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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
Watchlist 93% 73% Risky Business Watchlist
83% 62% Men Don't Leave
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80% 64% Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
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76% 87% Fried Green Tomatoes
Watchlist 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
Watchlist 54% 81% Four Good Days Watchlist
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Jon Avnet

Jon Avnet 88 MINUTES, (aka 88: 88 MINUTES, aka 88), director Jon Avnet, Al Pacino, on set, 2007. ©Columbia Pictures None None FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, director Jon Avnet, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker on set, 1991, (c) Universal RED CORNER, Richard Gere, Bai Ling, director Jon Avnet, 1997, ©MGM RED CORNER, Richard Gere, director Jon Avnet, on set, 1997. (c)MGM RED CORNER, director Jon Avnet, 1997, ©MGM SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW, Jon Avnet, Kerry Conran, 2004, (c) Paramount SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW, Jude Law, Jon Avnet, Angelina Jolie, 2004, (c) Paramount View more photos

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The Last Rodeo 2025 Director, Screenwriter, Producer 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 80% 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
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