Michael Quinn
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Michael Quinn

  • About/
  • Critical Influences/
  • Quinn on Books/
  • Gay Sensibility/
  • Script Doctor/
  • Essays/
  • Interviews/
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Michael Quinn

Script Doctor

Michael Quinn

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Drawing on my experience as a reader for Paramount, I examine films that almost worked: diagnosing what they were reaching for, where they fell short, and what might have saved them. Often I consider what a remake could do differently. All in one hundred words.


December 15, 2025

"Young at Heart": Make Your Own Kind of Music

December 15, 2025/ Michael Quinn
"Young at Heart": Make Your Own Kind of Music

A stiff family melodrama about a musical family finds new harmony when the three daughters work out their daddy issues through their relationships with men.

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December 15, 2025/ Michael Quinn/
classic hollywood, musical, script doctor, women in film
October 05, 2025

"Golden Eighties": Remaking the Mall Musical

October 05, 2025/ Michael Quinn
"Golden Eighties": Remaking the Mall Musical

A contemporary remake of this shopping mall love story musical could highlight modern tensions around consumerism, feminism, and nationalism.

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October 05, 2025/ Michael Quinn/
script doctor, cultural criticism, women in film, character study, queer cinema, musical, european cinema

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