Tag: Elmore Leonard

Be Cool Script

Script by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Peter Steinfeld (Screenplay)
Directed by:F. Gary Gray
Year:2005
IMDb:tt0377471

Plot:Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.
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Killshot Script

Script by:Hossein Amini (Screenplay), Elmore Leonard (Novel)
Directed by:John Madden
Year:2008
IMDb:tt0443559

Plot:Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.
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52 Pick-Up Script

Script by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Elmore Leonard (Screenplay), John Steppling (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:1986
IMDb:tt0090567

Plot:Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a video tape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
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Valdez Is Coming Script

Script by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), David Rayfiel (Screenplay), Roland Kibbee (Screenplay)
Directed by:Edwin Sherin
Year:1971
IMDb:tt0067921

Plot:Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon smuggler Frank Tanner is greedy and impulsive. When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do justice and avenge his honor, no matter what it takes.
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Hombre Script

Script by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Irving Ravetch (Writer), Harriet Frank Jr. (Writer)
Directed by:Martin Ritt
Year:1967
IMDb:tt0061770

Plot:John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
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The Rosary Murders Script

Script by:Elmore Leonard (Screenplay), William X. Kienzle (Screenplay), Fred Walton (Screenplay)
Directed by:Fred Walton
Year:1987
IMDb:tt0093881

Plot:A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest (Donald Sutherland), who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
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Touch Script

Script by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Paul Schrader (Screenplay)
Directed by:Paul Schrader
Year:1997
IMDb:tt0120357

Plot:When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray and the developing relationship between Juvenal and Lynn Faulkner.
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Get Shorty Script

Script by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Scott Frank (Screenplay)
Directed by:Barry Sonnenfeld
Year:1995
IMDb:tt0113161

Plot:Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
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Out of Sight Script

Script by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Scott Frank (Screenplay)
Directed by:Steven Soderbergh
Year:1998
IMDb:tt0120780

Plot:Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.
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Jackie Brown Script

Script by:Quentin Tarantino (Author), Elmore Leonard (Novel)
Directed by:Quentin Tarantino
Year:1997
IMDb:tt0119396

Plot:Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.
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