Screenplay: Dalene Young

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


Evidence of Blood (TV)

1998 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Mondshein

Cast David Strathairn · Mary McDonnell · Sean McCann · Chris Wiggins

Synopsis When a Pulitzer prize winning author of true crimes returns to his hometown in Georgia, it isn't long before he is involved in a forty year old case of a teenage girl who had been murdered. Together with the daughter...

6.2

22 votes

6.2

22 votes

Cross Creek

1983 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Mary Steenburgen · Rip Torn · Peter Coyote · Dana Hill

Synopsis The time was 1928. The place was Cross Creek, a remote, unremarkable hamlet in a wild, untamed portion of Central Florida. After 10 years as a frustrated newspaper reporter and unsuccessful author of fiction, Majorie Kinnan Rawlings, a city-born-and-bred Northerner,...

6.2

150 votes

6.2

150 votes

Little Darlings

1980 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Ronald F. Maxwell

Cast Tatum O'Neal · Kristy McNichol · Armand Assante · Matt Dillon

Synopsis 15-year-olds Angel (Kristy McNichol) and Ferris (Tatum O’Neal) compete to see who can lose their virginity first at summer camp.

5.2

185 votes

5.2

185 votes

Babysitter's Club

1995 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Melanie Mayron

Cast Schuyler Fisk · Bre Blair · Rachael Leigh Cook · Larisa Oleynik

Synopsis It's the story about seven very different best friends, and one summer that will bring them together like never before.

4.6

45 votes

4.6

45 votes

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The Plutonium Incident (TV)

1980 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Michaels

Cast Janet Margolin · Bo Hopkins · Joseph Campanella · Powers Boothe

Synopsis A worker at a nuclear power plant finds life in danger after she points out unsafe conditions.

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The People Across the Lake (TV)

1988 · Movie · 99 min. · Canada

Direction Arthur Allan Seidelman

Cast Valerie Harper · Gerald McRaney · Barry Corbin · Tammy Lauren

Synopsis A city-slicker family, tired of the urban grime and crime, moves to a quaint little lakeside village. All seems like paradise - until corpses start showing up in the water. Will the family be the new victims?

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Cab to Canada (TV)

1998 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Christopher Leitch

Cast Maureen O'Hara · Jason Beghe · Catherine Bell · Haley Joel Osment

Synopsis Fact-based story about a Pasadena cab driver who picks up what he believes is a routine fare, an elderly woman on her way to a funeral. However, the wealthy woman is soon is insisting that the cabbie drive her on...

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Direction Randal Kleiser

Cast Eve Plumb · Leigh McCloskey · Lynn Carlin · William Schallert

Synopsis 15 year old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. Life at home...

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Marilyn: The Untold Story (TV)

1980 · Movie · 156 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold · John Flynn

Cast Catherine Hicks · Richard Basehart · Frank Converse · John Ireland

Synopsis The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity. The movie begins with Norma Jean as a child and ends with the mysterious way she dies. Throughout the movie,...

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Locked in Silence (TV)

1999 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Pittman

Cast Bonnie Bedelia · Bruce Davison · Dan Hedaya · Marc Donato

Synopsis A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because...

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Journey of the Heart (TV)

1997 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Karen Arthur

Cast Cybill Shepherd · Stephen Lang · Blake Heron · Cassidy Rae

Synopsis Mother struggles to raise an autistic child, based on a true story.

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Direction John Erman

Cast Leigh McCloskey · Eve Plumb · Juliet Mills · Jean Hagen

Synopsis A teenage boy arrives in Hollywood to become a movie star, but winds up becoming a male prostitute and gets involved with a gay football star.

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Miss Lettie and Me (TV)

2002 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Ian Barry

Cast Mary Tyler Moore · Holliston Coleman · Charles Robinson · Burt Reynolds

Synopsis The life of a physically and emotionally isolated woman brightens considerably when her feisty grandniece visits.

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Direction Jud Taylor

Cast Mitchell Ryan · Kurt Russell · Andrew Prine · John Carradine

Synopsis Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.

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The Yarn Princess (TV)

1994 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Tom McLoughlin

Cast Jean Smart · Robert Pastorelli · Dennis Boutsikaris · Justin Burnette

Synopsis Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her children away from her. She must prove in a court of law that she is capable of taking...

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Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Susan Blakely · Lee Grant · Royal Dano · Joe Lambie

Synopsis This is the story of actress Frances Farmer.

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Silk Hope (TV)

1999 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Kevin Dowling

Cast Farrah Fawcett · Brad Johnson · Ashley Crow · Scott Bryce

Synopsis When Frannie visits her family's century-old farm, her sister Natalie and fiance Jake inform her of their mother's recent passing. Reconciliation is tepid at first between the two sisters until an old family letter shines a path forward.

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Deadman's Curve (TV)

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard Compton

Cast Richard Hatch · Bruce Davison · Pamela Bellwood · Dick Clark

Synopsis On Jan and Dean's rise to the top of the music industry, a horrible car accident leaves Jan Berry incapacitated and their dreams shattered. With the help of Dean and others, Jan slowly recovers, learning again to walk and talk....

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Why Me? (TV)

1984 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Glynnis O'Connor · Armand Assante · Craig Wasson · Annie Potts

Synopsis Leola Mae Harmon, a pregnant military nurse, is the victim of a drunk-driving accident. She loses her unborn child and is severely disfigured, her husband can't cope with the situation, and she sinks into depression. Her life slowly begins to...

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