Jim Taylor (writer)
Jim Taylor (born 1963 in Seattle, Washington) is an American producer and screenwriter, best known as the writing partner of Alexander Payne. They are credited as co-writers of six films released between 1996 and 2007: Citizen Ruth (1996), Election (1999), Jurassic Park III (2001, with Peter Buchman), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004), and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007, with Barry Fanaro and Lew Gallo).
More recently, Taylor has been working as a producer, being so credited on Cedar Rapids (2011); according to the Internet Movie Database, as of August 2010 he has at least three films in various stages of production, all but one of which also involve Payne: The Descendants (2011), Seven Chinese Brothers (2011), and Fork in the Road (2011).
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