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	Drinks with Tony - Wim Wenders interview
		Wesley Strick's first novel, Out There is the Dark, is set in 40's Hollywood and reads like intelligent film noir.
		Wesley has also been a screenwriter for the past 20 years, working on films like Scorsese's Cape Fear, Doom, Wolf, Arachnophobia and True Believer.
		Wesley, his wife and I hung out at Dalva in San Francisco.
	www.drinkswithtony.com /wesleystrick.html (174 words)

	One Guy's Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It's based on a script by Wesley Strick, and that's where the problem lies: structurally it's as rickety as the titular edifice, while looks as though it's constantly poised to crumble into the Pacific off the Malibu shore.
		Strick co-wrote some acceptable pictures--"Arachnophobia," the newer "Cape Fear," "Wolf"--but he also had a hand in such more recent bombs as "The Saint" and "Return to Paradise," and when one looks at his solo efforts, the result is even grimmer.
		Given the sort of junk that Sackheim and Strick are tossing at the audience in "The Glass House," one may observe that the old adage about throwing stones will doubtlessly be vindicated here in spades.
	www.oneguysopinion.com /review.asp?ID=453 (750 words)

	Review: The Tie that Binds (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For writer-turned-director Wesley Strick, this is not an auspicious debut.
		Strick shows his inexperience with a grating tendency towards obviousness -- moments of subtlety are few.
		Had Strick presented this scene tongue-in-cheek, it might have been worth a chuckle, but the whole thing is played distressingly straight.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/t/tie_binds.html (580 words)

	Movie Review - True Believer - eFilmCritic
		The screenplay by Wesley Strick is a honey: full of tantalizing twists and turns, witty dialogue, plausible characters.
		I can't exactly aver that the plot is airtight from scrutiny -- even when Strick shows deftness with creating story revelations, the manner in which they're aligned is a bit too reliant on coincidence -- but,as a work of fiction it easily passes under the suspension-of-disbelief test.
		Woods, in an ugly gray ponytail and an array of retro twill suits, is electric in the courtroom and emotionally accessible on the home front (his character's self-disgust over squandering his potential is rather poignant), and he's given first-rate support by Robert Downey, Jr.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=10059 (437 words)

	Mentors
		WFP fellows are paired with mentors who provide advice throughout the year.
		This year’s mentors include Steve Zaillian (Gangs of New York), Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society), Scott Alexander and Larry Karazewski (People Vs.Larry Flynt), Wesley Strick (Cape Fear), Robin Swicord (Matilda), Sam Harper (Cheaper By The Dozen), and Larry Levin (Dr. Dolitlle).
		Wesley Strick (“Cape Fear”) “The writing in both scripts is exceptional.
	www.chesterfield-co.com /html/mentors.html (326 words)

	"Tie' binds audience to a ghoulish plot
		But she doesn't need magic to do evil in "The Tie That Binds," the directorial debut of screenwriter Wesley Strick ("Arachnophobia," "Cape Fear" and "Final Analysis").
		Working from a script by Michael Auerbach, Strick tries to minimize the ghoulishness of a plot about two criminals who live in their car and feed their six-year-old daughter Janie (Julia Devin) by breaking into houses and raiding refrigerators.
		Strick seems to have lost control of his narrative in the editing stage.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/e/a/1995/09/09/STYLE7936.dtl&type=printable (305 words)

	The Tie That Binds (1995)
		Strick was previously a scriptwriter with such A-budget entries as Arachnophobia (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Wolf (1994) and The Saint (1997).
		Strick generates suspense quite well - there is a well-sustained climax and one rather effective scene with Daryl Hannah threatening Cynda Williams’s newborn baby.
		He chooses to place the child at the center of the drama and some of the most striking scenes come in the emergence of the child’s past contrasted against her new middle-class surroundings.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/tiethatbinds.htm (402 words)

