Actually, the excellent script for "Smart People" is the work of Mark Jude Poirier, a fiction writer who has clearly spent enough time around English departments to have studied the tribal ways of the literary professoriate with ethnographic rigor.
Banks-Smith had long been an admirer of The Year of the Sex Olympics, having written in The Sun following its original broadcast in 1968: "Quite apart from the excellent script and the 'big big' treatment, the play radiated ripples.
Parkin noted how the "excellent" script unfurled from a "straightforward tale" into "breadth and depth of quality that few titles many times its budget achieve" with "affecting scenes" and "unexpected impact".
Shadowed by the paranoia of its period (the early '70s), this movie, crisply directed by Lasse Hallstrom from an excellent script by William Weaver, is less a morality play than an entertaining portrait of a literary gambler.
It's an excellent script, and in Ms. Shaw, it has a most compelling star.
The production's excellent script and performances are not quite matched by Anna Cordingley's design.
Grand Prix was made in 1966, four years before Le Mans, and it had the benefit of a mostly excellent script by Robert Alan Aurthur.
His underrated "Casanova," starring Heath Ledger, managed to be both farcical and subtle, and "The Hoax," with an excellent script by William Wheeler, achieves a similar complexity of tone.
The series claims as one of its executive producers the screenwriter and best-selling author David Benioff, whose excellent script for Spike Lee's post-9/11 meditation, "25th Hour," did not suggest a writer with Middle Earth proclivities.
We have an excellent script.
