6 Best plays books like American Beauty: The Shooting Script by Alan Ball, Sam Mendes

Cover of American Beauty: The Shooting Script by Alan Ball, Sam Mendes

American Beauty: The Shooting Script

By: Alan Ball , Sam Mendes

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

Six Golden Globe Nominations ......Best Picture! ......Best Director! ......Best Actor! ......Best …

If you liked the plays plot in American Beauty: The Shooting Script by Alan Ball, Sam Mendes , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is a lively, spellbinding acc… read more

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"Never confuse Motion with Action."

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright"

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"When the well is dry we know the value of water"

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"...there will be sleeping enough in the grave...."

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Cover of Juno: The Shooting Script by Diablo Cody, Ivan Reitman

2. Juno: The Shooting Script

By: Diablo Cody , Ivan Reitman

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Meet Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), a confidently frank teenage girl who calls the shots with a nonchal… read more

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  • romance
  • film
  • humor
  • media tie in
  • fiction
  • plays
"Juno: WOOOAH! ....Dreeeaaam BIG!"

-Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

"He is the cheese to my macaroni."

-Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

"Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am. "

-Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

"Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level."

-Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

Cover of A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script by Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman

3. A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script

By: Ron Howard , Akiva Goldsman

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A Beautiful Mind, the intensely human drama of a true genius, is inspired by events in the life of… read more

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  • media tie in
  • film
"Your creativity has value. You’re not wasting your time dreaming."

-Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script

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4. Saving Private Ryan

By: Max Allan Collins

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

June 6, 1944. Military forces converge on the beaches of Normandy for one of the most decisive batt… read more

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  • media tie in
  • fiction
Cover of In Praise of Shadows by Edward G. Seidensticker, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Thomas J. Harper, Charles Moore, None

5. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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Cover of Slumdog Millionaire: The Shooting Script by Gina Mayer

6. Slumdog Millionaire: The Shooting Script

By: Gina Mayer

4.11

Format: 256 pages,

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Th… read more

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  • romance
  • film
  • media tie in
  • fiction
  • plays
Cover of Inception: The Shooting Script by Christopher      Nolan, Jonathan Nolan

7. Inception: The Shooting Script

By: Christopher Nolan , Jonathan Nolan

3.43

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Inception, writer-director Christopher Nolan's seventh feature film, joins the epic scope of The Da… read more

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  • media tie in
  • plays
  • fiction
  • film
Cover of Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding

8. Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

By: Frank W. Abagnale , Stan Redding

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sen… read more

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9. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of American Beauty: The Shooting Script by Alan Ball, Sam Mendes

10. American Beauty: The Shooting Script

By: Alan Ball , Sam Mendes

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

Six Golden Globe Nominations ......Best Picture! ......Best Director! ......Best Actor! ......Best … read more

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  • romance
  • film
  • humor
  • media tie in
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script

By: Michel Gondry , Charlie Kaufman , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this illuminating script book, Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award(r)-nominated screenwriter of B… read more

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12. (500) Days of Summer: The Shooting Script

By: Marc Webb , None , None

3.43

Format: 64 pages,

The official book tie-in to the acclaimed romantic comedy from Fox Searchlight Pictures, an audienc… read more

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13. When Harry Met Sally

By: Nora Ephron

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

A romantic comedy about the difficult, frustrating, awful, funny search for happiness in an America… read more

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14. Good Will Hunting

By: Gus Van Sant , Matt Damon , None

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's screenplay … read more

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15. Seven

By: Anthony Bruno

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Mismatched partner cops Somerset and Mills are on the trail of a psychotic murderer who intends to … read more

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16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

By: Dale Wasserman

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who con… read more

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17. Taxi Driver

By: Paul Schrader

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

1970s New York, and young Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle takes to driving a taxi in search of an esc… read more

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18. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

By: August Wilson

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more

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19. 300

By: Frank Miller , Lynn Varley

4.00

Format: 98 pages,

The army of Persia - a force so vast it shakes the earth with its march - is poised to crush Greece… read more

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20. The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script

By: Stephen King , Frank Darabont

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

This modern film classic, an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security pris… read more

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21. Magnolia: The Shooting Script

By: Paul Thomas Anderson

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The complete Oscar RM -nominated screenplay by the writer/director of Boogie Nights, featuring an e… read more

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22. The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

By: Jane Austen , Emma Thompson , Lindsay Doran , None

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

This engaging and beautiful book includes the complete Academy Award-winning script and Thompson's … read more

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23. Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script

By: None , None , None

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Here is the official screenplay book tie-in to the uproarious American family road comedy. Brazenly… read more

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24. Inglourious Basterds

By: Quentin Tarantino

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

With such iconic films as the Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2, and Reservoir D… read more

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25. Pearl Harbor

By: Randall Wallace

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Childhood friends Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker are daring young pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps… read more

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26. There Will Be Blood: Final Shooting Script

By: Paul Thomas Anderson

2.57

Format: None pages, ebook

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27. Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

By: Quentin Tarantino , None

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Quentin Tarantino - director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" - won the Palme d'Or … read more

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28. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

By: Douglas R. Hofstadter

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more

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29. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • film
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

Cover of Lady Bird [Screenplay] by Greta Gerwig

30. Lady Bird [Screenplay]

By: Greta Gerwig

4.54

Format: 115 pages, None

A teenager navigates a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother over the cou… read more

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  • media tie in
  • plays
  • humor
  • film
Cover of The Truman Show: The Shooting Script by Andrew Niccol

31. The Truman Show: The Shooting Script

By: Andrew Niccol

3.90

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Jim Carrey is Truman Burbank, the most famous face on television, only he doesn't know it. He is th… read more

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  • film
  • humor
  • media tie in
  • fiction
  • plays
"We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented"

-Andrew Niccol, The Truman Show: The Shooting Script

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4.08

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3.74

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3.95

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4.31

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4.88

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4.54

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