Screenwriters on Screenwriting - Joel Engel

A spoiled rich girl is visited by her fairy godmother and turned into a maid.

A story of love and obsession. A young radio personality who, after her mother dies, discovers she had been having a love affair for 15 years. Now she finds herself recreating her mother's romance by getting involved with a married man.

A farmer returns home from the Civil War, but his wife begins to suspect that the man is an impostor.

A retired CIA agent is recruited to participate in a prisoner exchange with the Russians.

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

Horton Foote's story of a teen-aged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also work there.

The solitary life of an artificial man - who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands - is upended when he is taken in by a suburban family.

Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.

Three Mohican trappers agree to protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.

Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.

Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.

After years in prison, ace safe-cracker Frank owns a car dealership and a cocktail lounge, which are fronts for high-stakes jewelry heists. He wants to complete one last big heist for the Mob before he goes straight.

Two people meet on a flight to Sydney. Although both are engaged to others, they fall in love during their evacuation after a forced landing, and agree to meet in New York City three months later if the attraction lasts.

A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.

A young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level.

The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds J.J. "Jake" Gittes investigating adultery and murder, and the money that comes from oil.

The intertwined lives and loves of three highly ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.

On Election Day, 1968, irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man George Roundy is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his girlfriends and mistress Felicia Karpf, whose husband Lester is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend Jackie.

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.

A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.

The story of a baseball scout who discovers a talented but troubled baseball player.

Jack loses $65,000 in poker in Las Vegas, where he's marrying Betsy. The wedding will have to wait as the poker winner wants the weekend with Betsy to cancel the debt. She accepts. Whom will she marry?

An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.

An N.Y.C. film school student accepts a job with a local mobster who resembles a famous cinema godfather and who takes the young man under his wing, after demanding total loyalty.