Jose Rivera

Jose Rivera

1955-03-24 13 Credits

Biography

José Rivera (born March 24, 1955) is a playwright and the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award for the movie The Motorcycle Diaries. Description above from the Wikipedia article José Rivera (playwright), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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iGilbert

iGilbert

2021

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

Gilbert is a lonely man who sees the world through the prism of his phone's screen. When a chance at a real relationship enters his life, can he truly...

The 33

The 33

2015

Screenstory, Story

6.4
Writing

Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

On the Road

On the Road

2012

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows...

Letters to Juliet

Letters to Juliet

2010

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona cour...

Tales from the Script

Tales from the Script

2009

as Self

6.5
Acting

Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul...

Trade

Trade

2007

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abduct...

The Motorcycle Diaries

The Motorcycle Diaries

2004

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado h...

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story

1998

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.

The House of Ramón Iglesia

1986

Writer

Writing

Ramón Iglesia, the head of a Puerto Rican family living in Long Island, encounters difficulties fulfilling his dream of moving back to Puerto Rico. P...

Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

Follows the true-life story of Cuban exile turned social advocate, Alina Fernandez, whose birth was the result of the tryst between Revuelta and Castr...

Counting by 7s

N/A

Writer

Writing

A young girl, who likes to garden, learns to open her eyes when something surprising happens. She will learn to swim against the tide by counting by 7...

La Bamba

N/A

Writer

Writing

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his g...

Molina

N/A

Writer

Writing

Based on the New York Times best-selling autobiographical book Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty.