Tag: Norman Wexler

Staying Alive Script

Script by:Nik Cohn (Characters), Norman Wexler (Screenplay), Sylvester Stallone (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sylvester Stallone
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0086361

Plot:It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
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Saturday Night Fever Script

Script by:Norman Wexler (Screenplay), Nik Cohn (Story)
Directed by:John Badham
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0076666

Plot:Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited Tony struts his stuff amidst flashing lights and sweaty, undulating bodies. Tony's class aspirations are mirrored in his relationship with his dance partner, a secretary eager to move into the glamorous world of Manhattan.
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Joe Script

Script by:Norman Wexler (Writer)
Directed by:John G. Avildsen
Year:1970
IMDb:tt0065916

Plot:Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is "different", and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe. Complications ensue.
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Mandingo Script

Script by:Kyle Onstott (Novel), Jack Kirkland (Writer), Norman Wexler (Screenplay)
Directed by:Richard Fleischer
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073349

Plot:A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
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