The Devil's Advocate (1997 film)
The Devil's Advocate( marketed as Devil's Advocate) is a 1997 American supernatural horror film directed by Taylor Hackford, written by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy, and starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, and Charlize Theron.
Based on Andrew Neiderman's novel of the same name, it is about an unusually successful young Floridian lawyer( Reeves) invited to New York City to work for a major firm.
As his wife( Theron) becomes haunted by frightening visual phenomena, the lawyer slowly begins to realize the owner of the firm( Pacino) is not what he appears to be, and is in fact the Devil.
Pacino's character, Satan, takes the guise of a human lawyer named after the author of" Paradise Lost", John Milton.
The story and direction contain allusions to Milton's epic, Dante Alighieri's" Inferno", and the legend of Faust.
An adaptation of Neiderman's novel went into a development hell during the 1990s, with Hackford gaining control of the production.
Filming took place around New York City and Florida.
" The Devil's Advocate" premiered to mixed reviews, with critics crediting it for entertainment value and Pacino's performance.
It made over$ 152 million in the box office and won the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film.
It also became the subject of the copyright lawsuit" Hart v. Warner Bros., Inc." for it s visual art.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Taylor Hackford
Taylor Edwin Hackford( born December 31, 1944) is an American film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America.
He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for" Teenage Father"( 1979).
Hackford went on to direct a number of highly regarded feature films, most notably" An Officer and a Gentleman"( 1982) and" Ray"( 2004), the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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Sunday Punch (film)
Sunday Punch is a 1942 comedy film directed by David Miller and starring William Lundigan and Jean Rogers.
David Miller (director)
David Miller
( November 28, 1909 – April 14, 1992) was an American film director who directed such varied films as" Billy the Kid"( 1941) with Robert Taylor and Brian Donlevy," Flying Tigers"( 1943) with John Wayne, and" Love Happy"( 1949) with the Marx Brothers.
Miller directed" Lonely Are the Brave"( 1962) with Kirk Douglas; Emanuel Levy wrote in 2009 that it" is the most accomplished film of David Miller, who directs with eloquent feeling for landscape and attention to character."
Others feel that Miller's filmic masterpiece is his 1952 Noir thriller and Joan Crawford vehicle" Sudden Fear" co-starring the terrific and terrifying Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame at her most magnificent.
In addition," Sudden Fear" was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Actress( Crawford); Best Actor( Palance); Best Costume Design; and Best Cinematography Charles Lang.
This would be the first time Crawford competed with her arch-rival Bette Davis for Best Actress.
Both lost to Shirley Booth for her performance in" Come Back Little Sheba".
Hanro Smitsman
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Peter Levin
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Ian Barry (director)
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Murphy Guyer
Murphy Guyer( born December 25, 1952) is an American actor, playwright, writer and director, best known for his plays and for appearances in the films" The Devil's Advocate"( 1997)," The Jackal"( 1997)," Arthur"( 2011) and" Joker"( 2019).

Question: Do director of film The Devil'S Advocate (1997 Film) and director of film Sunday Punch (Film) have the same nationality?
Answer: yes