Career
Rifkin's multi-faceted career spans directing, production, acting and screenwriting in the film industry.
As a screenwriter, Rifkin has a penchant for family fare. He wrote Knucklehead for WWE Studios, starring WWE superstar Big Show, Underdog for Walt Disney Animation Studios, a tent pole comedy based on the iconic 1960's cartoon show, Zoom, starring Tim Allen and two hits for DreamWorks, Mousehunt and Small Soldiers. Continuing in the family film genre, he scribed the big screen version of He-Man for John Woo and 20th Century Fox.
Rifkin gained popularity when his film The Dark Backward, which he wrote and directed, was named one of the top ten films of its year by The New York Post. He was then the director responsible for New Line Cinema’s Detroit Rock City, a cult film that continues to be watched by rock fans around the world. Rifkin gained critical recognition for Night at the Golden Eagle, a film which he not only wrote and directed, but also produced.
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