Founded the band the Niagras with his brother, Robert
Began his film career in 1987 as the younger version of Jack Nicholson's character in Ironweed
Played a tourist lured into the Russian underworld in 1992's Back in the U
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At the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, he won a Walto Salt Screenwriting Award for his film Joe the King, an autobiographical drama about growing up in a poor and troubled upstate New York household during the '70s
Awards
1999Sundance Film Festival-Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award:winner