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DUPLEX
PRODUCTION NOTES
When a young couple buys their dream home, they don't expect their elderly upstairs
tenant to be an issue...until the shenanigans of the abnormally resilient old woman put the
couple through a crash course of bizarre and lunatic landlord obligations. DUPLEX is the
hilarious new comedy about the couple who thought they were getting all they wanted -
but end up getting more than they bargained for.
In terms of living the American Dream, Alex (BEN STILLER) and Nancy (DREW
BARRYMORE) have it pretty good. They’re a young, vibrant couple in New York City
with bright futures ahead of them. Nancy works for a prestigious magazine, Alex is
working on his second book and most importantly, they have each other. But one thing is
missing: a home of their own.
That is, until their realtor (HARVEY FIERSTEIN) leads them to Brooklyn where they
unexpectedly find their dream house: a charming old duplex. It’s perfect. Beautifully
appointed, caringly refurbished; it’s a gem. Alex and Nancy will have to dip a lot further
into their savings than they had planned, but who can resist two floors, a butler’s pantry,
and three fireplaces with the original glass tiles?
But their new home comes with one feature they didn’t expect: an upstairs rent-controlled
tenant named Mrs. Connelly (EILEEN ESSELL). In light of her advanced age and
apparent poor health, Alex and Nancy figure the inconvenience of this sweet old lady will
only be temporary.
However, dear Mrs. Connelly isn’t quite as easy going or frail as Alex and Nancy
originally anticipated. Her slow trickle of demands picks up in a steady volume until
Alex and Nancy are running themselves ragged fixing, attending, reassuring, and putting
more time and energy into their tenant than humanly imaginable.
As their blissful life begins to seriously fray around the edges, their dream home is
anything but. It's then they start to realize: all's fair in love, war and real estate.
Directed by Danny DeVito from a screenplay by Larry Doyle. Ben Stiller and Drew
Barrymore star in Duplex with Eileen Essell, Harvey Fierstein, Justin Theroux, Robert
Wisdom and James Remar. Produced by Stuart Cornfeld, Drew Barrymore, Nancy
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Juvonen and Ben Stiller with Alan Blomquist executive producing. Anastas N. Michos is
director of photography. Robin Standofer is production designer. Joe Aulisi is costume
designer. Lynzee Klingman and Greg Hayden edited.
About the Production:
The story for “Duplex” sprang from the mind of screenwriter LARRY DOYLE, and it
was initially inspired by a true event that happened in France. In 1965, a 47-year-old
lawyer agreed to pay the $500 monthly rent on a beautiful apartment occupied by a 90year-old
woman, Jeanne Calment, until her death. At that time, the lawyer would inherit
her home.
Unfortunately for him, Calment went on to become the oldest woman in the world, living
until the age of 122. She died in 1997… one year after the lawyer’s death at age 77.
“There was certainly a valuable life lesson there that would relate to my story,” says
Doyle.
With that, Doyle tinkered with the premise and changed the location to Brooklyn. He also
drew characters from his own life – although he’s not saying which ones: “I don’t want to
specifically identify the individuals from which I borrowed,” he says. “Essentially, they
were my friends, neighbors and family, but some will most certainly recognize
themselves when they see this film.”
Doyle first pitched his idea to producers BEN STILLER and STUART CORNFELD
through their company, Red Hour Films, and the response was enthusiastic.
“Larry’s concept was very intriguing,” says Stiller, “as the setup itself offered enormous
possibilities. Both Stuart and I loved it and immediately thought that it would be perfect
for DREW BARRYMORE. I always wanted to work with her, and here was the perfect
project.”
Cornfeld adds, “Larry had the entire story, the plot twists, the humor, everything – fully
fleshed out.”
Larry and his pitch were equally well received at Flower Films, the production company
Barrymore owns with partner Nancy Juvonen. Barrymore was also eager to work with
Stiller and figured this film would be a fun-filled project for the two of them. “Ben is a
wonderful person, and I’ve always admired his work, and there was this wonderful
challenge, this opportunity to be able to work with him and create these characters,” says
Barrymore.
