J McKiernan

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Gender Male
Occupation Filmmaker/Writer
Location Beavercreek, Ohio, United States
Introduction Married to the greatest woman in the world...three beautiful children...a film obsession that will never quit...
Interests Film, filmmaking, writing, music, politics, tennis, humor, film, writing, film, writing, music, film, writing, writing, and film.
Favorite Movies Too many to name...but here, in alphabetical order, are several... About a Boy, Adaptation., After Hours, The Age of Innocence, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Almost Famous, Amelie, American Beauty, The Apartment, The Aviator, Away From Her, Babel, Before Sunset, Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, Blackmail, Boiler Room, Boogie Nights, Borat, The Bourne Ultimatum, Bowling for Columbine, Breaking the Waves, Bridget Jones's Diary, Bringing Out the Dead, Cape Fear, Casablanca, Casino, Chasing Amy, Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, The Constant Gardener, Control Room, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Dancer in the Dark, Day for Night, Dead Man Walking, The Departed, Dr. Strangelove, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eyes Wide Shut, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fargo, The 400 Blows, Ghost World, Glengarry Glen Ross, Goodfellas, Good Will Hunting, Gosford Park, Greed, Grizzly Man, Hard Candy, High Fidelity, House of Sand and Fog, Igby Goes Down, I'm Not There, In the Bedroom, Interiors, Intolerable Cruelty, Jackie Brown, Jerry Maguire, Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, The Last Temptation of Christ, Little Children, Lost in Translation, Magnolia, Manhattan, Maria Full of Grace, Matchstick Men, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Memento, Michael Clayton, Monster, Monster's Ball, Moonlight Mile, Moulin Rouge, Mulholland Drive, Mystery Train, Mystic River, Network, No Country for Old Men, North by Northwest, Notorious, One Hour Photo, Panic, Pleasantville, Pulp Fiction, Punch-Drunk Love, Raging Bull, Rear Window, Requiem for a Dream, Roger and Me, Roger Dodger, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, The Savages, Say Anything, Scenes From a Marriage, Shadow of a Doubt, Shortbus, Sicko, Sleepy Hollow, Smokin' Aces, Some Like It Hot, The Spanish Prisoner, Sunrise, Sweet and Lowdown, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Taxi Driver, The Thin Red Line, Three Kings, Traffic, The Truman Show, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 21 Grams, Volver, You Can Count On Me
Favorite Music Elton John is the greatest ever...and the most random and eclectic hodge-podge of musical interests you'll ever witness, including Electric Light Orchestra, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Earth Wind and Fire, The Who, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, James Taylor....More recently, Alicia Keys, Gavin DeGraw, The Scissor Sisters, Norah Jones, Damien Rice, David Gray, etc.
Favorite Books Kate Chopin's THE AWAKENING beyond any and all others; then, in no particular order, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, On the Road, anything by Steve Martin, anything by Al Franken...recently, Diablo Cody's Candy Girl