Tag: Sidney Lumet

Family Business Script

Script by:Vincent Patrick (Novel), Vincent Patrick (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1989
IMDb:tt0097328

Plot:Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past.
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Running On Empty Script

Script by:Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (Writer)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1988
IMDb:tt0096018

Plot:The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind.
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Power Script

Script by:David Himmelstein (Writer)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1986
IMDb:tt0091786

Plot:Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
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Garbo Talks Script

Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1984
IMDb:tt0087313

Plot:A New York accountant (Ron Silver) sets out to grant his dying mother's last wish--to meet film star Greta Garbo. Sidney Lumet's bittersweet 1984 comedy also stars Anne Bancroft, Catherine Hicks, Carrie Fisher, Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da Silva, Steven Hill, Hermione Gingold, Dorothy Loudon and Betty Comden.
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Prince Of The City Script

Script by:Robert Daley (Novel), Jay Presson Allen (Screenplay), Sidney Lumet (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0082945

Plot:New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants
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The Wiz Script

Script by:L. Frank Baum (Author), Joel Schumacher (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1978
IMDb:tt0078504

Plot:A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she has, as Aunt Em teases her, "never been south of 125th Street", and refuses to move out and on with her life.
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Equus Script

Script by:Peter Shaffer (Writer)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0075995

Plot:A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
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The Pawnbroker Script

Script by:Morton S. Fine (Screenplay), David Friedkin (Screenplay), Edward Lewis Wallant (Novel)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1965
IMDb:tt0059575

Plot:A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
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The Fugitive Kind Script

Script by:Tennessee Williams (Scenario Writer), Meade Roberts (Scenario Writer)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:1959
IMDb:tt0052832

Plot:Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
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Find Me Guilty Script

Script by:Sidney Lumet (Author), T.J. Mancini (Author), Robert J. McCrea (Author), Sidney Lumet (Screenplay), T.J. Mancini (Screenplay), Robert J. McCrea (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Year:2006
IMDb:tt0419749

Plot:Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
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