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