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She adds, “A crucial aspect to this story is the chemistry between Nancy and Alex; they
change, they’re beaten up, and they go through a lot – always together, side-by-side, this
nutty husband and wife.”
NANCY JUVONEN agrees: “What struck me was the way the story’s strength lies with
the characters, this couple,” she says. “Yes, they are certainly somewhat rotten with their
material pursuits, but you see through that; you see into their heart and soul, and, in a
sense, you can empathize with them and laugh at their frustrations.”
So with enthusiasm and support from both Stiller and Barrymore as well as their
respective producing partners, Doyle set out to write the script. After another few
months, he turned it in to them – and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive.
“The script, page by page, beat-by-beat, was exactly how he pitched us in the room,”
says Barrymore. “That is not only a good thing; it’s a very rare thing.”
With the script completed and both leading roles cast, director DANNY DeVITO came
onboard. DeVito remembers, “I got the call, they sent the script, I read it, and just thought
how charming the story was and how much fun this would be. Drew and Ben had
already been working on this project for some time. They were well into their characters,
their chemistry was tight, and they were already a natural couple.”
Barrymore agrees: “Ben and I really got to know each other, so as a couple that obviously
had a history together, we applied all our experiences that we learned about each other in
pre-production.”
DeVito saw the material as a series of tremendous comic possibilities. “I wanted to
establish the irony of having this obstacle – this sweet but absurdly defiant old woman,
Mrs. Connelly, in front of what you desperately want,” he says. “And you find yourself,
kidding yourself, actually, about what you might do to get what you want.”
Then, of course, there was the vital challenge of casting the role of that absurdly defiant
old woman. Enter EILEEN ESSELL. “This is a three-character film, and Eileen was
indeed a find,” says DeVito. “I was looking for an omnipresent persona. Her veneer had
to be sweet and innocent, but there had to be a lurking edge to her.”
De Vito continues: “We viewed a lot of tapes from England and Eileen simply leaped up
at us, and that was simply that.”
Producer Juvonen adds, “Eileen had the right tone for Mrs. Connelly. She had all of her
complexity and this wonderful, clever cunning. She was a presence that would both offset
and complement the other two characters.”
Essell, who is now 81, had worked in theater for 13 years when she met her playwright
husband and decided to settle down and have a family. He died six years ago, and two
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years later a friend of her son’s asked her to be in a play, in which she was “discovered”
by an agent. She has worked steadily ever since.
“I have always been a character actor,” says Essell, “so the old lady is someone I felt I
could conjure up from the past, including old Irish ladies I’ve known. Plus, my husband
was Irish.”
Essell says she was also thrilled at the chance to work with DeVito. “Danny is an actor,”
she says. “He relates at once to what’s in one’s mind. And it was lovely to meet him and
his wife, Rhea (Perlman), because they were people my husband and I both sat enjoying
for years on “Taxi” and “Cheers.”
For Barrymore, Essell’s relative inexperience on film only heightened her performance.
“It’s exciting,” says Barrymore, “because I think she really becomes this character to you,
because she’s so fresh.”
“Duplex” was shot primarily on a sound stage in Los Angeles, with exterior sequences
filmed in Manhattan and Brooklyn. By remarkable coincidence, screenwriter Doyle once
lived with his family in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn used in the shoot.
“Years ago, I actually lived in a duplex setup there,” he recalls. “There was a spiral
staircase in the middle of our apartment leading up to the other tenant above, which
naturally made the living arrangements somewhat odd. Despite this, it was beautiful –
the perfect place to live in the city – however nowadays, I’m sure it is ridiculously
expensive.”
A total of more than 80 duplex structures were scouted for the film, says location
manager, David Martin. “A pattern soon developed with each location, each duplex that
we went through, where there was only one family living in each, and they were well
aware that they landed into an ideal living situation,” Martin says.
“It was a great set,” says Stiller. “The crew built these whole two stories – one story was
on one soundstage, one story was on another – and Danny DeVito is such an old
fashioned filmmaker that he really does it right: Everything was real, and you felt like
when we were in this apartment that we were really in this brownstone, only everything
was slightly turned up a little. Of course, Danny likes to do all sorts of interesting shots
that you couldn’t do in a real brownstone.”
