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