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    • Christopher Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. After writing screenplays for several teen comedies in the mid-1980s, including Gremlins, The Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes, he made his di…

    BornChristopher Joseph Columbus · September 10, 1958 · Spangler, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Alma materNew York University
    SpouseMonica Devereux (m. 1983)
    Children4
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    Early life

    Columbus was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, the only child born to Mary Irene (née Puskar), a factory worker, and Alex Michael Columbus, an aluminum plant worker and coal miner. … See more

    Career

    Columbus' professional career began in the early 1980s, as a writer for the screenplay of Reckless (1984). Columbus later said, "it wasn't my best work. I intended it to be semi-biographical ... and the film was based on … See more

    Filmmaking style

    Columbus's films are often grounded in stories about unconventional and dysfunctional families, and explore characters who lose their loved ones. He is regarded as a "sentimental" filmmaker due to his explo… See more

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