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Morgan J. Freeman

Highest Rated: 100% Finding Kendrick Johnson (2021)

Lowest Rated: 0% Homecoming (2009)

Birthday: Dec 5, 1969

Birthplace: Long Beach, California, USA

Like many future filmmakers, Morgan J Freeman began making home movies while still in his teens. In his case, these included shorts based on the popular 1980s NBC TV series "Miami Vice." The native California studied film at UC Santa Barbara where he got to make his first short films. A sojourn in Paris, which included courses in film theory at the Sorbonne and a stint as a production assistant for Why Not Productions, followed before Freeman landed at NYU. While in the graduate program, he wrote and directed six short films and also made the acquaintance of Todd Solondz, who hired him as second assistant director on 1996's "Welcome to the Dollhouse." Based on the success of his short "Boom" (1996), Freeman was able to find investors for his first feature, "Hurricane Streets/Hurricane" (1997), a coming-of-age tale about a Manhattan teen caught up in gang activities. When it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, it won three prizes, including two for its writer-director. Although it had a good buzz based on the festival screening, the film barely registered when it debuted theatrically nearly a year later. By then, Freeman had moved on to his second feature, "Desert Blue" (1999), an off-beat look at teenagers in a small California town.

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Highest rated movies

100% 71% Finding Kendrick Johnson Watchlist
88% 78% Hurricane
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37% 47% Desert Blue
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11% 18% American Psycho II: All American Girl
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0% 33% Homecoming
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46% Just Like the Son
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53% Born Killers
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% 71% Finding Kendrick Johnson Producer - 2021
0% 33% Homecoming Director - 2009
No Score Yet 46% Just Like the Son Director,
Screenwriter
- 2006
No Score Yet 53% Born Killers Director - 2005
11% 18% American Psycho II: All American Girl Director - 2002
37% 47% Desert Blue Director,
Writer
$99.1K 1998
88% 78% Hurricane Director,
Writer,
Producer
$334.0K 1997

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Teen Mom: Family Reunion Executive Producer 2022-2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Teen Mom: The Next Chapter Executive Producer 2022-2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Teen Mom: Girls' Night In Executive Producer 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant Executive Producer 2018-2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Teen Mom Executive Producer 2009-2012 2015-2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sixteen And Pregnant Executive Producer 2009-2012 2014 2020-2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Teen Mom 2 Executive Producer 2011-2012 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Smile Executive Producer 2015
No Score Yet 77% Dawson's Creek Director 2000