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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Joseph Minion is
an American film director and screenwriter, best known for Martin
Scorsese's After Hours (1985). Born in New Jersey in 1957, Minion
briefly attended NYU Film School before finishing his studies at
Columbia University, then renowned for its screenwriting program. In
1984, Minion's script for After Hours was optioned by Griffin Dunne and
Amy Robinson, the latter a former actress who'd appeared as Harvey
Keitel's damaged girlfriend in Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973). Robinson
sent Minion's screenplay to Scorsese, whose Last Temptation of Christ
had recently fallen through; production on After Hours started shortly
afterward. Later, it surfaced that Minion had plagiarized portions of
After Hours from radio host Joe Frank, who successfully sued for an
undisclosed sum.
