The Shining Script

Script by:Stanley Kubrick (Screenplay), Stephen King (Novel), Diane Johnson (Screenplay)
Directed by:Stanley Kubrick
Year:1980

Plot:Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
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The Shawshank Redemption Script

Script by:Stephen King (Author), Frank Darabont (Writer)
Directed by:Frank Darabont
Year:1994

Plot:Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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The Running Man Script

Script by:Stephen King (Author), Steven E. de Souza (Author)
Directed by:Paul Michael Glaser
Year:1987

Plot:By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
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The Mist Script

Script by:Frank Darabont (Screenplay), Stephen King (Novel)
Directed by:Frank Darabont
Year:2007

Plot:After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
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The Green Mile Script

Script by:Frank Darabont (Screenplay), Stephen King (Author)
Directed by:Frank Darabont
Year:1999

Plot:A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
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The Dead Zone Script

Script by:Stephen King (Novel), Jeffrey Boam (Screenplay)
Directed by:David Cronenberg
Year:1983

Plot:Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
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The Dark Half Script

Script by:George A. Romero (Screenplay), Stephen King (Novel)
Directed by:George A. Romero
Year:1993

Plot:Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
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Stand by Me Script

Script by:Raynold Gideon (Screenplay), Bruce A. Evans (Screenplay), Stephen King (Novel)
Directed by:Rob Reiner
Year:1986

Plot:After learning that a stranger has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie Lachance, Vern Tessio, Chris Chambers and Teddy Duchamp encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.
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Sleepwalkers Script

Script by:Stephen King (Screenplay)
Directed by:Mick Garris
Year:1992

Plot:Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.
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Secret Window Script

Script by:Stephen King (Novel), David Koepp (Screenplay)
Directed by:David Koepp
Year:2004

Plot:Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
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