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Roger Avary was born on August 23, 1965 in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada, but grew up in Arizona in the United States. By the 1980s, Avary had settled in Manhattan Beach, CA, and had developed a passionate interest in movies. In 1984, Avary wrote and directed a short film "The Worm Turns", which was named Best Film in the 16-19 age group at the LAFTA Teen Film Expo.
A few years later, struggling to get a career as a writer and director off the ground, he took a job at a video rental shop, where one of his co-workers was a like-minded film enthusiast named Quentin Tarantino.
Avary and Tarantino began comparing notes on the sort of films they hoped to make. Avary gave Tarantino a copy of a short screenplay he'd written called "The Open Road," and Tarantino returned it with extensive revisions. Avary began working with Tarantino on a further draft of the script, and in time the project became the film "True Romance", though Avary did not receive credit for the final product. Avary also contributed material which was used in the screenplays for "Reservoir Dogs" and "Natural Born Killers".
In 1992 Tarantino was finally able to bring "Reservoir Dogs" to the screen. After "Reservoir Dogs" became an independent success story, Avary helped Tarantino write his follow-up "Pulp Fiction". Credited with the film's story, Pulp Fiction earned Avary an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Now Roger Avary was able to use his new success as a screenwriter to launch his career as a director. He directed the offbeat crime thriller "Killing Zoe", which Tarantino helped to produce. In 1995, Avary turned his attentions to television, writing, and directing a quirky made-for-TV sci-fi film called "Mr. Stitch", which was created as a pilot for a series. The "Mr. Stitch" series didn't sell, and neither did Odd Jobs, a noir-influenced television project Avary wrote and directed in 1997.
While preparing new projects, Avary dabbled in film production, working behind the scenes on "Boogie Boy" in 1997 and "The Last Man" in 1999. In 2002, Avary made his long-awaited return as a director with a screen adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel "The Rules of Attraction". Again Avary also wrote the screenplay.
Filmography: Killing Zoe, Standing Still, The Rules of Attraction,
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