Rob Hedden

Robert Ray Hedden (born March 2, 1954) is an American writer and film director. Early life Hedden was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Laguna Beach. While a student at Laguna Beach High School, he began making short films. Hedden enrolled at Orange Coast College, studying film and music, subsequently transferring to the Brooks Institute to study film. Career After graduating, Hedden worked for around seven years for Universal Studios. He wrote and directed his first feature film Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), which polarized critics, with Leonard Maltin dubbing it "The best film in the Friday series, imaginatively directed and written by Hedden" yet Entertainment Weekly labeling the film the eighth-worst sequel ever made. Hedden is known for such films as You May Not Kiss The Bride, The Condemned, and Clockstoppers, which he co-produced. He also wrote and directed the TV movies The Colony, Alien Fury: Countdown To Invasion (2000), directed and co-wrote Dying To Live (1999) and directed the USA TV Movies Any Place But Home (1997) and Kidnapped In Paradise (1999).