Tag: Ronald Harwood

Quartet Script

Script by:Ronald Harwood (Theatre Play), Ronald Harwood (Screenplay)
Directed by:Dustin Hoffman
Year:2012
IMDb:tt1441951

Plot:The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and former wife of one of the residents. Expect poignancy and plenty of laughs.
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Australia Script

Script by:Baz Luhrmann (Screenplay), Baz Luhrmann (Story), Stuart Beattie (Screenplay), Ronald Harwood (Screenplay), Richard Flanagan (Screenplay)
Directed by:Baz Luhrmann
Year:2008
IMDb:tt0455824

Plot:Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
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Taking Sides Script

Script by:Ronald Harwood (Screenplay)
Directed by:István Szabó
Year:2001
IMDb:tt0260414

Plot:One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Script

Script by:Ronald Harwood (Screenplay), Jean-Dominique Bauby (Novel)
Directed by:Julian Schnabel
Year:2007
IMDb:tt0401383

Plot:The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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The Pianist Script

Script by:Ronald Harwood (Screenplay), Wladyslaw Szpilman (Novel)
Directed by:Roman Polanski
Year:2002
IMDb:tt0253474

Plot:The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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