Screenplay: Lawrence Konner

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lawrence Konner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

Plot 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...

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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

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot A look at the formative years of New Jersey gangster, Tony Soprano.

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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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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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

Plot 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...

2.9

5K votes

2.9

5K votes