Screenplay: William Wharton

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


Birdy

1984 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Matthew Modine · Nicolas Cage · John Harkins · Sandy Baron

Plot "Birdy" is a guy from Philadelphia, a Vietnam vet hospitalized for postwar trauma. Lying in a state of amentia, Birdy (Matthew Modine) fantasizes about birds in flight, an obsession that...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

A Midnight Clear

1992 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Keith Gordon

Cast Gary Sinise · Ethan Hawke · Peter Berg · Kevin Dillon

Plot Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from...

5.8

262 votes

5.8

262 votes

Dad

1989 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Gary David Goldberg

Cast Jack Lemmon · Ted Danson · Ethan Hawke · Olympia Dukakis

Plot A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer...

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes