Minor-league television celebrity John Leary (Danny DeVito) leads a peripetic existence with his two sons (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. and Miko Hughes), moving from one station to another, eventually landing at a Podunk station as a late-night creature-feature host. His children try to adjust but run afoul of neo-Nazi neighbor Norman Strick (Gary Sinise) — who kidnaps one of the boys after John, in a drunken stupor, lambastes Strick on the air.
Marshall Schreiber Herskovitz (born February 23, 1952) is an American film director, writer and producer, and currently the President Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America. Among his productions are Traffic, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond, and I Am Sam. Herskovitz has directed two feature films, Jack the Bear and Dangerous Beauty. Herskovitz was a creator and executive producer of the television shows Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, and Once and Again, and also wrote and directed several episodes of all three series.
Life and career
Herskovitz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Frieda (née Schreiber) and Alexander Herskovitz. Herskovitz attended Brandeis University, graduating in 1973. He entered the AFI Conservatory in 1975, where he and Edward Zwick first met. He frequently collaborates with Zwick, with whom he runs the film and television production company The Bedford Falls Company, named for the fictional town in the classic film It’s A Wonderful… read more