Screenplay: Martin Donovan

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


Mary Tyler Moore (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction James L. Brooks · Allan Burns · Jay Sandrich · Peter Baldwin

Cast Mary Tyler Moore · Ed Asner · Valerie Harper · Gavin MacLeod

Plot TV Series (1970-1977). 7 Seasons. 168 Episodes. Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis after a relationship goes bad. She finds work as an associate producer in a small television newsroom where...

6.1

410 votes

6.1

410 votes

Apartment Zero

1988 · Movie · 124 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Martin Donovan

Cast Colin Firth · Hart Bochner · Dora Bryan · Liz Smith

Plot Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane...

5.9

74 votes

5.9

74 votes

Death Becomes Her

1992 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Meryl Streep · Goldie Hawn · Bruce Willis · Isabella Rossellini

Plot Helen, a writer, and Madeline, an actress, have hated each other for years. Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once Helen’s fiance. After she recovers from a mental breakdown,...

5.7

23K votes

5.7

23K votes

Collaborator

2011 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Martin Donovan

Cast Martin Donovan · David Morse · Olivia Williams · Melissa Auf der Maur

Plot A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.

5.1

23 votes

5.1

23 votes

Loving Couples

1980 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Jack Smight

Cast Shirley MacLaine · James Coburn · Susan Sarandon · Stephen Collins

Plot When Greg crashes his sports car, doctor Evelyn comes to his rescue, and the two soon are engaged in an affair. Evelyn's workaholic husband learns about it from Greg's live-in...

4.6

53 votes

4.6

53 votes

Somebody Is Waiting

1996 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Martin Donovan

Cast Gabriel Byrne · Nastassja Kinski · Johnny Whitworth · Brian Donovan

Plot Charlotte Ellis is a devoted mother, caring for her five children alone, following the departure of her cruel, alcoholic husband Roger To make her situation worse, her son Leon is...

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Make Room for Granddaddy (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction John Rich · Jack Arnold · Danny Thomas

Cast Danny Thomas · Marjorie Lord · Angela Cartwright · Michael Hughes

Plot TV Series (1970-1971). 1 season. 24 episodes. Sequel to the long-running comedy starring Danny Thomas.

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Mad at the Moon

1992 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Martin Donovan

Cast Lori Ashton · Hart Bochner · Pat Atkins · Eleanor Baggett

Plot A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon.

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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

2005 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dan Ireland

Cast Joan Plowright · Rupert Friend · Zoe Tapper · Robert Lang

Plot All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

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The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction William D. Russell · Bob Claver · Don Taylor · Richard Kinon

Cast Inger Stevens · William Windom · Cathleen Nesbitt · Mickey Sholdar

Plot TV Series (1963-1966). 3 season. 101 episodes. Glen Morley is a widowed congressman from Minnesota living in Washington D.C. with his mother and two sons. When Katy Holstrum, a Swedish-American...

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Occasional Wife (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Richard Kinon · Bob Claver · Jerrold Bernstein

Cast Michael Callan · Patricia Harty · Jack Collins · Bryan O'Byrne

Plot Peter, a junior executive at a New York business, figures out that single men at his company are generally passed over in favor of married men, who the top execs...

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Room 222 (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction James L. Brooks · William Wiard · Charles R. Rondeau · Terry Becker

Cast Lloyd Haynes · Denise Nicholas · Michael Constantine · Karen Valentine

Plot TV Series (1969-1974). Black teacher Pete Dixon tries to teach the students at Walt Whitman High to be tolerant. He is assisted by girlfriend and school counselor Liz and student...

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The Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Hal Cooper

Cast Bill Bixby · Brandon Cruz · Miyoshi Umeki · Kristina Holland

Plot Widower Tom Corbett must raise his son Eddie (originally seven) who is always scheming to get his dad remarried. Tom is a magazine publisher, Mrs. Livingston is his housekeeper, Tina...

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