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Joseph James Dante Jr. ( / ˈdɑːnteɪ /; born November 28, 1946) is an American film director, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)—often mix the 1950s-style B movie genre with 1960s radicalism and cartoon comedy.
Joe Dante. Director: Innerspace. Joe Dante is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art. After a stint as a film reviewer, he began his filmmaking apprenticeship in 1974 as trailer editor for Roger Corman's New World Pictures.
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Joe Dante. Director: Innerspace. Joe Dante is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art. After a stint as a film reviewer, he began his filmmaking apprenticeship in 1974 as trailer editor for Roger Corman's New World Pictures.
- November 28, 1946
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- 'Gremlins' (1984) IMDb Score: 7.3/10. Gremlins begins with a quirky inventor, Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton), bringing an unusual creature called a Mogwai to his son Billy (Zach Galligan) as a Christmas present.
- 'Matinee' (1993) IMDb Score: 6.9/10. This period comedy is set in 1962, around the Cuban missile crisis. President Kennedy's announcement that Soviet missiles were stationed in Cuba creates an atmosphere of fear and tension in Key West, Florida.
- 'The 'Burbs' (1989) IMDb Score: 6.8/10. The 'Burbs features Tom Hanks in one of his early starring roles as Ray Peterson, a suburbanite who becomes suspicious of his new neighbors, the mysterious Klopeks, after a series of strange occurrences in the neighborhood.
- 'Innerspace' (1987) IMDb Score: 6.8/10. Innerspace follows Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid), a hotshot Navy pilot who volunteers for a groundbreaking experiment in miniaturization.
Feb 16, 2024 · The 'Burbs is a fantastic dark comedy starring Tom Hanks that's only gotten better with age. We spoke to Joe Dante on its anniversary.
Sep 2, 2022 · Graduating alongside Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard from Roger Corman’s school for filmmakers with more creativity than cash, Joe Dante was always the director whose 1980s blockbusters felt...
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Jun 17, 2015 · latest film, “Burying the Ex,” Dante returns to the kind of horror-comedy hybrid that marked his earliest screen work. In it, a nerdy genre buff (Anton Yelchin) moves in with his overly controlling girlfriend (Ashley Greene) and immediately regrets the decision, especially after he meets a girl who is just
