Tag: Hal Ashby

The Slugger’s Wife Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Writer)
Directed by:Hal Ashby
Year:1985
IMDb:tt0090036

Plot:Darryl Palmer (Michael O'Keefe) is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer (Rebecca De Mornay). After some setbacks, the two are married and sent on an emotional journey that sees his career take off, while hers doesn't. When she gives up her dreams to support her husband, she can't escape her own unhappiness. With a separation on the horizon, Darryl must choose between his big-league life and his one true love.
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Bound For Glory Script

Script by:Robert Getchell (Screenplay)
Directed by:Hal Ashby
Year:1976
IMDb:tt0074235

Plot:A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
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Shampoo (1975) Script

Script by:Robert Towne (Writer), Warren Beatty (Writer)
Directed by:Hal Ashby
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073692

Plot:George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
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Shampoo Script

Script by:Robert Towne (Writer), Warren Beatty (Writer)
Directed by:Hal Ashby
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073692

Plot:George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing “star” and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn’t help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
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Harold and Maude Script

Script by:Colin Higgins (Author)
Directed by:Hal Ashby
Year:1971
IMDb:tt0067185

Plot:The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
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Being There Script

Script by:Jerzy Kosiński (Screenplay), Jerzy Kosiński (Novel), Robert C. Jones (Screenplay)
Directed by:Hal Ashby
Year:1979
IMDb:tt0078841

Plot:A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
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8 Million Ways to Die Script

Script by:Lawrence Block (Writer), Oliver Stone (Screenplay), David Lee Henry (Screenplay)
Directed by:Hal Ashby
Year:1986
IMDb:tt0090568

Plot:Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.
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