Screenplay: Russell Banks
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Russell Banks. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Sweet Hereafter
1997 · Movie · 110 min. · Canada
Direction Atom Egoyan
Cast Ian Holm · Sarah Polley · Bruce Greenwood · Earl Pastko
Plot A lawyer, pursued by the demons of losing a daughter to drugs, comes to a Canadian town where 20 children have died in a school bus accident. He wants the...
7.3
4K votes
7.3
4K votes
Affliction
1997 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Paul Schrader
Cast Nick Nolte · James Coburn · Sissy Spacek · Willem Dafoe
Plot Based on the novel by Russell Banks, AFFLICTION is a sobering, absorbing psychological study of the precarious relationship between an abusive father and his two sons. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte)...
7.1
6K votes
7.1
6K votes
Oh Canada
2024 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction Paul Schrader
Cast Jacob Elordi · Richard Gere · Uma Thurman · Kristine Froseth
Plot Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.
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