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Michael Stephen Lehmann (born March 30, 1957 in San Francisco, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 and television director
Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television episode....
.

Lehmann attended Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
. His first job in the film industry was answering phones at Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
's American Zoetrope
American Zoetrope

American Zoetrope is the name of the studio founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, named after a zoetrope Coppola was given in the late 1960s by the filmmaker and collector of early film devices, Mogens Skot-Hansen....
 film company. Later he supervised cameras on films that included 1983's The Outsiders
The Outsiders (film)

The Outsiders is a 1983 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an film adaptation of the The Outsiders by S....
. Lehmann attended film school at USC
University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in the University Park, Los Angeles, California neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
 and graduated in 1985. While at USC he made a student film, Beaver Gets a Boner, the title of which he believes helped get the attention of film executives who would later hire him.

Lehmann is probably most noted for directing the black comedy Heathers
Heathers

Heathers is a 1989 in film black comedy film starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, and Shannen Doherty. The film portrays four girls in a trend-setting clique at a fictional high school in Ohio....
.






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Michael Stephen Lehmann (born March 30, 1957 in San Francisco, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 and television director
Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television episode....
.

Lehmann attended Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
. His first job in the film industry was answering phones at Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
's American Zoetrope
American Zoetrope

American Zoetrope is the name of the studio founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, named after a zoetrope Coppola was given in the late 1960s by the filmmaker and collector of early film devices, Mogens Skot-Hansen....
 film company. Later he supervised cameras on films that included 1983's The Outsiders
The Outsiders (film)

The Outsiders is a 1983 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an film adaptation of the The Outsiders by S....
. Lehmann attended film school at USC
University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in the University Park, Los Angeles, California neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
 and graduated in 1985. While at USC he made a student film, Beaver Gets a Boner, the title of which he believes helped get the attention of film executives who would later hire him.

Lehmann is probably most noted for directing the black comedy Heathers
Heathers

Heathers is a 1989 in film black comedy film starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, and Shannen Doherty. The film portrays four girls in a trend-setting clique at a fictional high school in Ohio....
. He also directed 40 Days and 40 Nights
40 Days and 40 Nights

This article refers to Michael Lehmann's 2002 film. For the 2007 Matthew_Chapman_ book, see 40 Days and 40 Nights .40 Days and 40 Nights is a 2002 in film romantic comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and written by Rob Perez....
, The Truth About Cats & Dogs
The Truth About Cats & Dogs

The Truth About Cats & Dogs is a 1996 in film American film, a romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin, and Jamie Foxx....
, Hudson Hawk
Hudson Hawk

Hudson Hawk is a 1991 film, film director by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also co-wrote the story. Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone, Richard E....
, Meet the Applegates
Meet the Applegates

Meet the Applegates is a 1991 in film black comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann. It was filmed in 1989, but not released until 1991. The movie takes a dark, satirical look at the end of the world, nuclear holocausts, Alienism and Terrorism....
, Airheads
Airheads

Airheads is a comedy film released on August 5, 1994. It was written by Rich Wilkes and directed by Michael Lehmann.It stars Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler as a group of loser musicians called The Lone Rangers who take a radio station hostage, just so that their song would get played on the radio....
 and Because I Said So
Because I Said So (film)

Because I Said So is a 2007 in film romantic comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo and Stephen Collins....
.

Lehmann also directs for television, and has worked on the short lived HBO comedy series The Comeback
The Comeback (TV series)

The Comeback is a Television program produced by HBO that stars actress Lisa Kudrow as sitcom actress Valerie Cherish in modern-day Los Angeles, California....
 and NBC's The West Wing. He has also guest directed on The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show

The Larry Sanders Show is a satirical television sitcom that originally aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the Home Box Office cable television network in the United States....
, Watching Ellie
Watching Ellie

Watching Ellie was an United States sitcom that starred Julia Louis-Dreyfus and was created by her husband, Brad Hall. It aired on NBC from February 2002 to May 2003, though only sixteen episodes were broadcast before it was cancelled due to low ratings....
 and Century City
Century City (TV series)

Century City is an United States science fiction-legal drama television series set in Los Angeles, California in the year 2030....
. Lehmann also directed one episode of the HBO drama, Big Love
Big Love

Big Love is an American television drama on HBO about a fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy. Big Love stars Bill Paxton, Chlo? Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Harry Dean Stanton, Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith , Grace Zabriskie, and Matt Ross....
.

Lehmann's upcoming films include Your Word Against Mine.

At a Q & A session during 2007's South by Southwest
South by Southwest

South by Southwest is a set of interactive media, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas. Originating as the Austin Battle of the Bands, SXSW officially began in 1987 and is centered on the downtown Austin Convention Center....
 film festival in Austin, Texas, Lehmann claimed he would never make a sequel to Heathers. He claimed Wynona Ryder wanted to do Heathers set in Washington, D.C., but he saw no potential for the project.

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