On the surface, the characters Alex and Nancy are instantly recognizable in their urban,
upwardly mobile pursuits. Yet they each come with particular idiosyncrasies. Barrymore
describes her character, Nancy as “very organized, perhaps too organized. She has a
structured set of plans where each life accomplishment is checked off. For example,
college, check – find the man of her dreams, check – marriage, check – find the right
place, check – career, check – make babies, check – and so on. Getting the duplex,
however, causes a disruption of the order of her plans. And so she and Alex get a bit
ahead of themselves – financially, emotionally, everything.”
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Stiller adds, “Yeah, they want a little more than they deserve at this point in their lives.
They always want more and more. They never value the moment.”
“Alex has some very persnickety habits when it comes to his writing, or his attempt to
write,” explains Doyle, who is all too familiar with the challenges of a writing career.
“He has to have the perfect setting, the perfect mood, even the perfect temperature, up to
the point where anything and everything will distract him.” Clearly, then, Alex more than
meets his match in the neighbor from Hell living above.
Both Barrymore and Stiller can relate to that experience. Barrymore recalls, “Years ago,
I had some pretty nasty neighbors near Park La Brea, though not as nasty as Mrs.
Connelly in the story. This one neighbor would spy on me, block my parking place,
pound on my floor if my stereo went beyond level three. It got personal, and it was just
horrible.”
Yet Mrs. Connelly is not nasty at first glance – she’s a very different kind of monster.
“She’s nice, however she’s not so nice,” says Doyle. “She’s very real, yet indestructible,
making her a force of nature.”
Barrymore adds, “What is interesting about Mrs. Connelly’s character is her tone. You
really don’t know if it’s passive aggressive, if she’s aware of what she is doing, or if
she’s completely oblivious. She’s very sweet at first.”
For Essell, Mrs. Connelly’s primary motivation boils down to one word: survival.
“Through all those years, living alone in New York, her husband having been a seaman
and away much of the time – there’s a lot of undisclosed past, which must have meant
that she has survived by her wits,” says Essell.
In the film, those survival instincts test the will of Stiller’s character, Alex. Stiller,
renowned for his gifts for physical comedy, got to showcase them throughout filming,
whether crouching behind a nude, bathing Mrs. Connelly or river dancing beneath a giant
ceiling leak. “The comedy is sort of in the tradition of the ‘Roadrunner’ cartoons,” he
says, “with the Wile E. Coyote character always having the outcome of his elaborate
plans somehow, and deservedly, blowing up in his face. It’s very physical, sort of the
slapstick tradition.”
Another tradition to which “Duplex” subscribes, to great comic effect, is that of the
generation gap. Doyle explains, “I wanted Mrs. Connelly’s generation, the greatest
generation of sacrifice, to conflict with, antagonize, and, of course, satirize Alex and
Nancy’s generation. The latter generation feels a sense of entitlement, a feeling of being
owed success. The exploitation of their material frustration is part of the domestic
comedy.”
Barrymore sums it up, “In the end Mrs. Connelly teaches us about our own happiness. It
isn’t about the extra floor, the nice furniture and the big promotion. We have to learn that
the love we have for one another is actually plenty enough. It’s just that simple.”
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ABOUT THE CAST
BEN STILLER (Alex) is one of today's most innovative actors, directors and writers.
Stiller has three new films coming out early 2004. In John Hamburg's Untitled romantic
comedy, Ben stars opposite Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin and Hank
Azaria. He re-teams with Owen Wilson for Todd Phillip's Starsky and Hutch, which he
also produced through his company Red Hour Films. Then in Barry Levinson's Envy he
stars opposite Jack Black, Rachel Weisz and Christopher Walkin.
He was most recently seen in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tennenbaums with Gene
Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Murray and Luke and Owen Wilson. He directed the
comedy hit Zoolander in which he starred in the title role. He was joined by Will Ferrell,
Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Jerry Stiller and Milla Jovovich. Stiller also co-wrote
and produced the film.