	Moviehole.net - The Glass House
		The last good one we probably had was "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1991), which was written by Wesley Strick.
		Strick serves as the scribe of "The Glass House" too.
		Wesley Strick, who also wrote "Cape Fear" (1992), has created an interesting batch of characters again, that we give enough of a damn about so much that we fear for the young tykes well being.
	www.moviehole.net /reviews/224.html (528 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Glass House review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Terry (Stellan Skarsgard) and Dr. Erin Glass (Diane Lane) are named in the wills of Grace (Rita Wilson) and David Baker (Michael O'Keefe) as the couple who are to be entrusted with raising their underage children, Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) and Rhett (Trevor Morgan).
		There are nice plot twists and the frequent use of misdirection running through Wesley Strick's screenplay.
		Unfortunately, Sackheim and Strick spend entirely too much time discussing the plot and character motivation as the onscreen action unspools.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_4/glasshouse.html (1299 words)

	RETURN TO PARADISE - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much ...
		Exploring the depths of the trepidation and fear this moral dilemma brings is exactly what attracted Ruben and Strick to this dramatically updated and altered retelling in the first place.
		Putting a spotlight on the media element is where Strick came in, who meticulously researched the back story elements.
		Ruben attributes the M.J. Major character to Strick who used her primarily as a device to heighten the tension for Heche's Beth -- M.J. being another debilitating obstacle thrown in her path.
	www.cinemareview.com /production.asp?prodid=270 (718 words)

	Glass House, The (2001) - Review By DAILY-REVIEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Writer Wesley Strick (and it’s quite likely that there was much tinkering by other unnamed parties, so let’s not blame it all on him) comes off like a dirty old man; Sobieski looks damn good in a bikini, but there is nothing whatsoever in the story that requires it.
		Columbia TriStar’s DVD has some rather disappointing menu screens — the music is far too intrusive, there is no animation, and the font used for the options looks hokey, for some reason — but aside from that, it’s a fairly slick package.
		Director Sackheim and screenwriter Strick team for a commentary track, and the pair come off as a generally nice couple of guys, but also hopelessly naive about the kind of film they were making.
	www.daily-reviews.com /g/scglasshouse.htm (953 words)

	Return to Paradise . Newcity Chicago . 08-17-98
		The first twenty minutes of this engaging melodrama, directed by Joseph Ruben from a screenplay by Bruce Robinson and Wesley Strick, set up a peaceful world.
		Strick has worked largely as a script doctor on films like "Face/Off" and "Batman Returns." "I get offered a lot of rewrites," the 44-year-old studio veteran says.
		Ruben and Strick knew that casting was key to getting the film made, and Strick wrote with certain performers in mind.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/chicago/r/returntoparadise1.html (742 words)

	The Glass House (2001)
		[Strick has written fine scripts like Cape Fear (1991), Wolf (1994) and directed The Tie That Binds (1995).
		But out of all these elements Strick and director Daniel Sackheim do quite an effective job of imbuing it all with sinister effect and threatening ambiguity.
		The film is beautifully photographed and Sackheim has a particularly good way of lighting the house and framing shots for maximum sinister effect threat, making Leelee visually as much a trapped victim as she is circumstantially.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/glasshouse.htm (651 words)

	News Askew: [Talk Back!] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Last year, Kevin Smith, the writer/director of the acclaimed indie films Clerks and Chasing Amy, was commissioned to provide his take on Supes' newest screen adventures.
		This past spring, however, when Tim Burton took the helm of the megabudget project, Smith was unceremoniously booted from the project, and writer Wesley Strick (The Saint) began re-working the Superman Lives screenplay."
		Last year Smith jokingly wondered, 'Did [Peters] see Clerks and say, 'Hey, big-dick jokes--this guy has to write Superman?'' The script that Smith produced, which is loyal to the recent storylines in DC Comics, has some sparkling banter, but the battles are underwhelming.
	www.newsaskew.com /cgi-bin/coranto/iSay.cgi?Page=Comments&ID=lZEFVluppfevnQgsz (269 words)

