Michael Almereyda

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Biography

After dropping out of Harvard, he moved to NYC and began writing screenplays, quickly securing an agent and soon after his first Hollywood job rewriting the unproduced "Mandrake the Magician" for Embassy Pictures. Almereyda provided the tongue-in-cheek screenplay for Steve de Jarnette's sci-fi action feature "Cherry 2000" (1988), starring Melanie Griffith as a female mercenary hired to bust into a 21st-century robot warehouse operated by …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Camera, Film & Tape, Sound, Other

Born

April 7, 1959

LATEST CREDITS

William Eggleston in the Real World

Narrator, Director, Producer

At Sundance

Narrator, co-director

Happy Here and Now

Director, Screenplay

Nadja

Director, Screenplay

Hamlet

Director, Screenplay

Twister

Director, Screenplay

Another Girl, Another Planet

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Tonight at Noon

Director, Screenplay

Trance

Director, Screenplay

This So-Called Disaster

Director

Paradise

Director, Producer

New Orleans Mon Amour

Director

Cherry 2000

Screenplay