Tag: Frank Perry

Mommie Dearest Script

Script by:Robert Getchell (Writer), Tracy Hotchner (Writer), Frank Perry (Writer), Frank Yablans (Writer)
Directed by:Frank Perry
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0082766

Plot:In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM studios, her callous and abusive behavior towards her daughter Christina becomes even more pronounced. Christina leaves home and takes her first acting role, only to find her mother's presence still overshadowing her.
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Rancho Deluxe Script

Script by:Thomas McGuane (Writer)
Directed by:Frank Perry
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073605

Plot:Jack McKee and Cecil Colson are two bumbling drifters who make a living by rustling cattle from other peoples herds in the wilds of Montana. Jack is from a wealthy background but left his parents as he resented their posh lives, and Cecil is a Native American half-breed seeking his own path in life away from his father. Both hustle and rustle their way in the world by targeting cattle owned by wealthy ranch owner John Brown. Frustrated that someone is killing his cattle, John hires a pair of ranch hands Burt and Curt to find the rustlers. When Brown realizes he cannot trust his two inept ranch hands, he turns to the grizzled former rustler Henry Beige to find the cattle thieves, while Jack and Cecil are always one step ahead of them, not realizing that their luck will eventually run out sometime.
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Monsignor Script

Script by:Jack-Alain Léger (Novel), Abraham Polonsky (Screenplay), Wendell Mayes (Screenplay)
Directed by:Frank Perry
Year:1982
IMDb:tt0084351

Plot:The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
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Compromising Positions Script

Script by:Susan Isaacs (Screenplay)
Directed by:Frank Perry
Year:1985
IMDb:tt0088947

Plot:An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.
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Play It As It Lays Script

Script by:Joan Didion (Screenplay), John Gregory Dunne (Screenplay)
Directed by:Frank Perry
Year:1972
IMDb:tt0069098

Plot:Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
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