Screenplay: Mark Rosenthal

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


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

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...

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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

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

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...

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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

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

The In Crowd

1988 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Mark Rosenthal

Cast Donovan Leitch · Jennifer Runyon · Joe Pantoliano · Page Hannah

Synopsis A young man of the rock and roll generation is in his senior year of high school. When one day he successfully gets on a popular teen dance television show he becomes a star. The plot follows him as he...

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