Steve Kloves

AKA:
Stephen Keith Kloves , Steven Kloves
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
03/18/1960
Birthplace:
Austin, Texas
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biography
Kloves began writing professionally after being rejected by the film department at UCLA and taking a job delivering scripts for an agency. His third screenplay became his first credit, "Racing With the Moon" (1984), a touching story of young love with Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth McGovern set during WWII, likably offbeat given the more brash tone of most of the teen films of that period. The film set the pattern for Kloves' subsequent efforts: character-driven stories with a cynical edge, measured in their pacing, based to some extent around competitive triangular or parallel Continued
milestones
Year
Milestone
1962 
Moved from Austin, Texas to Sunnyvale, Califiornia at the age of two (date approximate)
 
Moved to Los Angeles after graduating high school
 
Attended UCLA, dropped out after being rejected as a film major
1984 
Screenwriting debut, "Racing with the Moon"
1989 
Feature directorial debut, "The Fabulous Baker Boys"; nominated for Best Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America
Continued