Tag: Taylor Hackford

Against All Odds Script

Script by:Eric Hughes (Writer), Daniel Mainwaring (Writer)
Directed by:Taylor Hackford
Year:1984
IMDb:tt0086859

Plot:She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.
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Ray Script

Script by:James L. White (Screenplay)
Directed by:Taylor Hackford
Year:2004
IMDb:tt0350258

Plot:Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered couping gospel and country together.
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Blood In, Blood Out Script

Script by:Ross Thomas (Story), Jimmy Santiago Baca (Screenplay), Jeremy Iacone (Screenplay), Floyd Mutrux (Screenplay)
Directed by:Taylor Hackford
Year:1993
IMDb:tt0106469

Plot:Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
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The Comedian Script

Script by:Richard LaGravenese (Screenplay), Lewis Friedman (Screenplay), Art Linson (Screenplay), Jeff Ross (Screenplay)
Directed by:Taylor Hackford
Year:2017
IMDb:tt1967614

Plot:An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.
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Proof Of Life Script

Script by:Thomas Hargrove (Novel), William Prochnau (Author), Tony Gilroy (Screenplay)
Directed by:Taylor Hackford
Year:2000
IMDb:tt0228750

Plot:Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
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An Officer and a Gentleman Script

Script by:Douglas Day Stewart (Screenplay)
Directed by:Taylor Hackford
Year:1982
IMDb:tt0084434

Plot:Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
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The Devil’s Advocate Script

Script by:Andrew Neiderman (Novel), Jonathan Lemkin (Screenplay), Tony Gilroy (Screenplay)
Directed by:Taylor Hackford
Year:1997
IMDb:tt0118971

Plot:A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
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Dolores Claiborne Script

Script by:Stephen King (Novel), Tony Gilroy (Screenplay)
Directed by:Taylor Hackford
Year:1995
IMDb:tt0109642

Plot:Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
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