Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski are a Hollywood screenwriting team. They met at the University of Southern California where they were roommates and continue to work together. Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ... The University of Southern California (also known as USC, SC, Southern Cal, and Southern California), Southern Californias oldest private research university, is located in the urban center of Los Angeles, California. ...

Their first success was the popular but critically derided comedy Problem Child (1990). Alexander and Karaszewski claim that their original screenplay was a sophisticated black comedy but that the studio watered it down into an unrecognizable state. Problem Child is a 1990 Dennis Dugan comedy movie about a kid named Junior who keeps getting transferred from one adoptive parents house or orphanage to another because of all the pranks and trouble he causes. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, et cetera – are treated in a humorous or satirical manner. ...

In 1994, Alexander and Karaszewski persuaded Tim Burton to direct a biopic about the worst film director in the world, Edward D. Wood, Jr.. They wrote the screenplay in two weeks. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Tim Burton, circa 2001. ... A biographical film or biopic is a film about a particular person or group of people, based on events that actually happened. ... Edward D. Wood, Jr. ...

Their subsequent films include The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon (1999) and Agent Cody Banks (2003). The People vs. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Andy Kaufman Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was a New York-born American self-described song and dance man. ... Man on the Moon is the name of the 1999 film, based on the unusual life and career of comedian Andy Kaufman. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Agent Cody Banks is a movie released in the U.S. on March 13, 2003 that follows the adventures of 15-year-old Cody Banks (played by Frankie Muñiz) who has to finish his chores, avoid getting grounded, and save the world by going undercover for the CIA. Hilary... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Scott Alexander at the IMDB
• Larry Karaszewski at the IMDB