Richard LaGravenese

Richard LaGravenese

1959-10-30 Brooklyn, New York, USA 31 Credits

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.​

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A Family Affair

A Family Affair

2024

Director

5.8
Directing

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

Disenchanted

2022

Story

6.7
Writing

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

Call Your Father

2017

Executive Producer

4.6
Producing

On Josh and Greg's first date, they quickly realize that the generational divide between them is the least of their worries.

The Comedian

The Comedian

2016

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

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

Pushing Dead

2016

as Mugger

6.1
Acting

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

Unbroken

2014

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

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

The Last Five Years

2014

Director, Writer, Producer

5.9
Directing Writing Producing

In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.

Dangerous Liaisons

2014

Writer, Executive Producer

Writing Producing
Behind the Candelabra

Behind the Candelabra

2013

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.

Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures

2013

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

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

Water for Elephants

2011

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

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'

An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'

2008

as Self

9.0
Acting

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

7.0
Acting

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

P.S. I Love You

2007

Director, Screenplay

7.2
Directing Writing

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

Freedom Writers

2007

Director, Screenplay

7.9
Directing Writing

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

Paris Je T'aime

2006

Director, Writer

6.8
Directing Writing

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

A Decade Under the Influence

2003

Producer, Director

8.0
Producing Directing

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

Blow

2001

as Detective #2

7.4
Acting

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

Living Out Loud

1998

Director, Writer

5.9
Directing Writing

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

Beloved

1998

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

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

The Horse Whisperer

1998

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

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

The Mirror Has Two Faces

1996

Screenplay, Screenstory

6.7
Writing

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

Unstrung Heroes

1995

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

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

The Bridges of Madison County

1995

Screenplay

7.7
Writing

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

A Little Princess

A Little Princess

1995

Screenplay

7.6
Writing

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

The Ref

1994

Screenplay, Producer

6.5
Writing Producing

A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.

The Fisher King

The Fisher King

1991

as Strait Jacket Yuppie

7.3
Acting

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

The Fisher King

1991

Writer

7.3
Writing

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

Rude Awakening

1989

Screenplay

4.6
Writing

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

Blood on the Tracks

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

A feature film based on Bob Dylan's 1975 album, "Blood on the Tracks."

Untitled Rock Hudson Biopic

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

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...