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...

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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