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Demme was born on February 22, 1944, in Baldwin, New York, the son of Dorothy Louise (née Rogers) [3] and Robert Eugene Demme, a public relations executive. [4] [5] He was raised in Rockville Centre, New York and Miami, [1] where he graduated from Southwest Miami High School [6] before attending the University of Florida.
Jonathan Demme in 2015. Jonathan Demme was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of film and television Film. Year Title Credited as Notes Director
Famed film director Jonathan Demme passed away on Wednesday at the age of 73 after complications from heart disease and cancer.
Melvin and Howard (stylized as Melvin (and Howard)) is a 1980 American comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Demme. [3] The screenplay by Bo Goldman was inspired by real-life Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar, who was listed as the beneficiary of $156 million in a will allegedly handwritten by Howard Hughes that was discovered in the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter ...
Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 American drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, and Debra Winger.The film premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2008, [2] opened in Canada's Toronto International Film Festival on September 6 and released in the U.S. to select theaters on October 3.
The following is a list of unproduced Jonathan Demme projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, American filmmaker Jonathan Demme worked on a number projects that never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these projects fell into development hell, were officially cancelled, were in ...
The Agronomist is a 2003 American documentary written and directed by Jonathan Demme about Jean Dominique. [1] The documentary follows the life of Dominique, who ran Haiti's first independent radio station, Radio Haiti-Inter, during multiple repressive regimes.
The site's critics consensus reads: "Buoyed by Jonathan Demme's intuitive direction and Michelle Pfeiffer's irresistible charisma, Married to the Mob is a saucy mix of broad comedy and gangster drama." [3] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [4]