Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.
This week, we look at how elections and politics can be used across genres to test a character’s true convictions, and how their choices affect the citizens they serve.
Our collection includes:
- All The President’s Men by William Goldman
- Being There by Jerzy Kosiński
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern
- Election by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
- Gaslit – “Willpower” by Robbie Pickering
- House of Cards – “Chapter 1” by Beau Willimon
- In the Loop by Jesse Armstrong & Simon Blackwell & Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche
- Lincoln by Tony Kushner
- Madam Secretary – “Pilot” by Barbara Hall
- Milk by Dustin Lance Black
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Sidney Buchman
- Napoleon Dynamite by Jared Hess & Jerusha Hess
- The American President by Aaron Sorkin
- The Diplomat – “Lambs in the Dark” by Debora Cahn
- The Front Runner by Matt Bai & Jay Carson & Jason Reitman
- The Ides of March by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
- The Politician – “Pilot” by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk & Ian Brennan
- The West Wing – “Pilot” by Aaron Sorkin
- Veep – “Fundraiser” by Simon Blackwell and Armando Iannucci
- Vice by Adam McKay
Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!