Screenplay: Richard Friedenberg

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


A River Runs Through It

1992 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Robert Redford

Cast Craig Sheffer · Brad Pitt · Tom Skerritt · Brenda Blethyn

Plot Fly-fishing figures prominently in this poignant tale of two brothers growing up in Montana in the early 20th century under the stern rule of their minister father (Tom Skerritt). While...

6.6

9K votes

6.6

9K votes

The Education of Little Tree

1997 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

6.0

115 votes

6.0

115 votes

Dying Young

1991 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Joel Schumacher

Cast Julia Roberts · Campbell Scott · Ellen Burstyn · Vincent D'Onofrio

Plot Hilary (Julia Roberts) is an attractive, outgoing woman who goes to work as a caretaker to wealthy young educated Victor (Campbell Scott), who is trapped by a debilitating illness and...

5.6

6K votes

5.6

6K votes

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (TV)

2005 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Richard Friedenberg

Cast Christina Applegate · Johnathon Schaech · Jenna Friedenberg · Kathleen Rose Perkins

Plot Author James Patterson's critically acclaimed best-seller about love and loss comes to the screen in this affecting drama starring Emmy award-winning actress Christina Applegate. Kate Wilkinson (Kathleen Rose Perkins) is...

4.6

125 votes

4.6

125 votes

Twelve Mile Road (TV)

2003 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Friedenberg

Cast Tom Selleck · Wendy Crewson · Maggie Grace · Anna Gunn

Plot Stephen Landis (Selleck) is a happy man on the surface with unresolved regrets underneath whose sweet and loving girlfriend, Leah (Anna Gunn), and her teenaged daughter, Roxanne (Moss), have recently...

4.2

66 votes

4.2

66 votes

Unbroken: Path to Redemption

2018 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Harold Cronk

Cast Samuel Hunt · Merritt Patterson · Will Graham · Bobby Campo

Plot Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD. Suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend...

4.2

133 votes

4.2

133 votes

The 19th Wife (TV)

2010 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Rod Holcomb

Cast Chyler Leigh · Alexia Fast · Matt Czuchry · Lara Jean Chorostecki

Plot Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her...

3.9

103 votes

3.9

103 votes

Of Two Minds (TV)

2012 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Jim O'Hanlon

Cast Kristin Davis · Tammy Blanchard · Joel Gretsch · Bonnie Bartlett

Plot Follows the story of the challenging relationship between Billie and her younger schizophrenic sister, Elizabeth Baby. After their mother dies, Billie takes responsibility by moving Baby in with her family,...

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Bitter Harvest (TV)

1981 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Roger Young

Cast Ron Howard · Art Carney · Tarah Nutter · David Knell

Plot A dairy farmer's family is affected when his cows are poisoned by PBBs.

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Ring of Fire (TV)

2013 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Allison Anders

Cast Jewel Kilcher · Matt Ross · John Doe · Frances Conroy

Plot This is the story of the decades-long love affair between June Carter and her husband, Johnny Cash, a love that was stretched to the breaking point by Johnny's addiction to...

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Promise (TV)

1986 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast James Garner · James Woods · Piper Laurie · Peter Michael Goetz

Plot When his mother dies, Bob not only inherits her house, but also the custody of his younger brother, who suffers from schizophrenia and epilepsy. At the age of 21, Bob...

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The Adventures of Frontier Fremont

1976 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Richard Friedenberg

Cast Dan Haggerty · Denver Pyle · Tony Mirrati · Norman Goodman

Plot Jacob Fremont "Dan Haggerty" was a tins man, Who moved from St. Louis to escape it all, to the wilderness, where he meet and old mountain man "Denver Pyle" who...

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