Question: Are director of film Staying Alive (1983 Film) and director of film People Places Things from the same country?

He wrote the film" Lonesome Jim"( 2005), directed by Steve Buscemi. He wrote and made his directorial debut with" Grace Is Gone"( 2007) starring John Cusack. Strouse won an Audience Award for most popular dramatic feature and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival for the film. He next wrote and directed the film" The Winning Season"( 2009), starring Sam Rockwell and Emma Roberts. Strouse is a native of Goshen, Indiana and was an MFA student at Columbia University for fiction writing. His film" People Places Things" was released in 2015. He wrote and directed" The Incredible Jessica James"( 2017). James C. Strouse is an American screenwriter and film director. <SEP> Staying Alive is a 1983 American dance musical film starring John Travolta as dancer Tony Manero, with Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Joyce Hyser, Julie Bovasso, and dancers Viktor Manoel and Kevyn Morrow. It is a sequel to" Saturday Night Fever"( 1977). Along with" Homefront", this is one of only two films which Stallone wrote without being the star( although he does have a cameo appearance). The film was directed by Sylvester Stallone, who also co-produced and co-wrote the film with the original" Saturday Night Fever" producer and writer, Robert Stigwood and Norman Wexler, respectively. The choreography was done by Dennon and Sayhber Rawles. The title of the film comes from the Bee Gees song of the same name, which was used as the theme song to" Saturday Night Fever" and is also played during the final scene of" Staying Alive". The title also reflects Tony's circumstances at the film's beginning, in which he is barely surviving as he pursues his dream of making dancing his career. Unlike" Saturday Night FeverStaying Alive" was not as successful and holds a score of 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Nonetheless, it was a box office success, earning$ 65 million on a$ 22 million budget. It also featured Sylvester Stallone's young brother Frank's big hit" Far from Over", which peaked at# 10 on the" Billboard" Hot 100 and the" Cashbox" charts. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> After his beginnings as a struggling actor for a number of years upon arriving to New York City in 1969 and later Hollywood in 1974, he won his first critical acclaim as an actor for his co-starring role as Stanley Rosiello in" The Lords of Flatbush". Stallone mostly only found gradual work as an extra or side character in films with a sizeable budget until he achieved his greatest critical and commercial success as an actor, starting in 1976 with his self- created role as the boxer Rocky Balboa, in the first film of the successful" Rocky" series( 1976 – 2018). In the films, Rocky is portrayed as an underdog fighter that does battle with numerous brutal opponents, and wins the world heavyweight championship twice. The last two entries in the series are" Creed" and" Creed 2", that serve as spin- off films focusing on Adonis Creed, the son of the ill- fated boxer Apollo Creed, whom the long retired Rocky is a mentor to. Reprising the role during the 2010s brought Stallone praise, and his first Golden Globe award for the first" Creed", as well as a third Oscar nomination, having been first nominated for the same role 40 years prior. Sylvester Enzio Stallone( born Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, July 6, 1946) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. Stallone had similar box- office success, portraying the PTSD plagued soldier John Rambo in the five" Rambo" films( 1982–2019) and as mercenary Barney Ross in the three" The Expendables" films( 2010 – 2014). He wrote or co-wrote most of the films in his three biggest franchises, and directed many of them too. Stallone's film" Rocky" was inducted into the National Film Registry, and had its props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. His use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the" Rocky" series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps, and Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum. It was announced on December 7, 2010 that he was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the non-participant category. In 1977, Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for" Rocky", for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He became the third man in history to receive these two nominations for the same film, after Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles. <SEP> Things is a 2015 American comedy film written and directed by James C. Strouse. People Places The film stars Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams, Stephanie Allynne and Michael Chernus. The film was released on August 14, 2015, by The Film Arcade. <SEP> Francesco “ Frank ” Stallone, Jr.( born July 30, 1950) is an American actor, singer- songwriter and guitarist. He is the younger brother of Sylvester Stallone and wrote music for his movies. His song" Far from Over", which appeared in the 1983 film" Staying Alive" and was also featured in the film's soundtrack, peaked at number ten on the" Billboard" Hot 100, for which he received Golden Globe and Grammy nominations.