Some Well-Connected Movies
Casino
Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia underboss and a casino owner, for a trophy wife over a gambling empire.
1995
Martin Scorsese
director
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
1982
Melissa Mathison
writer
Kundun
From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.
1997
Martin Scorsese
director
Melissa Mathison
writer
Bringing Out the Dead
Haunted by the patients he failed to save, an extremely burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three fraught and turbulent nights.
1999
Martin Scorsese
director
The BFG
An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
2016
Melissa Mathison
writer