Joel Schumacher, director of Batman films and 'The Lost Boys,' has died at age 80.
While those hits captured the era well, others during that period were misfires, such as the 1989 remake of the French hit"Cousin/Cousine" called"Cousins" and starring Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini and there was the sentimental"Dying Young," starring Roberts and Campbell Scott.
Schumacher's next film was also a solid hit."The Client," based on a John Grisham novel, was a highly effective legal thriller that also boasted terrific rapport between Susan Sarandon's lawyer and her 11-year-old client, a boy played by Brad Renfro who has witnessed a murder. His next film, 1999's"Flawless," about a homophobic cop who's suffered a stroke, played by Robert De Niro, and the draq queen, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose helps he needs, was formulaic — the odd couple who couldn't be more different find out they have a lot in common — but it sported excellent performances by the leads and certainly had heart.
His other films included actioner"Bad Company," starring Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock;"Veronica Guerin," starring Cate Blanchett as a journalist crusading rather recklessly against the Irish drug trade; and Jim Carrey thriller"The Number 23" and"Trespass." Schumacher's first directing assignments came in television: the 1974 telepic"Virginia Hill," which he also co-wrote and starred Dyan Cannon, and the 1979 telepic"Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill," which he also penned. He stepped into the feature arena with the 1981 sci-fi comedy"The Incredible Shrinking Woman," starring Lily Tomlin, followed in 1983 by"D.C. Cab," an action-comedy vehicle for Mr. T that Schumacher also wrote.
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