Screenplay: Ann Peacock
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ann Peacock. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The First Grader
2010 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Justin Chadwick
Cast Naomie Harris · Tony Kgoroge · Sam Feuer · Nick Reding
Plot The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get...
7.0
306 votes
7.0
306 votes
A Lesson Before Dying (TV)
1999 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Sargent
Cast Don Cheadle · Mekhi Phifer · Brent Jennings · Dana Ivey
Plot Louisiana 1948, Jefferson (Mekhi Phifer) is wrongly accused of the murder of a white shopkeeper. Racial inequality at the time is so pervasive that the defence lawyers' argument at jefferson's...
6.0
42 votes
6.0
42 votes
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
2005 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Andrew Adamson
Cast Georgie Henley · William Moseley · Skandar Keynes · Anna Popplewell
Plot During the German air raids of WWII, the four Pevensie children -- Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy -- are sent out of London to take shelter at the country home...
5.8
56K votes
5.8
56K votes
Pictures of Hollis Woods (TV)
2007 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Tony Bill
Cast Sissy Spacek · Alfre Woodard · James Tupper · Jodelle Ferland
Plot Abandoned at birth and described as "a mountain of trouble," 12-year-old Hollis Woods has a history of running away from her foster homes. Edna (Alfre Woodard), a patient, persistent and...
5.7
21 votes
5.7
21 votes
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
2008 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Patricia Rozema
Cast Abigail Breslin · Julia Ormond · Chris O'Donnell · Joan Cusack
Plot American Girl is a popular line of dolls and books for girls. While the doll line runs the gamut from pre-Revolutionary War to World War II, the film will focus...
5.6
324 votes
5.6
324 votes
In My Country
2004 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boorman
Cast Juliette Binoche · Samuel L. Jackson · Brendan Gleeson · Langley Kirkwood
Plot It is 1995; Langston Whitfield travels to South Africa to report on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Washington Post. It is this commission’s task to bring to light...
5.6
806 votes
5.6
806 votes
Nights in Rodanthe
2008 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction George C. Wolfe
Cast Diane Lane · Richard Gere · James Franco · Scott Glenn
Plot Lane stars as Adrienne Willis, a woman with her life in chaos, who retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to tend...
5.4
9K votes
5.4
9K votes
The Killing Room
2009 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Jonathan Liebesman
Cast Timothy Hutton · Peter Stormare · Chloë Sevigny · Nick Cannon
Plot Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program.
5.2
2K votes
5.2
2K votes
The Dovekeepers (TV Miniseries)
2015 · Series · min. · United States
Direction Yves Simoneau
Cast Maia Laura Attard · Rachel Brosnahan · Andre Agius · Jonas Armstrong
Plot Based in Alice Hoffman's historical novel about the Siege of Masada, the miniseries focuses on four extraordinary women whose lives intersect in a fight for survival at the siege of...
4.2
32 votes
4.2
32 votes