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Stephen Herek

Highest Rated: 83% Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Lowest Rated: 9% Man of the House (2005)

Birthday: Nov 10, 1958

Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas, USA

A proficient director of light Hollywood entertainments aimed primarily at young male audiences, Herek began as a production assistant for Roger Corman's New World Pictures soon after graduating college. He worked for a time in the editing department and earned screen credit as assistant editor of "Androids" (1982). Herek made his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with an amusing and smartly crafted, if rather modest, low-budget "Gremlins" knockoff, "Critters" (1986). Herek fared better directing "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989), a riotous sleeper that showcased Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as two lovably brain-dead teens who travel through time to pass a major history test.

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Highest-Rated Movies

83% 75% Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
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78% 67% Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors
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76% 84% Mr. Holland's Opus
Watchlist 65% 67% The Great Gilly Hopkins Watchlist 59% 71% Afterlife of the Party Watchlist
57% 72% Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love
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53% 59% Rock Star
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52% 45% Critters
Watchlist 43% 67% Dog Gone Watchlist 39% 40% 101 Dalmatians Watchlist
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Stephen Herek

Stephen Herek 101 DALMATIANS, (aka ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS), Glenn Close, director Stephen Herek on the set, 1996 THE CHAPERONE, from left: director Stephen Herek, Paul Levesque, on set, 2011. ©Samuel Goldwyn Films MAN OF THE HOUSE, director Stephen Herek on set, 2005, (c) Columbia MAN OF THE HOUSE, Tommy Lee Jones, director Stephen Herek on set, 2005, (c) Columbia View more photos

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Our Little Secret 37% 51% 2024 Director Dog Gone 43% 67% 2023 Director Afterlife of the Party 59% 71% 2021 Director Same Time, Next Christmas 41% 2019 Director Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love 57% 72% 2016 Director The Great Gilly Hopkins 65% 67% 2016 Director Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors 78% 67% 2015 Director Jinxed 73% 2013 Director The Chaperone 31% 43% 2011 Director The Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice 62% 2010 Director The Cutting Edge: Fire and Ice 2010 Director Into the Blue 2: The Reef 17% 18% 2009 Director Dead Like Me: Life After Death 38% 2009 Director Picture This 67% 2008 Director Man of the House 9% 46% 2005 Director Life or Something Like It 28% 44% 2002 Director Rock Star 53% 59% 2001 Director Holy Man 12% 25% 1998 Director, Producer 101 Dalmatians 39% 40% 1996 Director Mr. Holland's Opus 76% 84% 1995 Director The Three Musketeers 30% 62% 1993 Director The Mighty Ducks 27% 65% 1992 Director Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead 35% 57% 1991 Director Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 83% 75% 1989 Director The Gifted One 80% 1989 Director
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