Alvin Sargent

Alvin Sargent

Total Credits at Criticker: 21 (Writer)

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    Anywhere But Here
    A comedy-drama about the evolving relationship between a mother and daughter who leave a small town behind and try to make a new life for themselves in Beverly Hills. (Twentieth Century Fox)
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    Spider-Man 2
    Peter Parker is juggling the delicate balance of his dual life as a college student and a superhuman crime fighter. His becomes even more complicated when he confronts a new nemesis, the brilliant Otto Octavius, who has been reincarnated as "Doc Ock."
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    Unfaithful
    An erotic thriller about the body language of guilt, centering on a couple living in the New York City suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling. (20th Century Fox)
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    Paper Moon
    Adapted from the novel, "Addie Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray and Addie Loggins... (imdb)
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    Ordinary People
    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. (imdb)
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    Hero
    A not-so-nice man rescues passengers from a crashed airliner, only to see someone else take credit. (imdb)
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    What About Bob?
    A successful psychiatrist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients tracks him down during his family vacation. (imdb)
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    Gambit
    Harry Dean has a plan to pull off a major robbery and needs Nicole as a gambit and windowdressing. He... (imdb)
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    Julia
    At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany. (imdb)
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    Other People\
    A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart. (imdb)
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    Spider-Man 3
    Spider-Man 3 reunites the cast and filmmakers from the first two blockbuster adventures for a web of secrets, vengeance, love, and forgiveness. (Columbia Pictures)
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    Nuts
    A high-class call girl (Streisand) kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney (Dreyfuss), and is very disruptive during her court hearings. (imdb)
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    The Stalking Moon
    When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable. (imdb)
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    Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
    While touring Spain, a young man, suffocated by his blue-blood family, meets an older woman, a not-quite-middle-aged spinster suffocated by her roles in life, who is yearning for something to live for as she faces a final illness. He falls in love with her unaffected realism, and she with his boyish enthusiasm and unashamed wonder at the world. Together they struggle with a lack of tolerable options for such an odd couple, while learning to depend on each other for much more than friendship. (imdb)
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    The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
    From the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for her life in the classified ads while all about her is the rubble of an unkempt house. All she needs is the right opportunity, she says puffing on a cigarette. Poorly equipped to survive the vagaries of modern life, she has nonetheless always managed to muddle through... (imdb)
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    I Walk the Line
    Tawes is the sheriff in a godforsaken little hole somewhere in Tennessee. A man of strong moral fibre he is always quick to judge others and follows the law zealously. Then he meets Alma, a young beautiful girl who turns his world upside down. Unable to ignore his feelings he starts having an affair with her. But in small town nothing is secret for long. (imdb)
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    Bobby Deerfield
    An American race car driver meets and falls in love with a terminally-ill woman.
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    The Sterile Cuckoo
    A spunky college girl tumbles through an autumn romance with a bashful student.
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    The Amazing Spider-Man
    Peter Parker finds a clue that might help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. His path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner. (imdb)
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    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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    Ben Casey
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