In 1994 Stiller made his directorial debut with Reality Bites starring opposite Winona
Ryder. He went on to direct Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy. His other film credits include
Jay Roach's blockbuster Meet the Parents opposite Robert De Niro, Keeping the Faith,
the smash-hit There's Something About Mary, the dark drama Permanent Midnight,
Mystery Men and Neil Labute's Your Friends and Neighbors. He also appeared in Zero
Effect, Flirting with Disaster, Empire of the Sun and Next of Kin.
Stiller made his acting debut on Broadway in John Guare's House of Blue Leaves. He was
a featured player and apprentice writer on "Saturday Night Live". His Fox series, "The
Ben Stiller Show," which was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy writing, will
be released on DVD on December 3 rd .
DREW BARRYMORE (Nancy) was introduced to audiences at the age of five in the
film Altered States. At six, she appeared in one of the most popular films in movie
history, Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extraterrestrial. She has appeared in over thirty
feature films.
Barrymore most recently starred in Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle, co-starring with
Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu. The movie was produced by Barrymore’s company, Flower
Films, with her partner Nancy Juvonen, and has grossed over $250 million in worldwide
box office. Full Throttle was the sequel to Charlie’s Angels, also produced by Flower
Films, a box office smash in 2000.
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Barrymore also starred in George Clooney’s directorial debut, Confessions of a
Dangerous Mind, alongside Sam Rockwell, George Clooney and Julia Roberts, as well as
Penny Marshall’s Riding in Cars with Boys, produced by James L. Brooks,
Barrymore’s 30 th film, which she also executive produced, was the hit romantic comedy,
Never Been Kissed, directed by Raja Gosnell. She also starred in Andy Tennant’s
Cinderella tale Ever After with Anjelica Huston. Other credits include Home Fries for
director Dean Parisot, The Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler, Woody Allen’s Everyone
Says I Love You which featured Edward Norton, Julia Roberts and Goldie Hawn.
Barrymore also made a lasting impression in Scream, directed by Wes Craven.
Other film credits include Firestarter, Irreconcilable Differences, for which she earned a
Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Gun Crazy, for which she was
nominated for a Golden Globe, Poison Ivy, Bad Girls, Boys on the Side, Mad Love and
Batman Forever.
EILEEN ESSELL (Mrs. Connelly) is an accomplished 81-year-old actress in film,
television and theatre although she did take an unusual path. After working in theater for
13 years, she met her playwright husband and decided to settle down and have a family.
He died six years ago and two years later, she took a part in a play by a family friend and
was “discovered” by an agent. She has worked steadily since. The English native has
most recently appeared in Mark Boyd’s film, Ali G in Da House and is featured in Marc
Forster’s upcoming Neverland to be released by Miramax next year. Her television
work includes appearances on The Bill, Doctors and Dotcomedy for Thames, BBC, and
Channel 4 respectively. Essell’s stage work was last seen in Hedda Gabler for director
Braham Murray, King Kong’s Daughter and The Girl With Roses. Prior to her acting
career, Essell taught drama at The Central School of Music and Drama and at The City
University.
HARVEY FIERSTEIN (Kenneth) is currently appearing in the Broadway smash
musical Hairspray based on the John Waters cult film. Fierstein came to prominence
with his Tony Award winning play, Torch Song Trilogy sharing the stage with Matthew
Broderick. His multiple feature film credits include Safe Men, Woody Allen’s Bullets
Over Broadway, Independence Day, Mrs. Doubtfire opposite Robin Williams, The
Harvest and the Miramax production of his play Torch Song Trilogy. On television, he
has appeared as a series regular on Daddy’s Girls and Those Two, both for CBS.
Fierstein has made guest appearances on Ellen, Murder, She Wrote, Cheers for which he
earned an Emmy nomination and Miami Vice.
