| Jerry Maguire (1995.11.14 Draft) |
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November 14, 1995 Draft by Cameron Crowe.
Synopsis: When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 134 – Size: 5.3 MB – IMDb
| Jerry Maguire (1996.02.28 Draft) |
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February 28, 1996 Revised Shooting Draft by Cameron Crowe.
Synopsis: When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 135 – Size: 4.0 MB – IMDb
| Dead Man Walking |
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November 3, 1994 First Draft by Tim Robbins.
Based on the book “Dead Man Walking” by Sister Helen Prejean C.S.J.
Synopsis: A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim’s families.
Notes: A watermark is centered on every page. Some of the last pages are difficult to read because of it.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 136 – Size: 6.4 MB – IMDb
| On Golden Pond (1980.07.14 Draft) |
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July 14, 1980 Revised Draft by Ernest Thompson.
Synopsis: Old curmudgeon, Norman Thayer and his wife Ethel have spent their summers at their cottage on Golden Pond for many years. But this summer their daughter, whom they haven’t seen in years feels that she must be there for what may be Norman’s last birthday.
Notes: No cover page.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 145 – Size: 4.4 MB – IMDb
| Sherlock Holmes (2009.02.02 Draft) |
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February 2, 2009 Revised Draft by Michael Robert Johnson and Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg.
Screen story by Lionel Wigram and Michael Robert Johnson.
Synopsis: Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Source: Digital – Pages: 173 – Size: 361 kb – IMDb
| Cincinnati Kid, The |
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November 3, 1964 Second Draft by Ring Lardner Jr.
Synopsis: An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 134 – Size: 8.2 MB – IMDb
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
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February 8, 1962 Final Draft by Horton Foote.
Synopsis: Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.
Sheridan’s Note: Replaced low quality scan with digital version on January 23, 2010.
Source: Digital – Pages: 147 – Size: 252 kb – IMDb
| Extraordinary Measures (aka Untitled Crowley Project) |
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June 4, 2007 Draft by Robert Nelson Jacobs.
Synopsis: John and Aileen Crowley attempt to find a researcher who might have a cure for their children’s rare genetic disorder.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 114 – Size: 3.4 MB – IMDb
| Legion |
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October 31, 2007 Final Draft by Scott Stewart.
Original screenplay by Peter Schink.
Synopsis: At a remote truck stop diner, in the wake of a biblical apocalypse, a group of strangers unwittingly become humanity’s last line of defense when they discover the diner’s young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.
Source: Digital – Pages: 106 – Size: 174 kb – IMDb
| Book of Eli, The (2007.02.22 Draft) |
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February 22, 2007 Version 1.4.4 by Gary Whitta.
Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic United States, a lone man fights his way across the country in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 109 – Size: 2.6 MB – IMDb
| Book of Eli, The (2007.06.21 Draft) |
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June 21, 2007 Draft by Gary Whitta.
Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic United States, a lone man fights his way across the country in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Source: Digital – Pages: 116 – Size: 262 kb – IMDb
| Crazy on the Outside |
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July 30, 2001 Draft by Judd Pillot & John Peaslee.
Synopsis: He survived three years of hard time. Now comes a little family time.
Source: Digital – Pages: 141 – Size: 164 kb – IMDb
| Daybreakers |
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November 9, 2006 Draft by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig.
Synopsis: In the year 2017, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 106 – Size: 2.5 MB – IMDb
| Leap Year |
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December 16, 2008 Revised Draft by Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont.
Synopsis: When their four-year anniversary passes without a marriage proposal, Anna decides to take matters into her own hands. Investing in an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on February 29th.
Source: Digital – Pages: 123 – Size: 207 kb – IMDb
| Youth in Revolt |
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July 13, 2007 Draft by Gustin Nash.
Based on the novel by C.D. Payne.
Synopsis: Like most teens, young Nick Twisp is ruled by his libido. And from the recesses of a trailer park in Northern California, Twisp concocts a plan — make that multiple schemes — to lose his virginity to a local girl, the precocious Sheeni Saunders.
