Steve Pink

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Steve Pink
Born (1966-02-03) February 3, 1966 (age 57)
Occupation(s) Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Filmworker

Steve Pink (born February 3, 1966) is an American actor, director and writer. He is the director of the comedy films Accepted and Hot Tub Time Machine , and the co-writer of the films Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity .

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Life and career

He is an alumnus of Evanston Township High School, Columbia College Chicago, and University of California-Berkeley (graduating in 1989 with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies), and a contemporary of John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, and D.V. DeVincentis. Together, Pink, Cusack and DeVincentis formed a production company, New Crime Productions, which produced both Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity .

In 2010, he directed Hot Tub Time Machine , and its sequel Hot Tub Time Machine 2 in 2015. [1] He was also a producer on the 20th Century Fox release Knight and Day , starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.

Filmography

YearTitleDirectorProducerWriter
1997 Grosse Pointe Blank NoYesYes
2000 High Fidelity NoYesYes
2006 Accepted YesNoNo
2006 I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With NoYesNo
2010 Knight and Day NoYesNo
2010 Hot Tub Time Machine YesNoNo
2014 About Last Night YesNoNo
2015 Hot Tub Time Machine 2 YesNoNo
2021 The Wheel YesYesNo

Acting credits

YearTitleRole
1985 The Sure Thing Football Player
1986 Touch and Go Green
One More Saturday Night Dogman
1988 Dangerous Curves Ralphie
1992 Bob Roberts Penn State Protester
1997 Grosse Pointe Blank Terry Rostand
2001 America's Sweethearts Limo Driver

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