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Randal Kleiser has been an internationally known film director since the release of his first feature, Grease, the most successful movie musical ever made. Other features include The Blue Lagoon with Brooke Sheilds, Summer Lovers starring Peter Gallagher and Daryl Hannah, Grandview U.S.A. with Jamie Lee Curtis, Flight of the Navigator, featuring the first use of digital morphing in a motion picture; Honey, I Blew Up the Kid and White Fang. In London, he directed the critically acclaimed comedy, Getting It Right, starring Lynn Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Jane Horricks and Sir John Guilgud. In 1996 he wrote and directed It's My Party, starring Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Lee Grant, Bruce Davison and Marlee Matlin. As a writer-producer, he was responsible for the surfing classic, North Shore for Universal Pictures. He also directed the thriller, Shadow of Doubt with Melanie Griffith and Tom Berenger Working in 70mm 3-D, he directed Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, which is currently drawing record crowds at the Disney Theme Parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. His television movies include The Boy in the Plastic Bubble with John Travolta; the Emmy Award-winning The Gathering, and Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. As a freshman at USC, he appeared in George Lucas' first student film Freiheit. Kleiser's award winning Master's thesis film, Peege launched his professional career. He has taught a graduate production workshop at USC and Master Directing Classes for European students at film festivals in Deauville and Sarlat, and Malaga. Kleiser serves as a judge on the Student Awards for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and as chairman of the Academic Subcommittee for the Directors Guild of America, he inaugurated a videoconferencing program to connect film classes with working directors. Working with the Graphics Lab at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, Kleiser has co-invented a digital Cinerama-like process called Vistarama HD. He is developing Silver Metal Lover for Dimension Pictures, is currently in post-production with an original movie musical shot on virtual sets, Red Riding Hood starring Joey Fatone and Lainie Kazan, and is in post-production on Lovewrecked starring Amanda Bynes, shot in the Caribbean last July.

Trivia

His house used as "Jennifer's" in the movie "Scream 3". [2000]

Brother of Jeffrey Kleiser

College roommate of George Lucas.

Was to direct _Muppets From Space (1999)_, but was dropped before production began.

Personal Quotes

I try to get the script onto film in an entertaining way. If there's any style, that's for other people to analyze because I don't consciously try to say, "Now, I'll give it this look." I try to go with the feel a script should have. When I do get into a darker film, I'll try to execute that as best I can, too. I don't consciously go into a project thinking that I'm now going to put my stamp on it.

I would actually like to do a hard-edged picture and I'm trying to find one. The problem is that, like actors, directors get typecast. Because I've done funny, uplifting-type films, that's what I'm offered.

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