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Alvin Sargent has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Paper Moon.
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Paper Moon
1973 · Movie · Writer
Top 3%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Ordinary People
1980 · Movie · Writer
Top 16%MGM+ · Included

The Amazing Spider-Man
2012 · Movie · Writer
Top 18%Disney+ · Included

Unfaithful
2002 · Movie · Writer
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

What About Bob?
1991 · Movie · Writer
Top 23%AMC+ · Included

Hero
1992 · Movie · Writer
Top 54%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...
Dir. Sam Raimi · With Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · With Tatum O'Neal, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
Dir. Robert Redford · With Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch

Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
Dir. Marc Webb · With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans

A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Dir. Adrian Lyne · With Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Olivier Martinez

Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
Dir. Frank Oz · With Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty
Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showgirl Nicole Chang, he concocts the perfect scheme for how the robbery should go and lays it out point by point. However, when the team tries to execute the plan, perfection and reality don't quite match up, and Harry's vision begins to unravel in this twisty tale of a heist gone wrong.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
Dir. Ulu Grosbard · With Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.
Dir. Sam Raimi · With Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.
Dir. Stephen Frears · With Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.
Dir. Luis Mandoki · With Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Kathy Bates

When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a 'mom and pop' company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's attractive daughter—who is a lawyer—to stop the takeover. However, the raider soon becomes infatuated with her, and enjoys the legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
Dir. Martin Ritt · With Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment

Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.
Dir. Wayne Wang · With Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Hart Bochner
Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey
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