BPS 222: Hot Tube Time Machine, High Fidelity & Screenwriting in Hollywood with Steve Pink

Steve Pink's career as a writer, producer, and director is
inextricably linked to his pal John Cusack. Pink co-wrote the
screenplay for the 1997 black comedy "Grosse Pointe Blank," where
Cusack played a deadpan assassin, and also worked on the adaptation
of Nick Hornby's novel "High Fidelity," which was made into a film
for Cusack in 2000.

Pink had co-producer credits on both movies, and, in 2010, he
finally directed Cusack in the '80s flashback comedy "Hot Tub Time
Machine." Pink got his start as an actor in the Cusack movie "The
Sure Thing" in '85; he also appeared in "Grosse Pointe Blank" and
played a limo driver in the comedy "America's Sweethearts," where
Cusack was paired with Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Fittingly.

Pink has worked as a co-executive producer on the TV series
"Entourage," a tribute to male friendship in show business, and he
has stepped up as producer on the Tom Cruise vehicle "Knight and
Day."

His new film is The Wheel.

Albee and Walker, a young couple on the brink of divorce, rent a
mountain getaway to save their fledgling marriage. Before long,
their personal drama creates tension between their newly engaged
AirBnB hosts -- Ben & Carly — leaving us to wonder if either
couples’ relationships will survive the weekend. Cast: Amber
Midthunder, Taylor Gray, Bethany Anne Lind, Nelson Lee, Carly
Nykanen, Kevin Pasdon. 

Available on DIGITAL and ON DEMAND, July 22nd.

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