Screenplay: Murray Schisgal

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Murray Schisgal. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Tootsie

1982 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Jessica Lange · Geena Davis · Charles Durning

Plot When theatrical mastermind Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself blacklisted by just about every producer in the acting business, he decides to thwart the entertainment industry by disguising himself as...

7.1

40K votes

7.1

40K votes

The Tiger Makes Out

1967 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Eli Wallach · Anne Jackson · Bob Dishy · John Harkins

Plot Ben Harris, an embittered, middle-aged New York City postal worker living in a Greenwich Village basement, becomes obsessed with the idea of kidnapping and enslaving the first beautiful young woman...

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Luv

1967 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Clive Donner

Cast Jack Lemmon · Peter Falk · Elaine May · Nina Wayne

Plot Harry is a barely functional human. He meets an old friend who is having marital problems as Harry is about to leap off of a bridge. His friend decides that...

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The Love Song of Barney Kempinski (TV)

1966 · Movie · 51 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Prager

Cast Alan Arkin · Leonardo Cimino · Philip Coolidge · Rex Everhart

Plot Barney Kempinski, thirtyish and contentedly self-unemployed, leaves his Lower East Side apartment smiling and happy. On this fine sunny day he is to be married -3 o'clock at City Hall-...

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