http://www.beatsheetcentral.com Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:44:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Note: I'm trying a new format where I'm putting the beats right in this post. Please let me know if you prefer this approach.) Summary: Michael Clayton, a "fixer" for a top wall-street law firm, is hired to remedy the situation after another attorney has a breakdown while representing a chemical ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=399 Rosemary's Baby (1968) Summary: A young couple move into a new apartment building, which is unfortunately inhabited by a coven of witches in this classic supernatural suspense story. Screenplay: Roman Polanski (based on the novel by Ira Levin) Director: Roman Polanski Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=393 "The Player" (1992) Summary: "[A] shit-bag producer, studio exec, murders a writer he thinks is harassing him. Problem is, he killed the wrong writer. Now he's got to deal with blackmail, as well as the cops." Screenplay: Michael Tolkin; based on his novel Director: Robert Altman Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=389 “Drag Me to Hell" (2009) Summary: When a bank officer is ordered to evict an old woman from her home she finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse, which turns her life into a living hell. In desperation, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=383 “Michael Clayton” (2007) Summary: Michael Clayton, a "fixer" for a top wall-street law firm, is hired to remedy the situation after another attorney has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit. Screenplay: Tony Gilroy Director: Tony Gilroy Cast: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=380 "Titanic" (1997) Summary: A survivor of the Titanic returns to her memories of class struggle and star-crossed romance in that fateful wreck, while a modern-day treasure-hunter tries to find a precious diamond the woman wore the night the ship went down. Screenplay: James Cameron Director: James Cameron Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart, ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=372 "True Lies" (1994) Summary: Career spook Harry Tasker has successfully hide his life as a spy from his family for 15 years. But when Harry suspects his wife of an affair and nuclear weapons go missing, the lies start to pile up and he finds his once-separate lives on a ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=356 "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" (1991) Summary: A second Terminator is sent back to assassinate John Conner, future savior of mankind, when he is still a child. Again, a lone protector is also sent back to do battle with the assassin. But as the machines try to re-shape the past, Sarah, John, ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=348 "The Abyss" (1989) beatsheet Summary: As a hurricane approaches, the crew of a deep-sea oil-drilling rig is tasked to help a Navy SEAL team recover a sunken nuclear submarine. Cold War tensions run high, but the roughnecks slowly realize there may be something unearthly involved. Screenplay: James Cameron Director: James Cameron Cast: Ed Harris, ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=336 "Aliens" (1986) Summary: This time it's war. Screenplay: James Cameron; James Cameron (story), David Giler (story), Walter Hill (story); Dan O'Bannon (characters), Ronald Schusett (characters) Director: James Cameron Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=329 "The Terminator" (1984) Summary: Average, hard-working L.A. denizen Sarah Conner finds her world up-ended when she learns she has been targeted for termination by a futuristic A.I. waging genocide against humanity in the year 2029. Her crime? She will give birth to the future messiah. Screenplay: James Cameron with Gale Ann Hurd Director: ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=310 “The Prestige” (2006) Summary: Two magicians who are former partners stop at nothing to destory each other after a terrible accident divides them. Screenplay: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Priest (novel) Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=302 Children of Men (2006) Summary: In the near-future, a fallen activist agrees to secretely transport a miraculously pregnant woman to safety, where her child's birth may help scientists save humanity. Screenplay: Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, P.D. James (novel) Director: Alfonso Cuaron Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=292 "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" (1968) Summary: In the turn-of-the-century American West, inseparable outlaws Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid find that the times they are a-changin'. Fistfights, knifefights, gunfights, heists, chases, stick-ups, and musical interludes ensue. Screenplay: William Goldman Director: George Roy Hill Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=287 Minority Report (2002) Summary:In the future, crooks get caught before they commit crimes, but one of the cops in the special unit that busts them is accused of his own crime and sets out to prove his innocence. Screenplay: Phillip K. Dick (story), Scott Frank, John Cohen Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Tom Cruise, Colin ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=283 Sideways (2004) Summary: Two guys approaching middle age with little but disappointment embark on a week long road-trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to get married. Screenplay: Rex Pickett (novel), Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor Director: Alexander Payne Cast: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=264 Norma Rae (1979) Summary: Norma Rae Webster struggles to help unionize an oppressive textile mill in her hometown during the summer of 1979. Screenplay: Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank, Jr. Director: Martin Ritt Cast: Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=260 "On the Beach (1959)" Summary: The survivors of a nuclear war struggle to accept that the fallout will soon claim them as well. Screenplay: Nevil Schute (novel); John Paxton Director: Stanley Kramer Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins, Fred Astaire, Donna Anderson http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=250 "Oliver Twist (1948)" Summary: Oliver Twist is an orphan who runs away to 19th-century London and falls in with a gang of pickpockets led by the murderous thief Fagin. Screenplay: Charles Dickens (novel); David Lean, Stanley Haynes; Eric Ambler (uncredited), Kay Walsh (uncredited) Director: David Lean Cast: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, Henry ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=245 Hi Nick, amazing site thank you for sharing this treasure trove. Am watching 'the informers' and trying to put a beat sheet together (major BEE fan). Is there any way I could take a 'peek' under the sheets of you & Bret's very sharp screenplay? If not I totally get ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=243 Back to the Future (1985) Summary: A teenager accidentally sent back in time 30 years must get his parents to fall in love and find a way to return to 1985. Screenplay: Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=239 Bullets Over Broadway (1994) Summary: In 1920s New York, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced. Screenplay: Woody Allen Director: Woody Allen Cast: John Cusack, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=235 Pacific Heights (1990) Summary: A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own. Screenplay: Daniel Pyne Director: John Schlesinger Cast: Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=232 Dead Calm (1989) Summary: A mass-murderer kidnaps and seduces a young woman after leaving her husband to die on the vessel whose crew he's just slaughtered. Screenplay: Charles Williams (novel), Terry Hayes (screenplay) Director: Phillip Noyce Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=227 Broadway Danny Rose (1984) Summary: In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster. Screenplay: Woody Allen Director: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=224 Blade Runner (1982) Summary: Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker. Screenplay: Hampton Fancher & David Webb Peoples Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=220 Gone Baby Gone Summary: Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally. Based on the Dennis Lehane novel. Screenplay: Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard Director: Ben Affleck Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=211 The Wire: The Target (Pilot) http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=193 King of New York (1990) Summary: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood. Screenplay: Nicholas St. John Director: Abel Ferrara Cast: Christopher ... http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=106 Sopranos: Pilot http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=169 Dillinger (1945) Summary: The rise and fall of John Dillinger and his associates from petty criminal to Public Enemy Number One. Screenplay: Phillip Yordan & William Castle Director: Max Nosseck Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffries http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=168 The Public Enemy (1931) http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=167 The Conversation Summary: A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola Director: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=105 Heat Summary: A Los Angeles crime saga focused on the lives of two men on opposite sides of the law - one a detective; the other a thief. Screenplay: Michael Mann Director: Michael Mann Cast: Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Val Kilmer, Ashley Judd, Amy Brenneman http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=103 Little Caesar (1931) http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=155 Night and the City (1950) http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=154 Bob Le Flambeur (1956) http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=153 Bullets or Ballots (1936) http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=151 Angels Over Broadway (1940) http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=146 Hard Eight http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=122 Thief http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=120 Light Sleeper http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=104 Carlito's Way http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=39 To Live and Die in LA http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/?p=22