Martin Brest
August 8, 1951 · 74 years old
Martin Brest (born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. After his feature debut, Going in Style (1979), he directed the action comedies Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Midnight Run (1988), which were critical and commercial hits. He then directed Scent of a Woman (1…
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Scent of a Woman
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
Meet Joe Black
Death makes a deal with a principled widower.
Beverly Hills Cop
A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
Midnight Run
A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
Spies Like Us
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
Going in Style
Three friends living on the dole decide to rob a bank.