Tag: John Sayles

Piranha (1995) Script

Script by:John Sayles (Story), Alex Simon (Screenplay), Richard Robinson (Story)
Directed by:Scott P. Levy
Year:1995
IMDb:tt0114137

Plot:Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in their path. Can they prevent the flesh-eating piranhas from escaping into the ocean and spawning?
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Battle Beyond The Stars Script

Script by:John Sayles (Writer)
Directed by:Jimmy T. Murakami
Year:1980
IMDb:tt0080421

Plot:A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
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Wild Thing Script

Script by:John Sayles (Screenplay)
Directed by:Max Reid
Year:1988
IMDb:tt0094325

Plot:A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.
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The Secret of Roan Inish Script

Script by:Rosalie K. Fry (Novel), John Sayles (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Sayles
Year:1994
IMDb:tt0111112

Plot:10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate..
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Passion Fish Script

Script by:John Sayles (Writer)
Directed by:John Sayles
Year:1992
IMDb:tt0105107

Plot:Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. Then she meets with Chantelle, whose stubbornness matches her own -- if only because Chantelle, herself a recovering cocaine addict, cannot afford to lose this job. Their mutual dislike gradually develops into an armed truce as the two women deal with their own problems and with each others'.
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Lone Star Script

Script by:John Sayles (Writer)
Directed by:John Sayles
Year:1996
IMDb:tt0116905

Plot:When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
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Lianna Script

Script by:John Sayles (Writer)
Directed by:John Sayles
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0085838

Plot:A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.
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The Howling Script

Script by:Gary Brandner (Novel), Terence H. Winkless (Screenplay), John Sayles (Screenplay)
Directed by:Joe Dante
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0082533

Plot:After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
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