Martin Brest
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Raised in a Bronx working-class family of Eastern-European Jewish immigrants, he attended Stuyvesant High School, earned a degree from NYU’s School of the Arts in 1973, and completed an MFA at the AFI Conservatory in 1977; his NYU short Hot Dogs for Gauguin later entered the National Film Registry and joined MoMA’s permanent collection. After a modest debut with Going in Style (1979), he was brief…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
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Filmography
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The films and series they directed.