JUSTIN THEROUX (Coop) recently appeared in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and
David Lynch’s Hollywood noir Mulholland Drive opposite Naomi Watts. His other
feature credits include American Psycho and I Shot Andy Warhol both for director Mary
Harron, The Broken Hearts Club, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion and
Zoolander. Theroux began his stage career opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman in
Shopping and Fucking and Three Sisters with Billy Crudup, Lili Taylor and Calista
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Flockhart. At the Williamstown Theater Festival, he performed in Frank McGuiness’s
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme. He went back to perform the
play at the Lincoln Center in the winter of 2003. On television, he has had a starring role
in CBS’s The District and guest starring roles in Sex and the City and Spin City. This fall
Theroux is currently guest starring in HBO’s Six Feet Under and is writing a comedy for
New Line.
ROBERT WISDOM (Officer Dan) recently appeared as the disturbingly embittered
English professor in Todd Solondz’s feature Storytelling, with Selma Blair. He has
worked in John Woo’s Face Off and Mighty Joe Young. Wisdom will be seen next in
HBO’s Live From Baghdad. He also appeared in Victor Nunez’s Coastlines which
recently appeared at 2002 Sundance Film Festival. He has also starred in Dancing at the
Blue Iguana for director Michael Radford. His television credits include Cracker with
Robert Pastorelli, If These Walls Could Talk and Sahara. Wisdom has conceived and
developed international cultural projects including ‘New Music America’ in Washington
DC and has served as Director of National Alliances of Media Arts Centers.
AMBER VALLETTA (Celine) has most recently completed production in Gary
Marshall’s Raising Helen. Valletta made her feature film debut in Stacey Cochran’s
Drop Back Ten, opposite James LeGros. She followed up with the thriller What Lies
Beneath with Harrison Ford and Family Man for director Brett Ratner.
JAMES REMAR (Chick) was recently seen in HBO’s Sex and the City. His recurring
role in the series earned Remar a 2001 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding
Performance by An Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Remar is currently filming The Girl
Next Door for writer/director Luke Greenfield and 20 th Century Fox. He recently
wrapped the highly anticipated sequel to The Fast and the Furious. Remar can be seen in
the feature Fear X opposite John Turturro and Debar Unger. Among his thirty films, he
has appeared in What Lies Beneath and Boys on the Side and has worked with such
notable directors such as Gus Van Sant, Penny Marshall, Michael Apted and Francis Ford
Coppola. Remar made his feature debut in Walter Hill’s The Warriors following up with
his memorable performance in 48 Hours.
MAYA RUDOLPH (Tara) was seen most recently in the comedy Duets. Rudolph has
been featured in Miguel Artera’s Chuck and Buck, As Good as It Gets, directed by James
L. Brooks and Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca. She is currently a series regular on Saturday
Night Live and member of The Groundlings comedy group. Her television work also
includes City of Angels for CBS and has guest-starred on Running With Scissors for the
Oxygen Channel and Fox’s Action.
CHERYL KLEIN (Ginger) has appeared in several feature films, including the lead in
the independent film Deceit. Her television series work includes NBC’s Profiler, Shasta
TNT’s Monster Vision, Silk Stockings, Rolling Thunder, Live Shot, Baywtach and
Renegade.
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SWOOSIE KURTZ (Jean) has appeared before audiences in film, television and
theater, spanning both comedy and drama. She recently appeared in Get Over It opposite
Kirsten Dunst and Martin Short. Moving easily between studio and independent films,
Kurtz has been featured in Miramax’s Citizen Ruth, Liar – Liar with Jim Carrey, and
Columbia’s Cruel Intentions. Other film work includes Dangerous Liaisons, Reality
Bites, Vice Versa, The World According to Garp, True Stories and Against All Odds.
Recently, Kurtz returned to the New York stage in the Pulitzer Prize winning play The
Mineola Twins. Her performance earned an Obie Award and was nominated for the
Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. She was honored with two Tony Awards
for her performance in John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves and Lanford Wilson’s
Fifth of July for which she also earned a Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics’ Circle
Award. Additionally, she earned the Drama Desk and the Obie Award for Wendy
Wasserstein’s Uncommon Women and Others. She also starred in John Guare’s Six
Degrees of Separation and Terrance McNally’s Lips Together – Teeth Apart.
