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Ehren Kruger

Highest Rated: 96% Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Lowest Rated: 7% Dream House (2011)

Birthday: Oct 5, 1972

Birthplace: Alexandria, Virginia, USA

A versatile screenwriter with a knack for fast-paced action, realistic dialogue and wry humor, Ehren Kruger got his start on the small screen before making his feature debut with 1999's "Arlington Road." A former script assistant at Fox TV and Sandollar Productions, Kruger received his first screen credit with the 1998 USA Network TV-movie "Killers in the House," a nail-biting hostage drama in which a family is held in their own home by ruthless bank robbers. Next his 1996 Nicholl Fellowship-winning script for "Arlington Road" was produced in feature form. Directed by Mark Pellington, the film was both an action-packed thriller and a psychodrama, a disturbing look at the smiling evil of domestic terrorism and one man's struggle with potential paranoia. "Arlington Road" starred Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack and opened with a portrait of mindless destruction that succeeds both as a momentary jolt and an image that haunts for the entire film. Kruger's script for the high-tech espionage drama "New World Disorder" never reached the big screen, but debuted on HBO. He lightened up a bit with his next feature foray, the last installment of the "Scream" trilogy. Faster paced, with more appropriate, less verbose dialogue and lots of surprises, "Scream 3" (2000) was a suitable sequel, capturing the former films' chills as well as tongue-in-cheek attitude, making fun not only of the horror genre as a whole, but the previous "Scream" entries specifically.

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Highest-Rated Movies

96% 99% Top Gun: Maverick Watchlist 71% 48% The Ring Watchlist
63% 74% Arlington Road
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60% 57% Scream 4
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58% 80% Ophelia Watchlist 46% 47% Dumbo Watchlist 43% 51% Ghost in the Shell Watchlist
41% 38% Scream 3
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38% 39% The Brothers Grimm
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37% 58% The Skeleton Key
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Filmography

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F1 2025 Screenwriter Top Gun: Maverick 96% 99% 2022 Screenwriter Dumbo 46% 47% 2019 Screenwriter, Producer Ophelia 58% 80% 2018 Producer Ghost in the Shell 43% 51% 2017 Screenwriter Rings 8% 23% 2017 Executive Producer Transformers: Age of Extinction 18% 50% 2014 Screenwriter Dream House 7% 36% 2011 Producer Transformers: Dark of the Moon 35% 55% 2011 Screenwriter Scream 4 60% 57% 2011 Executive Producer Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 19% 57% 2009 Screenwriter Blood and Chocolate 10% 52% 2007 Screenwriter, Executive Producer The Brothers Grimm 38% 39% 2005 Screenwriter The Skeleton Key 37% 58% 2005 Writer The Ring Two 21% 33% 2005 Screenwriter The Ring 71% 48% 2002 Writer Impostor 25% 41% 2001 Writer Reindeer Games 25% 28% 2000 Writer Scream 3 41% 38% 2000 Writer Arlington Road 63% 74% 1999 Writer New World Disorder 14% 1999 Screenwriter Killers in the House 78% 1998 Writer
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