Tag: Howard Zieff

The Main Event Script

Script by:Gail Parent (Screenplay), Andrew Smith (Screenplay)
Directed by:Howard Zieff
Year:1979
IMDb:tt0079510

Plot:Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, (Eddie Scanlon) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.
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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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Hearts Of The West Script

Script by:Rob Thompson (Writer)
Directed by:Howard Zieff
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073096

Plot:Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated Nevada train depot. On the run from the con men responsible, Lewis stumbles across "real" cowboys--cowboy actors shooting a movie in the desert. The would-be writer soon finds himself instead acting in Westerns, for the rundown Tumbleweed Productions studio, in Depression-era Hollywood.
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Slither Script

Script by:W.D. Richter (Writer)
Directed by:Howard Zieff
Year:1973
IMDb:tt0069282

Plot:While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.
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My Girl 2 Script

Script by:Laurice Elehwany (Screenplay)
Directed by:Howard Zieff
Year:1994
IMDb:tt0110613

Plot:Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.
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My Girl Script

Script by:Laurice Elehwany (Screenplay)
Directed by:Howard Zieff
Year:1991
IMDb:tt0102492

Plot:Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
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