Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927 – May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Julia (1977), and...
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1923. He was the older brother of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alvin Sargent. Raised in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, he studied architecture...
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screenplay, which was eventually rewritten by Scott Rosenberg and refined by Alvin Sargent. Various directors were considered before Raimi was hired in 2000. Filming...
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Paper Moon (film) (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the 1971 novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown...
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Unfaithful (2002 film) (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
erotic thriller film directed and produced by Adrian Lyne and written by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr., adapted from the Claude Chabrol film The Unfaithful...
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by Mona Simpson. It was directed by Wayne Wang from a screenplay by Alvin Sargent, and stars Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, and Shawn Hatosy. Filming...
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Spider-Man 3 (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
by Sam Raimi from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Ivan and Alvin Sargent. It is the final installment in Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, and the...
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outside of the United States. It was directed by E. W. Swackhamer, written by Alvin Boretz and stars Nicholas Hammond as the titular character, David White...
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Ordinary People (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
Robert Redford in his feature directorial debut. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent is based on the 1976 novel by Judith Guest. The film follows the disintegration...
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author the Whiting Prize for her first novel. The book was adapted by Alvin Sargent into a major motion picture of the same name in 1999. The film starred...
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Spider-Man 2 (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
Comics character of Spider-Man. Directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent from a story conceived by Michael Chabon and the writing team of Alfred...
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The Amazing Spider-Man (film) (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
The film was directed by Marc Webb and written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, and Steve Kloves, based on a story by Vanderbilt, and stars Andrew...
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(who also won in consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Michael Wilson, Alexander Payne and Christopher...
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drama film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay written by Alvin Sargent, and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu, and Haley Joel Osment...
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Story by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar and Michael Chabon Screenplay by Alvin Sargent Columbia Pictures $200 million $783.8 million Blade: Trinity David S...
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had all written rejected versions of a script and Ziskin's husband Alvin Sargent, who wrote the second and third films, was working on yet another attempt...
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Nuts (1987 film) (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
Richard Dreyfuss. The screenplay by Tom Topor, Darryl Ponicsan and Alvin Sargent is based on Topor's 1979 play of the same title. Nuts was the final...
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The Sterile Cuckoo (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
Minnelli, Wendell Burton, and Tim McIntire. The film was adapted by Alvin Sargent from the 1965 novel by John Nichols, directed by Pakula in his directing...
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Hero (1992 film) (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
David Webb Peoples, from a story written by Peoples, Laura Ziskin and Alvin Sargent, and stars Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy García and Joan Cusack...
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White Palace (film) (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
Hill, Jeremy Piven, and Renée Taylor. It was written by Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent, based on the novel of the same name by Glenn Savan (who appears in...
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Straight Time (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
Baron as Manny Jake Busey as Henry Darin The screenplay was written by Alvin Sargent, Edward Bunker and Jeffrey Boam, based on Bunker's novel No Beast So...
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Julia (1977 film) (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
1977 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Alvin Sargent. It is based on a chapter from Lillian Hellman's 1973 book Pentimento...
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name include: Alvin Sargent (1927–2019), American screenwriter Carl Sargent (1952–2018), British author of role-playing games Dick Sargent (1930–1994),...
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Bobby Deerfield (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
people who know better, including Sydney Pollack, the director, and Alvin Sargent, who wrote the screenplay". Time Out magazine stated that it was a "classic...
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couple later had a daughter, Julia Barry. Ziskin was married to writer Alvin Sargent from 2010 until her death in 2011 from complications of breast cancer...
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Other People's Money (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
Gregory Peck and Penelope Ann Miller. It was adapted by screenwriter Alvin Sargent from the 1989 play of the same name by Jerry Sterner. This film is notable...
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Dominick and Eugene (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
developments, along with a rather startling denouement. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent and Corey Blechman, from a story by Danny Porfirio, might seem more...
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Gambit (1966 film) (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
film directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay by Jack Davies and Alvin Sargent from the original story of Sidney Carroll. It stars Shirley MacLaine...
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Freedman as Madolina Colombo Ian Michaels as Robert Towne Allen Marsh as Alvin Sargent Sole Bovelli as Simonetta Stefanelli Jake Regal as Arthur Hiller Brandon...
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I Walk the Line (film) (category Films with screenplays by Alvin Sargent)
with a girl in town, Alma McCain (Weld). The screenplay, written by Alvin Sargent, is an adaptation of Madison Jones' novel An Exile. The I Walk the Line...
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