Who wrote the short story that the 1995 cable television movie film loosely adapted from?
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Harrison Bergeron (film) Harrison Bergeron is a 1995 cable television movie film loosely adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 short story of the same name. It was produced for Showtime and first screened on August 13, 1995. It was released to VHS in 1998.
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Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ( ; November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969).
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Waterclap "Waterclap" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written at the request of a movie company and was intended to serve as the basis of a film treatment. However, the author disliked the proposed characters and storyline and deliberately set out to write a story that he hoped would be rejected. The story was indeed rejected by the studio and was later published in the May 1970 issue of "If" and reprinted in the 1976 collection "The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories".
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Castle Freak Castle Freak is a 1995 American horror film directed by Stuart Gordon, slightly based upon the short story "The Outsider" by H. P. Lovecraft. It was released direct to video on 14 November 1995. The film contains elements of splatter and slasher films.
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Feathertop "Feathertop" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1852. The moral tale uses a metaphoric scarecrow named Feathertop and its adventure to offer the reader a conclusive lesson about human character. It has since been used and adapted in several other media forms, such as opera and theatre.
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Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" is a science fiction short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It was first published in "Asimov's Science Fiction".
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Graveyard Shift (1990 film) Graveyard Shift is a 1990 American horror film directed by Ralph S. Singleton, written by John Esposito and based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King which was first published in the 1970 issue of "Cavalier" magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection "Night Shift". The movie was released in October 1990.
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William Wilson (short story) "William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London. The tale follows the theme of the doppelgänger and is written in a style based on rationality. It also appeared in the 1840 collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque", and has been adapted several times.
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Stationary Bike "Stationary Bike" is a short story by American writer Stephen King, originally published in the fifth edition of "From the Borderlands" in 2003. In 2008, it was published in King's collection "Just After Sunset".
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Nausikaya Nausikaya ("Nausikaja") is a 1995 Croatian film directed, written and produced by Vicko Ruić. It is based on "The Spider", a horror short story by Hanns Heinz Ewers. The film was selected as the Croatian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories is a young adult fiction short story collection by Chris Crutcher. Most of the stories are related to Crutcher's early work. This book also contains the short story "A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune" which first appeared in "Connections", edited by Donald R. Gallo, published in 1989 by Delacorte Press. It was adapted into the film Angus.
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Nightcrawlers (The Twilight Zone) "Nightcrawlers" is the third and final segment of the fourth episode of the first season (1985–86) of the television series "The Twilight Zone". It is taken from a short story of the same name by Robert R. McCammon, first published in the 1984 collection "Masques".
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The Discarded "The Discarded" (1959) is a short story by Harlan Ellison.
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Sometimes They Come Back "Sometimes They Come Back" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1974 issue of "Cavalier" and later collected in King's 1978 collection "Night Shift".
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Nightmare at 20,000 Feet "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is episode 123 of the American television anthology series "The Twilight Zone", based on the short story of the same name by Richard Matheson, first published in "Alone by Night" (1961). It originally aired on October 11, 1963. It is one of the most well-known and frequently referenced episodes of the series. The story follows the only passenger on an airline flight to notice a hideous creature lurking outside the plane.
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Slade (short story) "Slade" is an early short story (about 5,200 words) by Stephen King. In 1970, he originally published it in eight installments in the student newspaper "The Maine Campus". It's a Western parody about gunslinger Jack Slade, who protects a damsel in distress against some outlaws.
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The Delicate Art of the Rifle The Delicate Art of the Rifle is a 1996 independent film directed by Dante W. Harper, with a screenplay by Stephen Grant, based on his short story by the same name. It is a surrealistic comedy-drama about a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward college student named Jay. Walt Whitman, the shooter, is loosely based on Charles Whitman, but the film is not in any way a factual account of the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas.
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Heidi (1995 film) Originally released directly to video in 1995, Heidi is a 49-minute animated adventure film based on the classic story of "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri. The movie was produced by Jetlag Productions and it was distributed on DVD in 2002 by GoodTimes Entertainment, as part of their "Collectible Classics" line.
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The Quick and the Dead (1995 film) The Quick and the Dead is a 1995 American western film directed by Sam Raimi, and starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. The screenplay was written by Simon Moore but includes contributions from Joss Whedon. The story focuses on "The Lady" (Stone), a gunfighter who rides into the frontier town of Redemption, controlled by John Herod (Hackman). The Lady joins a deadly dueling competition in an attempt to exact revenge for her father's death.
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How I Met My Husband "How I Met My Husband" is a short story written by Alice Munro, first published in 1974 as a part of her collection "Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You".
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The Woman in the Room "The Woman in the Room" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in King's 1978 collection "Night Shift".
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The Dune The Dune is a short horror story by Stephen King, first published in the Fall 2011 issue of Granta, and later collected in his 2015 short story collection, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.