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Daniel Petrie Jr.

Highest Rated: 100% Deadly Pursuit (1988)

Lowest Rated: 0% Dawn Patrol (2014)

Birthday: Nov 30, 1951

Birthplace: Canada

Literary agent turned screenwriter who scored with the Eddie Murphy box-office smash, "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984) and wrote the offbeat, steamy New Orleans-set thriller, "The Big Easy" (1986). Petrie began a second career as a producer with "Shoot to Kill" (1988) and made his directorial debut with the prep school drama, "Toy Soldiers" (1991). Son of director Daniel Petrie and producer Dorothea Petrie and brother of AFI-trained director Donald Petrie ("Mystic Pizza" 1988, "Grumpy Old Men" 1993).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 64% Deadly Pursuit
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89% 61% The Big Easy
Watchlist 82% 82% Beverly Hills Cop Watchlist
50% 51% Turner & Hooch
Watchlist 41% 39% An Ordinary Man Watchlist
41% 66% Toy Soldiers
Watchlist 40% 33% The 6th Day Watchlist
20% 28% Go With Me
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12% 44% In the Army Now
Watchlist 11% 48% Intrigo: Death of an Author Watchlist
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Zero Contact 10% 15% 2022 Executive Producer Intrigo: Death of an Author 11% 48% 2018 Executive Producer An Ordinary Man 41% 39% 2017 Executive Producer A Classy Broad 2016 Self Rosemont 70% 2015 Director, Producer Go With Me 20% 28% 2015 Executive Producer Dawn Patrol 0% 11% 2014 Director, Producer A Haunting At Silver Falls 32% 2013 Executive Producer Pictures of Hollis Woods 77% 2007 Screenwriter Framed 32% 2003 Director, Writer The 6th Day 40% 33% 2000 Co-Producer Dead Silence 33% 1997 Director Toe Tags 1996 Director In the Army Now 12% 44% 1994 Director Toy Soldiers 41% 66% 1991 Director, Screenwriter Turner & Hooch 50% 51% 1989 Screenwriter, Executive Producer Deadly Pursuit 100% 64% 1988 Screenwriter, Producer The Big Easy 89% 61% 1986 Screenwriter Beverly Hills Cop 82% 82% 1984 Writer
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