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,...
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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
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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
Direction Robin Sheppard
Cast Stephen Tompkinson · Robert Hardy · David Ryall · Helen McCrory
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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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