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Ruben made his feature directorial debut at the ripe age of 24 with the bleak psychodrama "The Sister-in-Law" (1975). His subsequent work has included two low-budget looks at high school life ("The Pom Pom Girls" 1976, "Our Winning Season" 1978), a road movie ("Joyride" 1977), a nifty sci-fi thriller, "Dreamscape" (1984), starring Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, and Christopher Plummer and an engaging legal drama, "True Believer" (1989), starring James Woods and Robert Downey, Jr....
Full Bio & Milestones

Filmography

Cuba and the Night - ( Director / / Announced / )
Jack - ( Director / / Announced / )
The Other Side of Simple - ( Director / / Announced / )
Untitled (20th Century Fox/John Macdonald Project) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Forgotten - ( Director / 2004 / Released / )
Return to Paradise - ( Director / 1998 / Released / )
Money Train - ( Director / 1995 / Released / )
The Good Son - ( Director / 1993 / Released / )
The Good Son - ( Producer / 1993 / Released / )
Sleeping With the Enemy - ( Director / 1991 / Released / KF )
True Believer - ( Director / 1989 / Released / Syncronfilm )
The Stepfather - ( Director / 1987 / Released / )
Dreamscape - ( Director / 1984 / Released / )
Dreamscape - ( Screenplay / 1984 / Released / )
G.O.R.P. - ( Director / 1980 / Released / AIP )
Our Winning Season - ( Director / 1978 / Released / ITC Distribution )
Our Winning Season - ( Screenplay / 1978 / Released / ITC Distribution )
Joyride - ( Director / 1977 / Released / AIP )
Joyride - ( Screenplay / 1977 / Released / AIP )
The Pom Pom Girls - ( Director / 1976 / Released / )
The Pom Pom Girls - ( Producer / 1976 / Released / )
The Pom Pom Girls - ( Screenplay / 1976 / Released / )
The Pom Pom Girls - ( From Story / 1976 / Released / )
The Sister-in-Law - ( Director / 1975 / Released / Crown International Pictures )
The Sister-in-Law - ( Producer / 1975 / Released / Crown International Pictures )
The Sister-in-Law - ( Screenplay / 1975 / Released / Crown International Pictures )
TV Credits
Eddie Dodd ( 1991 / Released ): Story By
Breaking Away ( 1980 / Released ): Director
Full Biography (Back to top)

Ruben made his feature directorial debut at the ripe age of 24 with the bleak psychodrama "The Sister-in-Law" (1975). His subsequent work has included two low-budget looks at high school life ("The Pom Pom Girls" 1976, "Our Winning Season" 1978), a road movie ("Joyride" 1977), a nifty sci-fi thriller, "Dreamscape" (1984), starring Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, and Christopher Plummer and an engaging legal drama, "True Believer" (1989), starring James Woods and Robert Downey, Jr. Ruben seems at his best, however, when exploring the dark underbelly of that most sacred of American institutions, the family: cult favorite "The Stepfather" (1987) has "family man" Terry O'Quinn moving from town to town, settling in with a fatherless family, and then slaying them; "Sleeping with the Enemy" (1991), Ruben's first big commercial hit, sees Julia Roberts faking her own death in order to escape her obsessively possessive husband. He turned his attention to the children in "The Good Son" (1993) wherein the good Elijah Wood tries to warn his family about the pure murderous evil of his cousin Macaulay Culkin.

Profession(s):
director, screenwriter, producer
Sometimes Credited As:

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Education
University of Michigan theater and film
Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts BA
Milestones (Back to top)
2004 Directed the thriller "The Forgotten" starring Julianne Moore
1998 Directed "Return to Paradise" a story of two friends who must choose whether to help a third friend who was arrested in Malaysia for drug possession; starred Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix
1995 Directed Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson as New York transit cops in "Money Train" also starred Jennifer Lopez
1993 Directed Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood in "The Good Son"
1991 Directed Julia Roberts in "Sleeping with the Enemy" about a battered wife who escapes her husband to start a new life
1989 Directed James Woods and Robert Downey Jr. in "True Believer"
1984 Directed Dennis Quaid in the sci-fi thriller "Dreamscape" also penned the script
1980 Directed the pilot for the TV series, "Breaking Away"
1975 Wrote and directed first feature, "The Sister-in-Law"
Made first film while in high school, a teenage love story filmed in Super-8

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