	Empire: Film Reviews, Movie News and Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He's not alone; the principal cast is uniformly credible, vital to sustaining the gripping premise.
		Unusually, the suspense is internal, with characters talking through a crisis of conscience - less surprising when you know Bruce Robinson's screenplay, gutsied-up by Wesley Strick, is based on a 1990 French film, Force Majeure.
		Two years after three Americans buddied up for a carefree adventure in Asia and then said their adieus on an idyllic Malaysian shore, disillusioned smart alec Sheriff (Vaughn) and decent, successful, about-to-be-married Tony (Conrad) are located in New York by desperate lawyer Beth (Heche), who drops a bombshell.
	www.empireonline.co.uk /site/incinemas/review.asp?FID=4503 (339 words)

	Writers Bio
		Strick's scripts contains suspense sometimes on the edge of horror.
		Strick's script to The Saint was originally written by Jonathan Hensleigh, but was rewritten by Strick.
		Rumours has it that Tim Burton hired Strick to write the script for the new Superman movie.
	members.tripod.com /~FredrikPersson/writers.html (3077 words)

	NOW : Movies : Glass Blows : Sep 13 - 19, 2001
		THE GLASS HOUSE directed by Daniel Sackheim, written by Wesley Strick, produced by Neal H. Moritz, with LeeLee Sobieski, Stellan Skarsgrd, Diane Lane and Bruce Dern.
		There's a really interesting movie about that subject hiding somewhere in The Glass House, in which Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) loses her parents and then discovers that her guardians don't have her best interests at heart.
		The Glass House's writer, Wesley Strick, has a couple of decent credits, notably True Believer and Return To Paradise (both directed by Joseph Ruben).
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-09-13/movie_reviews.html (396 words)

	Movie Review - Glass House, The - eFilmCritic
		The early introduction to the characters—mainly Leelee’s—is weak and superficial, and it doesn’t help to have skull-vibrating music blasted to the max, obscuring much of the conversation.
		As Wesley Strick’s script starts heading more into the “thrilling” terrain, the expected and anticipated terrain, it quickly begins to get better.
		Strick isn’t very good at tying up loose ends and keeping track of what he frays along the way; there are too many times that there are no follow ups with characters or events (e.g., the social worker) that should otherwise have a major effect on the story.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=2006&reviewer=172 (665 words)

	Review: Glass House, The (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While watching this awful thriller, a title popped into my mind: The Tie that Binds, a 1995 motion picture that was bad for all the same reasons.
		And there is a connection beyond basic lack of intelligence - Wesley Strick, the writer of The Glass House, directed The Tie that Binds.
		And that piece of evidence leads me to believe that director Daniel Sackheim (a veteran of the small screen) didn't have much of a chance with this project.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/g/glass_house.html (591 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Wesley Strick
		Former rock critic Wesley Strick has been a screenwriter since Warner Bros. accepted his screenplay for Final Analysis in 1984.
		In addition to penning or co-penning scripts to such subsequent films as True Believer (1989), Arachnophobia (1990), and Return to Paradise (1998), Strick has also written occasionally for television.
		A native of New York City, Strick graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with an English degree.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/100138/bio.jhtml (153 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Tie That Binds (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Produced by the same team that bankrolled the hit The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, this violent domestic thriller is often compared to that mega-hit.
		Screenwriter Wesley Strick made his directorial debut with this script by Michael Auerbach.
		Vincent Spano and Moira Kelly are Russell and Dana Clifton, a successful but childless yuppie couple who adopt a mesmerizing young girl named Janie (Julia Devin).
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=4687 (200 words)

	Screenwriters Online:Wesley Strick,Live
		_Wesley Strick: I started writing short stories when I was about 7.
		_Wesley Strick: I was involved with all of them until the final shooting script.
		_Wesley Strick: Although the proof that I coouldn't have written it is that,
	www.screenwriter.com /insider/WesleyAOL.html (1815 words)

	The Tie That Binds Film Review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The climax is a would-be tour de force in a half-built new house, reminiscent of the church in Witness.
		First-time director Strick, to be fair, does more than justice to Michael Auerbach's hyperbolic script.
		If you were registered for Time Out Film you would automatically see the cinemas near you showing this film.
	www.timeout.com /film/79411.html (365 words)

