Laura Ziskin is a Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 3 march 1950 at San Fernando Valley (USA)
Laura Ziskin
Laura Ziskin participated to
19 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
9 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Production
, 2h19
Directed by Sam RaimiOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films about animals,
Films about children,
Films about computing,
Films about spiders,
Spider-Man films,
Superhero films,
Cyberpunk films,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Children's filmsActors Tobey Maguire,
Kirsten Dunst,
James Franco,
Thomas Haden Church,
Topher Grace,
Daniel GilliesRoles Producer
Rating63%
Peter Parker plans to propose to Mary Jane Watson, who has just made her Broadway musical debut. A meteorite crashes near the two in Central Park, and an extraterrestrial symbiote attaches itself to Peter's moped. While fleeing police, escaped prisoner Flint Marko falls into a particle accelerator that fuses his DNA with surrounding sand, allowing him to shapeshift at will as the Sandman. Peter's best friend, Harry Osborn, who blames him for his father's death, attacks Peter using weapons based on his father's Green Goblin technology. Harry injures his head and suffers partial amnesia, forgetting that Peter is Spider-Man and his desire for revenge. During a festival honouring Spider-Man, Marko robs an armored car. NYPD Captain George Stacy tells Peter and Aunt May that Marko was Uncle Ben's killer, and Dennis Carradine was only an accomplice. While a vengeful Peter sleeps, the symbiote bonds with him. Peter wakes up hanging from a skyscraper. His costume becomes black and his powers increase, but the symbiote brings out Peter's dark side. Wearing the new suit, Spider-Man locates Marko and battles him in a subway tunnel, reducing him to mud using water., 2h1
Directed by Sam RaimiOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes L'adolescence,
Films about animals,
Films about education,
Films about children,
Films about computing,
Films about spiders,
Spider-Man films,
Superhero films,
L'enfance marginalisée,
Cyberpunk films,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Children's films,
Films about school violenceActors Tobey Maguire,
Willem Dafoe,
Kirsten Dunst,
James Franco,
Cliff Robertson,
J. K. SimmonsRoles Producer
Rating73%
High-school senior Peter Parker visits a genetics laboratory with his friend Harry Osborn and love interest, Mary Jane Watson for a school field trip. There, Peter is bitten on the hand by a genetically engineered "super spider". Shortly after arriving home to his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, he goes unconscious. Meanwhile, Harry's father, scientist Norman Osborn, owner of Oscorp, is attempting to preserve his company's critically important military contract. He experiments on himself with a new but unstable performance-enhancing chemical vapor that increases his speed, strength, and stamina. However, it also drives him insane and he kills his assistant, Mendel Stromm. The next morning, Peter finds that his previously impaired vision has improved and his body has metamorphosized into a more muscular physique. At school, he finds that his body can produce webs and his quickened reflexes let him avoid injury during a confrontation with bully Flash Thompson. Peter discovers he has developed superhuman speed, strength, the ability to stick to surfaces, and a heightened ability to sense danger., 2h8
Directed by Sam RaimiOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films about animals,
Films about children,
Films about computing,
Films about spiders,
Spider-Man films,
Superhero films,
Cyberpunk films,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Children's filmsActors Tobey Maguire,
Kirsten Dunst,
James Franco,
Alfred Molina,
J. K. Simmons,
Rosemary HarrisRoles Producer
Rating74%
Peter Parker struggles to balance his crime-fighting duties as Spider-Man with the demands of his normal life. He loses a job, faces financial difficulties, and struggles to attend his physics lectures at Columbia University on time. Estranged from both love interest Mary Jane Watson and best friend Harry Osborn, who intends to seek revenge on Spider-Man for his father Norman's death, Peter additionally discovers his Aunt May is facing foreclosure., 2h16
Directed by Marc WebbOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes L'adolescence,
Films about animals,
Films about education,
Films about children,
Films about computing,
Films about spiders,
Spider-Man films,
Superhero films,
L'enfance marginalisée,
