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Timothy Harris is a Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 21 july 1946

Timothy Harris

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Birth name Timothy Hyde Harris
Nationality USA
Birth 21 july 1946 (78 years)

Timothy Hyde Harris, né le 21 juillet 1946 à Los Angeles en Californie, est un écrivain de roman policier, scénariste et producteur de cinéma américain.

Biography

Dans sa jeunesse, il voyage beaucoup en Europe et en Afrique du nord.

Son premier roman, Kronski/McSmash, est publié tout d’abord au Royaume-Uni avant de l’être aux États-Unis. Il s’agit d’un polar parodique que Michel Lebrun qualifiera dans Les Lettres françaises de « Premier polar de la hip génération, livre fou, fou, fou au style défoncé hautement réjouissant, qui pulvérise au passage quelques-uns des tabous les plus sacrés de la civilisation américaine. » .

Puis, Harris alterne novélisations et romans policiers. Dans deux romans, Kyd for Hire et Good Night and Goodbye, il met en scène un détective privé, Thomas Kyd qui a des points communs avec Philip Marlowe, le détective privé de Raymond Chandler : obstination, solitude, éthique, aversion pour les riches californiens sans morale. Dans Heatwave, novélisation d’un scénario qui sera réalisé par Phillip Noyce en 1982, figure un autre héros, Bobby Paradise, détective privé désabusé avec une forte attirance pour le gin. Claude Mesplède dans le Dictionnaire des littératures policières affirme que « Avec ce texte, Harris s’affirme comme un marxiste raffiné, ce que le roman américain n’avait pas connu depuis Hammett ».

Harris commence dans les années 1980 une carrière cinématographique en qualité de scénariste et de producteur.

Best films

Space Jam (1996)
(Writer)
Twins (1988)
(Scriptwriter)
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
(Scriptwriter)
Trading Places (1983)
(Writer)
Brewster's Millions (1985)
(Scriptwriter)
Falling Down (1993)
(Producer)

Usually with

Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman
(4 films)
Joe Medjuck
Joe Medjuck
(3 films)
David Bowers
David Bowers
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Timothy Harris (12 films)