Swoosie Kurtz received her eighth Emmy Award nomination for her guest starring role
on ER and was previously nominated for the Emmy and Cable Ace Award for her role in
HBO’s landmark film, And the Band Played On. She was twice nominated for an Emmy
and SAG award for her role in NBC’s Sisters. She previously earned an Emmy Award
for her performance in Carol and Company and was nominated for a Golden Globe
Award for HBO’s Baja Oklahoma.
She is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
WALLACE SHAWN (Herman) is one of the entertainment industry’s most
recognizable character actors. Shawn has appeared in over fifty films. His screen work
began with Woody Allen’s Manhattan and since then he has collaborated with Allen on
Radio Days, Shadows and Fog and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. His work with
director Louis Malle includes the celebrated feature My Dinner With Andre. His other
work with Malle includes Vanya on 42 nd Street, Atlantic City and Crackers. Shawn has
also appeared in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless, The Princess Bride for Rob Reiner and
Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity. Other credits are My Favorite Martian, Scenes
From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, The Hotel New Hampshire and The Moderns.
Shawn is also noted for his work as a writer. His playwright career began in 1967,
adapting The Mandrake for a Joseph Papp production. Other plays include Aunt Dan and
Lemon and The Fever. His most recent play, The Designated Mourner was produced by
The National Theater in London and featured Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson.
BBC Films produced the film version of the play where both stars reprised their roles.
Shawn’s has regularly appeared in numerous television series, including Murphy Brown,
The Cosby Show and Taxi. His has made guest appearances on Clueless, Civil Wars,
Crossing Jordan and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Shawn’s voice is attributable to
several animated characters, including ‘Rex’ in Toy Story and Toy Story 2.
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
DANNY DEVITO (Director) is an actor, producer and director; he has been called one
of the entertainment industry's most versatile players.
DeVito wrote, directed and produced several short films in his early Hollywood years,
before his emergence as a feature-length filmmaker in 1984. In 1992 DeVito added
another dimension when he co-founded Jersey Films. Jersey has produced over 20
motion pictures, including the academy award nominated Erin Brockovich, Man on the
Moon, Pulp Fiction, Out of Sight, Get Shorty, Hoffa, Matilda and Living Out Loud.
Though two films co-starring DeVito won the Academy Award for best picture (One
Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Terms of Endearment), it was the part of Louie De
Palma that propelled him into national prominence as star of the hit television show Taxi.
In a 1999 readers’ poll conducted by TV Guide, DeVito’s Louie De Palma was voted
number one in “TV’s Fifty Greatest Character’s Ever.”
DeVito has also starred in many films not produced by Jersey. They include Anything
Else, Big Fish, Renaissance Man, The Big Kahuna, and Heist.
Following Taxi and before the creation of Jersey Films, DeVito starred in such films as
Junior, Batman Returns, Twins, Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, Ruthless People
and Tin Men.
Danny studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. His first role
was a starring one in one of three one-act plays presented together under the title of The
Man With the Flower in His Mouth.
Soon other stage performances followed in rapid succession. Among his credits were
Down the Morning Line, The Line of Least Existence, The Shrinking Bride and One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
In 1975, under a grant from the American Film Institute, Danny and his wife, actress
Rhea Perlman, wrote and produced Minestrone, which has been shown twice at the
Cannes Film Festival and has been translated into five languages. Later they wrote and
produced a 16-millimeter black-and-white short subject, "The Sound Sleeper," which
won first prize at the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association competition.
STUART CORNFELD (Producer) is a producing partner with Ben Stiller and their
company, Red Hour Films. An industry veteran, Cornfeld has served as producer, coproducer
and executive producer on such notable films as Zoolander, The Elephant Man,
Fatso, The Fly, National Lampoons European Vacation, Wilder Napalm, Kafka and
Mimic.
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NANCY JUVONEN (Producer) has produced six feature films and an Emmy award
nominated television special since she co-founded Flower Films with producing partner
Drew Barrymore in 1995. The company’s most recent release Charlie’s Angels: Full
Throttle, has grossed over $250 million worldwide to date, and was preceded by the
worldwide box-office hit Charlie’s Angels in 2000. Flower Films has a number of
upcoming projects including Fifty First Dates, which they produced with Happy Madison
Productions. The film stars Barrymore and Adam Sandler and will be released
Valentine’s Day weekend. Flower’s next production, Dreamworks’ Date School will
once again team Flower with Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld’s Red Hour Films. The
movie is scheduled to begin production early next year.
