PECULIAR PEOPLE: A Movie Screenplay/Film Script

R min Drama. An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soapmaker form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more. R min Crime, Drama, Mystery. Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

Kevin Andrew Walker outdid himself with Seven. We're still waiting for his next masterpiece R min Adventure, Drama, War. Quentin Tarantino , Eli Roth Stars: R min Crime, Drama. The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Jackson , Bruce Willis. R min Comedy, Crime, Thriller. A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job. From all the great Elmore Leonard adaptions, this is the greatest one.

I can think of at least 15 memorable quotes as I'm writing this line. I guess that says something. R min Crime, Drama, Thriller. Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. Many things can be said about Crash, but of paramount importance is the following: Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: R 96 min Comedy, Crime, Drama. A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.

Building Benjamin

R min Drama, Romance. Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home. R min Comedy, Drama, Romance. Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle. A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: R min Adventure, Comedy, Drama. An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades. Jake Gyllenhaal , Robert Downey Jr.

Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who PG min Biography, Drama. Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.

PG min Action, Crime, Drama. When the menace known as the Joker emerges from his mysterious past, he wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham. The Dark Knight must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice. R min Mystery, Thriller.

After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.

The story of a young man's adventures in the California pornography industry of the late s and early s. Paul Thomas Anderson Stars: An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.

As corruption grows in s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. PG min Adventure, Comedy, Crime. In the deep south during the s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. Adapting The Odyssey by Homer probably isn't something for a Rookie writer. Forunatly, the Coens had the experience and were up to the task.

With only the plan of moving in together after high school, two unusually devious friends seek direction in life. As a mere gag, they respond to a man's newspaper ad for a date, only to find it will greatly complicate their lives. R 98 min Action, Comedy. Popular Broadway actor Gary Johnston is recruited by the elite counter-terrorism organization Team America: As the world begins to crumble around him, he must battle with terrorists, celebrities and falling in love. A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Jonathan Dayton , Valerie Faris Stars: See, right now you're jailbait, they're jailbait. I mean, you hit 18, man! You're talkin' about three to five. R min Drama, Fantasy, Western. On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world. There are more philisophical essays on dead man than on any other movie on the imdb.

Let me keep it short: PG min Biography, Drama, History. A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

A tale about morality, about wether there is truth on TV or not. One of Paul Attanasio's best scripts. The story of the assassination of U. Kennedy , who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were never the same.

A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together. R min Drama, History, War. Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term. R min Comedy, Drama, Fantasy. A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.

You walk into the hole, you end up in Malkovichs brain and then you exit by falling out of the sky on the New Jersey Turnpike! Seriously, only a genius makes up something like that. NC 96 min Crime, Drama, Thriller. While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption.

A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did. An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep. A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit. Executives will appreciate your understanding of budget and filming limitations.

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