Richard Beattie

Richard Beattie is a Canadian screenwriter. He is most noted for the 1989 film Cold Comfort, for which he and Elliot L. Sims won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990.[1]

Born and raised in British Columbia, Beattie studied political science at the University of British Columbia before applying to, but then dropping out of law school in 1985. His first screenplay, Blindside, was directed by Paul Lynch and released in 1987.[2]

His other credits have included the films Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil (1992),[3] The Shower (1992),[4] Cold Sweat (1993),[5] No Contest II (1997), Grizzly Falls (1999),[6] The Highwayman (2000),[7] The Baby Formula (2009),[8] High Plains Invaders (2009), Maximum Conviction (2012) and Cartels (2017),[9] and episodes of the television series True Justice, Olympus, Insomnia and Rising Suns.

  1. ^ John Griffin, "Jesus de Montreal sweeps Genies". Montreal Gazette, March 21, 1990.
  2. ^ Bruce Bailey, "Canadian Blindside a thinking-man's thriller". Montreal Gazette, December 10, 1987.
  3. ^ Catherine Dunphy, "Deliver us from the evil of tedious sequels". Toronto Star, February 3, 1992.
  4. ^ Rita Zekas, "Shower power: Film Centre grad makes movie". Toronto Star, August 28, 1992.
  5. ^ John Griffin, "Sex aside, Cold Sweat will leave viewers cold". Montreal Gazette, February 18, 1994.
  6. ^ Jay Stone, "There's plenty here to grizzle about". Kingston Whig-Standard, March 10, 2000.
  7. ^ Marc Horton, "Send this Highwayman to the recycle bin, and tell Priestley to stick to nice, wimpy roles". Edmonton Journal, June 9, 2000.
  8. ^ Barry Hertz, "A plot that's hard to conceive". The Globe and Mail, June 19, 2009.
  9. ^ Murray, Noel (July 6, 2017). "Steven Seagal is the big name, but crime thriller 'Cartels' would have been better off without him". Los Angeles Times.