Tag: Peter Weir

Gallipoli Script

Script by:David Williamson (Screenplay), Ernest Raymond (Novel), Peter Weir (Story)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0082432

Plot:As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
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The Last Wave Script

Script by:Peter Weir (Screenplay), Tony Morphett (Screenplay), Petru Popescu (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0076299

Plot:Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes danger may come from his own involvement with the aborigines and their prophecies.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Script

Script by:Peter Weir (Screenplay), John Collee (Screenplay), Patrick O'Brian (Novel)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:2003
IMDb:tt0311113

Plot:After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
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The Year of Living Dangerously Script

Script by:Peter Weir (Screenplay), C.J. Koch (Screenplay), David Williamson (Screenplay), C.J. Koch (Novel)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:1982
IMDb:tt0086617

Plot:Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There, on the eve of an attempted coup, he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people and also falls in love with a British national.
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Witness Script

Script by:William Kelley (Screenplay), Earl W. Wallace (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:1985
IMDb:tt0090329

Plot:A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.
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The Mosquito Coast Script

Script by:Paul Schrader (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:1986
IMDb:tt0091557

Plot:Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
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The Way Back Script

Script by:Slavomir Rawicz (Story), Peter Weir (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:2010
IMDb:tt1023114

Plot:At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.
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The Truman Show Script

Script by:Andrew Niccol (Writer)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:1998
IMDb:tt0120382

Plot:Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
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Dead Poets Society Script

Script by:Tom Schulman (Author), Tom Schulman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Weir
Year:1989
IMDb:tt0097165

Plot:At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
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