Display filmography as list

Scriptwriter

Cheaper to Keep Her, 1h32
Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Vivica A. Fox, Mac Davis, Brian McKnight, Tovah Feldshuh, Ian McShane, Gwen Humble
Rating48% 2.4359852.4359852.4359852.4359852.435985
Davis's character, William "Bill" Dekker, is a newly divorced swinger who goes to work for an attorney (Feldshuh) as an investigator. His assignments have him tracking down divorced men who have reneged on their alimony and child-support payments, a twist of irony considering not only his chauvinistic tendencies but also the fact that he is himself relying on the money he receives from his assignments to cover his own alimony payments. The film takes its title from the song of the same name, which can be heard over the opening credits.
Astro Boy
Astro Boy (2009)
, 1h34
Directed by David Bowers
Origin Hong kong
Genres Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Films set in the future, Superhero films, Robot films
Actors Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane
Rating62% 3.1017553.1017553.1017553.1017553.101755
Toby Tenma is a teenager who lives in the futuristic city-state Metro City, which floats above the polluted "Surface". Toby's father, Dr. Tenma, is a famous roboticist and head of the Ministry of Science, but has a distant relationship with his son. Dr. Tenma meets the city's obstructive leader President Stone to demonstrate a new defensive robot called the Peacekeeper. To power it, Tenma's friend Dr. Elefun unveils the Blue and Red Core, two energy spheres which have opposing positive and negative energy. Stone has the destructive Red Core placed into the Peacekeeper, causing it to go berserk, leading to Toby being disintegrated after sneaking into the room.
Space Jam
Space Jam (1996)
, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Time travel films, Comedy science fiction films, Basketball films, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un canard, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Danny DeVito, Penny Bae Bridges, Brandon Hammond
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.253993.253993.253993.253993.25399
In 1993, professional basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the sport to follow his late father’s career as a baseball player. However, it becomes evident that he is not as skilled in baseball as he was in basketball. Jordan is assigned a publicist, the bumbling Stan Podolak, to make his new career less bumpy. Elsewhere, in outer space, an intergalactic amusement park called Moron Mountain faces dwindling popularity, so its owner, Mr. Swackhammer, sends his diminutive minions, the Nerdlucks, to capture the Looney Tunes as new entertainment. The Looney Tunes live in an animated world hidden in the centre of the Earth, but are unable to listen to the Nerdlucks’ threats and challenge them to a game of basketball to try to win back their freedom.
Pure Luck
Pure Luck (1991)
, 1h36
Directed by Nadia Tass
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Actors Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelley, Harry Shearer, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Wilson
Roles Writer
Rating57% 2.8980952.8980952.8980952.8980952.898095
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist (Harry Shearer), knowing that the girl has ultra bad luck, persuades her father (Sam Wanamaker) to send one of his employees (Martin Short), an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
Kindergarten Cop, 1h51
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action
Themes Films about education
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Carroll Baker, Richard Tyson
Rating61% 3.099333.099333.099333.099333.09933
After years of pursuing drug lord Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson), Los Angeles Police Detective John Kimble (Schwarzenegger) has him on a murder charge after Crisp shot and killed an informant (Tom Kurlander) who has given him information regarding the whereabouts of his ex-wife, Rachel Myatt Crisp, and his son Cullen, Jr. However, the informant's girlfriend (Alix Koromzay) is unwilling to testify in court.
My Stepmother Is an Alien, 1h45
Directed by Richard Benjamin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan, Joseph Maher, Seth Green
Roles Writer
Rating54% 2.702832.702832.702832.702832.70283
Celeste (Kim Basinger) is an alien sent on a secret mission to Earth and Steven Mills (Dan Aykroyd) is a widowed scientist who is working on different ways to send radio waves into deep space. An accident causes a disruption of gravity on Celeste's home world (Cosine N to the 8th). She's sent to investigate who could affect gravity and how it was done, believing it was an attack. She's aided by an alien device resembling a tentacle with an eye, which hides in a designer purse to aid Celeste with her encounters on Earth. The Bag is able to create any object, such as diamonds and designer dresses almost instantaneously. Celeste crashes a party hosted by Steven's brother Ron (Jon Lovitz) where she immediately draws attention to herself by making dated references to old TV shows and political slogans under the mistaken belief that it was current (her superiors had just collected the information, which had taken 92 years to get from Earth to her home world).
Twins
Twins (1988)
, 1h45
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about families, Buddy films, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlett, Tony Jay
Rating61% 3.098423.098423.098423.098423.09842
Julius Benedict (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Vincent Benedict (Danny DeVito) are fraternal twins, the results of a secret experiment carried out at a genetics laboratory to produce the perfect child. To the surprise of the scientists, the embryo split and twins were born. The mother, Mary Ann Benedict, was told that Julius died at birth, and not told about Vincent at all. Julius was informed that his mother died in childbirth. Vincent believed his mother abandoned him. Each twin is unaware of the other's existence.
Brewster's Millions, 1h37
Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors John Candy, Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Rick Moranis, David White
Rating65% 3.2505253.2505253.2505253.2505253.250525
Monty Brewster is a Minor League Baseball pitcher with the Hackensack Bulls. He and his best friend Spike Nolan, the catcher for the Bulls, are arrested after a post-game bar fight and cannot afford bail. A stranger offers bail, if they will come to New York City with him. At the Manhattan law office of Granville & Baxter, Brewster is told that his recently deceased great-uncle Rupert Horn, whom he has never met, has left him his entire fortune but with several conditions.
Trading Places, 1h54
Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis
Roles Writer
Rating74% 3.747093.747093.747093.747093.74709
Duke brothers Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) and Mortimer (Don Ameche) own a successful commodities brokerage in Philadelphia. Holding opposing views on the issue of nature versus nurture, they make a wager of the "usual amount" and agree to conduct an experiment switching the lives of two people at opposite sides of the social hierarchy and observing the results. They witness an encounter between their managing director—the well-mannered and educated Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), engaged to the Dukes' grand-niece Penelope—and a poor street hustler named Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy); Valentine is arrested at Winthorpe's insistence because of a suspected robbery attempt. The Dukes decide to use the two men for their experiment.

Producer

Falling Down, 1h53
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée
Actors Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Tuesday Weld, Frederic Forrest, Rachel Ticotin
Roles Producer
Rating75% 3.7981453.7981453.7981453.7981453.798145
William Foster is recently divorced, and his ex-wife Beth has a restraining order to keep him away from her and their child, Adele. In addition, he was recently laid off from his job due to the early 90s recession. His frustration grows when his car air conditioning fails while he is stuck in traffic. He abandons his car and walks across Los Angeles to attend Adele's birthday party. At a convenience store, Foster becomes frustrated when the Korean owner refuses to give him change for a phone call. Foster disarms the owner and uses his bat to destroy merchandise before paying for a coke and leaving. Shortly thereafter, two gang members accost him with a knife. Foster attacks them with the bat and takes their knife.