Rod Lurie (born May 15, 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and former film critic. The son of internationally syndicated cartoonist Ranan Lurie, he was born in Israel but moved to the United States at a young age, growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut and Honolulu, Hawaii. Graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984, he served in the U.S. Army as an Air Defense Artillery officer, then became an entertainment reporter and film critic, … Wikipedia
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Talented film critic-turned-director who burst onto the scene in late 2000 with his hotly debated political thriller _Contender, The (2000)_ . That film launched Lurie into the spot of filmmakers-to-watch and stood out amongst a year's worth of mindless a www.imdb.com/name/nm0527109/