Screenplay: David S. Ward

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by David S. Ward. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Sting

1973 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Robert Redford · Paul Newman · Robert Shaw · Charles Durning

Plot When small-time con man Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) and his partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), unwittingly con a numbers runner courier, they find themselves in danger from mobster Doyle Lonigan...

8.6

98K votes

8.6

98K votes

The Milagro Beanfield War

1988 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Robert Redford

Cast Sônia Braga · Rubén Blades · Chick Vennera · John Heard

Plot In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Cannery Row

1982 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction David S. Ward

Cast Nick Nolte · Debra Winger · Audra Lindley · Frank McRae

Plot Doc (Nick Nolte) is a self-employed marine biologist who lives by the ocean and interacts with the neighborhood denizens, trying to conceal a troubled past. Across from Doc's digs stands...

6.0

112 votes

6.0

112 votes

Sleepless in Seattle

1993 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast Tom Hanks · Meg Ryan · Bill Pullman · Ross Malinger

Plot It's Christmas Eve and radio talk show psychologist Marcia Fieldstone has asked her listening audience what they are wishing and dreaming of during this season of hope. A little boy,...

Max

6.0

41K votes

6.0

41K votes

Flyboys

2006 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Tony Bill

Cast James Franco · Martin Henderson · Jean Reno · Philip Winchester

Plot “Flyboys,” the first World War I aviation film in over 40 years, is inspired by the epic, courageous tale of the American young men who would become known as the...

5.9

4K votes

5.9

4K votes

The Program

1993 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction David S. Ward

Cast James Caan · Craig Sheffer · Halle Berry · Omar Epps

Plot Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to...

5.2

479 votes

5.2

479 votes

Major League

1989 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction David S. Ward

Cast Tom Berenger · Charlie Sheen · Corbin Bernsen · Margaret Whitton

Plot An exotic dancer marries the owner of a baseball club. He does not survive the honeymoon and she is in control of his ball club. she wants to move to...

Max

5.0

2K votes

5.0

2K votes

Steelyard Blues

1973 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Alan Myerson

Cast Jane Fonda · Donald Sutherland · Peter Boyle · John Savage

Plot A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. There mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that...

4.6

49 votes

4.6

49 votes

Major League: Back to the Minors (Major League 3)

1998 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Warren

Cast Scott Bakula · Corbin Bernsen · Dennis Haysbert · Takaaki Ishibashi

Plot When Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen), who now owns the winning Minnesota Twins major league baseball team as well as the struggling minor league South Carolina Buzz, decides to hand over...

4.5

30 votes

4.5

30 votes

The Sting II

1983 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Jeremy Kagan

Cast Jackie Gleason · Mac Davis · Teri Garr · Karl Malden

Plot Lonigan is planning to get back at Gondorf and Hooker for bilking him out of half a million. At the same time Gondorf and Hooker are planning their next caper....

4.0

145 votes

4.0

145 votes

King Ralph

1991 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

3.6

2K votes

3.6

2K votes

I'll Find You

2019 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Martha Coolidge

Cast Adelaide Clemens · Leo Suter · Stephen Dorff · Ursula Parker

Plot A young couple - Robert, a Catholic opera singer, and Rachel, a Jewish violinist, dream of one day performing together at Carnegie Hall. When they're torn apart by the German...

Not rated

Not rated

Saving Grace

1986 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Robert M. Young

Cast Tom Conti · Fernando Rey · Erland Josephson · Giancarlo Giannini

Plot A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately...

Not rated

Not rated