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Ben Younger
7 October 1972
Ben Younger created 1 movies in the Thriller, Drama, Crime genres.
Ben Younger got succeed with average imdb rating 6.8.
Ben Younger made his feature screenwriting and directorial debut with The Boiler Room (2000), a drama set in an underground brokerage firm on Wall Street. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Younger attended the City University of New York, where he studied political science. He first set out to have a career in politics, working on a number of campaigns, but he eventually made the leap from politics to filmmaking as a grip on feature films and music videos.
After becoming a corporate vid
... eo cameraman, Younger wrote and directed a short, L & M, which was shown at various film festivals, and also produced the short Maestro. He got the inspiration for The Boiler Room when he himself was recruited as a boiler room trainee, and he spent a year researching underground telemarketing brokerages while writing his screenplay for the film.Read more Less
