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W.D. Richter

W.D. Richter

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W. D. Richter (born 7 December 1945, New Britain, Connecticut) is a screenwriter and has occasionally directed and produced. He is best known for adapting Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), directing The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, and helping write Big Trouble in Little China.

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Movies Made By W.D. Richter (16)

Stealth (2005)

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war. ...

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Home for the Holidays (1995)

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family. ...

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Needful Things (1993)

A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected. ...

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Late for Dinner (1991)

Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new ...

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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm. ...

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension. ...

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Hard Feelings (1982)

It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run from bullies, he hides in the African-American part of town and meets cute Winona. ...

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The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)

A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop? ...

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All Night Long (1981)

Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl tries to ...

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Brubaker (1980)

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. ...

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Dracula (1979)

In 1913, charming, seductive and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride. ...

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth. ...

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Nickelodeon (1976)

In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent f ...

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Peeper (1975)

A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune. ...

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Slither (1974)

A well-meaning but stupid ex-convict is drawn into a get-rich scheme that could result in his imprisonment. ...

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Slither (1973)

While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown wit ...

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Movies Starring W.D. Richter (3)

The Revamping of Dracula (2004)

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dracula" (1979). ...

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Buckaroo Banzai Declassified (2002)

A documentary found on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Special Edition DVD. ...

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