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Dead Poets Society is a great model for multiple story lines and the development of friendships.
Excellent Rescue-Escape screenplay template. A scientist cannot persuade a town's inhabitants there is a real danger and they should leave. When the volcano erupts, the scientist must rescue the woman he loves and her children.
(hide)Crash features several inter-related and independent stories that collide in this Well-structures screenplay that highlights racism.
The Screenplay Summary sets out this classic storyline: Small-town girl (Violet) goes to the big city (Manhattan) and overcome internal conflicts (stage-fright and father's estrangement) to find love, success and fame (as a singer-song writer).
(hide)The Conversation is an ideal example of an action film magnified in impact by the deep character development of the main character, Harry Caul.
(hide)A well-structured Flashback-Present framework of a murder investigation and love story.
Collateral is a well constructed and paced kidnapping-Escape-Rescue thriller.
A truly thrilling screenplay to visualize Sequence and Scene structure. Remarkable flashback organization.
Robert Towne's beautifully balanced plot matched with strategic foreshadowing of clues.
Chain Reaction has the classic Sequence structure of a Chased and Solve a Mystery format.
Cellular is a relentless pursuit-chase--rescue script linked to a cell phone and kidnapping.
Cast Away demonstrates a screenplay construction through a series of distinct Sequences delineated by changes in location and purpose in the story narrative.
(hide)A systematic progression through formulaic Sequences that follow clues to the villain, motive and means to execute the plan Bond will thwart.
(hide)Casablanca demonstrates how to create drama through key Sequences that establish the conflicting needs for each character and shows how they are unified through Rick.
(hide)This screenplay uses short vignette Sequences to subtly advance the story.
An ideal character study structure within a love story. Note how individual scenes are created by the specific plot points.