Other productions include the critically acclaimed Donnie Darko directed by Richard
Kelly and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jena Malone. The Fox 2000 release Never Been
Kissed was Flower’s first production and grossed over $80 million worldwide. This was
followed up by Olive: The Other Reindeer, the animated Fox Christmas special which
Flower produced with Matt Groening.
Flower is currently in pre-production on A Confederacy of Dunces starring Will Ferrell,
as well as Barrymore, Lily Tomlin, Mos Def, and Sharon Stone. Also on the company’s
slate is a remake of the cult classic Barbarella, in association with Laura Ziskin
Productions.
LARRY DOYLE (Writer) makes his feature film debut with Duplex. He recently
produced a series of Looney Tunes theatrical shorts, in addition to writing the upcoming
Looney Tunes: Back in Action. He previously served as a writer and supervising producer
on The Simpsons, and was a writer-editor at New York and Spy magazines.
ALAN BLOMQUIST (Executive Producer) produced the recently released View From
the Top with Gwyneth Paltrow and Mike Myers for director Bruno Barreto and Miramax
Films. He served as Executive Producer in Lasse Hallstrom’s Chocolat which earned
five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Blomquist also collaborated
with Lasse Hallstrom on The Cider House Rules (nominated for seven Academy Awards)
and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape with Johnny Depp.
His producing credits include Don Roos’s Bounce, What Dreams May Come, Spawn, A
Little Princess, Beautiful Girls, Of Mice and Men and Everybody’s All American.
Blomquist’s work in television garnered an Emmy Award for producing the ABC ‘After
School Special’ The War Between the Classes. He also remade the 1971 cult classic,
Vanishing Point for Fox TV.
Among the feature film projects Blomquist is developing are The Greatest Love of All
(with Edmonds Entertainment), a romantic comedy Nights Like This and Off the Grid,
collaborating with Kevin Spacey’s Trigger Street Productions.
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ANASTAS N. MICHOS (Cinematographer) has photographed numerous comedies,
including the recently released Death to Smoochy directed by Danny Devito. Prior to his
first cinematography assignment with The Education of Little Tree, Michos earned an
industry wide notoriety with his acclaimed Steadicam skill. Micho’s other camera work
includes Instinct, Stepmom, What Dreams May Come, Mary Reilly and The People vs.
Larry Flynt.
ROBIN STANDEFER (Production Designer) has worked on numerous feature films,
music videos and commercials. Standefer’s has collaborated with such notable directors
as Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito and Michael Tolkin. Standefer’s most recent feature
work includes Ben Stiller’s Zoolander, Getting Over Allison, Kasi Lemon’s The
Caveman’s Valentine, Invisible Circus and Practical Magic. Other credits are John
Turturro’s Illuminata, Addicted to Love, The Pallbearer, Search and Destroy, The New
Age and Mac.
LYNZEE KLINGMAN (Editor) has recently worked with Michael Mann, editing the
feature film, Ali for Sony Studios and Rodger and Hammerstein’s South Pacific for USA
TV. She also edited the independent feature Panic with William H. Macy. Her extensive
credits include Man on the Moon, Living Out Loud, Hush, Matilda, Home for the
Holidays, Outbreak, Hoffa, A River Runs Through It, Little Man Tate, The War of the
Roses, Baby Boom and True Confessions.
JOSEPH G. AULISI (Costume Designer) has worked on over forty feature films
beginning with Shaft in 1971. He most recently designed Mc G’s Charlie’s Angels,
Glitter, Bicentennial Man, Frank Oz’s Bowfinger. Other credits are Stepmom, Twilight,
Night Falls on Manhattan, Private Parts, Nobody’s Fool, Billy Bathgate, True Colors,
Ironweed, Little Darlings and Three Days of the Condor.
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