Screenplay: Lawrence Konner
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lawrence Konner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 19
Boardwalk Empire (TV Series)
2010 · Series · 55 min. · United States
Direction Terence Winter · Timothy Van Patten · Allen Coulter · Jeremy Podeswa
Cast Steve Buscemi · Kelly MacDonald · Shea Whigham · Michael Shannon
Synopsis TV Series (2010-2014). 5 Seasons. From Terence Winter, the Emmy Award winning writer of 'The Sopranos' and Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese. Set in the Prohibition era of the 1920s Boardwalk Empire is the story of Enoch "Nucky" Thompson,...
8.0
24K votes
8.0
24K votes
Roots (TV Miniseries)
2016 · Series · 480 min. · United States
Direction Bruce Beresford · Thomas Carter · Phillip Noyce · Mario Van Peebles
Cast Malachi Kirby · Laurence Fishburne · Forest Whitaker · Emayatzy Corinealdi
Synopsis TV Miniseries (2016). 4 Episodes. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave sold to America and his descendants.
7.1
889 votes
7.1
889 votes
Magic City (TV Series)
2012 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Mitch Glazer · Ed Bianchi · Simon Cellan Jones · David Petrarca
Cast Jeffrey Dean Morgan · Olga Kurylenko · Danny Huston · Jessica Marais
Synopsis TV Series (2012-2013). 2 Seasons. 16 Episodes. Centers on Miami mobsters and other characters from Miami Beach in the late 1950s.
6.5
370 votes
6.5
370 votes
The Many Saints of Newark
2021 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Alan Taylor
Cast Alessandro Nivola · Leslie Odom Jr. · Vera Farmiga · Jon Bernthal
Synopsis A look at the formative years of New Jersey gangster, Tony Soprano.
5.8
3K votes
5.8
3K votes
Family (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 45 min. · United States
Direction Jay Presson Allen · Richard Kinon · Edward Parone · Glenn Jordan
Cast Kristy McNichol · Meredith Baxter · Sada Thompson · James Broderick
Synopsis TV Series (1976-1980). 5 seasons. 86 episodes. The show featured Sada Thompson and James Broderick as Kate and Doug Lawrence, a happily married middle-class couple living in Pasadena, California. Doug is an independent lawyer, and Kate was a housewife (she...
5.8
30 votes
5.8
30 votes
Mercury Rising
1998 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Harold Becker
Cast Bruce Willis · Alec Baldwin · Chi McBride · Robert Stanton
Synopsis FBI agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), wrongfully disgraced after taking the fall for a botched undercover job, defends a ten-year-old autistic boy from a national security agent (Alec Baldwin) who orders the boy assassinated after he innocently cracks the purportedly...
5.6
11K votes
5.6
11K votes
The Jewel of the Nile
1985 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Teague
Cast Michael Douglas · Kathleen Turner · Danny DeVito · Spiros Focás
Synopsis Plucky romance novelist Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book...
5.6
10K votes
5.6
10K votes
Mona Lisa Smile
2003 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Mike Newell
Cast Julia Roberts · Kirsten Dunst · Julia Stiles · Marcia Gay Harden
Synopsis In 1953, a time when women’s roles were rigidly defined, novice art history professor Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) begins teaching at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, which despite its academic reputation is an environment where success is measured by how...
5.5
24K votes
5.5
24K votes
The Legend of Billie Jean
1985 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Matthew Robbins
Cast Helen Slater · Christian Slater · Keith Gordon · Peter Coyote
Synopsis Billie Jean Davy (Helen Slater) is a cute poor teenager from Texas who cuts her hair short and becomes an outlaw martyr with her brother Binx (Christian Slater, no related to Helen) and friends.
5.5
131 votes
5.5
131 votes
Desperate Hours
1990 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Michael Cimino
Cast Mickey Rourke · Anthony Hopkins · Mimi Rogers · Kelly Lynch
Synopsis An escaped con on the run from the law moves into a married couple's home and takes over their lives.
5.2
2K votes
5.2
2K votes
Planet of the Apes
2001 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Tim Burton
Cast Mark Wahlberg · Helena Bonham Carter · Tim Roth · Estella Warren
Synopsis Set in the future, year 2029, a crew member of a space exploration, astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) finds himself in an upside-down world, where apes can talk and are in charge, while human are their hunted and enslaved by...
5.1
48K votes
5.1
48K votes
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2010 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Jon Turteltaub
Cast Jay Baruchel · Nicolas Cage · Alfred Molina · Teresa Palmer
Synopsis A sorcerer (Nicolas Cage) leaves his workshop in the hands of his apprentice (Baruchel), who gets into trouble when the broomstick he's tasked to do his chores for him somehow develops a mind of its own.
4.9
14K votes
4.9
14K votes
Flicka
2006 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Michael Mayer
Cast Alison Lohman · Tim McGraw · Maria Bello · Wade Williams
Synopsis A determined young woman (Alison Lohman) decides to tame a wild horse in this family film.
4.9
621 votes
4.9
621 votes
For Love or Money
1993 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast Michael J. Fox · Gabrielle Anwar · Anthony Higgins · Michael Tucker
Synopsis New York hotel concierge Doug Ireland (Michael J. Fox) wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site...
4.8
3K votes
4.8
3K votes
Sometimes They Come Back (TV)
1991 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Tom McLoughlin
Cast Tim Matheson · Brooke Adams · Robert Rusler · Chris Demetral
Synopsis Based on a book by Stephen King. A school teacher returning to the town he grew up in 30 years earlier is haunted by the ghosts of highschool thugs that were killed in a freak accident along with his brother.
4.6
381 votes
4.6
381 votes
Mighty Joe Young
1998 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Ron Underwood
Cast Bill Paxton · Charlize Theron · Rade Serbedzija · Naveen Andrews
Synopsis After Mighty Joe Young is brought to America for safety reasons, he escapes and rampages through Hollywood, spurred by tormentors out for revenge.
4.5
12K votes
4.5
12K votes
Working girl (TV Series)
1990 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Matthew Diamond
Cast Sandra Bullock · George Newbern · Anthony Tyler Quinn · Judy Prescott
Synopsis This situation comedy based on the popular film featured more of the adventures of secretary Tess McGill in the office setting.
4.2
25 votes
4.2
25 votes
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Sidney J. Furie
Cast Christopher Reeve · Gene Hackman · Margot Kidder · Jackie Cooper
Synopsis Superman has recognized at last the greatest threat to humanity, and he is out to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, now a nuclear arms entrepreneur, creates Nuclear Man--a solar-powered Kryptonia Android and genetic clone whose powers...
3.7
7K votes
3.7
7K votes
The Beverly Hillbillies
1993 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Penelope Spheeris
Cast Jim Varney · Rob Schneider · Diedrich Bader · Lily Tomlin
Synopsis Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for...
2.9
5K votes
2.9
5K votes