Curtis Hanson

Curtis Hanson (born in Reno, Nevada, March 24, 1945, died September 20, 2016) directed movies like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The River Wild (1994) with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, L.A. Confidential  (1997) with Kim Basinger and Kevin Spacey from the 1990 novel by James Ellroy, Wonder Boys (2000) with Michael Douglas from the 1995 novel by Michael Chabon, 8 Mile (2002) with Eminem, In Her Shoes (2005) with Cameron Diaz and Shirley MacLaine, Lucky You (2007). For television Hanson directed Too Big to Fail (2011) with William Hurt, Cynthia Nixon, James Woods, Paul Giamatti.