Richard LaGravenese (born October 30, 1959) is an American screenwriter and occasional film director. He is best known as the writer of The Fisher King. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard LaGravenese, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The only thing worse than being the assistant to a high-maintenance movie star who doesn't take you seriously? Finding out he's smitten with your mom.
Release Date: 2024-06-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 635
Disillusioned with life in the city, feeling out of place in suburbia, and frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, Giselle turns to the magic of Andalasia for help. Accidentally transforming the entire town into a real-life fairy tale and placing her family’s future happiness in jeopardy, she must race against time to reverse the spell and determine what happily ever after truly means to her and her family.
Release Date: 2022-11-18
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 1110
On Josh and Greg's first date, they quickly realize that the generational divide between them is the least of their worries.
Release Date: 2017-04-01
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 9
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.
Release Date: 2016-12-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 159
When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?
Release Date: 2016-09-29
Character: Mugger
Vote Count: 28
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Release Date: 2014-12-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4172
In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
Release Date: 2014-11-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 344
The Divide is a 2014 legal drama that aired on WE tv. The first season consisted of eight hour-long episodes. It premiered on July 16, 2014. On October 30, 2014, the series was canceled by WE-tv.
Release Date: 2014-07-16
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 14
Release Date: 2014-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Release Date: 2013-05-26
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 793
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.
Release Date: 2013-02-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2863
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Release Date: 2011-04-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2544
Follow the difficult birth and full realization of this beautifully told romance through its many twists and turns. Through interviews with Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, screenwriter Richard LaGravenese and many others, this documentary reveals the commitment, hard work and creativity it took to bring to the screen this classic love story in the style of George Stevens or John Ford.
Release Date: 2008-05-06
Character: Self
Vote Count: 4
Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in Hollywood who took control of their own stories. Interviews, film clips and home movies from Italian American filmmakers highlight personal experiences and comment on Hollywood's politics and cultural impact.
Release Date: 2008-01-20
Vote Count: 1
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Release Date: 2007-11-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3337
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Release Date: 2007-01-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2286
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Release Date: 2006-06-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 770
A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.
Release Date: 2003-04-25
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 40
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
Release Date: 2001-04-04
Character: Detective #2
Vote Count: 4370
Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. Judith stews, plans, plots and fantasizes, but she can't decide what to do with her life until she goes out to a night club to see singer Liz Bailey, who is full of advice on life and love. While out on the town, Judith is suddenly kissed by a total stranger, which opens her eyes to new possibilities... which is when she notices Pat, the elevator operator in her building.
Release Date: 1998-10-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 50
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
Release Date: 1998-10-16
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 103
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
Release Date: 1998-02-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1124
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
Release Date: 1996-11-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 340
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother became sick, moves in with his two eccentric uncles. As Steven grows closer to his uncles, he learns how to cope with his emotions and to value his own uniqueness.
Release Date: 1995-09-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 29
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Release Date: 1995-06-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2215
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.
Release Date: 1995-05-10
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 985
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
Release Date: 1994-03-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 340
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Release Date: 1991-09-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Strait Jacket Yuppie
Vote Count: 1372
In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside world. In the later 1980s, the find out that a secret war is about to start in the US, and decide to return to New York to tell someone about it.
Release Date: 1989-08-16
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 25
A feature film based on Bob Dylan's 1975 album, "Blood on the Tracks."
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Rock Hudson, the Hollywood screen icon whose death in the 1980s put a mainstream face on the growing AIDS crisis, is getting the big-screen biopic treatment.
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Follow the Ramsey family, before and after the tragedy as they go through the painful loss of a child while facing intense public scrutiny caused by a media frenzy that caused this case to captivate an entire nation. At the heart of the series, it is the story of Patsy and John Ramsey – exploring the unbreakable partnership of these two complex people – as husband and wife, as mother and father – who had committed themselves and their children to building the narrative of a perfect, privileged life only to have it destroyed one Christmas night in 1996.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 1