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Shallow Grave

INT. DAY A blurred image forms on a white screen. A horizontal strip of face, eyes motionless and unblinking. DAVID (voice-over) Take trust, for instance, or friendship: these are the important things in life, the things that matter, that help you on your way. If you can't trust your frien...

– by John Hodge

Peeping Tom

FADE IN: EXT. A DESERTED STREET - NIGHT LONG SHOT of the solitary figure of a WOMAN standing professionally alone at the end of the street. It is a bright, still night. We can HEAR the Woman whistling 'Stardust' merrily to herself. CAMERA TRACKS around her. A Man's footsteps are overlaid. We...

– by Leo Marks

When a Stranger Calls

FADE IN: EXT. SUBURBAN STREET - NIGHT A quiet upper-middle class neighborhood. The CAMERA is at the curb, looking down the street. There are no sidewalks. Trees arch overhead. CICADAS drone on the soundtrack. The OPENING TITLES briefly FADE IN and OUT, framed by the trees on either side of the...

– by Fred Walton

XXX

FADE IN: EXT. PRAGUE - NIGHT On a hill above the city is an old CATHEDRAL. The night is spooky, with harsh shadows playing across the cobblestones and medieval walls. A NERVOUS YOUNG HACKER makes his way down an alley. There is a DOOR at the end of the alley. MUSIC can be faintly heard from i...

– by Rich Wilkes

The Day the Earth Stood Still

EXT. BEACH - PACIFIC ISLAND - MED. SHOT - DAY Backgrounded by palm trees and rolling surf, an American army radar operator sits at his huge instrument, intently tracking a target. Without interrupting this, he speaks with tense excit...

– by Edmund H. North

The Pacifier

FADE IN: EXT. PACIFIC OCEAN - DAY A fishing boat pushes over choppy water. FOUR GUN TOTING . MEN on Jet Skis wearing black wet suits and goggles escort the boat. Flying above it is a HELICOPTER. INT. FISHING BOAT/CONTROL DECK - CONTINUOUS A SERBIAN MAN captains the wheel. SERB 2 ...

– by Thomas Lennon

Ticker

EXT. METROPOLITAN CITY - DOWNTOWN - LATE NIGHT Hot summer night. The flesh district - hookers working the sidewalks, stopping cars. MIKE REILLY, 20s, paces a corner, restless, looking for action ... wet hair, three-day beard, trenchcoat, sneakers, heat-seeking weary eyes. He flashes a wad...

– by Paul B. Margolis

SHIVERS

EXT. STARLINER TOWERS APARTMENT COMPLEX -- MORNING Starliner Towers is seen in LS through the windshield of a moving car. The car approaches the complex and stops near the main doors of the West Tower. Out of the car climb Kresimir a...

– by David Cronenberg

The Beach

EXT. BANGKOK. NIGHT A single headlamp in close up shines directly and brightly out. Extreme noise and light. Beyond its glare can be seen the outline of a motorized tricycle ("tuk-tud") and its Thai driver. A young man, Richard, sits in the back, his rucksack beside him, swaying w...

– by John Hodge

Maverick

FADE IN ON: 1 EXT. DESOLATE LANDSCAPE -HANGING TREE -DAY 1 Rocks. Cactus. The occasional tree. Not a place you'd like to spend your summer vacation. Now there are sounds: A WHIPPING WIND begins to get LOUDER. And in the distance, but GROWING: THUNDER. CAMERA STARTS TO MOVE -SLOWLY, IN...

– by William Goldman

MY GIRL

MY GIRL By My Girl (1991) Directed by Howard Zieff Writing credits Laurice Elehwany ...

– by Laurice Elehwany

My Girl 2

SETTING: MADISON, PENNYSYLVANIA 1974 CLOSE-UP OF VADA SULTENFUSS' FACE VADA I remember before I was born, wounded up like a fur ball in the highly overrated fetal position, luckily I'm not claustrophobic, bu...

– by Laurice Elehwany

Awakenings

1. A dusty deserted street -saloon, livery stable, sunset. Only there is something unsettling about it all. The colors are too muted and the angles not quite in perspective. Pulling slowly back eventually reveals the edges of a narrow wooden picture frame ... INT. BEDROOM -NIGHT -1930 Dr...

