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- Steve Jobs (2015) The ability to take something dull (like a tech launch) and make it as entertaining as Steve Jobs did? That's only the second best thing that Aaron Sorkin achieved with this film.
- The Social Network (2010) Here's the film that finally earned Aaron Sorkin his Oscar. The Social Network tells the tale of Mark Zuckerberg's rise to power as the CEO of Facebook—and the enemies he made along the way.
- Moneyball (2011) Moneyball represented a change in pace for Sorkin. He turned back to the sporting world for the first time since Sports Night, and alongside co-writer Steve Zaillian, he wrote a film about the surprising success of the Oakland Athletics baseball team.
- A Few Good Men (1992) The original Sorkin feature film is still one of his best to this day. As courtroom dramas go, you're hard-pressed to find many that are out-and-out more entertaining than this.
- Charlie Wilson’s War
- Steve Jobs
- Molly’s Game
- Enemy of The State
- Moneyball
- Malice
- The American President
- Bulworth
- The Rock
- The Trial of The Chicago 7
Beginning at the bottom, this regrettable 2008 misfire saw Sorkin test the limits of Tom Hanks’ legendary likability by asking the actor to play the real-life Congressman responsible for arming Al Qaeda colleagues the Mujahideen. Charlie Wilson's War is a bizarrely misjudged movie from beginning to end, a goofy comedy in the vein of The Secret of M...
Where David Fincher’s cool, measured direction helped tone down the more dramatic flourishes of The Social Network’s screenplay, Trainspotting director Danny Boyle proves a bad match for the writer in this uneven biopic. Centered on a rare only-alright performance from Michael Fassbender in the title role, Steve Jobstruly wants to be a dazzling tou...
A crime drama anchored by Jessica Chastain’s solid performance in the title role, Molly’s Game is Sorkin’s 2017 directorial debut and the movie proves that as far as directors go, he’s a great writer. There are no big issues with Molly’s Game and it’s a serviceable addition to the crime drama genre, but the movie’s (sort of true) story of an underg...
This one is low less because of quality and more because of Sorkin’s limited involvement. The screenwriter only added uncredited rewrites to Rumble Fish screenwriter David Marconi’s original screenplay, a tense and blackly comic spy thriller for the ages. Famous for its prescient predictions about the NSA years before the Snowden leaks, this Will S...
Getting into some steadier territory, Moneyball is the interesting (if unspectacular) story of Brad Pitt’s Billy Beane, an underfunded baseball team manager who enlists Jonah Hill’s dorky data wonk to crunch numbers and lead their team to unlikely victory via an algorithm. Competently lensed by Bennett Miller, the true-life story is engaging but la...
Wild, overstuffed, and all the more fun for it, Malice is a 1993 thriller which proves Sorkin can excel when making campy, self-aware schlock. It’s the neo-noir inflected tale of two newlyweds who live to regret letting a strange surgeon live with them, but the story of Maliceends up being far more twisty and odder than that implies, and this is on...
Effectively a cinematic dry-run for The West Wing, Rob Reiner’s Sorkin-scripted comedy-drama The American President follows Michael Douglas’ sensible, pragmatic president as he attempts to balance re-election, his love life, and passing a crime bill (a setup which will be instantly familiar to fans of President Bartlett). Fluffy political fan ficti...
Comfortably Sorkin's weirdest movie, Bulworth is the blackly comic story of a frustrated senator played by Warren Beatty who becomes a cult figure when he starts rapping. From its bizarre, cringeworthy rap sequences to its brutally bleak ending, this surreal satire has a lot to recommend and once again proves Sorkin is often at his best when not ta...
Another unexpected entry, this Michael Bay action movie was the recipient of uncredited (but obvious) rewrites by Sorkin. Unusually quick-witted and clever for a silly, high-octane action-thriller, The Rock sees Nicholas Cage pair up with original James BondSean Connery (and dumb fun action icon Bay team up with the reliably smart, witty Sorkin) fo...
Sorkin's most recent movie, The Trial of the Chicago 7benefits from a fascinating real-life story as it follows the lives of heroic antiwar activists charged with conspiracy for protesting America’s brutal invasion of Vietnam. It’s full of appropriately incendiary speeches and sees Sorkin at the height of his rhetorical powers, but a small handful ...
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- The Social Network. “You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd.
- Steve Jobs. “It’s not binary. You can be decent and gifted at the same time.” Speaking of films that shouldn’t work, Sorkin took on the unenviable task of writing a Steve Jobs biopic and ended up crafting one of the best and most original biographical films ever made.
- Moneyball. “I know these guys. I know the way they think, and they will erase us. And everything we’ve done here, none of it’ll matter. Any other team wins the World Series, good for them.
- A Few Good Men. “I strenuously object? Is that how it works? Hm? ‘ Objection.’ ‘ Overruled.’ ‘ Oh, no, no, no. No, I strenuously object.’ ‘ Oh, well if you strenuously object then I should take some time to reconsider.’”
- The Social Network. Some of Aaron Sorkin's writing, especially when he delves into sociopolitical commentary, has a tendency to come across as dated. Not necessarily in a bad way: It can just feel as though he's writing for a different, perhaps more idealistic, time.
- A Few Good Men. It's not overstating things to say that "A Few Good Men" is the piece of writing that made Sorkin's entire career possible. Beginning as Sorkin's very first play to hit the Broadway stage (followed in more recent years by "The Farnsworth Invention" and "To Kill a Mockingbird"), "A Few Good Men" was adapted for the screen in 1992, a high-profile project that would star Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, and Jack Nicholson.
- Moneyball. A sports movie, for the man who lives and breathes cerebral drama? Baseball at first seems an odd choice for Sorkin, but 2011's "Moneyball" actually makes a lot of sense.
- The American President. If there's one thing that we all know about Aaron Sorkin by this point, it's that he has a fondness for politics —especially the office of the presidency— that borders on an obsession.
Oct 16, 2020 · The Everything Aaron Sorkin Ranking. From ‘A Few Good Men’ to ‘The West Wing’ to ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7,’ let’s see how all of the renowned screenwriter’s work stacks up ...
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The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera. Votes: 188,445 | Gross: $28.78M.
Nov 9, 2020 · But at least that would’ve been interesting. This Moneyball kind of blends in with the wallpaper. 6. The Trial Of The Chicago 7 (2020) For about 35 minutes, I really thought Sorkin had pulled it ...
