Barry Strugatz

Barry Strugatz
Born	United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter

Barry Strugatz is an American film director and screenwriter.

Growing up in New York, Barry got an early taste for film and began working on Hair as a production assistant in 1978. From there he continued to do several projects, including some with his writing partner Mark R. Burns, whom he wrote his breakout hit Married to the Mob and She-Devil. Barry, a lifetime Brooklynite, currently still resides there with his wife and kids.

Strugatz got his start as a production assistant and location scout, working under the auspices of directors Miloš Forman (Hair) and Woody Allen (The Purple Rose of Cairo). He wrote the screenplay to 1988’s Married to the Mob, directed by a pre-Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme, but 1989’s She Devil endured a critical and commercial roasting. He spent the next decade writing for the likes of Bette Midler and Joe Pesci. He finally turned to directing in 2000 with a short film, The Transformation.

Married to the Mob is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine.

Michelle Pfeiffer, in something of a departure from her previous roles, gave an acclaimed lead performance as a gangster's widow from Brooklyn, opposite Matthew Modine as the undercover FBI agent assigned the task of investigating her mafia connections.

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