Randal Kleiser

Randal Kleiser studied film at the University of Southern California. After years working in TV, he became a commercially successful director with his first two movies: the musical Grease (1978) and the romantic adventure based on De Vere Stacpoole's 19th-century castaway novel The Blue Lagoon (1980).

In his subsequent work as well he has sampled and combined a wide variety of popular genres with craft-like dexterity: a love story set in the Greek Isles (Summer Lovers, 1982), a humorous mosaic of tales set in small-town America (Grandview, U.S.A., 1984), science fiction (Flight of the Navigator, 1986), a sentimental comedy about a 31-year-old virgin (Getting It Right, 1989), a Jack London novel adaptation (White Fang, 1990), a fantasy comedy (Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, 1992), a mystery thriller (Shadow of a Doubt, 1998), an adventure romcom (Love Wrecked, 2005), and an adventure musical for the whole family (Red Riding Hood, 2006).

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