Tag: John Madden

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Script

Script by:Louis de Bernières (Novel), Shawn Slovo (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Madden
Year:2001
IMDb:tt0238112

Plot:When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cephalonia (Kefalonia), but Hollywood made it into a pure love story by removing much of the "unpleasant" stuff.
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Proof Script

Script by:David Auburn (Author), Rebecca Miller (Author)
Directed by:John Madden
Year:2005
IMDb:tt0377107

Plot:Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father’s mental illness along with his mathematical genius. When Robert’s work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one.
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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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Ethan Frome Script

Script by:Richard Nelson (Screenplay), Edith Wharton (Novel)
Directed by:John Madden
Year:1993
IMDb:tt0106833

Plot:Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, spirited person. She and Ethan fall in love much to the dismay of Zeena.
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Shakespeare in Love (1998) Script

Script by:Marc Norman (Screenplay), Tom Stoppard (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Madden
Year:1998
IMDb:tt0138097

Plot:Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
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Shakespeare in Love Script

Script by:Marc Norman (Screenplay), Tom Stoppard (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Madden
Year:1998
IMDb:tt0138097

Plot:Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, “Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter,” before it’s even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love — and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare’s comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
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The Debt Script

Script by:Jane Goldman (Screenplay), Peter Straughan (Screenplay), Matthew Vaughn (Screenplay), Assaf Bernstein (Writer), Ido Rosenblum (Writer)
Directed by:John Madden
Year:2010
IMDb:tt1226753

Plot:Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
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