Joseph Minion

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Joseph Minion is an American film director and screenwriter best known for Martin Scorseses After Hours  1985 Born in New Jersey in 1957 Minion briefly attended NYU Film School before finishing his studies at Columbia University then renowned for its screenwriting program In 1984 Minions script for After Hours was optioned by Griffin Dunne and Amy Robinson the latter a former actress whod appeared as Harvey Keitels damaged girlfriend in Scorseses Mean Streets 1973 Robinson sent Minions screenplay to Scorsese whose Last Temptation of Christ had recently fallen through production on After Hours started shortly afterward Later it surfaced that Minion had plagiarized portions of After Hours from radio host Joe Frank who successfully sued for an undisclosed sum Minion continued his screenwriting career with 1987s Julia and Julia starring Kathleen Turner 1989s Vampires Kiss starring Nicolas Cage Motorama 1991 and On the Run 1999 He also worked again with Martin Scorsese in 1986 for an episode of Amazing Stories As a director Minion made his debut for producer Roger Corman with 1987s Daddys Boys said to have been thrown together at the last minute to make use of standing sets for Big Bad Mama II His last outing as director was for another lowbudget feature Trafficking 1999 Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Minion licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia