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As the saying goes, like father, like son, and in Hollywood today there is only one father-son team that has kept their love of comedy all in the family. Jason Reitman, the Oscar-nominated director of last year’s little movie that could, Juno, is also a second-generation Hollywood director, the son of Ivan Reitman, who produced Animal House and directed comedy classics such as Ghostbusters, Meatballs and Stripes. The Reitmans recently sat down with each other (and surrounded by 150 curious movie fans) during the Los Angeles Film Festival where father and son had an intimate conversation about their illustrious and budding film careers.
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Since they first hit the Hollywood radar a decade ago with Bottle Rocket, the Wilson brothers Owen, Luke (who starred and co-wrote) and Andrew (who associate produced) proved that they knew how to keep any sibling rivalry away from a movie set. Now their latest collaboration, The Wendell Baker Story, is another family affair, marking Luke’s directorial debut, featuring a screenplay by Luke and Andrew, and starring Luke as the title character, a con man trying to go straight, and Owen as his nemesis, a corrupt hospital orderly trying to frame him for his own crimes. Hollywood.com corralled two of the Texas-bred bros, Luke and Andrew, to talk about their family business.