Thomas Gordon Bezucha (; born March 8, 1964) is an American filmmaker.

Career

Bezucha was born and raised in

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, and graduated from Amherst Regional High School in 1982. He is a graduate in fashion design from the

Parsons School of Design Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...

, and worked as a

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executive for

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and

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. He wrote and directed the films ''

Big Eden ''Big Eden'' is a 2000 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. Arye Gross stars as Henry Hart, a successful gay artist from New York City who returns to his rural hometown in Montana to care for his ailing grandfathe ...

'' (2000), ''

The Family Stone ''The Family Stone'' is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. Produced by Michael London and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it stars an ensemble cast, including Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson, Dermot Mulrone ...

'' (2005), ''

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'' (2011), and ''

Let Him Go ''Let Him Go'' is a 2020 American neo-Western film starring Diane Lane and Kevin Costner, and directed, written, and co-produced by Thomas Bezucha, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Larry Watson. The film follows a retired sheriff ...

'' (2020). He also co-wrote the films ''

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ''The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'' is a historical novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows that was published in 2008. It was adapted into a film in 2018 featuring Lily James as Juliet Ashton and Matthew Goode as Sidney ...

'' (2018) and '' The Good House'' (2021). Bezucha is openly gay.

Filmography

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* 1964 births Living people 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American screenwriters American film directors American gay writers American male screenwriters American film producers English-language film directors Film directors from Massachusetts Film producers from Massachusetts LGBT film directors LGBT screenwriters Parsons School of Design alumni Screenwriters from Massachusetts Writers from Amherst, Massachusetts Amherst Regional High School (Massachusetts) alumni {{US-screen-writer-stub