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Todd Phillips
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Screen Story, Short Story Author
Biography:Raised on a steady diet of such goofy '80s comedy staples as "Revenge of the Nerds" (1984), "Stripes" (1981), and "Just One of the Guys" (1985), fearless filmmaker "Todd Phillips" didn't even see a Bergman or Welles film until he hit his early twenties -- a fact that's relentlessly obvious when watching his debut fiction feature, the raunchy retro-reeking teen-comedy "Road Trip". Born Todd Bunzel in Long Island, NY, and inspired by his junk-food movie addiction, Phillips enrolled in N.Y.U. to pursue a career as a filmmaker. Fascinated by the revolting antics of extreme punk rocker "G.G. Allin", Phillips set out to film a documentary about the controversial feces-slinging musician while still a student at N.Y.U. With such a unique subject matter to begin with, it would have been hard to make the documentary uninteresting, though with Phillips' no-holds-barred, guerilla approach and keen editing skills,... Full Biography
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Ed Helms, left, and director Todd Phillips on the set of "The Hangover" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Todd Phillips, Director, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller and Carmen Electra at the Starsky & Hutch premiere...
Jason Bateman, Carmen Electra, Owen Wilson, Amy Smart, Todd Phillips, Ben Stiller, Juliette Lewis...
Owen Wilson, Todd Phillips and Ben Stiller at the Starsky & Hutch premiere in Westwood on February...
Todd Phillips, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller and Carmen Electra at the Starsky & Hutch premiere in...
Jason Bateman, Carmen Electra, Owen Wilson, Amy Smart, Todd Phillips, Ben Stiller, Juliette Lewis...
Todd Phillips, Amy Smart, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller and Carmen Electra at the Starsky & Hutch...
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