Highest rated movie: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Lowest rated movie: Osmosis Jones (2001)
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Movies starring Joel Silver have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 70%.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - released in 1988 - is Joel Silver's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 781 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Joel Silver is Osmosis Jones - released in 2001 - with a score of 57% based on 572 reviews.
Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is an American film producer, known for action films like Lethal Weapon and Die Hard. He is owner of Silver Pictures and co-founder of Dark Castle Entertainment.
Silver grew up in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of a writer and a public relations executive. He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, where he is credited with inventing the sport of Ultimate (then known as "Ultimate Frisbee"). In 1970, he entered Lafayette College, where he formed the first collegiate Ultimate team. He finished his undergraduate studies at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Silver began his career at Lawrence Gordon Productions, where he eventually became president of motion pictures for the company. He earned his first screen credit as the associate producer on The Warriors and, with Gordon, produced 48 Hrs.,Streets of Fire and Brewster's Millions. In 1985, he formed Silver Pictures and produced successful action films such as Commando (1985), the Lethal Weapon franchise, the first two films of the Die Hard series and the The Matrix franchise of action films. Silver appears on-screen at the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Raoul J. Raoul, the director of the animated short Something's Cookin. Silver directed "Split Personality", (1992), an episode of the HBO horror anthology, Tales from the Crypt. He currently runs two production companies, Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment co-owned by Robert Zemeckis. Along with Jared Kass, Silver was co-creator of the sport of Ultimate. On July 10, 1999, Silver married his production assistant Karyn Fields.
Joel Silver has acted in films with Laurence Fishburne, Mickie McGowan, Keanu Reeves and Frank Welker.
Joel Silver has worked with these film directors: Robert Zemeckis, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly and Josh Oreck.
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