– by Steven Zaillian

Away from Her

1 EXT RUNDOWN NEIGHBOURHOOD - FEBRUARY 2005 1 Grant, a handsome man in his 70’s, with a constant twinkle in his eye, drives down a suburban looking street in a poor area of a small Ontario town. He consults an address that lies on the seat beside him. Looks at the houses as he passes them. ...

– by Sarah Polley

From Here to Eternity

FADE IN: EXT. QUADRANGLE - DAY . LONG SHOT The quadrangle of Army buildings is quiet and deserted. A broken-down taxi drives in at one corner and slowly makes its . way around the quadrangle. SUPERIMPOSED over shot is the . legend: . HAWAII, 1941 SIX MONTHS BEFORE PEARL HARBO...

– by Daniel Taradash

Sunset Boulevard

SEQUENCE "A" A-l-4 START the picture with the actual street sign: SUNSET BOULEVARD, stencilled on a curbstope. In the gutter lie dead leaves, scraps of paper, burnt matches and cigarette butts. It is early morning. Now the CAME...

– by Charles Brackett

One Way Passage

MAIN TITLES over an ocean liner anchored in a harbor. DISSOLVE TO IMAGES of the cast with their names and roles SUPERIMPOSED, over which we hear the film's love theme. FADE OUT FADE IN EXT. HONG KONG - DAY A couple of shots from stock footage of the city. SUPERIMPOSED text reads: HONGKO...

– by Wilson Mizner

Little Women

MRS. MARCH So you're going to Washington? MAN Yes, Ma'am. My son is sick in a hospital there. MRS. MARCH Oh. This will be an anxious Christmas for you. I think this one will do. Let's try this. Is it your only son? MAN No, Ma'am. I had four, two were killed. One is a prisoner. MRS. MARCH You...

– by Robin Swicord

The Possession

EXT. FAIRY TALE FOREST - DAY/NIGHT Moonlight. A magical forest of trees. Diamond shards of blue light on wrinkled, wormy roots. Over the mossy gorse, steps - A little TAILOR, with scissors, needles and thread hanging from his belt. A glass key round his neck. And a tall, grey hound beside...

– by Juliet Snowden

Rush Hour 2

EXT. HONG KONG SKYLINE - ESTABLISHING A smoky haze dims the blazing sun. Skyscrapers sit like watchtowers over the city, where East meets West for five and a half million people a day. EXT. AMERICAN CONSULATE - HONG KONG - DAY THE AMERICAN EMBASSY - U.S. and Chinese flags side by side. HU LI...

– by Jeff Nathanson

Game 6

INT. LOFT APARTMENT - MANHATTAN - MORNING STEVEN SCHWIMMER, a drama critic, asleep on his bed. He wears a sleep mask. The bed is a mattress on a makeshift platform. Papers strewn on the floor. An exercise bike. A desk with and old manual typewriter, reference works, periodicals, Styrofoam cu...

– by Don DeLillo

Sister Act

FADE IN: INT. ST. ANNE'S ACADEMY - AKRON, OHIO - CLASSROOM We are in a parochial school classroom, in the late Sixties. The children all wear uniforms and sit at little desks. SISTER IMMACULATA stands at the front of the room; she is a middle-aged nun, very severe. ...

– by Paul Rudnick

Young Frankenstein

FADE IN 1EXT. FRANKENSTEIN CASTLE1 A BOLT OF LIGHTNING! A CRACK OF THUNDER! On a distant, rainy hill, the old Frankenstein castle, as we knew and loved it, is illuminated by ANOTHER BOLT OF LIGHTNING. MUSIC: AN EERIE TRANSYLVANIAN LULLABY begins to PLAY in the b.g. 2ANOTHER ANGLE2 as we M...

– by Gene Wilder

The Man Who Wasn't There

ED (V.O.) Yeah, I worked in a barbershop. But I never considered myself a barber... We track back from a barber's pole. ED (V.O.) ...I stumbled into it--well, married ...

– by Joel Coen