Who wrote the screenplay of a film that starred an actor who was also in "Growing Pains"?
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Darlene Cates and Leonardo DiCaprio. The film follows 24-year-old Gilbert (Depp), a grocery store clerk caring for his morbidly obese mother and mentally impaired younger brother in a sleepy Midwestern town. Peter Hedges wrote the screenplay, adapted from his 1991 novel of the same name. The film was well-received; DiCaprio received his first Academy Award nomination for his role.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio ( ; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor, film producer, and environmental activist. DiCaprio began his career by appearing in television commercials in the late 1980s, after which he had recurring roles in various television series such as the soap opera "Santa Barbara" and the sitcom "Growing Pains". He began his film career by starring as Josh in "Critters 3" (1991). He starred in the film adaptation of the memoir "This Boy's Life" (1993), and was praised for his supporting role in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993). He gained public recognition with leading roles in "The Basketball Diaries" (1995) and the romantic drama "Romeo + Juliet" (1996), before achieving international fame with James Cameron's epic romance "Titanic" (1997), which became the highest-grossing film of all time until Cameron's science fiction film "Avatar" (2009) overtook it.
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Digging to China Digging to China is a 1998 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Timothy Hutton and the screen debut of Evan Rachel Wood. The screenplay by Karen Janszen focuses on the friendship forged between a precocious pre-teenaged girl with a vivid imagination and a mentally challenged adult male.
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Craig Chester Craig Chester (born November 8, 1965) is an American actor, writer, and screenwriter.
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Daniel Zelman Daniel Luke Zelman (born June 16, 1967) is an American actor, screenwriter, television producer, and director.
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Nate Parker Nate Parker (born November 18, 1979) is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and musical performer who has appeared in "Beyond the Lights", "Red Tails", "The Secret Life of Bees", "The Great Debaters", "Arbitrage", "Non-Stop", "Felon", and "Pride". Parker's directorial debut feature film, "The Birth of a Nation", in which he also starred, made history at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival when Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the distribution rights for $17.5 million, breaking the record for the most paid for a Sundance Film Festival production, surpassing "Little Miss Sunshine", which had been acquired by Searchlight for $10 million ten years earlier.
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Five Fingers (2006 film) Five Fingers is a 2006 American drama-thriller film directed by Laurence Malkin, and written by Chad Thumann and Malkin. The film had ten producers, including actor Laurence Fishburne, who stars in it alongside Ryan Phillippe, Gina Torres, Touriya Haoud, Saïd Taghmaoui and Colm Meaney. "Five Fingers" was filmed in the Netherlands, Morocco, and Louisiana in 2004.
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Charles K. Eastman Charles Kemper Eastman (September 18, 1929 – July 3, 2009) was an American screenwriter and script doctor. He wrote the screenplay for the 1970 film "Little Fauss and Big Halsy"; he wrote and directed "The All-American Boy". Charles Eastman died from complications of heart disease in Culver City, California on July 3, 2009.
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Struck by Lightning (2012 film) Struck by Lightning is a 2012 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written by and starring Chris Colfer, also based on his novel, and directed by Brian Dannelly.
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Kirk Cameron Kirk Thomas Cameron (born October 12, 1970) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Mike Seaver on the ABC sitcom "Growing Pains" (1985–92), a role for which he was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.
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Dough Boys (film) Dough Boys is a 2009 drama film written and produced by Preston A. Whitmore II and directed by Nicholas Harvell.
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Richard Friedenberg Richard Friedenberg is an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote the screenplay for "A River Runs Through It" (1992), starring Brad Pitt, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and the screenplay for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television film "Promise" (1986), starring James Garner and James Woods, for which he won an Emmy Award. He also wrote the screenplay for "Dying Young" starring Julia Roberts and wrote and directed "The Education of Little Tree" (1997).
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Little Miss Sunshine Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama road film and the directorial debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, and was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 million. Filming began on June 6, 2005 and took place over 30 days in Arizona and Southern California.
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The Heartbreak Kid (2007 film) The Heartbreak Kid is a 2007 romantic comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers. Starring Ben Stiller, it is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name. The film was originally titled "The Seven Day Itch", but Peter Farrelly revealed the filmmakers lost a lawsuit over the name; after attempts to find another title and suggestions of several other possible titles, the studio had them use the title "The Heartbreak Kid". Also starring are Michelle Monaghan, Malin Åkerman, Jerry Stiller, Rob Corddry, Carlos Mencia, Scott Wilson and Danny McBride. The screenplay for the 2007 film was written by Leslie Dixon, Scot Armstrong, the Farrelly brothers and Kevin Barnett.
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Fever Pitch (1985 film) Fever Pitch is a 1985 American drama film starring Ryan O'Neal, and written and directed by Richard Brooks. This turned out to be the final film for Brooks, director of such acclaimed pictures as "Blackboard Jungle", "Elmer Gantry", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "In Cold Blood". Co-starring in the film were Giancarlo Giannini, Chad Everett, John Saxon and Catherine Hicks. The original music score was composed by Thomas Dolby.
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The Virgin Suicides (film) The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, and A. J. Cook. The film also features Scott Glenn and Danny DeVito in minor roles, and a voice narration by Giovanni Ribisi.
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Critical Care (film) Critical Care is a 1997 film directed by Sidney Lumet. The film is a satire about American medicine. The screenplay by Steven Schwartz is based on the novel by Richard Dooling and stars James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Anne Bancroft, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Wright, and Albert Brooks. Rick Baker provided special makeup effects. The film is about a doctor who finds himself involved in a fight with two half sisters over the care of their ailing father.
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My Brother (2006 film) My Brother is a 2006 film directed by Academy Award nominee Anthony Lover. It stars Vanessa L. Williams, Tatum O'Neal, Nashawn Kearse and Fredro Starr. It also stars two first time actors with Down syndrome, Christopher Scott and Donovan Jennings. Two developmentally disabled actors played leading roles, and also an African American actor with a developmental disability played a leading role.
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The Object of My Affection The Object of My Affection is a 1998 romantic comedy-drama film, adapted from the book of the same name by Stephen McCauley, and starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd. The story concerns a pregnant New York social worker who develops romantic feelings for her gay best friend and decides to raise her child with him, and the complications that ensue. The film is directed by Nicholas Hytner, and the screenplay was written by Wendy Wasserstein.
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Danny Strong Daniel W. "Danny" Strong (born June 6, 1974) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer. As an actor, Strong is best known for his roles as Jonathan Levinson in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and Doyle McMaster in "Gilmore Girls". He also wrote the screenplays for "Recount", the HBO adaptation "Game Change", "Lee Daniels' The Butler", and the two-part finale of "The Hunger Games" film trilogy, "" and "". Strong also is a co-creator, executive producer, and writer for the Fox series "Empire".
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B. Wyatt Barry "B." Wyatt is an American actor. He is known for his collaborative relationship with independent film writer, director, and producer Everett Lewis. Together the two have made three films: "The Natural History of Parking Lots", "Skin & Bone", and "Luster".
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The Hunger Pains The Hunger Pains is a 2012 New York Times bestselling novel by "The Harvard Lampoon" and a parody of Suzanne Collins's "The Hunger Games". It was first published on February 7, 2012 through Touchstone Books, and a cinematic book trailer was released in March of the same year.