Richard LaGravenese

Screenwriting came first for LaGravenese. The films he directs are warm, earnest stories about teachers, couples and families. Freedom Writers has a young teacher reaching a class of at-risk students. The Last Five Years adapts Jason Robert Brown's musical about a five-year love affair and marriage. A Family Affair is a romantic comedy about an assistant whose movie-star boss falls for her mother.

Signature

• A screenwriter's ear for dialogue.
• Teachers and students (Freedom Writers).
• Musicals and romantic comedy.
• A segment of the anthology Paris Je T'aime.