Paul Brickman


Director, Screenwriter

About

Birth Place
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Scenarist with a gift for small, offbeat films, notably Jonathan Demme's "Handle With Care/Citizens Band" (1977). Brickman made his directing debut, from his own script, with the slick summer hit "Risky Business" (1983) and followed it seven years later with a finely observed familial comedy-drama, "Men Don't Leave" (1990), based on the French film "La vie continue" (1982)....

Biography

Scenarist with a gift for small, offbeat films, notably Jonathan Demme's "Handle With Care/Citizens Band" (1977). Brickman made his directing debut, from his own script, with the slick summer hit "Risky Business" (1983) and followed it seven years later with a finely observed familial comedy-drama, "Men Don't Leave" (1990), based on the French film "La vie continue" (1982).

Life Events

1977

First feature as writer and associate producer, "Handle With Care/Citizen's Band" (dir. Jonathan Demme)

1983

Feature directing debut (also writer), "Risky Business"

Bibliography