Question: Do both Scent Of A Woman (1992 Film) and The Boondock Saints films have the directors from the same country?

The film is a remake of Dino Risi's 1974 Italian film" Profumo di donna", adapted by Bo Goldman from the novel by Giovanni Arpino and from the 1974 screenplay by Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi. Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama film produced and directed by Martin Brest that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irritable, blind, medically retired Army officer. The film stars Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell, with James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Gabrielle Anwar. Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance and the film was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. The film won three major awards at the Golden Globe Awards: Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Motion Picture – Drama. The film was shot primarily around New York state, and also on location at Princeton University, at the Emma Willard School, an all- girls school in Troy, New York, and at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. <SEP> Troy Duffy( born June 8, 1971 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American director, screenwriter, and musician. He has directed two films," The Boondock Saints", and its sequel,. He was also the subject of a 2003 documentary film" Overnight". <SEP> Martin Brest( born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. <SEP> Michael Tronick is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits. He has been nominated twice for American Cinema Editors" Eddie" Awards for" Scent of a Woman"( 1992) and for" Hairspray"( 2007). Since 2012, Tronick has served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Editors Branch. Tronick is a Member of the Academy's Science and Technology Council and was previously selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors. <SEP> Scent of a Woman is a 1974 Commedia all'italiana film directed by Dino Risi, based on" Il buio e il miele", a story by Giovanni Arpino. Both Risi and the leading actor Vittorio Gassman won important Italian and French awards. An American remake," Scent of a Woman", was released in 1992. <SEP> The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as fraternal twins, Connor and Murphy MacManus, who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self defense. After both experience an epiphany, the brothers, together with their friend" Funny Man"( David Della Rocco), set out to rid their home city of Boston of crime and evil, all the while being pursued by FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker( Willem Dafoe). The Boondock Saints is a 1999 American vigilante action thriller film written and directed by Troy Duffy. Duffy indicates that the screenplay was inspired by personal experience, while living in Los Angeles. Initially regarded as one of the hottest scripts in Hollywood, the movie had a troubled production and was finally given a limited theatrical release of only five theaters for one week due to movie- studio politics and worries about association with the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. It was met with poor critical reviews; however, the film ultimately grossed about$ 50 million in domestic video sales and developed a large cult following. The movie was followed by a 2009 sequel,, and a third film was in development as of 2015.