Sentences with phrase «excellent screenplay»

Working from their own excellent screenplay, co-written with Peter Hedges, they chronicle the belated coming - of - age of a very immature man who learns some important life lessons from a troubled young boy.

Working from their own excellent screenplay, co-written with Peter Hedges, they... read more

With an excellent screenplay touching upon the ever - relevant issues of racism and homosexuality, the story is rather unpredictable and extremely engaging.

Excellent screenplay, cinematography, sound, and editing.

The film is the directorial debut of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (two of the Oscar - winning screenwriters of The Descendants), who also pen the excellent screenplay and take supporting roles.

Happily, director Phyllida Law, working from Catherine Johnson's excellent screenplay, moves the story along at a spirited pace by including as many musical numbers as possible.

Mangold worked with screenwriter Scott Frank — who has some excellent screenplays on his resume, including OUT OF SIGHT and MINORITY REPORT — to create a dusty desert setting that seeps off the screen and into the popcorn bucket.

Taxi Driver is one of Martin Scorsese's best films, featuring one of Robert De Niro's finest performances and Paul Schrader's excellent screenplay.

Aided by an excellent screenplay and assured direction from Nicole Holofcener, Lovely and Amazing is a film that plays for catharsis and empathy and achieves a good draught of both, content to leave expeditions into stickier climes to more serious - minded films.

With an excellent screenplay, perfect casting and a superlative theme song and score, it is not an overstatement to assert that Back to the Future is one of the finest films of all time.

Leave it to an excellent screenplay and a great director to keep us fully engaged.

I understand Luc Besson (Leon, The Family) conceived this film when he was a teen, which excuses the simple - minded nature of it all, but it's unfortunate so much money was invested in special effects when a million for an excellent screenplay would have made the film much better.

Although «Planet of Men» is an excellent screenplay that was meant to be the sequel to «The Planet of the Apes.»

Some credit has to go to S. Craig Zahler's excellent screenplay, which gradually reveals a more complex character underneath Chicory's buffoonish surface, although Jenkins» ability to create such a genuine and sympathetic character from the page is what helps elevate Bone Tomahawk from a low - budget genre pic to a future cult classic.

Producer David Livingstone came up with the idea for the picture after seeing Peter Quilter's play End Of The Rainbow, though the excellent screenplay (by Barry Levinson and Tom Edge) bears little resemblance to the stage piece that starred award - winning Tracie Bennett.

«Josh wrote an excellent screenplay adaptation of the book, a screenplay which I desperately loved, but there was no enthusiasm for that kind of movie at Paramount»

Nominated for all of the major Academy Awards (although winning none), this excellent film is based upon the award - winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, and like most Merchant - Ivory collaborations, the excellent screenplay is provided by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Le Divorce, Heat and Dust).

Here's what Kaminski shared with me about his process of working of Spielberg, meeting the challenges presented by Tony Kushner's unique and excellent screenplay, and crafting Lincoln.

Whoever producers get to star, the studio will likely have an excellent screenplay.