	Wesley Strick
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	dOc DVD Review: Hitched (2001) - Printable
		Usually, their experiments with mature but TV-level subjects are mediocre, but Hitched is a surprising little fl comedy that I found immensely satisfying.
		Written and directed by Wesley Strick (screenwriter of Arachnophobia, The Saint, and Cape Fear [the remake], among others), this little low-budget gem is quite a departure from his experiences with much bigger projects.
		While not a masterpiece, Hitched is a tricky film that pretends, at the outset, to be a relatively serious, dark film.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=3473 (943 words)

	The Christian Critic: Return To Paradise
		If they do return, they will be imprisoned for up to six years in some pretty horrifying conditions.
		Director Joseph Ruben (Money Train) and screenwriters Wesley Strick (The Saint) and Bruce Robinson (Jennifer Eight) pose an interesting moral dilemma.
		Just as we come to a conclusion as to what we might do if we were in the same situation, he throws in a twist or wrinkle that forces us to rethink our position.
	www.christiancritic.com /mov1998/returnpa.asp (664 words)

	FilmStew.com • Hannah Finds the Drug
		The film, which will start shooting on Monday in Los Angeles, marks the feature directing debut of commercial and music video director Lester.
		Penned by Wesley Strick, who himself had been attached to direct, Hannah joins the Los Angeles-set film as Sandra Brand, a single mother who sacrifices and struggles to allow her son, Jonah (John Patrick Amedori), to attend one of the most prestigious private schools in California.
		In addition to Hannah and Amedori, Lizzy Caplan, D.J. Cotrona and Jenny Wade are attached to star.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/DailyNews/Details.asp?ContentID=11320 (292 words)

	Love Is The Drug Film. Desire, Excess and Truth Collide.
		Starring Daryl Hannah (Wall Street, Kill Bill I and II), Lizzy Caplan (WB's "Related", CBS's "The Class") and John Patrick Amedori (Walt Disney's "Stick It), Love Is The Drug is the story of five recent high school graduates, filled with the verve of youth, who must confront apprehensive issues during their summer break.
		Written by Wesley Strick, whose past works include Robert DeNiro's Cape Fear, and Arachnophobia, Love Is The Drug takes a look at the ways desire, excess and truth collide to reshape their lives.
		It also examines how easily situations can spin out of control.
	loveisthedrugfilm.com /synopsis.asp (275 words)

	THE GLASS HOUSE - DVD
		The 5.1 Dolby Digital soundmix cranks up the bass and makes optimum use of the rear channels during a thunderstorm and in the climax, but dialogue is sometimes too whispered for its own good: two eavesdropped conversations necessitated flicking on the subtitles for me.
		Director Daniel Sackheim and hack screenwriter Wesley Strick chime in with a feature-length commentary that had me tearing my hair out within five minutes; for starters, Strick refers to Rosemary's Baby as a widescreen picture whose cinematography inspired Sackheim to shoot The Glass House in 2.35:1.
		(Though overmatted on Paramount's DVD, Rosemary's Baby was framed for 1.66:1 projection.) Strick, who wrote the Cape Fear remake for Martin Scorsese, obviously didn't learn a damn thing from him.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/glasshouse.htm (570 words)

	DVD WORLD: The Tie That Binds (DVD)
		Hot Hollywood favorite Daryl Hannah leads an all-star cast in The Tie That Binds - the spellbinding thriller from the producers of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle.
		In this harrowing thriller from director Wesley Strick, the screenwriter who created Arachnophobia and Cape Fear, a troubled six-year-old girl finds herself caught in an explosive tug-of-war between her loving adoptive parents (Moira Kelly and Vincent Spano) and the charismatic but dangerous fugitives who gave her life (Daryl Hannah and Keith Carradine).
		Just as a semblance of family life begins to form, the girl’s real parents, desperate drifters wanted for burglary and murder, surface to reclaim their daughter.
	www.dvdworldonline.com /thetiethatbindsdvd.asp (198 words)

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