The most talked-about movie at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and the winner of the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival, The Kids Are All Right was directed by Lisa Cholodenko ( High Art, Laurel Canyon ) from an original screenplay that she wrote with Stuart Blumberg ( Keeping the Faith ). The movie combines comedic surprise with poignant emotional truth in a funny, vibrant, and richly drawn portrait of a modern family. Nic and Jules (three-time Academy Award® nominee Annette Bening and four-time Academy Award® nominee Julianne Moore) are married and share a cozy suburban Southern California home with their teenage children, Joni and Laser (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson). Nic and Jules—or, when referred to jointly by Joni,"Moms"—gave birth to and raised their children, and built a family life for the four of them.As Joni prepares to leave for college, 15-year-old Laser presses her for a big favor. He wants Joni, now 18, to help him find their biological father; the two teenagers were conceived by donor insemination. Against her better judgment, Joni honors her brother's request and manages to make contact with "bio-dad" Paul (Mark Ruffalo), an easygoing restaurateur. The kids find themselves drawn to the confirmed bachelor's footloose style—especially in contrast to Nic, a principled doctor who has long established their house rules. Jules, who has been looking to start a new career in landscaping, also strikes up a rapport with Paul.As Paul comes into the lives of the forthright four, an unexpected new chapter begins for them as family ties are defined, re-defined, and then re-re-defined. This Newmarket Shooting Script® Book includes: A Conversation between the Screenwriters Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg Complete Shooting Script 8-page Photo Section Complete Cast and Crew Credits

Acclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me is one of the most highly praised independent films of recent years, earning many of the major screenplay awards. This is the lovingly drawn story of a sister and brother’s complicated, fragile, but somehow enduring bond. Sammy and Terry Prescott were orphaned as children. Sammy, now the single mother of a young son, has stayed in their hometown and is an officer at the local bank. Terry has become something of a drifter, surfacing only when he needs money. Sammy’s own life has its complications: she puts off an old boyfriend’s proposal and begins an affair with her new boss. Together in their family home, Terry’s charming irresponsibility collides with Sammy’s confusion over her own actions. What remains unspoken is what they’ve known since they were left with only each other sixteen years before.

In The Player, the Hollywood classic that was adapted into the celebrated movie by Robert Altman, film executive Griffin Mill got away with murder. Now Mill is back, down to his last $6 million, and broke. His second wife wants to leave him. His first wife still loves him. His children hate him, and believing that the end of the world is happening, he wants to save them all, with one last desperate plan to save his life: quit the studio and convince an almost billionaire that he has the road map and the mettle to make them both achieve savage wealth. In The Return of the Player , Tolkin again delivers a brilliant, incise portrait of power, wealth, and family in contemporary society gone out of control with greed and excess.

In 1983, Bo Goldman's heartbreaking screenplay was nominated by the Writers Guild of America as Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen. It dramatizes the end of a 15-year marriage, devastating the husband, the wife, and their three children. After the divorce, the husband becomes preoccupied with his writing career and mistress. The wife, who has custody of the children, has a relationship of her own. Although they attempt to lead separate existences, the two are brought back together again when the husband tries to bully his way back into his family's lives.

In 1983, Bo Goldman's heartbreaking screenplay was nominated by the Writers Guild of America as Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen. It dramatizes the end of a 15-year marriage, devastating the husband, the wife, and their three children. After the divorce, the husband becomes preoccupied with his writing career and mistress. The wife, who has custody of the children, has a relationship of her own. Although they attempt to lead separate existences, the two are brought back together again when the husband tries to bully his way back into his family's lives.