Cyberpunk films,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Children's films,
Films about school violenceActors Andrew Garfield,
Emma Stone,
Rhys Ifans,
Campbell Scott,
Denis Leary,
Irrfan KhanRoles Producer
Rating68%
A young Peter Parker discovers his father Richard Parker's study has been burgled. Gathering up hidden documents, Peter's parents take him to the home of his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, then mysteriously depart., 1h59
Directed by Garry MarshallOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Richard Gere,
Julia Roberts,
Ralph Bellamy,
Jason Alexander,
Laura San Giacomo,
John David CarsonRoles Executive Producer
Rating71%
Edward Lewis (Richard Gere), a successful workaholic businessman and corporate raider in Los Angeles on business, accidentally takes a detour on Hollywood Boulevard while looking for Beverly Hills. He unsuccessfully tries to ask for directions and ends up in the red-light district, where he encounters a sex-worker named Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts), who mistakes him for a possible client. Her roommate and best friend, Kit De Luca (Laura San Giacomo), encourages her to recruit him, though he only wants directions and makes a deal with her to pay her if she shows him the way. Intrigued by her knowledge and wit he hires her to spend the night with him for $300 in his hotel's penthouse apartment, treating her to strawberries and champagne and sharing personal information with her. He comes to trust her as she "surprises" him by flossing her teeth after eating the strawberries (and not doing drugs as he thought she was more likely to do given her profession). They spend the night watching I Love Lucy reruns and having sex., 2h12
Directed by James L. BrooksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Musical films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Jack Nicholson,
Helen Hunt,
Greg Kinnear,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Shirley Knight,
Skeet UlrichRoles Executive Producer
Rating76%
Melvin Udall is a misanthrope who works at home as a best-selling novelist in New York City. He suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder which, paired with his misanthropy, alienates nearly everyone with whom he interacts. He avoids stepping on sidewalk cracks while walking through the city due to a superstition of bad luck, and eats breakfast at the same table in the same restaurant every day using disposable plastic utensils he brings with him due to his pathological mysophobia. He takes an interest in his waitress, Carol Connelly, the only server at the restaurant who can tolerate his behavior., 2h12
Directed by Lee DanielsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Politique,
Films about racism,
Films about the labor movement,
Political films,
White House in fictionActors Alex Pettyfer,
Forest Whitaker,
John Cusack,
Robin Williams,
Lenny Kravitz,
Alan RickmanRoles Producer
Rating72%
In 2009, an elderly Cecil Gaines recounts his life story, while waiting at the White House to meet the newly inaugurated president. , 1h44
Directed by Irvin KershnerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Horror,
CrimeThemes Serial killer filmsActors Faye Dunaway,
Tommy Lee Jones,
Brad Dourif,
René Auberjonois,
Raúl Juliá,
Darlanne FluegelRoles Associate Producer
Rating61%
Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) is a glamorous fashion photographer who specializes in stylized violence. Amid controversy over whether her photographs glorify violence and are demeaning to women, Laura begins seeing, in first person through the eyes of the killer, real-time visions of the murders of her friends and colleagues.Scriptwriter
, 1h50
Directed by Stephen FrearsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Transport films,
Aviation filmsActors Dustin Hoffman,
Geena Davis,
Andy García,
Joan Cusack,
Kevin J. O'Connor,
Tom ArnoldRoles Story
Rating64%
"Bernie" LaPlante is a pickpocket and petty criminal who anonymously rescues survivors of an aircraft crash, in order to steal some of their purses and wallets – losing a shoe in the process. He later meets a homeless Vietnam veteran, John Bubber, tells him about the rescue at the crash site and gives him his remaining shoe. When a television station offers $1 million to the "Angel of Flight 104", Bernie cannot claim the reward, due to his arrest while fencing credit cards he stole from the people he rescued. Bubber, however, uses the single shoe to take credit for the act. Bernie tries to tell people that Bubber is a fake, but the media has sensationalized the heroic Bubber, and everyone wants to believe in him rather than Bernie.