What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

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What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/23/06 at 10:43pm

Sorry if this has already been dicussed but here are my top 2
1. My Cousin Vinny
2. Goodfellas

Also try to think of a cast.

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#2

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/23/06 at 10:55pm

The Business of Strangers
Presumed Innocent

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#3

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/23/06 at 11:00pm

Truly, Madly, Deeply

The Breakfast Club

Phone Booth

O Lucky Man

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#4

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/23/06 at 11:18pm

I believe the Breakfast Club has since been turned into a play. Actually, I think I read somewhere that the film was originally rehearsed as if it were a play. It definitely feels like it could be on stage.

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#5

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/23/06 at 11:39pm

Murder By Death

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#6

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/23/06 at 11:44pm

Love Actually

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#7

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 1:56am

Hard Candy

#8

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 2:40am

American Beauty, The Hours.

#9

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 2:49am

Brokeback Mountain
Breakfast at Tiffany's

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#10

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 3:58am

Ellen Foster... also a good book

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re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 4:05am

Hard Candy

Would be very effective on stage, for sure.

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#12

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 4:21am

Philadelphia
28 Days

#13

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 4:45am

I second Love Actually.

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#14

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 11:45am

Mona Lisa Smiles

#15

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 11:51am

Down with Love

EDIT: actually, that could possibly be a good musical, so im not sure

Updated On: 9/24/06 at 11:51 AM

#16

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 12:09pm

DWL should be a musical.

Casablanca (i know it is based on a play but they need a film to stage interpretation)
Mean Girls
Final Destination

#17

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 1:25pm

Crash

#18

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 1:30pm

While watching Hard Candy, I thought about it as a play. I don't think it would work. The thing is so intense that you would probably have to double cast it. I don't think you could make two people go through that twice a day.

The Breakfast Club is a play. I saw a high school production of it, bad language and drugs intact, last year.

#19

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 5:56pm

I third Love Actually, and lets add in Family Stone for similar reasons.

#20

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 6:02pm

Dial M for Murder
Murder on the Orient Express
And Then There Were None

#21

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 7:30pm

The Big Chill

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#22

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 7:54pm

Dial M for Murder is a play that they turned into a movie - And then There Were None started out as book, then became a play and then a movie under the title "Ten Little Indians".

Updated On: 9/24/06 at 07:54 PM

#23

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 8:19pm

Shawshank Redemption. I would *love* to see that done on stage.

#24

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 8:24pm

i fourth Love Actually.

#25

re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals

Posted: 9/24/06 at 8:26pm

I've actually thought Saw would be an intense play.