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BIRTHDAY

January 01, 1973

RECENT CREDITS

Prime (FILM) Oct. 28, 2005

Boiler Room (FILM) Jan. 20, 2000

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BIOGRAPHY

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Ben Younger made his feature screenwriting and directorial debut with The Boiler Room (2000), a drama set in an underground brokerage firm on Wall Street. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Younger attended the City University of New York, where he studied political science. He first set out to have a career in politics, working on a number of campaigns, but he eventually made the leap from politics to filmmaking as a grip on feature films and music videos. After becoming a corporate video cameraman, Younger wrote and directed a short, L & M, which was shown at various film festivals, and also produced the short Maestro. He got the inspiration for The Boiler Room when he himself was recruited as a boiler room trainee, and he spent a year researching underground telemarketing brokerages while writing his screenplay for the film.

~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide

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Headlines

BUZZ/SAW: Free Rex Reed!

Feb. 15, 2000

NEW YORK, NY, Feb. 15, 2000 -- The news broke Sunday in New York newspapers and on Time Warner Cable's New York 1 channel that film critic/columnist/actor Rex Reed was arrested Saturday for allegedly shoplifting three compact discs. National coverage of the alleged crime continued Monday in such publications as USA Today. Reed was apprehended by security officers at a Tower Rec...

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Madison Avenue woos film directors

Posted: Jul. 4, 2001

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