Rod Lurie
Birthday: 1962-05-15
Place of Birth: Israel
Biography: Rod Lurie is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic. Lurie's first foray into filmmaking, as writer and director, was the low-budget political thriller Deterrence (1999), with Kevin Pollak as the first Jewish President of the United States. The characters (in his films) of President Jackson Evans (The Contender), prison inmate Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin (The Last Castle), FBI agent Paige Van Doren (Line of Fire), and vice presidential nominee Gen. (ret.) Warren Keaton (Commander in Chief) are all fictional graduates of the "Long Gray Line".
Movies
Heckler
HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After...
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Resurrecting the Champ
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact,...
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Junket Whore
A documentary film that explores the relationship between publicists and journalists in Hollywood....
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Straw Dogs
A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a liv...
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A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington
A survey of movies about politics, with clips from several films and interviews with filmmakers and ...
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Nothing But the Truth
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, t...
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