Screenplay: Jack Rosenthal

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


Yentl

1983 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Barbra Streisand

Cast Barbra Streisand · Mandy Patinkin · Amy Irving · Nehemiah Persoff

Plot At the beginning of the XX century, in an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel (Barbra Streisand) is the boyishly klutzy daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel,...

6.5

4K votes

6.5

4K votes

Captain Jack

1999 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Young

Cast Bob Hoskins · Gemma Jones · Sadie Frost · Anna Massey

Plot An eccentric seaman puts together an equally eccentric crew with the idea of sailing from northern England to the Artic along the path of Captain Scoresby, a 1791 sea captain.

4.8

58 votes

4.8

58 votes

The Knowledge (TV)

1979 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bob Brooks

Cast Nigel Hawthorne · Mick Ford · Kim Taylforth · Jonathan Lynn

Plot Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.

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The Lucky Star

1980 · Movie · 110 min. · Canada

Direction Max Fischer

Cast Rod Steiger · Louise Fletcher · Lou Jacobi · Brett Marx

Plot In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.

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London's Burning: The Movie

1986 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Les Blair

Cast Gary McDonald · Mark Arden · James Hazeldine · James Marcus

Plot Film about the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch at a fictional fire station called Blackwall.

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Cold Enough for Snow (TV)

1997 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast Maureen Lipman · David Ross · Benedict Sandiford · Anna Carteret

Plot Following on from the events in El día del esquimal, Pippa Lloyd and Neil Whittle have now started going out together, much to the dismay of Pippa's father. They take...

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Bye Bye Baby (TV)

1992 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Bennett

Cast Tushka Bergen · Ewen Bremner · Anthony Calf · Ben Chaplin

Plot Bye Bye Baby owes much to Rosenthal's National Service in the Royal Navy in the mid-1950s where he trained as an eavesdropper on Russian naval radio transmissions, and in which...

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The Lovers (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Rosenthal · Les Chatfield · Michael Apted

Cast Paula Wilcox · Richard Beckinsale · Joan Scott · Robin Nedwell

Plot TV Series (1970-1971). 2 Seasons. 13 Episodes. The ups-and-downs of a young courting couple's relationship.

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The Evacuees (TV)

1975 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Steven Serember · Gary Carp · Maureen Lipman · Margery Mason

Plot During the IIWW, two young Jewish boys are evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool trying to avoid the Blitz from the german aerial Luftwaffe over the England cities. Based on Rosenthal's...

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The Lovers!

1973 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Richard Beckinsale · Paula Wilcox · Susan Littler · Rosalind Ayres

Plot Big-screen version of the TV sit-com about the ups-and-downs of a young courting couple's relationship.

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Lucky Jim (TV)

2003 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

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Interview Day (TV)

1996 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast Maureen Lipman · David Ross · Benedict Sandiford · Tom Wilkinson

Plot Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll...

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P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (TV)

1982 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Apted

Cast John Albasiny · Alison Steadman · Abigail Cruttenden · Maurice Dee

Plot Boy likes girl at school, but is too embarrassed to confront her.

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Red Letter Day (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Flemyng · Michael Grigsby · June Howson · Brian Mills

Cast Frank Crompton · Pat Wallis · Joe Black · Alan Dobie

Plot TV Series (1976). 7 episodes.

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Mrs. Capper's Birthday (TV)

1985 · Movie · 58 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Ockrent

Cast Denyse Alexander · John Bird · Mark Boyton · Avis Bunnage

Plot Cleaning woman and war widow Hilda Capper realizes on her birthday that her life is better than that of her employers.

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And a Nightingale Sang

1989 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Joan Plowright · Phyllis Logan · Tom Watt · John Woodvine

Plot A touching and richly comic account of one Geordie family's war. While Mam worries about the church being bombed, Grandpa mourns his dead whippet and Dad turns communist, while their...

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The Chain

1984 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Denis Lawson · Rita Wolf · Phyllis Logan · David Troughton

Plot A philosophically minded removal man and his team of colleagues helps seven people move into the houses each in turn has vacated - but finds that all their prospective clients...

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