Don Roos Biography
Born: April 14, 1955
A screenwriter turned director, Don Roos made his celebrated directorial debut with the 1998 The Opposite of Sex, a black comedy that provided hilarious and politically incorrect insights on the nature of love and sex from the point of view of a teen-from-hell anti-heroine (Christina_Ricci). One of the year's most acclaimed films, Roos described it as "a post-AIDS kind of tale from the late '50s when there was the pill until AIDS there was a feeling that sex was careless and free and inconsequential and this movie has a different point of view."
Born in New York on April 14, 1955, Roos first became involved with screenwriting while an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame, where he took a screenwriting course. Following graduation, he moved to Hollywood in 1978 and spent the next eight years writing and producing for television. During a sabbatical he wrote the screenplay for Love_Field, which was made into a 1991 film starring Michelle_Pfeiffer in an Oscar-nominated performance as a housewife traveling from Dallas to John F. Kennedy's funeral.
After scripting the Barbet_Schroeder thriller Single_White_Female (1992), the women-on-the-road movie Boys on the Side (1995) (which he also executive produced), starring Drew_Barrymore, Mary-Louise Parker, and Whoopi_Goldberg, and the 1996 remake of Diabolique, Roos turned to directing. The shift, he was later quoted as saying, came out of the "sheer frustration of seeing [my] material handled by other people."
Following the success of The Opposite of Sex, which premiered to rave reviews at the 1998 Sundance Festival and acted as a critical breakthrough for both Roos (who earned an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature) and star Christina_Ricci, Roos began working on his next project, Bounce. A romantic comedy-drama that starred Ben_Affleck as a man who falls for a woman (Gwyneth_Paltrow) whose husband's death he indirectly caused, it was released in 2000. That same year, Roos co-wrote Bless the Child, a thriller starring Kim_Basinger, Rufus_Sewell, and Sex co-conspirator Ricci.
Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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