Paul Brickman (born April 23, 1949) is an American screenwriter and film director.
[4] Brickman began his career by writing the screenplays for The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training and Handle with Care, both of which were released in 1977.
[5] The film was a major success, though Brickman felt disillusioned at having to compromise on the ending.
[6] In 1990, he cowrote and directed Men Don't Leave, a loose adaptation of the 1982 French film La Vie Continue.
[7] Brickman shared writing credit with Jon Avnet (the producer of Risky Business) on the 2001 NBC miniseries Uprising.