Charles Leavitt Filmography

Occupation:: Screen Story, Screenwriter

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Uprising

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Humankind rebels against an occupying alien force in this sci-fi production from Columbia Pictures and director Wolfgang Petersen. Blood Diamond's Charles Leavitt provides the script, with Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher producing. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
The Express

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Rob Brown, Omar Benson Miller, Clancy Brown, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Finding Forrester star Rob Brown steps into the cleats of Heisman Trophy-winning gridiron giant Ernie Davis in director Gary Fleder's inspirational sports docudrama. As a young boy reared in Pennsylvania coal-mining country, Davis dreamed of blasting through the end zone and scoring a triumphant Read More

10/3/08
Blood Diamond

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Jimi Mistry, Michael Sheen

Synopsis: A South African mercenary and a Mende fisherman find their fates forever intertwined as they embark on a quest to obtain a rare and highly coveted pink diamond in director Edward Zwick's frantic adventure drama. Ripped from his family farm and forced to toil away in the sweltering South African Read More

12/8/06
K-PAX

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: The 1995 novel by Dr. Gene Brewer becomes this drama from director Iain Softley. After a mugging incident at New York's Grand Central Station, Prot (Kevin Spacey), a man who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX, is turned over to a public mental hospital and the care of Dr. Mark Powell Read More

10/26/01
The Mighty

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In the tradition of My Left Foot (1989), Peter Chelsom directed this emotional drama of outcasts, adapted from the Rodman Philbrick's popular young-adult novel Freak the Mighty. Although burly, slow-paced eight-grader Maxwell Kane (Elden Hensen), who narrates, is learning disabled, he Read More

10/23/98
The Sunchaser

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Jon Seda, Anne Bancroft, Alexandra Tydings, Matt Mulhern

Synopsis: Michael Cimino, the director of The Deer Hunter and the ill-fated Heaven's Gate, helmed this bizarre New Age action picture in 1996. Based on a screenplay by Charles Leavitt, the film stars Woody Harrelson as Dr. Michael Reynolds, a rich, young L.A. physician who worries more about promotions and Read More

1996