James Mangold

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James Allen Mangold (born December 16, 1963) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Noted for his versatility in tackling a range of genres, Mangold made his debut as a film director with Heavy (1995) and gained recognition for the films Cop Land (1997), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Identity (2003), Walk the Line (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and two films in the X-Men franchise with The Wolverine (2013) and Logan (2017), the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He then directed the sports drama film Ford v Ferrari (2019), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and directed and co-wrote Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), the fifth and final instalment in the Indiana Jones series. For the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown (2024), Mangold was once again nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay and his first nomination for Best Director. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Mangold, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Cujo

Based off of Stephen King's novel of the same name, this, despite already getting a lot of heat for being set in present-day follows the faltering Trenton household. Vic Trenton is a popular advertising executive who goes out of town not only on business, but to cope with the possibility of divorcing his wife Donna who works for a competing ad firm. Their son Tad has no friends, but likes being around Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard. On the day Vic goes out of town, Donna and Tad go to an auto repair shop to get her car fixed, but they are trapped when they hear the growls of Cujo, a contractor of rabies.

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