Best movies that are award winners or nominees in writing (screenplay based on material previously produced or published) category

The Princess Bride(1987)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.



The Untouchables(1987)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.



The Last Temptation of Christ(1988)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.



The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



Speed(1994)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.



Men in Black(1997)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.



The Green Mile(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.



Sleepy Hollow(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.



South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When Cartman and his friends go see an R rated movie, they start swearing and their parent's think that Canada is to blame.



The Lost Daughter(2021)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.



Don't Look Up(2021)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.



Chocolat(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.



Quills(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 73

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.



You Can Count on Me(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.



Legally Blonde(2001)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.



Secretary(2002)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.



Unfaithful(2002)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.



The Cooler(2003)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 76

In an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.



The Passion of the Christ(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.



North Country(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.




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