James C. Strouse is an American

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

and

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. He wrote and made his directorial debut with ''

Grace Is Gone ''Grace Is Gone'' is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by James C. Strouse in his directorial debut. It stars John Cusack as a father who cannot bring himself to tell his two daughters that their mother, a soldier in the U.S. Army, ha ...

'' (2007), starring John Cusack.

Career

He wrote the film '' Lonesome Jim'' (2005), directed by

Steve Buscemi Steven Vincent Buscemi ( ,As stated in interviews by Buscemi himself, some may insist that his pronunciation of his own name is "wrong" because it does not match the original Italian pronunciation as well. It is not uncommon for people to pronou ...

. He wrote and made his directorial debut with ''

'' (2007) starring John Cusack. Strouse won an Audience Award for most popular dramatic feature and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2007

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,66 ...

for the film. He next wrote and directed the film ''

The Winning Season ''The Winning Season'' is a 2009 American sports comedy film written and directed by James C. Strouse and starring Sam Rockwell. Premiering at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, the film had a limited theatrical release on September 3, 2010,Honeycut ...

'' (2009), starring

Sam Rockwell Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known for appearing in independent films and also as a character actor portraying a wide variety of roles both comedic and dramatic in films such as '' Lawn Dogs'' (199 ...

and Emma Roberts. Strouse is a native of Goshen, Indiana and was an MFA student at Columbia University for fiction writing. His film '' People Places Things'' was released in 2015. He wrote and directed ''

The Incredible Jessica James ''The Incredible Jessica James'' is a 2017 American romantic comedy film written and directed by James C. Strouse and starring Jessica Williams, Chris O'Dowd, Noël Wells, Lakeith Stanfield, Megan Ketch and Zabryna Guevara. It was released on ...

'' (2017). He is set to direct the English-language remake of the German hit film SMS für Dich, starring Priyanka Chopra, Sam Heughan and Celine Dion among others.

Filmography

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* 1976 births American male screenwriters Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Film directors from Indiana Living people People from Goshen, Indiana Screenwriters from Indiana {{US-film-director-stub