This film adapted from Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel was directed by an American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director best known for directing "Get on Up" and what other film?
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The Help (film) The Help is a 2011 American period drama film directed and written by Tate Taylor and adapted from Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer, and Emma Stone. The film and novel recount the story of young white woman and aspiring journalist Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. The story focuses on her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, during the Civil Rights Movement in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi. In an attempt to become a legitimate journalist and writer, Skeeter decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids—referred to as "the help"— exposing the racism they are faced with as they work for white families.
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Tate Taylor Tate Taylor (born June 3, 1969) is an American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He is best known for directing "The Help" (2011), "Get on Up" (2014) and "The Girl on the Train" (2016).
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Labor Day (film) Labor Day is a 2013 American drama film based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Joyce Maynard. Directed by Jason Reitman, the film stars Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin. The film was co-produced by Paramount Pictures and Indian Paintbrush, premiering at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2013, and was a Special Presentation at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released in the United States on January 31, 2014.
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Chris Provenzano Chris Provenzano is an American film and television writer. He co-wrote the story and screenplay for the motion picture "Get Low". He served as a writer on the first season of "Mad Men" in 2007, writing the episode "The Hobo Code" and co-writing the episode "Shoot." Alongside his colleagues on the writing staff he won a WGA award for best new series; he was also nominated for the award for best dramatic series and best episodic drama for "The Hobo Code." He served as an executive story editor on the first season of "Justified" in 2010, writing "Long in the Tooth" and co-writing "The Hammer."
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Shoot 'Em Up (film) Shoot 'Em Up is a 2007 gun fu action film written and directed by Michael Davis. Starring Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci and Stephen McHattie, it follows Smith (Owen), a drifter who rescues a newborn from being killed by assassin Hertz (Giamatti) and his henchmen. Smith flees from the gang, enlisting the help of prostitute D.Q. (Bellucci) to keep the baby safe as he unravels the conspiracy. The film was produced by Susan Montford, Don Murphy and Rick Benattar under Murphy's film banner Angry Films.
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Feelin' Up Feelin' Up (also known as Getting Together) is a 1976 comedy film written and directed by David Secter and distributed by Troma Entertainment.
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Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Ann Bigelow ( ; born November 27, 1951) is an American director, producer, and writer. Her films include the vampire Western horror film "Near Dark" (1987), the action crime film "Point Break" (1991), the science fiction action thriller "Strange Days" (1995), the mystery thriller "The Weight of Water" (2000), the submarine thriller "" (2002), the war film "The Hurt Locker" (2008), the action thriller war film "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012), the short film "Last Days" (2014), and the period crime drama "Detroit" (2017). "The Hurt Locker" won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. She has also acted as producer and writer for many of her films.
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Kevin Willmott Kevin Willmott (born August 31, 1959) is an American film director and screenwriter, as well as a professor of film at the University of Kansas. He is known for work focusing on black issues including writing and directing "Ninth Street," "," and "Bunker Hill." His "The Only Good Indian" (2009) was a feature film about Native American children at an Indian boarding school and the forced assimilation that took place.
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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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Don McKay (film) Don McKay is a 2009 independent drama thriller film written and directed by Jake Goldberger and starring Thomas Haden Church and Elisabeth Shue. It premiered at the 8th Annual Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009 and received a limited release on April 2, 2010.
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The Ultimate Gift The Ultimate Gift is a 2006 American drama film directed by Michael O. Sajbel from a screenplay written by Cheryl McKay, which is in turn based on the best selling novel by Jim Stovall.
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Catherine Keener Catherine Ann Keener (born March 23, 1959) is an American actress. She has been twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Maxine Lund in "Being John Malkovich" (1999) and Harper Lee in "Capote" (2005). Keener also appeared in the films "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005), "Into the Wild" (2007), "Synecdoche, New York" (2008), and "Get Out" (2017), which were well received by critics. Keener is the muse of director Nicole Holofcener, having appeared in every work of hers to date.
