Screenplay: Bo Goldman
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Bo Goldman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Milos Forman
Cast Jack Nicholson · Louise Fletcher · Brad Dourif · William Redfield
Plot A misbehaved con named McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The troublemaker soon finds...
8.3
109K votes
8.3
109K votes
Scent of a Woman
1992 · Movie · 157 min. · United States
Direction Martin Brest
Cast Al Pacino · Chris O'Donnell · Gabrielle Anwar · James Rebhorn
Plot Hoping to earn extra money over the Thanksgiving weekend, Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), a scholarship student at an exclusive prep school, agrees to look after blind, retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank...
7.4
27K votes
7.4
27K votes
Meet Joe Black
1998 · Movie · 173 min. · United States
Direction Martin Brest
Cast Brad Pitt · Anthony Hopkins · Claire Forlani · Jake Weber
Plot Joe Black and Bill Parrish enter into a most unusual gentleman's agreement. Wealthy media tycoon William Parrish leads a charmed existence until Death comes calling with an extraordinary proposition -...
6.3
45K votes
6.3
45K votes
The Rose
1979 · Movie · 134 min. · United States
Direction Mark Rydell
Cast Bette Midler · Alan Bates · Frederic Forrest · Harry Dean Stanton
Plot Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated singer who succumbs to the pressures of...
6.2
816 votes
6.2
816 votes
Shoot the Moon
1982 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Alan Parker
Cast Albert Finney · Diane Keaton · Karen Allen · Peter Weller
Plot A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring...
6.1
236 votes
6.1
236 votes
Melvin and Howard
1980 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Jonathan Demme
Cast Paul Le Mat · Jason Robards · Mary Steenburgen · Elizabeth Cheshire
Plot Jonathan Demme would later become one of America's premiere directors, with an Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs and numerous nominations to his credit, but it was this sublime...
6.1
230 votes
6.1
230 votes
City Hall
1995 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Harold Becker
Cast John Cusack · Al Pacino · Bridget Fonda · Danny Aiello
Plot The accidental shooting of an six-year-old kid in a black neighbour during an altercation between cops and a drug dealer shakes the New York City Mayor Office to its core,...
5.7
3K votes
5.7
3K votes
Little Nikita
1988 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Richard Benjamin
Cast Sidney Poitier · River Phoenix · Richard Jenkins · Caroline Kava
Plot Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to...
5.5
921 votes
5.5
921 votes
Rules Don't Apply
2016 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Warren Beatty
Cast Alden Ehrenreich · Lily Collins · Warren Beatty · Haley Bennett
Plot A story centered on an affair Howard Hughes had in the late years of his life with a younger woman, this is the unconventional love story of an aspiring actress,...
5.0
875 votes
5.0
875 votes
Swing Shift
1984 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Jonathan Demme
Cast Goldie Hawn · Kurt Russell · Holly Hunter · Christine Lahti
Plot In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where...
5.0
385 votes
5.0
385 votes
The Flamingo Kid
1984 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Garry Marshall
Cast Matt Dillon · Hector Elizondo · Molly McCarthy · Martha Gehman
Plot In the summer of 1963, Jeffrey Willis (Matt Dillon) is hired on at upscale Long Island beach resort, The Flamingo. Jeffrey is a kid from a middle class Brooklyn family...
4.5
95 votes
4.5
95 votes