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Phil Joanou

Highest Rated: 85% State of Grace (1990)

Lowest Rated: 16% Heaven's Prisoners (1996)

Birthday: Nov 20, 1961

Birthplace: La Cañada, California, USA

Fresh out of USC's film school, this assured director of features and TV captured the attention of Steven Spielberg with his student film, "Last Chance Dance." Joanou made his commercial directing debut with "Santa '85" (NBC, 1985), an amusing episode of Spielberg's fantasy anthology series, "Amazing Stories," about St. Nick's unfortunate arrest for breaking and entering. Joanou was invited back to the series to direct John Lithgow's Emmy Award-winning performance in "The Doll" (NBC, 1986), a sentimental romantic fantasy. He segued to features with "Three O'Clock High" (1987), a likable teen comedy that was greatly abetted by Joanou's manic and inventive camera movements and staging. Shifting to the reality mode, Joanou crafted "U2 Rattle and Hum" (1988), a technically assured if uninspired record of the Irish rock group's 1987 "Joshua Tree" tour of the US.

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Highest-Rated Movies

85% 82% State of Grace
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62% 86% U2 Rattle and Hum
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60% 73% Three O'Clock High
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56% 44% Final Analysis
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40% 75% Entropy
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16% 32% Heaven's Prisoners
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23% The Veil
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Phil Joanou

Phil Joanou STATE OF GRACE, Sean Penn and director Phil Joanou on location, 1990 GRIDIRON GANG, Director Phil Joanou (3rd from left), on set, 2006. ©Columbia Pictures GRIDIRON GANG, Director Phil Joanou (center), on set, 2006. ©Columbia Pictures STATE OF GRACE, Sean Penn, director Phil Joanou, 1990, (c)Orion Pictures Corporation View more photos

Filmography

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The Veil 23% 2016 Director Gridiron Gang 44% 81% 2006 Director Entropy 40% 75% 1999 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Heaven's Prisoners 16% 32% 1996 Director Final Analysis 56% 44% 1992 Director State of Grace 85% 82% 1990 Director U2 Rattle and Hum 62% 86% 1988 Self, Director, Film Editing Three O'Clock High 60% 73% 1987 Director
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