Featured Friday: Prison

Drew Marquardt

03 Jan 2025 — 1 min read

"It truly was... a Shawshank redemption."

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 stories of the incarcerated allow characters from all walks of life to interact, and how prisons as a location are able to accommodate many different genres and tones.

Our collection includes:

A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick
American History X by David McKenna
Black Bird - “Pilot” by Dennis Lehane
Brawl in Cell Block 99 by S. Craig Zahler
Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson
Escape at Dannemora - “Part 1” by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin
Get Hard by Jay Martel & Ian Roberts
I Love You Phillip Morris by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
Just Mercy by Destin Daniel Cretton & Andrew Lanham
Orange is the New Black - “Pilot” by Jenji Kohan
Sing Sing by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
The Green Mile by Frank Darabont
The Rock by David Weisberg & Douglas Cook and Mark Rosner
The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont

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

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