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10 best books like Clerks & Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith): The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex, Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint, Jackie Brown, Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Screenplay, The Truman Show: The Shooting Script, American Beauty: The Shooting Script, Fargo, Rushmore, Magnolia: The Shooting Script, Rashomon

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex
AuthorJoshua Piven
ISBN0811832414
The authors of the best-selling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook are back—and they've brought a date. Whatever your own dating nightmares are, take it from the professionals, things can get worse. Just in time for Valentine's Day, here are dozens of scenarios covering every phase of the...
Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint
AuthorSpike Lee
ISBN0671682652
The phenomenon of Spike Lee continues with this revealing and engaging look at his outstanding career, his creative process, and the screenplay for his dynamic movie Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee burst full formed into the screen world with his award-winning, commercially successful independent...
Jackie Brown
AuthorQuentin Tarantino
ISBN0786883499
JACKIE BROWN (2 hours 34 minutes)

Jackie Brown is in her mid-forties, but looks like she's in her thirties. She's a "knockout."

Tarantino continues to use the phrase, "beeline" on 146.

Variations of the n-word are used 29 times, mostly by Ordell. Jackie uses it sparingly,...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Screenplay
AuthorGraham Chapman
ISBN0413741206
The first feature film by the Monty Python team is a mock heroic tale set in medieval Britain with lots of silly things going on besides. In a series of sketches and animations, the Pythons recount scenes from the Grail legend in which the knights forsake their chorus line can-can dancing in Camelot for...
The Truman Show: The Shooting Script
AuthorAndrew Niccol
ISBN1557043671
Jim Carrey is Truman Burbank, the most famous face on television, only he doesn't know it. He is the unwitting star of a nonstop, 24-hour-a-day documentary soap opera called The Truman Show, with every moment of his life broadcast to a worldwide audience. Everyone around him is an actor. He is a prisoner...
American Beauty: The Shooting Script
AuthorAlan Ball
ISBN1557044236
On a typical suburban street in a typical suburban town, there is an ordinary family living the American dream. But look closer. Lester Burnham's wife, Carolyn, regards him with contempt, his daughter, Jane, thinks he's a loser, and his boss is positioning him for the ax.

Captivated by Jane's...
Fargo
AuthorJoel Coen
ISBN0571179630
Fargo (Fargo, Script), Ethan Coen
Jerry Lundergaard is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into serious debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his wife. Jerry plans to get his rich father-in-law to pay the ransom--half of the money will be used to pay the...
Rushmore
AuthorWes Anderson
ISBN0571200125
Rushmore is the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of their debut screenplay and film Bottle Rocket. It is a refreshingly offbeat comedy about young Max Fish, a precocious pupil at a conservative private school. He is a live wire, a teenager full of madcap entrepreneurial...
Magnolia: The Shooting Script
AuthorPaul Thomas Anderson
ISBN1557044090
Magnolia reads like a collection of prayers.
Unimpeachable logic.
Loss and longing woven beautifully into a blended metaphor.
I never turn away the chance to live within the allegory of these characters lives for a couple of hours. The same joy/ fulfillment invades me when I watch Dr....
Rashomon
AuthorAkira Kurosawa
ISBN0813511801
羅生門 = Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon (Rashōmon) is a 1950 Japanese period film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura. While the film borrows the...
Good Will Hunting
AuthorMatt Damon
As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's screenplay Good Will Hunting, the two young actors somewhat resemble the characters they play in the film: they're best friends, and Affleck (who plays Chuckie) habitually chauffeurs Damon (Will), who doesn't...
Taxi Driver
AuthorPaul Schrader
ISBN0571203159
1970s New York, and young Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle takes to driving a taxi in search of an escape from his insomnia, his barren apartment and his gnawing sense of self-disgust, which threatens to erupt in revenge against the sordid, unlovely world through which he travels. When his tentative efforts...
Lost Highway
AuthorDavid Lynch
ISBN0571191509
Sitting on Death Row, awaiting execution for the murder of his wife, Fred Madison experiences a shattering headache. The next day, a dazed and confused Pete Dayton is found in Madison's cell. Dayton has no memory of how he came to be there. Madison has gone missing. What follows may be reality or it may...
Hannah and Her Sisters
AuthorWoody Allen
ISBN0394747496
Jesus, Woody Allen scripts have a helluva lot of description and direction in them!

HANNAH: (eating, nodding) H-H-Hello!
The score of classical music is in time with the following of Lee's stammers:
LEE: (agreeing, dusting, walking over to the piano) So I-I-I was thinking...
HANNAH:...
Talk Radio (TCG Edition)
AuthorEric Bogosian
“Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio is just about the best theatrical expression of our fucked-up culture that I know.” -John Hellpern, New York Observer

“Gut-grabbing… the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting.” -Ben Brantley, New York...
Adaptation.: The Shooting Script
AuthorCharlie Kaufman
ISBN1557045119
"One of the most talked about scripts of the year, Adaptation is the story of an orchid collector (Chris Cooper), a journalist (Meryl Streep, as author Susan Orlean), and the screenwriter (Charlie Kaufman, played by Nicolas Cage) who, in adapting Orlean's bestselling book The Orchid Thief writes...
Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema
AuthorJohn Pierson
ISBN0786882220
It's not that this is a bad book, just that it is irrelevant unless you are in the business, the movie business,or heavily into movie trivia. It is all about how and when Indie films have been financed, where they were shown, what film festivals they've been in, and the like. It throws around the names of...
Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
AuthorRichard Linklater
ISBN1400096049
   In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers.

   On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student,...
Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
AuthorPenn Jillette
ISBN0394753518
What an awesome find in the "free bin" at the co-op! A discarded library book in perfect shape! I remember my brother playing one of many dirty tricks on me as a child...I think I was 11 and he was 18. He had me pick a card and bet me what was a large sum of money to an eleven-year-old that he could guess my card,...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season One Vol. 1
AuthorJoss Whedon
ISBN0743419340
"It's my first day [of school]. I was afraid that I'd be behind in all my classes, that I wouldn't have any friends, that I'd have last month's hair. I didn't think there would be vampires on campus."-- Buffy, "Welcome to the Hellmouth"

A true fan knows that one of the very best aspects of Buffy the...
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