title: Paul Lynch (director)
House Arrest (film)
Jamie Lee Curtis
Grandview, U.S.A.
Nicholas' Gift
Laurie Strode
Terror Train
Mother's Boys
Prom Night (1980 film)
Love Letters (1984 film)
sentences: Paul Lynch (born June 11, 1946 in Liverpool, England) is an English-Canadian film director and television director.
 Paul Lynch came to Canada in 1960.
 He left school to become a cartoonist for the "Toronto Star" and then served as a photographer for a number of small-town newspapers.
 This led to work in film, including a 90-minute documentary on "Penthouse" magazine commissioned by its publisher, Bob Guccione.
 His first feature was "The Hard Part Begins", considered to be a classic of early English-Canadian cinema.
 This was followed by the box-office hit "Prom Night", a prototypical ‘slasher’ film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen.
 Lynch has only made movies periodically, pursuing instead a career directing for American television.
House Arrest is a 1996 American comedy film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Pollak.
 The film was directed by Harry Winer who has directed other films but is more prolific as a television series director.
 The film boasts a very thorough supporting cast in Christopher McDonald, Wallace Shawn, Jennifer Tilly and an up-and-coming Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress and author.
 She made her film debut in 1978 by starring as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's "Halloween" (1978).
 A big hit, the film established her as a notable actress in horror, and she subsequently starred in "Halloween II" (1981), "The Fog" (1980), "Prom Night" (1980), "Terror Train" (1980), and "Roadgames" (1981), gaining the status of "scream queen" to mainstream audiences.
 Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many genres, including the cult comedy films "Trading Places" (1983), for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988), and "True Lies" (1994), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in Musical or Comedy.
Grandview, U.S.A. is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Carole Cook, Ramon Bieri, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Winslow, Troy Donahue and Steve Dahl.
 The original music score is composed by Thomas Newman.
 It was filmed on location in Pontiac, Illinois.
Nicholas' Gift is a 1998 American made-for-television drama film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Alan Bates, directed by Robert Markowitz.
 Curtis was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance.
Laurie Strode is a fictional character in the "Halloween" horror franchise, portrayed by actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Scout Taylor-Compton.
 She appears in six of the ten "Halloween" films, first appearing in John Carpenter's original 1978 film.
 She is the primary protagonist of the first, second, and seventh and appears at the beginning of the eighth in a small role.
 Jamie Lee Curtis portrayed the role in the original run of the series, with Scout Taylor-Compton taking the role in Rob Zombie's reboot and its sequel.
 In academic materials, Strode is widely cited as the one of the earliest and most influential examples of the "final girl" slasher film archetype and has been compared to other heroines such as Nancy Thompson from "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984).
 In September 2017, it was announced that Curtis is set to reprise her role in "Halloween" (2018).
Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian-American slasher film directed by Roger Spottiswoode in his directorial debut and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Johnson.
 Set aboard a moving train holding a costume party, a group of attending fraternity students are murdered by a familiar masked killer targeting them from a prank gone wrong, and steals their costumes on the train after killing them to avoid being caught.
Mother's Boys is a 1994 American thriller film starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley (as Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) and Vanessa Redgrave.
Prom Night is a 1980 Canadian slasher film directed by Paul Lynch, based on a story by Robert Guza Jr., and starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis.
 The story concerns a group of high school seniors who are targeted by a mysterious masked killer in revenge for their culpability in the accidental death of a young girl six years earlier.
 The anniversary of the incident falls on their high school's prom night, when the older sister of the dead girl is being crowned Prom Queen.
Love Letters is a 1984 American romantic drama film starring Jamie Lee Curtis.
 The film is directed by Amy Holden Jones which Roger Corman agreed to finance following her success with "The Slumber Party Massacre" (1982).

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 Paul Lynch (born June 11, 1946 in Liverpool, England) is an English-Canadian film director and television director.
 Paul Lynch came to Canada in 1960.
 He left school to become a cartoonist for the "Toronto Star" and then served as a photographer for a number of small-town newspapers.
 This led to work in film, including a 90-minute documentary on "Penthouse" magazine commissioned by its publisher, Bob Guccione.
 His first feature was "The Hard Part Begins", considered to be a classic of early English-Canadian cinema.
 This was followed by the box-office hit "Prom Night", a prototypical ‘slasher’ film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen.
 Lynch has only made movies periodically, pursuing instead a career directing for American television. 

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 House Arrest is a 1996 American comedy film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Pollak.
 The film was directed by Harry Winer who has directed other films but is more prolific as a television series director.
 The film boasts a very thorough supporting cast in Christopher McDonald, Wallace Shawn, Jennifer Tilly and an up-and-coming Jennifer Love Hewitt. 

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 Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress and author.
 She made her film debut in 1978 by starring as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's "Halloween" (1978).
 A big hit, the film established her as a notable actress in horror, and she subsequently starred in "Halloween II" (1981), "The Fog" (1980), "Prom Night" (1980), "Terror Train" (1980), and "Roadgames" (1981), gaining the status of "scream queen" to mainstream audiences.
 Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many genres, including the cult comedy films "Trading Places" (1983), for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988), and "True Lies" (1994), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in Musical or Comedy. 

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 Grandview, U.S.A. is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Carole Cook, Ramon Bieri, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Winslow, Troy Donahue and Steve Dahl.
 The original music score is composed by Thomas Newman.
 It was filmed on location in Pontiac, Illinois. 

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 Nicholas' Gift is a 1998 American made-for-television drama film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Alan Bates, directed by Robert Markowitz.
 Curtis was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance. 

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 Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian-American slasher film directed by Roger Spottiswoode in his directorial debut and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Johnson.
 Set aboard a moving train holding a costume party, a group of attending fraternity students are murdered by a familiar masked killer targeting them from a prank gone wrong, and steals their costumes on the train after killing them to avoid being caught. 

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 Mother's Boys is a 1994 American thriller film starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley (as Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) and Vanessa Redgrave. 

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 Love Letters is a 1984 American romantic drama film starring Jamie Lee Curtis.
 The film is directed by Amy Holden Jones which Roger Corman agreed to finance following her success with "The Slumber Party Massacre" (1982). 

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Answer: Prom Night