Richard Martini
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Richard Martini (born 12 March 1955) is an award-winning American film director, producer, screenwriter and freelance journalist.
Martini was born in 1955 and grew up in Northbrook, Illinois. He attended local public schools. He graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a degree in Humanities, attended University of Southern California Film School and is a 2008 graduate of the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC. His student short film, Lost Angels, was the film debut of fellow Chicago native, actress Daryl Hannah. He took improv classes at Second City in Chicago under Jo Forsberg, and with the Harvey Lembeck Workshop in Los Angeles.
His first documentary film, Special Olympians, won the top prize at the 1980 Mexico City International Film Festival. He made his feature film directorial debut with You Can't Hurry Love, which featured the debut of Bridget Fonda. TNT described it as the “quintessential 80’s comedy.”
Martini left USC to work for writer/director Robert Towne (Chinatown, Mission: Impossible); he served as an acting coach for Robert Evans on the original The Two Jakes. After that Martini wrote his first feature My Champion, which starred Christopher (son of Robert) Mitchum and Yoko Shimada (Shogun). He wrote the comedy Three For the Road for Vista Films, which starred Charlie Sheen.
Martini directed a comedy short, “Video Valentino,” shot by fellow USC alum John Schwartzman (DP of The Amazing Spider-Man) and produced by Jonathan D. Krane. The short led to a deal with Vestron Pictures, where he made You Can’t Hurry Love starring Bridget Fonda, Charles Grodin and Kristy McNichol based on the short.
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