Source: Digital – Pages: 127 – Size: 492 kb – IMDb
| Avatar |
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Undated, unspecified draft by James Cameron.
Synopsis: A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Source: Digital – Pages: 152 – Size: 345 kb – IMDb
| Civil Action, A |
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October 20, 1997 Revised Draft by Steven Zaillian.
Based on the book by Jonathan Harr.
Synopsis: The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyer.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 153 – Size: 3.9 MB – IMDb
| Doubt |
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Undated, unspecified draft by John Patrick Shanley. Based on his stage play.
Synopsis: Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play’s quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.
Source: Digital – Pages: 94 – Size: 128 kb – IMDb
| Doubt (2006.12.05 Draft) |
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December 5, 2006 Draft by John Patrick Shanley. Based on his stage play.
Synopsis: Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play’s quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 118 – Size: 2.4 MB – IMDb
| Hours, The |
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Undated, unspecified draft by David Hare.
Based upon the novel by Michael Cunningham.
Synopsis: The story of how the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 98 – Size: 3.0 MB – IMDb
| Memoirs of a Geisha |
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January 6, 2005 Revised Draft by Robin Swicord.
Based on the novel by Arthur Golden.
Synopsis: Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha.
Notes: No cover page.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 148 – Size: 3.5 MB – IMDb
| Million Dollar Baby |
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2003 Draft by Paul Haggis.
Based on the short stories by F.X. Toole.
Synopsis: A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 120 – Size: 3.3 MB – IMDb
| Death Proof |
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February 14, 2006 Final Draft by Quentin Tarantino.
Synopsis: Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his “death proof” cars to execute his murderous plans.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 130 – Size: 6.6 MB – IMDb
| Jackie Brown |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Quentin Tarantino.
Based on Elmore Leonard’s “Rum Punch.”
Synopsis: A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 153 – Size: 4.3 MB – IMDb
| Kill Bill |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Quentin Tarantino.
Based on the character of “The Bride” created by Q & U.
Synopsis: The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her – a team she was once part of.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 204 – Size: 4.8 MB – IMDb
| My Best Friend’s Birthday |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Craig Hamann & Quentin Tarantino.
Synopsis: It’s Mickey’s Birthday and his girlfriend just left him, so that’s when his friend Clarence shows him a birthday he’ll never forget.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 101 – Size: 2.4 MB – IMDb
| On the Waterfront |
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1954 Shooting Script by Budd Schulberg.
Synopsis: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
Source: Digital – Pages: 138 – Size: 160 kb – IMDb
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
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1975 Shooting Script by Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman.
Based on the novel by Ken Kesey.
Synopsis: Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse.
Source: Digital – Pages: 140 – Size: 160 kb – IMDb
| One Way Passage |
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May 3, 1932 Draft by Wilson Mizner and Joseph Jackson.
Story by Robert Lord.
Synopsis: A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other’s secret.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 107 – Size: 2.9 MB – IMDb
| Ordinary People |
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September 21, 1979 Second Draft by Alvin Sargent.
Synopsis: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 131 – Size: 4.1 MB – IMDb
| Out of Africa |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Kurt Luedtke.
Synopsis: In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.
Notes: No cover page.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 131 – Size: 3.0 MB – IMDb
| Patton |
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February 1, 1969 Shooting Script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North.
Synopsis: The story of General George S Patton, Jr. during the World War II phase of the controversial American general’s career.
Note: Low quality scan.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 160 – Size: 1.1 MB – IMDb
| Piano, The (aka The Piano Lesson) |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Jane Campion.
Synopsis: A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she’s soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 98 – Size: 2.1 MB – IMDb
| Places in the Heart (1983.01.31 Draft) |
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January 31, 1983 First Draft by Robert Benton.
Synopsis: In 1930’s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 130 – Size: 3.8 MB – IMDb
| Places in the Heart (1983.08.12 Draft) |
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August 12, 1983 Third Draft by Robert Benton.
