Robert Nelson Jacobs Trailers

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Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter. In 2000, he received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for Chocolat. In 2014, Jacobs was elected president of the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and preserving the craft of writing for the screen. He attended Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary Prize for his short fiction and graduated with honors. He earned his master's degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Jacobs began his career as a writer of short stories that were published in little, prestigious magazines that generated little, prestigious income. Jacobs’ love of movies brought him to California, where it took a number of years for his work to finally start paying the rent. Jacobs’ screenplay credits include Out to Sea, Dinosaur, Chocolat, The Shipping News, Flushed Away, The Water Horse, and Extraordinary Measures.

Most Popular Robert Nelson Jacobs Trailers

Total trailers found: 7

Dinosaur Trailer (2000)

19 May 2000

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Flushed Away Trailer (2006)

22 October 2006

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.

The Shipping News Trailer (2001)

18 December 2001

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Out to Sea Trailer (1997)

02 July 1997

Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies.

Chocolat Trailer (2000)

22 December 2000

A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they represent free-thinking and indulgence.

The Water Horse Trailer (2007)

25 December 2007

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

Extraordinary Measures Trailer (2010)

21 January 2010

Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar.