Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
A Family Affair
2024
Director
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.
Disenchanted
2022
Story
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...
Call Your Father
2017
Executive Producer
On Josh and Greg's first date, they quickly realize that the generational divide between them is the least of their worries.
The Comedian
2016
Screenplay
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...
Pushing Dead
2016
as Mugger
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 ...
Unbroken
2014
Screenplay
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
The Last Five Years
2014
Director, Writer, Producer
In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
Dangerous Liaisons
2014
Writer, Executive Producer
Behind the Candelabra
2013
Screenplay
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Beautiful Creatures
2013
Director, Screenplay
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 m...
Water for Elephants
2011
Screenplay
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces ...
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
2008
as Self
Follow the difficult birth and full realization of this beautifully told romance through its many twists and turns. Through interviews with Clint East...
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in H...
P.S. I Love You
2007
Director, Screenplay
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Freedom Writers
2007
Director, Screenplay
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Paris Je T'aime
2006
Director, Writer
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Producer, Director
A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential direc...
Blow
2001
as Detective #2
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....
Living Out Loud
1998
Director, Writer
Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. J...
Beloved
1998
Screenplay
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 "Belov...
The Horse Whisperer
1998
Screenplay
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996
Screenplay, Screenstory
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 m...
Unstrung Heroes
1995
Screenplay
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...
The Bridges of Madison County
1995
Screenplay
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
A Little Princess
1995
Screenplay
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...
The Ref
1994
Screenplay, Producer
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
The Fisher King
1991
as Strait Jacket Yuppie
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 the...
The Fisher King
1991
Writer
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 the...
Rude Awakening
1989
Screenplay
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 f...
Blood on the Tracks
N/A
Screenplay
A feature film based on Bob Dylan's 1975 album, "Blood on the Tracks."
Untitled Rock Hudson Biopic
N/A
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 tre...