Paul Haggis Articles

Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method The 2012 finalists for the USC Scripter Awards, honoring both screenwriters and the original authors of adapted screenplays, are the following: Christopher Hampton for A Dangerous Method, adapted from John Kerr's nonfiction book A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein and Hampton's own 2002 stage play The Talking Cure; Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim [...]

CRASH (2005) Direction: Paul Haggis Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate, Michael Peña, Shaun Toub Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco Oscar Movies Ryan Phillippe, Crash Crash, screenwriter Paul Haggis' multiple award-winning directorial début, is set in a Los Angeles that is part Quentin Tarantino, part Paul [...]

Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby MILLION DOLLAR BABY Review Part I Because of the film's near-absolute either pitch-black or shiny-white view of its characters, most of the acting falls into the trap of caricature, with Maggie's trashiest-of-the-trash family, in particular, coming across as a living advertisement for the end of all government assistance to the poor. Clint Eastwood's raspy-voiced "good [...]

MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) Direction: Clint Eastwood Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, Lucia Rijker Screenplay: Paul Haggis; mostly from "Million $$$ Baby," one of the six short stories found in F. X. Toole's (aka Jerry Boyd) Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner Oscar Movies Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby Fresh off the multiple Academy Award nominee Mystic [...]