Example sentences for: screenplay

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

  • In the course of her protest, she takes her second swipe in recent weeks at feminist writer Naomi Wolf and notes that "Susan Estrich, a leading feminist, top expert on rape law, campaign manager for Michael Dukakis's Presidential bid and the first woman president of the Harvard Law Review, has written a screenplay with her husband, Marty Kaplan, about a prostitute who teaches her two girlfriends how to lure and hang on to men by learning erotic techniques."

  • Despite a screenplay by William Goldman and performances from acting heavyweights Gene Hackman and Judy Davis, reviews of Clint Eastwood's latest directorial effort are mixed, at best.

  • to a billion TV viewers will do that, I guess, especially when you're quoting your own, notably un-nominated screenplay.

  • 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 screenplay, too, "succeeds in preserving the mandarin lyricism of Woolf's language without slipping into the 'poetic' " (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). Critics also applaud Vanessa Redgrave's turn as the wistful middle-age English socialite--the only actress, says New York 's David Denby, "large enough to hold together this plotless story."


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