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Joseph B. Vasquez

Highest Rated: 93% Hangin' With the Homeboys (1991)

Lowest Rated: 93% Hangin' With the Homeboys (1991)

Birthday: Jun 8, 1962

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

This young filmmaker worked his way up from freelance cameraman to editor before making "Street Story" (1988), the gang-themed "Bronx Wars" (1989), and the semi-autobiographical "Hangin' With the Homeboys" (1991). An exhilarating, buddies-on-the-town comedy in the tradition of "American Graffiti" and "Diner" and slice-of-life character study of four friends--two black and two Hispanic--the film (made for a modest $2 million) shared the best screenwriter award at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. At the time of his death from complications from AIDS in December 1995, he had completed work on what was to be his final feature, "Manhattan Merengue" about a dancer whose success causes him conflict.

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93% 68% Hangin' With the Homeboys
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Filmography

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Credit
No Score Yet 45% The House That Jack Built Screenwriter - 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Manhattan Merengue Director - 1995
93% 68% Hangin' With the Homeboys Director,
Screenwriter
$516.9K 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bronx War Tito Sunshine (Character),
Director
- 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Street Hitz Director,
Producer
- 1988