Tag: Alan J. Pakula

See You In The Morning Script

Script by:Alan J. Pakula (Writer)
Directed by:Alan J. Pakula
Year:1989
IMDb:tt0098283

Plot:Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.
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Sophie’s Choice Script

Script by:Alan J. Pakula (Screenplay)
Directed by:Alan J. Pakula
Year:1982
IMDb:tt0084707

Plot:Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
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Starting Over Script

Script by:James L. Brooks (Writer)
Directed by:Alan J. Pakula
Year:1979
IMDb:tt0079948

Plot:After being ditched by his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man suffers a crisis of confidence. He begins to forge a new relationship with an equally insecure teacher, until the wife attempts a reconciliation.
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The Pelican Brief Script

Script by:Alan J. Pakula (Screenplay), John Grisham (Novel)
Directed by:Alan J. Pakula
Year:1993
IMDb:tt0107798

Plot:Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
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The Sterile Cuckoo Script

Script by:John Nichols (Novel), Alvin Sargent (Screenplay)
Directed by:Alan J. Pakula
Year:1969
IMDb:tt0065037

Plot:Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. Pookie Adams - a kooky, lonely misfit with no family and no place to go, insists on calling all those who won't participate in her world, "weirdos," clings to a quiet studious Jerry, who has the ability to make a choice of living in Pookie's private little world or be accepted by the society that Pookie rejects. Unwittingly, it is through their awkward relationship that Pookie actually prepares Jerry for the world of "weirdos" that she doesn't fit into or wish to be apart of.
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Comes a Horseman Script

Script by:Dennis Lynton Clark (Writer)
Directed by:Alan J. Pakula
Year:1978
IMDb:tt0077360

Plot:Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage...they eventually find love.
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The Parallax View Script

Script by:David Giler (Writer), Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Writer), Loren Singer (Novel)
Directed by:Alan J. Pakula
Year:1974
IMDb:tt0071970

Plot:An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
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Klute Script

Script by:Andy Lewis (Screenplay), David P. Lewis (Screenplay)
Directed by:Alan J. Pakula
Year:1971
IMDb:tt0067309

Plot:This acclaimed thriller stars Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a New York City call girl who becomes enmeshed in an investigation into the disappearance of a business executive. Detective John Klute is hired to follow Daniel, and eventually begins a romance with her, but it appears that he hasn't been the only person on her trail. When it becomes clear that Daniel is being targeted, it's up to her and Klute to figure out who is after her before it's too late.
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