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List of accolades received by Up in the Air "Up in the Air" is a 2009 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and co-written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner. The film is an adaptation of the eponymous 2001 novel by Walter Kirn. "Up in the Air" was screened as a "sneak preview" at the Telluride Film Festival on September 6, 2009, before its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2009. "Up in the Air" was released in the United States on December 4, 2009; playing on 15 screens in its first weekend, it grossed over $1.1 million. The film opened nationwide on December 23, 2009, earning over $11 million its first weekend in wide release. The film earned $79 million over 18 weeks in the United States and Canada, with an additional $83 million in overseas markets.
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Doran William Cannon Doran William Cannon (1937–2005) was born in Toledo, Ohio, and graduated from Columbia College. While working on his MBA at Columbia University, which he received in 1962, he made his first film, "Going Up". Several years later he wrote, produced, and directed his first feature, "The Square Root of Zero" (1964). In 1965 he left New York City for Hollywood, where he wrote the original scripts for Otto Preminger's "Skidoo" (1968) and Robert Altman's "Brewster McCloud" (1970). Cannon wrote "Authorship: The Dynamic Principles of Writing Creatively", and taught creative writing.
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Outside Providence (film) Outside Providence is a 1999 American stoner comedy film adaptation of Peter Farrelly's 1988 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Michael Corrente, and it was written by Corrente and the brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly. Centring on Timothy "Dildo/Dunph" Dunphy, the film is about his life of mischief, his "incentive" to attend the Cornwall Academy preparatory boarding school, and his realization that the haze in which he has lived has to give way to something that will stay with him forever. The book is based on Peter Farrelly's experience at Kent School, a prep school in Kent, Connecticut.
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You Get Me (film) You Get Me is a 2017 American thriller film directed by Brent Bonacorso and written by Ben Epstein. The film stars Bella Thorne, Halston Sage, Taylor John Smith, Anna Akana and Nash Grier. It was released on Netflix on June 23, 2017.
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Channing Tatum Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor. Tatum made his film debut in the drama film "Coach Carter" (2005). His breakthrough role was in the 2006 dance film "Step Up," which introduced him to a wider audience. He is known for his portrayal of the character Duke in the 2009 action film "" and its 2013 sequel "." Although both " G.I. Joe" films received negative reviews from critics, they were commercially successful, grossing more than $300 million at the box office.
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Charlie Kaufman Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and lyricist. He wrote the films "Being John Malkovich" (1999), "Adaptation" (2002), and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004). He made his directorial debut with "Synecdoche, New York" (2008), which was also well-received; film critic Roger Ebert named it "the best movie of the decade" in 2009. It was followed by "Anomalisa" (2015).
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The Last Shot The Last Shot is a 2004 comedy film starring Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Tim Blake Nelson, Joan Cusack (uncredited), Tony Shalhoub, Buck Henry, Ray Liotta, Calista Flockhart and Ian Gomez. The movie is written and directed by Jeff Nathanson, who wrote "Catch Me If You Can" and "The Terminal".
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Scott Cooper (director) Scott Cooper (born April 20, 1970) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is known for writing, directing and producing the 2009 film "Crazy Heart" starring Jeff Bridges. The film, released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, has received a number of accolades, including awards presented by the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Independent Spirit Awards and by the Writers Guild of America. He received his first film credits as an actor in projects like "Gods and Generals" and the TV miniseries "Broken Trail".
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Wrong Turn at Tahoe Wrong Turn at Tahoe is a 2009 American crime film directed by Franck Khalfoun and starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Miguel Ferrer, and Harvey Keitel.
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Testosterone (2003 film) Testosterone (2003) is a film adaption from James Robert Baker's novel "Testosterone". The film is directed by David Moreton and stars David Sutcliffe, Antonio Sabato, Jr., and Jennifer Coolidge.