Tag: Sam Shepard

Paris, Texas Script

Script by:Sam Shepard (Writer), L.M. Kit Carson (Adaptation)
Directed by:Wim Wenders
Year:1984
IMDb:tt0087884

Plot:A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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Simpatico Script

Script by:Sam Shepard (Theatre Play), Matthew Warchus (Screenplay), David Nicholls (Screenplay)
Directed by:Matthew Warchus
Year:1999
IMDb:tt0174204

Plot:As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?
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Zabriskie Point Script

Script by:Michelangelo Antonioni (Screenplay), Tonino Guerra (Screenplay), Sam Shepard (Screenplay)
Directed by:Michelangelo Antonioni
Year:1970
IMDb:tt0066601

Plot:An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot)...
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