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Michael Lehmann

Highest Rated: 95% Heathers (1989)

Lowest Rated: 3% Because I Said So (2007)

Birthday: Mar 30, 1957

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA

Lehmann began his Hollywood career working for Francis Ford Coppola at Zoetrope Studios, supervising video cameras on "One From the Heart" (1982) and "The Outsiders" (1983). He returned to film school at USC where he directed the acclaimed short film "The Beaver Gets a Boner." Lehmann also provided a short, "Ed's Secret Life," for NBC's "Saturday Night Live." The success of these shorts led to a production deal with New World Pictures and his first feature directing assignment, "Heathers" (1989). Working from Daniel Waters' sardonic script, Lehmann fashioned a black comedy that dealt with high school cliques, teen alienation, suicide and murder. "Heathers" greatly improved the career standings of its leads, Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, and future "bad girl" Shannen Doherty (who was featured as one of the eponymous princesses) .

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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 83% Heathers
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92% 88% Ed Wood
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85% 56% The Truth About Cats & Dogs
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40% 43% 40 Days and 40 Nights
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29% 50% Airheads
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22% 46% Flakes
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21% 25% My Giant
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9% 49% Meet the Applegates
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3% 65% Because I Said So
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Michael Lehmann

Michael Lehmann Michael Lehmann AIRHEADS, director Michael Lehmann, on set, 1994, TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. MY GIANT, Michael Lehmann, Gheorghe Muresan, Billy Crystal, 1998, (c)Columbia Pictures 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, director Michael Lehmann, Josh Hartnett, on set, 2002. ©Miramax 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, director Michael Lehmann, on set, 2002. ©Miramax MY GIANT, Billy Crystal (front, left), director Michael Lehmann (front, right), on set, 1998.©Sony Pictures THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS, director Michael Lehmann, Ben Chaplin, Janeane Garofalo, on set, 1996. TM and Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. BECAUSE I SAID SO, P.J. Byrne, director Michael Lehmann, on set, 2007. ©Universal HUDSON HAWK, director Michael Lehmann (l.), Bruce Willis (r.), 1991, (c)TriStar Pictures View more photos

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Poison 2024 Executive Producer The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea 2020 Producer The Peppercorns and the Curse of the Black King 2017 Producer Flakes 22% 46% 2007 Director Because I Said So 3% 65% 2007 Director 40 Days and 40 Nights 40% 43% 2002 Director My Giant 21% 25% 1998 Director The Truth About Cats & Dogs 85% 56% 1996 Director Airheads 29% 50% 1994 Director Ed Wood 92% 88% 1994 Executive Producer Hudson Hawk 31% 56% 1991 Director Meet the Applegates 9% 49% 1990 Director, Screenwriter The Applegates 1990 Director Heathers 95% 83% 1989 Director
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