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Being John Malkovich

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The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

Douglas Adams · 248 pages

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Hollywood Said No!: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings from the Creators of Mr. Show

Bob Odenkirk, David Cross · 270 pages

"Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, creators of HBO's classic sketch comedy show Mr. Show, present to you this collection of never-before-seen scripts and ideas that Hollywood couldn't find the gumption to green-light. Simply put ... Hollywood said no! Since Mr. Show closed up shop, Bob and David have kept busy with many projects-- acting in fun, successful, movies and TV shows, directing things, and c

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Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu · 288 pages

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Mostly Void, Partially Stars

Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor · 304 pages

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The Big Lebowski

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · 119 pages

The Big Lebowski begins with a case of mistaken identity which escalates when Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - attempts to seek recompense for the despoilation of his ratty-ass little rug, and then finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bagman - a situation that goes from bad to worse due to the interference of his hapless bowling partners. In The Big Lebowski the Coen brothers have

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The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words: Volume 1

Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin · 352 pages

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A Bit of Fry & Laurie

Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie · 240 pages

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The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words, Vol. 2

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin · 384 pages

Screenplay FormatAbsurdist HumorFunny
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Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917

Richard Curtis, Ben Elton · 480 pages

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Juno: The Shooting Script

Diablo Cody, Ivan Reitman · 136 pages

Presents a script of the film, along with photographs, complete cast and crew credits, and a foreword by the director.

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When Harry Met Sally

Nora Ephron · 122 pages

"A romantic comedy about the difficult, frustrating, awful, funny search for happiness in an American city where the primary emotion is unrequited love"--Back cover.

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Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay

Bruce Robinson · 160 pages

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Four Weddings and a Funeral

Richard Curtis · 80 pages

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Life is Beautiful

Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami · 128 pages

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The Complete Fawlty Towers

John Cleese, Connie Booth · 352 pages

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Ape and Essence

Aldous Huxley · 153 pages

Life in Los Angeles a century after the Third World War, when atomic and bacterial warfare have left the area in ruins.

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Mindswap

Robert Sheckley · 216 pages

"In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which a persons consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and finds himself in the body of an interstellar crimi

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The Thrilling Adventure Hour

Ben Acker, Ben Blacker

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Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

Quentin Tarantino · 159 pages

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Inception: The Shooting Script

Christopher J. Nolan

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