The dialogue, by three writers (David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson)-- and God knows how many
other uncredited script doctors — seems to have been stolen from all the worst parts of a couple of hundred recent movies.
A successful stage director in New York by the late 1920s, George Cukor began working in Hollywood as a dialogue director and filling
other uncredited crew roles on such films as All Quiet on the Western Front.
Screenplay by W.R. Burnett and James Clavell and among
other uncredited writers, William Roberts, Walter Newman, and Nelson Gidding, based on the book by Paul Brickhill.
Not exact matches
Longtime Pollack collaborator, the writer David Rayfiel, in an
uncredited role polishes up the script and tosses in his now much used line from
other Pollack films starting with The Slender Thread (1965), as Penn tells Kidman: «Not getting caught in a lie is thought of in the same way as telling the truth.»
and a couple of
other titles in which Dean appeared
uncredited in microscopic roles before hitting his stride.
Drawing on King Hu's 1967 wuxia classic Dragon Inn, as well as his own (
uncredited) 1992 remake, plus Yojimbo, Kagemusha, and any number of
other cinematic touchstones, Tsui Hark's Flying Swords of...
Among
others, Hilary Swank, David Arquette, character actor Stephen Root («Office Space»), Natasha Gregson Wagner, and an
uncredited Rikki Lake and Ben Affleck can be spotted.
Fargo is one of six of their movies — starting with Blood Simple (1984)-- in which she has had leading or major roles, plus an
uncredited walk - on and talk - over in two
others.
(Although Sirk is
uncredited on Never Say Goodbye and disowned the movie, he did work on it, and there are so many similarities and points of reference in it to
other Sirk movies, both thematically and emotionally, I feel it should be counted.)