Richard Alan Dutcher was born on 1964 and is an American independent filmmaker who produces, writes, directs, edits, and frequently stars in his films.
21 Facts About Richard Dutcher
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Richard Dutcher's family moved frequently, and at age seven his parents divorced.
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Richard Dutcher lived in his car during high school and was so financially strapped while attending college that he frequently had to choose between eating and going to the movies.
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Richard Dutcher graduated from Brigham Young University in 1988 with a degree in film.
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Richard Dutcher was married in 1988 to Gwen, moving to Mapleton, Utah in 1999.
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Richard Dutcher began work on his first feature film, Girl Crazy, in the early 1990s while living in an apartment in Van Nuys, California.
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Richard Dutcher raised the budget of the movie, then shot it in and near his apartment building.
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Richard Dutcher later raised more money to finish the movie.
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Richard Dutcher produced, wrote, directed, and starred in this film about Mormon missionaries, focusing on a Mormon elder determined to finish his two-year mission even though he is dying of brain cancer.
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Richard Dutcher followed this film in 2001 with Brigham City, a movie about the search for a serial murderer in a small Utah town which has never had a murder before.
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In 2003, Richard Dutcher announced his most ambitious movie project to date: The Prophet, a biopic about the life of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith, based on a screenplay written by Richard Dutcher.
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Richard Dutcher announced that both Val Kilmer and F Murray Abraham had agreed to portray Joseph Smith and Gov.
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Evil Angel was a modest success in a few foreign markets, but Richard Dutcher later testified in court he had not been paid proper royalties.
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Richard Dutcher was a witness in the 2017 court case of Utah real estate investor Rick Koerber who funded the film and was later accused and convicted of operating a Ponzi scheme, funding the $5 million film production with money investors believed was used to buy properties.
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In 2010, Richard Dutcher launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to complete Tryptic, a feature film he was writing and directing.
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In 2012, Richard Dutcher returned to his Girl Crazy roots and made The Boys at the Bar, a low-budget comedy that he wrote, directed, and starred in.
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In May 2014, Richard Dutcher stated that news of the film's release would be coming soon.
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Richard Dutcher thought the market could be revived by reintroducing well-crafted films that explore the great depths of Mormon themes and experience.
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Merrill saw Richard Dutcher as attacking LDS cinema because of the poor response to his latest films.
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Two days later, in a letter to the editor, Merrill apologized for his harsh criticisms, regretted the loss of Richard Dutcher, and wished him well in his future.
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Richard Dutcher's film Falling, was released January 18,2008 at a single Salt Lake City theater, and later shopped to art-house theaters, where he did not expect to make back the film's money.