Tag: Peter Yates

Suspect Script

Script by:Eric Roth (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1987
IMDb:tt0094082

Plot:When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson (Liam Neeson), a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley (Cher) is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger (Dennis Quaid), a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
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Eleni Script

Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1985
IMDb:tt0089079

Plot:Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
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Friends Of Eddie Coyle Script

Script by:Paul Monash (Writer), George V. Higgins (Novel)
Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1973
IMDb:tt0070077

Plot:An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.
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The Hot Rock Script

Script by:Donald E. Westlake (Novel), William Goldman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1972
IMDb:tt0068718

Plot:Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
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The Deep Script

Script by:Peter Benchley (Novel), Peter Benchley (Screenplay), Tracy Keenan Wynn (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0075925

Plot:A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters...
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The Dresser Script

Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0085461

Plot:In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
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An Innocent Man Script

Script by:Larry Brothers (Writer)
Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1989
IMDb:tt0097579

Plot:Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
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Krull Script

Script by:Stanford Sherman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0085811

Plot:A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
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Breaking Away Script

Script by:Steve Tisch (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1979
IMDb:tt0078902

Plot:Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance.
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