Роден на 08.08.1951г. в The Bronx, New York, New York, USA
As a film student at New York University in the early 1970s, Brest first won attention with his award-winning short subject Hot Dogs for Gauguin (which starred a thenunknown Danny DeVito). He...
As a film student at New York University in the early 1970s, Brest first won attention with his award-winning short subject Hot Dogs for Gauguin (which starred a thenunknown Danny DeVito). He then wrote and directed his first feature, Hot Tomorrows (1977), while part of a fellowship program at the American Film Institute. Two years later he was directing a major Hollywood feature film with George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg. Going in Style (1979) was as self-assured as his student films had been, and held great promise for the young filmmaker. But false starts and disappointments stalled his momentum until he was called in to direct Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), a cannily well-made film, and a commercial smash. Brest continues to pick and choose his projects carefully. In 1988 he directed Robert De Niro in an atypical comic role (opposite Charles Grodin) in Midnight Run in 1992 he steered Al Pacino to an Academy Award in Scent of a Woman (He was nominated for Best Director and the film, which he produced, as Best Picture.) Brest has also taken bit parts in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Spies Like Us (1985).
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