Synopsis: In 1930’s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 136 – Size: 5.7 MB – IMDb
| Public Enemies (2007.11.04 Draft) |
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November 4, 2007 Revised Draft by Ronan Bennett.
Revisions by Michael Mann & Ann Biderman. Current revisions by Michael Mann.
Synopsis: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 132 – Size: 4.4 MB – IMDb
| Public Enemies (2008.08.23 Draft) |
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August 23, 2008 Revised Draft by Ronan Bennett.
Revisions by Michael Mann & Ann Biderman. Current revisions by Michael Mann.
Synopsis: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 191 – Size: 17.1 MB – IMDb
| Public Enemies (aka Public Enemy No. 1) |
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November 29, 1993 Revised Draft by Michael Mann.
Notes: An early draft of what would eventually become “Public Enemies.” This draft doesn’t feature the John Dillinger/Melvin Purvis storyline, but instead focuses on Alvin Karpis who is best known as the last “public enemy” to be captured.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 136 – Size: 988 kb – IMDb
| Public Enemies (aka Public Enemy) |
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January 16, 1990 Revised Second Draft by Michael Mann.
Notes: An extremely early draft of what would eventually become “Public Enemies.” This draft doesn’t feature the John Dillinger/Melvin Purvis storyline, but instead focuses on Harry Campbell who was a known associate of Alvin Karpis, which Mann would feature in his next version of the story idea: Public Enemy No. 1
Source: Scanned – Pages: 120 – Size: 3.1 MB – IMDb
| Road, The |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Joe Penhall.
Based on “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.
Synopsis: A father and son walk for months across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic landscape in search of civilization.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 113 – Size: 3.2 MB – IMDb
| Serious Man, A |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen.
Synopsis: A black comedy set in 1967 and centered on on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won’t move out of the house.
Source: Digital – Pages: 134 – Size: 297 kb – IMDb
| Sin Nombre |
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October 25, 2007 Draft by Cary Fukunaga.
Synopsis: After murdering his gang’s leader, a teenager joins a family of Honduran immigrants making the dangerous journey across Mexico to the United States, avoiding a fellow gang member who has been sent to kill him along the way.
Notes: This is an English Version of the script. The Shooting Script is in colloquial Spanish.
Source: Digital – Pages: 107 – Size: 217 kb – IMDb
| Single Man, A |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Tom Ford and David Scearce.
Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood.
Synopsis: A story that centers on an English professor who, after the sudden death of his partner tries to go about his typical day in Los Angeles.
Source: Digital – Pages: 94 – Size: 147 kb – IMDb
| Sugar |
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October 22, 2007 Shooting Script by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck.
Synopsis: Dominican baseball star Miguel “Sugar” Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.
Source: Digital – Pages: 114 – Size: 217 kb – IMDb
| Sunshine Cleaning (2007.03.05 Draft) |
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March 5, 2007 Revised Draft by Megan Holley.
Synopsis: In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business — a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service — with her unreliable sister.
Source: Digital – Pages: 134 – Size: 193 kb – IMDb
| Vantage Point |
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November 4, 2005 Third Draft by Barry L. Levy.
Synopsis: The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
Source: Digital – Pages: 108 – Size: 174 kb – IMDb
| Where the Wild Things Are (2008.11.21 Draft) |
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November 21, 2008 Revised Draft by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers.
Based on “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak.
Synopsis: An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.
Notes: Missing page 100.
Source: Digital – Pages: 87 – Size: 236 kb – IMDb
| White Ribbon, The |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Michael Haneke.
Synopsis: Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Source: Digital – Pages: 101 – Size: 222 kb – IMDb
| It’s Complicated (2008.07.14 Draft) |
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July 14, 2008 Draft by Nancy Meyers.
Synopsis: Well, it’s… uh… complicated?
Source: Scanned – Pages: 128 – Size: 3.3 MB – IMDb
| It’s Complicated |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Nancy Meyers.
Synopsis: Well, it’s… uh… complicated?
Source: Digital – Pages: 118 – Size: 180 kb – IMDb
