Steve De Jarnatt is an American film and television director,
screenwriter, and short-story author.De Jarnatt is perhaps best known
for writing and directing the nuclear-apocalypse thriller Miracle Mile
(1988) and directing the sci-fi film Cherry 2000 (1987). In 1983
Miracle Mile was chosen by American Film magazine as one of the ten
best unproduced screenplays circulating in Hollywood. That same year
De Jarnatt received his first screen credit as one of the writers of
Strange Brew, a comedy starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as their
respective SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie.De Jarnatt has also
directed episodic television, including Lizzie McGuire, Flight 29
Down, ER, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.His short story "Rubiaux
Rising" appeared in the 2009 edition of The Best American Short
Stories, as selected by author Alice Sebold. A collection of De
Jarnatt's stories, Grace for Grace, was published in 2020.
screenwriter, and short-story author.De Jarnatt is perhaps best known
for writing and directing the nuclear-apocalypse thriller Miracle Mile
(1988) and directing the sci-fi film Cherry 2000 (1987). In 1983
Miracle Mile was chosen by American Film magazine as one of the ten
best unproduced screenplays circulating in Hollywood. That same year
De Jarnatt received his first screen credit as one of the writers of
Strange Brew, a comedy starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as their
respective SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie.De Jarnatt has also
directed episodic television, including Lizzie McGuire, Flight 29
Down, ER, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.His short story "Rubiaux
Rising" appeared in the 2009 edition of The Best American Short
Stories, as selected by author Alice Sebold. A collection of De
Jarnatt's stories, Grace for Grace, was published in 2020.
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