Example sentences for: screenplay

How can you use “screenplay” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A movie by the son, Nick Cassavetes, from a screenplay by the father, John Cassavetes, who died in 1989.

  • Still, examples of Hollywood's sloppiness and disrespect for intellectual-property rights abound, as Film Comment magazine proved with this prank in the '80s: It shipped the screenplay of Casablanca to 85 agents.

  • The chair was foisted on reluctant faculty by administrators eager to please wealthy donor Kenneth Lipper (a former deputy mayor of New York and, more recently, a co-writer of the screenplay of City Hall ). It took the historians and Jewish-studies professors on the search committee a year and a half to come up with a job description.

  • The new screenplay also adds "farcical plot and sight gags to provide hilarity" to the story of the relationship between a commodity trader and the 13-year-old son he finds in the Amazon, according to the Los Angeles Times . Dissenters call the plot ridiculous and the gags tiresome.

  • Unlike campier predecessors, this movie about the Mexican Robin Hood is said to offer impeccable stunts and a genuinely witty screenplay.


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