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Michelle Manning is an American film director, television director, and producer best known for producing Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. She served as the President of Production for Paramount Pictures from 1997 to 2005.
Michelle Manning is a producer and director who worked on The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Andi Mack. She was the President of Production for Paramount Pictures from 1997 to 2005 and oversaw many classic films.
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Michelle Manning is a film and TV producer who worked on classics like The Breakfast Club and Forrest Gump. She also directed episodes of Miami Vice and Andi Mack, and launched MM Productions in 2005.
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower.
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A young man, Billy Turner, returns to his hometown of Blue City, Florida, after five years away. He gets into a bar fight and is thrown in jail. Then, he learns that his father Jim, the town's mayor, was killed while he was gone. The chief of police, Luther Reynolds, tells Billy that the police did not find the killer but that Perry Kerch, Jim's wi...
Development
The novel was originally published in 1947. It was compared to the work of Dashiell Hammett, in particular Red Harvest. Walter Hill wrote the script with Lukas Hellerand was originally intended to star a leading man in his mid-30s but by the mid-1980s a number of popular young male actors had emerged, so the script was rewritten to accommodate one of them. (The lead in the original novel was a man in his early 20s, although a war veteran.) Hill handed over directing duties to first-timer Mich...
Casting
It was the first film Nelson made since St. Elmo's Fire. He had taken a year off to appear in several plays. "It's the first part ever that I didn't have to audition for", he said. "Instead of having to make the rounds and go to casting calls and auditioning with hundreds of other guys, suddenly my agent has more offers coming in than I can possibly handle. I'm in a position where I can actually turn a job down. It's a strange experience." Nelson reflected on his role: "I think it's very exci...
Filming
Principal photography started in February 1985. The film was made at the height of the popularity of the Brat Pack. Manning said of them: Preview audiences disliked the movie's ending so it was reshot.
Box office
Blue Cityearned $6,947,787 at the box office.
Critical reception
The film received negative reviews from critics. Nelson's performance was particularly criticized, with USA Today saying "Is Judd Nelson the smirkiest actor in current movies, or is he simply getting stereotyped playing overbearing creeps? Either way, you spend 'Blue City's' 83 interminable minutes begging to deck him."[citation needed] Los Angeles Daily News: "You haven't seen anything quite so ridiculous as a limp-jawed, dewy-eyed Nelson trying to carry off a tough guy part." San Francisco...
Awards
It was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards in the 7th Golden Raspberry Awards, but won none: 1. Worst Actor (Nelson) (lost to Prince in Under the Cherry Moon) 2. Worst Actress (Sheedy) (lost to Madonna in Shanghai Surprise) 3. Worst Supporting Actor (Scott Wilson) (lost to Jerome Benton in Under the Cherry Moon) 4. Worst Director (lost to Prince for Under the Cherry Moon) 5. Worst Picture (lost in a tie to Howard the Duck and Under the Cherry Moon)
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