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Cast Archive: Boaz Yakin
Boaz Yakin
Birthday: June 20, 1965
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Resides: United States
Professions: screenwriter, director
The first feature for this Los Angeles-based screenwriter-director, Fresh (1994), was a gritty depiction of a 12-year-old Brooklyn drug runner. Yakin researched his script in the drug-ravaged communities of his native New York. The picture was generally well-received and projected its helmer into the forefront of young American independents. Yakin launched his career shortly after graduation from film school, moving West to pursue opportunities as a screenwriter. In L.A., he developed projects for United Artists, Warner Brothers and White Eagle Productions, Sylvester Stallone's production company. Yakin co-wrote an action flick, The Punisher (), for New World Pictures. Based on a popular Marvel Comics vigilante character, the film starred Dolph Lundgren and Louis Gossett Jr. His second co-writing credit was on The Rookie (1990), an underperforming cop picture co-produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also starred with Charlie Sheen.

After the success of "Fresh," Yakin had several projects in development. After a three-year hiatus, he returned to the features writing and directing A Price Above Rubies (1998), starring Renee Zellweger as an Hasidic wife. In 2000 Yakin scored his first mainstream success as the director of "Remember the Titans," the inspired-by-true-events story from the early 1970s, centering around a newly appointed African-American football coach (Denzel Washington) struggling to create a team at a racially fractious, newly integrated high school. Mixing racial parables into a conventional sport film format, audiences found themselves rooting for tolerance as often as for touchdowns. Under Yakin's self-assured direction and fresh interpretation of familiar trappings, the film struck a chord with audiences and critics.

After a three-year absence from the screen, Yakin next delivered the female bonding comedy Uptown Girls (2003) starring Brittany Murphy as a newly-broke socialite who grows up when she becomes the nanny for a precocious but uptight young girl (Dakota Fanning). He next served as executive producer Eli Roth's second film, Hostel (2006), a brutal horror flick about two American college buddies (Jay Hernandez and Derek Richardson) lured to an out-of-the-way hostel in a Slovakian town rumored to house desperate, but beautiful Eastern European women. Following their wrong heads, both Americans get trapped in a truly sinister situation that plunges them into the dark recesses of human nature.

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