Gary Winick

Gary Winick

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gary Winick (March 31, 1961 – February 27, 2011) was an American film director and producer who directed films such as Tadpole (2002) and 13 Going on 30 (2004). He also produced films including Pieces of April (2003) for which Patricia Clarkson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and November (2004) through his New York City-based independent film production company InDigEnt (founded in 1999; stands for Independent Digital Entertainment). He won the 2003 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for producing Personal Velocity. Winick directed the live action remake of Charlotte's Web starring Dakota Fanning. It was released on December 15, 2006. His most recent films were Bride Wars and Letters to Juliet. For his primary and high school education Winick attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in the New York City borough of Manhattan (where he was born), graduating in 1979. He is a 1984 graduate of Tufts University and went on to receive Master of Fine Arts degree from both the University of Texas at Austin and the AFI Conservatory. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Winick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Gary Winick
  • Popularity: 0.7496
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1961-03-31
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Gary Winick Movies

  • 2004
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    November

    November

    4.8 2004 HD

    Sophie Jacobs is going through the most difficult time of her life. Now, she just has to find out if it's real.

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  • 2003
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    Pieces of April

    Pieces of April

    6.477 2003 HD

    Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.

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  • 2004
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    Land of Plenty

    Land of Plenty

    6.1 2004 HD

    After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.

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  • 2004
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    13 Going on 30

    13 Going on 30

    6.764 2004 HD

    After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some magic wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can't be a better life. But soon Jenna realizes that adult life isn’t as easy as she hoped for.

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  • 2009
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    Bride Wars

    Bride Wars

    6.25 2009 HD

    Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.

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  • 2005
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    Sorry, Haters

    Sorry, Haters

    5.5 2005 HD

    Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.

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  • 1999
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    Baby Steps

    Baby Steps

    1 1999 HD

    Baby Steps depicts the encounter of a single gay school teacher with a midwestern adoption agent.

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  • 2003
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    Kill the Poor

    Kill the Poor

    4.4 2003 HD

    When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float

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  • 1989
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    Curfew

    Curfew

    4.9 1989 HD

    Two brothers whose grisly killing spree has landed them on death row plot a daring escape, breaking free from prison with vengeance in mind, and setting targets in the form of the key witnesses against them.

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  • 2006
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    Charlotte's Web

    Charlotte's Web

    6.227 2006 HD

    Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

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  • 2010
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    Letters to Juliet

    Letters to Juliet

    7.001 2010 HD

    An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

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  • 2002
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    Tadpole

    Tadpole

    5.6 2002 HD

    Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve.

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  • 2001
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    Sam the Man

    Sam the Man

    2.25 2001 HD

    A writer having difficulty completing his second novel goes on a journey of self-discovery.

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  • 1991
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    Out of the Rain

    Out of the Rain

    3 1991 HD

    The heir to a small-town tannery follows a young woman to the truth about his brother's death.

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  • 2007
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    Flakes

    Flakes

    5.04 2007 HD

    Aspiring rock musician Neal Downs manages a cereal bar. Stylish Miss Pussy Katz is the creator of radically-themed art clothing. When the cereal bar, brings in an offbeat crew of locals, who debate the arcana of cereal history and ideal milk/flake ratios, an aspiring capitalist rips off their concept.

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  • 2001
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    Sam the Man

    Sam the Man

    2.25 2001 HD

    A writer having difficulty completing his second novel goes on a journey of self-discovery.

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  • 1995
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    Sweet Nothing

    Sweet Nothing

    6.3 1995 HD

    Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for the family. Three years later, Angel is still dealing, and has not saved any money, instead spending it on crack. His addiction grows, straining his friendship and his family life, and he gradually loses control.

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  • 1998
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    The Tic Code

    The Tic Code

    5.8 1998 HD

    A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both come to learn that each suffers from Tourette's Syndrome (thus the film title). The older man has developed mannerisms to cover up his own fallibilities and resents the boy and his mother's acceptance of the disease.

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  • 1986
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    Punk

    Punk

    1 1986 HD

    Dominic is a boy trying to cope with the turmoil surrounding him. His life is about to take a very sharp turn.

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  • 1999
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    Loser Love

    Loser Love

    3.3 1999 HD

    A young woman decides to get even with her abusive boyfriend.

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  • 2002
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    Personal Velocity

    Personal Velocity

    5.8 2002 HD

    In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.

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  • 2002
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    Tadpole

    Tadpole

    5.6 2002 HD

    Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve.

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  • 2016
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    Maggie's Plan

    Maggie's Plan

    5.7 2016 HD

    Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with John, an older married professor, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But three years later, married to John with one daughter, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex-wife are actually perfect for each other?

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  • 2002
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    Tadpole

    Tadpole

    5.6 2002 HD

    Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve.

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  • 1998
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    Dead Broke

    Dead Broke

    1 1998 HD

    A detective investigates a murder that has taken place outside a debt collection agency in Brooklyn. A motley assortment of suspects includes the employees of the agency.

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  • 2001
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    Tape

    Tape

    6.85 2001 HD

    Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.

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  • 2007
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    Starting Out in the Evening

    Starting Out in the Evening

    6.694 2007 HD

    Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.

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  • 2005
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    Lonesome Jim

    Lonesome Jim

    6.036 2005 HD

    After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in the Midwest to lick his wounds. But his visit is quickly complicated when his angst spreads to his brother, Tim, who promptly decides to drive his car straight into a tree. Under the shadow of his sibling's injurious actions, Jim strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anika, whose centered small-town wisdom gradually rubs off on him.

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  • 2001
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    Chelsea Walls

    Chelsea Walls

    4.2 2001 HD

    This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.

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  • 2002
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    Ten Tiny Love Stories

    Ten Tiny Love Stories

    3.333 2002 HD

    Rodrigo Garcia's Ten Tiny Love Stories follows the stories of ten women with very different emotional and psychological experiences across ten scripted monologues.

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  • 2006
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    Puccini for Beginners

    Puccini for Beginners

    5.395 2006 HD

    When her inability to commit leads to a breakup with her girlfriend, opera-loving writer Allegra winds up in the bed of amiable professor Philip. He is so smitten with Allegra that he dumps his lover, Grace, and convinces Allegra to continue their affair. When Allegra meets Grace, sparks fly, and she begins a parallel romance, unaware that her new lover is the woman Philip left to be with her.

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