Jonathan Kaplan

He was also the agent for Brian De Palma and Robert Altman.

Branson and Leto would go on to work together on a number of films like De Palma's Obsession and Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge.

But that success was still years away, so the budget for Hobbes' next film was slashed considerably.

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And he has been a regular in a number of Scorsese's films, including before this film, Who's That Knocking at My Door?, later Taxi Driver, New York, New York, Mean Streets.

But he's also had an amazing career appearing in films by Jonathan Demme, Jonathan Kaplan, Robert Zemeckis, Paul Schrader, Spike Lee.

In the early 60s, he was in Robert Rossen's film Lilith.

So one of those character actors who's had a very, very full and rich career across a remarkable lot of films.

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The Accused is a 1988 film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, written by Tom Topper.

The film was loosely inspired by the 1983 case involving Cheryl Arujo in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

It stars Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillis, and the film follows Sarah Tobias, who Jodie Foster plays.

He interviewed approximately 30 survivors, along with people who had been accused, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and medical professionals.

So those conversations helped shape the story and gave him a broader perspective on the legal system and the people that are affected by it.

As the project developed, Sherry Lansing and Stanley Jaffe of Paramount Pictures came on as producers and director Jonathan Kaplan then became involved meeting with them to discuss how the story could be brought to the

screen.

This week's episode had 8.7 million viewers tuning in, directed by series kingpin Rod Holcomb, continuing our streak of dead directors.

We had Jonathan Kaplan last week.

We have Rod Holcomb in the director's chair this week.

He is doing his fifth out of only six episodes for the entire series.

And we're also doing The Accused, 1988.

The return of Jonathan Kaplan to the show.

It's probably been a while since Jonathan Kaplan's been on the show.

It has, and quietly over the years...

he has kind of become one of the guys that we've kind of covered the most.

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So we'll talk more about Jonathan Kaplan and his filmography and this film, which Will had never seen.

Uh, this week's episode had 7.5 million viewers tuning in.

We are directed by, uh, one final time, the kind of quintessential ER director, Jonathan Kaplan.

Uh, he wasn't, wasn't the first, we'll get that next week.

Uh, but he was kind of the, uh, most prolific, for sure.

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he was...

And, and from all accounts, I mean, seems like everybody, back when we were doing interviews on a regular basis, it seems like everybody who came through ER had a Jonathan Kaplan story.

Mm-hmm.

And this is Anna.

And that was, I think, Jonathan Kaplan as the uncredited gas station attendant with possibly the best line in the movie.

And Dennis Dugan as Chris Howard in 1981's The Howling.

Can't all have Mazdas.