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Jon Avnet

Highest Rated: 100% Uprising (2001)

Lowest Rated: 0% Funny About Love (1990)

Birthday: Nov 17, 1949

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

This son of the founder and chair of the largest distributor of electronic equipment entered show business staging theatrical productions Off-Broadway. He entered the film industry as a reader at United Artists and later participated in the director's program of the American Film Institute after his student film "Confusion's Corner" (featuring a then-unknown Richard Gere) earned him a fellowship. After working as an associate producer, Avnet and family friend Steve Tisch launched Tisch/Avnet Productions in 1977. For seven years, they oversaw a number of successful features (most notably 1983's "Risky Business" which catapulted Tom Cruise to stardom), several issue-oriented TV-movies like "The Burning Bed" (NBC, 1984), starring Farrah Fawcett, and the acclaimed, but short-lived series "Call to Glory" (ABC, 1984-85).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 84% Uprising
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93% 73% Risky Business Watchlist
83% 62% Men Don't Leave
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76% 64% Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
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76% 87% Fried Green Tomatoes
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71% 46% Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Watchlist
69% 77% When a Man Loves a Woman
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67% 42% Jackie & Ryan
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55% 42% George of the Jungle
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54% 81% Four Good Days Watchlist

Filmography

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Strong 2022 Executive Producer Four Good Days 54% 81% 2020 Producer Three Christs 41% 67% 2017 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Sickhouse 2016 Executive Producer Jackie & Ryan 67% 42% 2014 Producer, Executive Producer Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith 68% 2011 Director, Executive Producer Righteous Kill 18% 37% 2008 Director, Producer 88 Minutes 5% 44% 2007 Director, Producer Land of the Blind 17% 63% 2006 Producer Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 71% 46% 2004 Producer Uprising 100% 84% 2001 Director Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her 76% 64% 2000 Producer Steal This Movie 51% 71% 2000 Executive Producer A House Divided 57% 2000 Executive Producer My Last Love 56% 1999 Executive Producer Inspector Gadget 20% 18% 1999 Executive Producer Poodle Springs 17% 1998 Executive Producer Red Corner 27% 48% 1997 Director, Producer George of the Jungle 55% 42% 1997 Producer D3: The Mighty Ducks 20% 45% 1996 Producer Up Close & Personal 32% 66% 1996 Director, Producer Miami Rhapsody 45% 26% 1995 Executive Producer The War 25% 73% 1994 Director, Producer When a Man Loves a Woman 69% 77% 1994 Producer D2: The Mighty Ducks 20% 59% 1994 Producer
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