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Peter Hewitt (b. October, 9 1962, Brighton, England, United Kingdom) is an English film director and writer, known for Garfield (2004) (credited as Pete Hewitt), Thunderpants (2002), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and The Candy Show (1989). Upon graduating from England's National Film and Television School in 1990, Hewitt flew to Hollywood with his BAFTA award-winning short film, The Candy Show, in hand. Once there, he called executives from major U.S. studios and asked if he could show them his film. Soon after, he landed an agent and made his feature film directorial debut with Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. Although not as big a success as the original, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the movie made a profit. He turned to TV next, directing the first two hours of the mini-series Wild Palms. He directed Disney's Tom and Huck in 1995 which was based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hewitt returned to Britain to film The Borrowers, loosely based on a children's novel by Mary Norton of the same name. He remained in England to helm Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999), then tried his hand at TV work again with The Princess of Thieves (2001), filmed in Romania but featuring a mostly British cast, including a young Keira Knightley as Robin Hood's daughter, Gwyn. Hewitt co-wrote the script for his next film, Thunderpants. It was filmed in the U.K.

The Maiden Heist ( 2009) | IMDb: 6

Comedy , Crime

A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.

Starring:

Morgan Freeman , Christopher Walken , William H. Macy , Marcia Gay Harden , Philip Dorn Hebert , Todd Weeks

Directed by:

Peter Hewitt , Branko Racki

Produced by:

Rob Paris , Lori McCreary , Bob Yari

Zoom ( 2006) | IMDb: 4.4

Action , Adventure , Comedy , Family , Science fiction

Jack Shepard is an out-of-shape auto shop owner, far removed from the man who once protected the world's freedom. Reluctantly called back into action by the government, Jack is tasked with turning a ragtag group of kids with special powers into a new generation of superheroes to save the world from certain destruction.

Starring:

Tim Allen , Courteney Cox , Chevy Chase , Spencer Breslin , Kevin Zegers , Kate Mara

Directed by:

Adam Bocknek , Chamonix Bosch , Simon Board

Produced by:

Nick Osborne , Suzanne Todd , Joseph Boccia

Garfield ( 2004) | IMDb: 5

Animation , Comedy , Family

Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't want. Competition.

Starring:

Bill Murray , Breckin Meyer , Jennifer Love Hewitt , Stephen Tobolowsky , Evan Arnold , Mark Christopher Lawrence

Directed by:

Peter Hewitt

Produced by:

Brennan Dufresne , Neil A. Machlis , John Davis

The Borrowers ( 1997) | IMDb: 5.9

Action , Adventure , Comedy , Family , Fantasy

The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.

Starring:

John Goodman , Mark Williams , Jim Broadbent , Celia Imrie , Flora Newbigin , Tom Felton

Directed by:

Peter Hewitt , Sara Desmond

Produced by:

Rachel Talalay , Nina Gold , Debra Hayward

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey ( 1991) | IMDb: 6.3

Adventure , Comedy , Science fiction

Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.

Starring:

Keanu Reeves , Alex Winter , William Sadler , Joss Ackland , Pam Grier , George Carlin

Directed by:

Barry K. Thomas , Peter Hewitt , Richard Yuricich

Produced by:

Barry Spikings , Karen Rea , Rick Finkelstein

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