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Rod Lurie

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Biography

Rod Lurie is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic. Lurie's first foray into filmmaking, as writer and director, was the low-budget political thriller Deterrence (1999), with Kevin Pollak as the first Jewish President of the United States. The characters (in his films) of President Jackson Evans (The Contender), prison inmate Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin (The Last Castle), FBI agent Paige Van Doren (Line of Fire), and vice presidential nominee Gen. (ret.) Warren Keaton (Commander in Chief) are all fictional graduates of the "Long Gray Line".

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Contender

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Last Castle

Directed

Nothing but the Truth

As Larry

What Doesn't Kill You

Producer

Black Butterfly

Executive Producer

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Weight of Command: Eight Faces of Authority

From courtroom to battlefield, from boardroom to the Oval Office, these eight performances explore the many masks of power and the human cost of wearing them.

8 films

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