Tag: Michael Ritchie

The Bad News Bears Script

Script by:Bill Lancaster (Writer)
Directed by:Michael Ritchie
Year:1976
IMDb:tt0074174

Plot:An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
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Semi-Tough Script

Script by:Walter Bernstein (Screenplay), Dan Jenkins (Novel)
Directed by:Michael Ritchie
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0078227

Plot:A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
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The Survivors Script

Script by:Michael J. Leeson (Writer)
Directed by:Michael Ritchie
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0086397

Plot:Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.
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The Island (1980) Script

Script by:Peter Benchley (Screenplay), Peter Benchley (Novel)
Directed by:Michael Ritchie
Year:1980
IMDb:tt0080934

Plot:David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs across Warner and his band of raiders and they decide to induct them into their tribe.
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Smile Script

Script by:Jerry Belson (Screenplay)
Directed by:Michael Ritchie
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073722

Plot:It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy?
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Wildcats Script

Script by:Ezra Sacks (Screenplay)
Directed by:Michael Ritchie
Year:1986
IMDb:tt0092214

Plot:Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
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Student Bodies Script

Directed by:Mickey Rose, Michael Ritchie
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0083133

Plot:This zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather (played by Jerry Belson), who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school. The fanatical killer's unusual weapons include paper clips, blackboard erasers and eggplants. Kristen Riter, Matthew Goldsby, Joe Flood, Kevin Mannis and Sara Eckhardt head the cast.
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A Simple Wish Script

Script by:Jeff Rothberg (Screenplay)
Directed by:Michael Ritchie
Year:1997
IMDb:tt0120133

Plot:Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.
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Fletch Lives Script

Script by:Gregory McDonald (Writer), Leon Capetanos (Writer)
Directed by:Michael Ritchie
Year:1989
IMDb:tt0097366

Plot:Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.
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