Christopher Knopf

Movies

Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike
Himself
In 2007, the Writers Guild of America, the Screenwriters Union, hit an impasse in their contract negotiations with the Studios. At the center of the dispute was jurisdiction over the internet. Unable to make progress, the WGA called a strike which brought Hollywood to a halt for 100 days.
Baby Girl Scott
Writer
The story of the Scotts, a young couple whose first child is born dangerously early, weighing less than a pound and a half. As they endure the anguish and struggle to help keep their baby alive, they discover what real love, courage and triumph are in the face of tragedy.
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
Writer
A Cambodian family is given sponsored immigration to the United States where one daughter becomes a spelling bee champion.
Not My Kid
Story
A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. The girl's parents want to remove her from the program because it upsets them that their daughter is being forced to associate with addicts who admit to stealing and trading sex for drugs.
Not My Kid
Teleplay
A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. The girl's parents want to remove her from the program because it upsets them that their daughter is being forced to associate with addicts who admit to stealing and trading sex for drugs.
Pope John Paul II
Writer
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
Scott Joplin
Writer
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
The Choirboys
Screenplay
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Posse
Screenplay
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.
Mrs. Sundance
Writer
The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run, with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that Sundance may still be alive.
Emperor of the North
Writer
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
A Cold Night's Death
Writer
Scientists Culp and Wallach suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.
The Bravos
Story
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
The Bravos
Teleplay
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
Hell Bent for Leather
Screenplay
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.
Joy Ride
Screenplay
Teenage story of a bad apple in a barrel evolving from a kid's desire to drive a new T-bird.
The Tall Stranger
Screenplay
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.
20 Million Miles to Earth
Screenplay
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.
The King's Thief
Writer
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.