Tag: Charles Shyer

Goin’ South Script

Script by:John Herman Shaner (Screenplay), Al Ramrus (Screenplay), Charles Shyer (Screenplay), Alan Mandell (Screenplay)
Directed by:Jack Nicholson
Year:1978
IMDb:tt0077621

Plot:Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
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I Love Trouble Script

Script by:Charles Shyer (Screenplay), Nancy Meyers (Screenplay)
Directed by:Charles Shyer
Year:1994
IMDb:tt0110093

Plot:Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson (Roberts) and Peter Brackett (Nolte) reluctantly join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy and bite off more than they can chew while pursuing the story and bickering along the way - and falling in love, despite the fact that he's many years older than she.Sabrina is an ambitious, gifted reporter willing to do whatever it takes to learn the truth about the train accident, which leads her into conflict, then reluctant partnership, with fading star newsman Peter who works for a rival paper. He is her polar opposite: he chases women, smokes cigars, and has just published his first novel. During their pursuit of the story, Peter and Sabrina clash over virtually everything - he also subjects Sabrina to indecent exposure in front of a group of boy scouts after he catches her skinny dipping.
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Private Benjamin Script

Script by:Nancy Meyers (Screenplay), Charles Shyer (Screenplay), Harvey Miller (Screenplay)
Directed by:Howard Zieff
Year:1980
IMDb:tt0081375

Plot:A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
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Jumpin’ Jack Flash Script

Script by:David Franzoni (Screenplay), Chris Thompson (Screenplay), Nancy Meyers (Screenplay), Charles Shyer (Screenplay)
Directed by:Penny Marshall
Year:1986
IMDb:tt0091306

Plot:Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life.
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Irreconcilable Differences Script

Script by:Nancy Meyers (Writer), Charles Shyer (Writer)
Directed by:Charles Shyer
Year:1984
IMDb:tt0087482

Plot:Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
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House Calls Script

Script by:Alan Mandell (Writer), Charles Shyer (Writer)
Directed by:Howard Zieff
Year:1978
IMDb:tt0077699

Plot:Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.
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Protocol Script

Script by:Buck Henry (Screenplay), Nancy Meyers (Story), Harvey Miller (Story), Charles Shyer (Story)
Directed by:Herbert Ross
Year:1984
IMDb:tt0087951

Plot:Sweet, unsophisticated Sunny is working as a cocktail waitress. She saves a visiting dignitary and as a reward she gets a top-office job in the Washington beehive. She has to fight against a devious protocol officer but with her charms, she saves the day when she gets involved in an arms deal with an Arab country
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Affair Of The Necklace Script

Script by:John Sweet (Writer)
Directed by:Charles Shyer
Year:2001
IMDb:tt0242252

Plot:In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
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Father of the Bride Script

Script by:Nancy Meyers (Screenplay), Albert Hackett (Screenplay), Frances Goodrich (Screenplay)
Directed by:Charles Shyer
Year:1991
IMDb:tt0101862

Plot:George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 21 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. He becomes slightly insane, but his wife tries to make him happy for Annie, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a foreign wedding planner takes over the ceremony.
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Smokey and the Bandit (1977) Script

Script by:James Lee Barrett (Screenplay), Charles Shyer (Screenplay), Alan Mandell (Screenplay)
Directed by:Hal Needham
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0076729

Plot:A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
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