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Julia Phillips is a Producer American born on 7 april 1944 at New York City (USA)

Julia Phillips

Julia Phillips
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Birth name Julia Miller
Nationality USA
Birth 7 april 1944 at New York City (USA)
Death 1 january 2002 (at 57 years) at West Hollywood (USA)

Julia Phillips (April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband, Michael (and others), three prominent films of the 1970s — The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind — and was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Film.

In 1991, Phillips published an infamous tell-all memoir of her years as a Hollywood producer, entitled You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, which became a bestseller.

Best films

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
(Producer)
The Sting (1973)
(Producer)
Taxi Driver (1976)
(Producer)

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Filmography of Julia Phillips (8 films)

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Production

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, 1h42
Directed by Stephen Herek
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Josh Charles, Keith Coogan, Danielle Harris
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.1488853.1488853.1488853.1488853.148885
Sue Ellen Crandell is a 17-year-old high school graduate who, due to a lack of funds, cannot go to Europe for the summer with her friends. However, Sue Ellen remains optimistic about a summer of freedom with her siblings: stoner Kenny, tomboy Melissa, ladies man Zach, and TV fanatic Walter, while their mother travels to Australia with her boyfriend. Much to Sue Ellen's dismay, her mother hires a live-in babysitter, Mrs. Sturak, a seemingly sweet, humble old woman who assures Mrs. Crandell that she can take care of all five children. As soon as Mrs. Crandall leaves, Mrs. Sturak shows her true colors as a tyrant, quickly drawing the ire of the children. However, she later dies of a heart attack. When her body is discovered by Sue Ellen, the children agree to stuff the babysitter in a trunk and drop her off at a local funeral home and keep her car. They discover that the envelope given to Mrs. Sturak by their mother with their summer money is empty; she had it on her when they delivered her body to the funeral home.
The Beat
The Beat (1988)
, 1h38
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors William McNamara, David Jacobson, John Savage, Markus Flanagan, Paul Dillon, Jack McGee
Roles Producer
Rating53% 2.6738652.6738652.6738652.6738652.673865
A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, and tries to teach them poetry.
The Boost
The Boost (1988)
, 1h35
Directed by Harold Becker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Woods, Sean Young, John Kapelos, Steven Hill, Kelle Kerr, John Rothman
Roles Executive Producer
Rating59% 2.9960352.9960352.9960352.9960352.996035
Lenny Brown is a real-estate hustler looking to strike it rich. He is married to Linda, a paralegal and amateur dancer. The two are poor in money but rich in love. Linda vows to stick with her husband until she "falls off the earth." He moves to California and goes to work for a prosperous businessman, Max Sherman, selling lucrative investments in tax shelters.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2h9
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey
Roles Producer
Rating75% 3.7976753.7976753.7976753.7976753.797675
In the Sonoran Desert, French scientist Claude Lacombe (François Truffaut) and his American interpreter, mapmaker David Laughlin, along with other government scientific researchers, discover Flight 19, a squadron of Grumman TBM Avengers that went missing more than 30 years earlier. The planes are intact and operational, but there is no sign of the pilots. An old man who witnessed the event claimed "the sun came out at night, and sang to him." They also find a lost cargo ship in the Gobi Desert named SS Cotopaxi. At an air traffic control center in Indianapolis, a controller listens as two airline flights narrowly avoid a mid-air collision with an apparent unidentified flying object (UFO), which neither pilot chooses to report, even when invited to do so. In Muncie, Indiana, 3-year-old Barry Guiler is awakened in the night when his toys start operating on their own. Fascinated, he gets out of bed and discovers something or someone (off-screen) in the kitchen. He runs outside, forcing his mother, Jillian, to chase after him.
Taxi Driver, 1h49
Directed by Martin Scorsese, Todd Phillips
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Erotic thriller films, Auto-justice
Actors Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd
Roles Producer
Rating81% 4.0995954.0995954.0995954.0995954.099595
Travis Bickle, an honorably discharged U.S. Marine, is a lonely and depressed man in New York City. He becomes a taxi driver to cope with chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the boroughs of New York City. He also spends time in seedy porn theaters and keeps a diary. Travis becomes infatuated with Betsy, a campaign volunteer for Senator and presidential candidate Charles Palantine. After watching her interact with fellow worker Tom through her window, Travis enters to volunteer as a pretext to talk to her, and takes her out for coffee. On a later date, he takes her to see a Swedish sex education film, which offends her, and she goes home alone. His attempts at reconciliation by sending flowers are rebuffed, so he berates her at the campaign office, before being kicked out by Tom.
The Big Bus, 1h28
Directed by James Frawley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Road movies, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, José Ferrer, Ruth Gordon
Roles Executive Producer
Rating55% 2.7963952.7963952.7963952.7963952.796395
Coyote Bus Lines' scientists and designers work feverishly to complete Cyclops, a state-of-the-art jumbo bus, enabling man to achieve a new milestone in bussing: non-stop service between New York City and Denver. Almost immediately after the bus's engine is equipped with nuclear fuel, a bomb goes off, critically injuring Professor Baxter, the scientist in charge of the project. Cyclops itself is undamaged, but Coyote Lines has lost both its driver and co-driver.
The Sting
The Sting (1973)
, 2h4
Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Buddy films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan
Roles Producer
Rating82% 4.148574.148574.148574.148574.14857
The film takes place in 1936, at the height of the Great Depression. Johnny Hooker, a grifter in Joliet, Illinois, cons $11,000 in cash from an unsuspecting victim with the aid of his partners Luther Coleman and Joe Erie. Buoyed by the windfall, Luther announces his retirement and advises Hooker to seek out an old friend, Henry Gondorff, in Chicago to teach him "the big con". Unfortunately, their victim was a numbers racket courier for vicious crime boss Doyle Lonnegan. Corrupt Joliet police Lieutenant William Snyder confronts Hooker, revealing Lonnegan's involvement and demanding part of Hooker’s cut. Having already spent his share, Hooker pays Snyder in counterfeit bills. Lonnegan's men murder Luther, and Hooker flees for his life to Chicago.
Steelyard Blues, 1h33
Directed by Alan Myerson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Aviation films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Mel Stewart, Peter Boyle, Howard Hesseman, John Savage
Roles Producer
Rating53% 2.653612.653612.653612.653612.65361
It concerns the lives of a group of misfits trying to find a happier life against the norms of society. Sutherland plays an ex-con with a passion for demolition derbies. He has wrecked almost every possible car, but violates his parole when confronted by a 1950 Studebaker. This embarrasses his brother, a politically ambitious district attorney (Howard Hesseman, in an unlikely respectable role). Fonda plays a prostitute with an off-on relationship with Sutherland's character. The gang tries to get an old Consolidated PBY Catalina plane flying, and much humor ensues.