Made first film while in high school, a teenage love story filmed in Super-8

Wrote and directed first feature, "The Sister-in-Law"

Directed the pilot for the TV series, "Breaking Away"

Directed Dennis Quaid in the sci-fi thriller "Dreamscape" also penned the script

Directed James Woods and Robert Downey Jr. in "True Believer"

Directed Julia Roberts in "Sleeping with the Enemy" about a battered wife who escapes her husband to start a new life

Directed Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood in "The Good Son"

Directed Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson as New York transit cops in "Money Train" also starred Jennifer Lopez

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

Directed the thriller "The Forgotten" starring Julianne Moore