fugitive Kind Script

Script by:Tennessee Williams (Scenario Writer), Meade Roberts (Scenario Writer)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1959
IMDb:tt0052832

Plot:Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
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Find Me Guilty Script

Script by:Sidney Lumet (Author), T.J. Mancini (Author), Robert J. McCrea (Author), Sidney Lumet (Screenplay), T.J. Mancini (Screenplay), Robert J. McCrea (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:2006
IMDb:tt0419749

Plot:Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
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The Morning After Script

Script by:James Cresson (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1986
IMDb:tt0091554

Plot:Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin, for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall, can help her escape her predicament and find the true killer.
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Daniel Script

Script by:E.L. Doctorow (Novel), E.L. Doctorow (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0085398

Plot:The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
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