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Featured Friday: Dysfunctional Families

October 4, 2024 News, Weekend Read

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 dysfunctional families are portrayed across genres, and how they use specificity to articulate the universal condition of having a weird relationship with your folks.

Our collection includes:

  • A Serious Man by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • American Beauty by Alan Ball
  • Arrested Development – “Pilot” by Mitchell Hurwitz
  • August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
  • Bates Motel – “First You Dream, Then You Die” by Kerry Ehrin & Anthony Cipriano
  • Crazy Rich Asians by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim
  • Death at a Funeral by Dean Craig
  • Eve’s Bayou by Kasi Lemmons
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
  • Happiness by Todd Solondz
  • Hereditary by Ari Aster
  • Kajillionaire by Miranda July
  • Knives Out by Rian Johnson
  • Little Miss Sunshine by Michael Arndt
  • Ready or Not by Guy Busick & R. Christopher Murphy
  • Shameless – “Pilot” by Paul Abbott
  • Succession – “Conner’s Wedding” by Jesse Armstrong
  • The Bear – “Fishes” by Christopher Storer & Joanna Calo
  • The Descendants by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
  • The Ice Storm by James Schamus
  • The Kids Are All Right by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
  • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) by Noah Baumbach
  • The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
  • The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

Featured Friday: Vampires

September 27, 2024 News

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at at the many blood-draining Vampire stories to see how a sub-genre can continually reinvent itself in order to stay immortal.

Our collection includes:

* **Blade** by David S. Goyer
* **Buffy the Vampire Slayer – “Welcome to the Hellmouth”** by Joss Whedon
* **Doctor Sleep** by Mike Flanagan
* **Dracula – “The Rules of the Beast”** by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
* **From Dusk till Dawn** by Quentin Tarantino
* **Interview with the Vampire – “In Throes of Increasing Wonder…”** by Rolin Jones
* **Let Me In** by Matt Reeves
* **Near Dark** by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow
* **Only Lovers Left Alive** by Jim Jarmusch
* **Shadow of the Vampire** by Steven Katz
* **The Lost Boys** by Jeffrey Boam
* **The Vampire Diaries – “Pilot”** by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec
* **True Blood – “Strange Love”** by Alan Ball
* **Twilight** by Melissa Rosenberg
* **Van Helsing** by Stephen Sommers
* **What We Do in the Shadows – “Pilot”** by Jemaine Clement

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

Featured Friday: 24 Hours or Less

August 30, 2024 News

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at movies that use the confines of a single day to their advantage, keeping characters constantly pushing against time and towards their goals.

Our collection includes:

– **All is Lost** by J.C. Chandor
– **American Graffiti** by George Lucas, Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck
– **Before Midnight** by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
– **Before Sunrise** by Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan
– **Bodies Bodies Bodies** by Kristen Roupenian
– **Booksmart** by Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins
– **Dazed and Confused** by Richard Linklater
– **Die Hard** by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza
– **Dog Day Afternoon** by Frank Pierson
– **Ferris Bueller’s Day Off** by John Hughes
– **Gravity** by Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón
– **Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle** by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg
– **Locke** by Steven Knight
– **Margin Call** by J.C. Chandor
– **Snowpiercer** by Bong Joon-ho
– **Superbad** by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
– **Tangerine** by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
– **Malcolm and Marie** by Sam Levinson

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

Featured Friday: Back to School

August 16, 2024 News

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, it’s back to school! We look at stories that articulate the excitement and ease the pain of starting another academic year.

Our collection includes:

– **10 Things I Hate About You** by Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith
– **Big Little Lies – “Somebody’s Dead”** by David E. Kelley
– **Bottoms** by Rachel Sennott & Emma Seligman
– **Clueless** by Amy Heckerling
– **Dead Poets Society** by Tom Schulman
– **Dear White People** by Justin Simien
– **Easy A** by Bert V. Royal
– **Fast Times at Ridgemont High** by Cameron Crowe
– **Friday Night Lights – “Its Different For Girls”** by Andy Miller
– **Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone** by Steve Kloves
– **Lady Bird** by Greta Gerwig
– **Mean Girls** by Tina Fey
– **Napoleon Dynamite** by Jared Hess & Jerusha Hess
– **Never Have I Ever – “Pilot”** by Mindy Kaling & Lang Fisher
– **Rushmore** by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
– **School Daze** by Spike Lee
– **Sex Education – “Episode One”** by Laurie Nunn
– **The Perks of Being a Wallflower** by Stephen Chbosky
– **Wednesday – “Wednesday’s Child Is Full Of Woe”** by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

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