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Paul Brickman revealed in the same interview with Salon that he received some hugely tempting scripts to direct, which included Rain Man and Forrest Gump, while he also admitted that he...
Brickman graduated from Highland Park High School in 1967. He graduated from Claremont Men's College in Claremont, California. Career. Brickman began his career by writing the screenplays for The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training and Handle with Care, both of which were released in 1977.
- Filmmaker
- 1977–2012
- Jennifer Schweitzer
- April 23, 1949 (age 74), Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Sep 2, 2013 · "Risky Business," the film that made 21-year-old Tom Cruise a household name, was also a promising directorial debut for Paul Brickman, the Chicago native who also wrote the tale of Joel...
Nov 19, 2013 · “Risky Business,” Brickman’s first major work as both a writer and director, tracks the transition of Joel Goodsen (Cruise) from a restrained, bookish suburban boy out to impress Ivy League schools into someone more confident and aware of the world, and of its dangers and possibilities.
Jun 19, 2001 · Most of all, “Risky” announced the arrival of enigmatic filmmaker Paul Brickman, whose previous scripts — the Jonathan Demme-helmed comedy “Handle With Care” and the sequel “The Bad News Bears...
VictorBlimpmuscle. • 8 yr. ago. Very interesting interview - two quotes really stood out for me: I squandered a really good career. What can I say? and when asked about scripts he'd been offered: A lot of them: "Rain Man" and “Forrest Gump” and like a hundred others.
What he did work well in that environment and he’d be the first to say. Right. And because it was too much a corporation, it was too much by committee. He didn’t play this role as well.
