Tag: William Goldman

The Stepford Wives Script

Script by:Ira Levin (Novel), William Goldman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Bryan Forbes
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073747

Plot:The urban aspirant photographer Joanna Eberhart moves from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut with her family. Her husband Walter Eberhart decided to live in a calm suburb, but Joanna did not like the neighborhood with beautiful and perfect housewives. She becomes friend of Bobbie Markowe and Charmaine Wimperis, and when they change Joanna tries to escape.
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The Hot Rock Script

Script by:Donald E. Westlake (Novel), William Goldman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1972
IMDb:tt0068718

Plot:Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
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The Chamber Script

Script by:John Grisham (Author), William Goldman (Screenplay), Chris Reese (Screenplay)
Directed by:James Foley
Year:1996
IMDb:tt0115862

Plot:Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
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Harper Script

Script by:William Goldman (Screenplay), Ross Macdonald (Novel)
Directed by:Jack Smight
Year:1966
IMDb:tt0060490

Plot:Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
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Butch And Sundance: The Early Days Script

Script by:William Goldman (Characters), Allan Burns (Screenplay)
Directed by:Richard Lester
Year:1979
IMDb:tt0078919

Plot:A "prequel" of sorts to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the Newman/Redford movie.
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Fierce Creatures (1997) Script

Script by:John Cleese (Screenplay), Iain Johnstone (Screenplay), William Goldman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Robert Young, Fred Schepisi
Year:1997
IMDb:tt0119115

Plot:Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.
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Fierce Creatures Script

Script by:John Cleese (Screenplay), Iain Johnstone (Screenplay), William Goldman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Robert Young, Fred Schepisi
Year:1997
IMDb:tt0119115

Plot:Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new ‘fierce creatures’ policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.
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The Ghost and the Darkness Script

Script by:William Goldman (Screenplay), John Henry Patterson (Novel)
Directed by:Stephen Hopkins
Year:1996
IMDb:tt0116409

Plot:Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
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Marathon Man Script

Script by:William Goldman (Novel), William Goldman (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Schlesinger
Year:1976
IMDb:tt0074860

Plot:A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
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