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Short Cuts.
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Nick of Time."
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American Beauty
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NYPD Blue, LA Law, Hill Street
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MD.
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Hunter
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Back Draft, Moll Flanders, Robin
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Die Hard, Die Hard II, Commando.
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Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King,
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The Larry Sanders Show, Twin
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Dante's Peak, Aliens, Terminator,
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Varsity Blues, Patriot Games,
Point Break,Tales From The Crypt.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark, The
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Providence
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Mary Shelly's Frankenstein,
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Saturday Night Live, The Critic,
A Legend of Their Own, High
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Cop Land, Heavy.
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills,
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a Love Story.
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Anthony Minghella - Writer/Director
Academy Award winner for Best
Director/Best Picture The English
Patient.
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Christopher McQuarrie - Writer"
Academy Award winner for Best
Screenplay: The Usual Suspects.
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Ecce Pirate, Death In The Afternoon,
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Daniel Myrick - Co-writer/Co-director
The Blair Witch Project
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Tootsie, Out of Africa, The
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Shine, Breakaway.
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Oliver Stone - Writer/Director/Producer/Academy
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Scarface, Platoon, Wall Street,
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Charles Shyer & Nancy Meyers
- Writer(s)/Director(s)/Producer(s)
Private Benjamin, Father of
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Irreconcilable Differences.
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Ben Stiller - Writer/Actor/Director/Producer
Cable Guy, Reality Bites, The
Ben Stiller Show.
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3rd Rock From The Sun, That
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Tommy Boy
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I Know What You Did Last Summer,
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Mission Impossible II, Face/Off,
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J.D. Zeik - Writer
Ronin, Gabriel's Run
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J.J. Abrams - Writer/Director/Producer
Felicity, Armageddon. |