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Writing
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Richard Friedenberg

Writing

Biography
Richard Friedenberg is an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote the screenplay for A River Runs Through It (1992), starring Brad Pitt, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and the screenplay for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television film Promise (1986), starring James Garner and James Woods, for which he won an Emmy Award. He also wrote the screenplay for Dying Young starring Julia Roberts and wrote and directed The Education of Little Tree (1997). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Friedenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dying Young

as Jeopardy Contestant
1991