Steve Barancik (born September 23, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois) is a screenwriter whose first screenplay, Buffalo Girls, was filmed and released as The Last Seduction in 1994.
Actress Linda Fiorentino received notoriety for playing the movie's femme fatale, Bridget Gregory/Wendy Kroy, and Barancik was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery/crime screenplay of 1994.
James Berardinelli called his dialogue "scintillating, often hilarious, and occasionally insightful",[3] while Variety said his development of the narrative "is very skillful and original".
[6] Barancik worked steadily in the industry but with little to show for it until receiving shared screenplay credit for 2002's No Good Deed.
He has developed a website devoted to the subject of quality children's books and another to collecting the experiences of authors who have self-published.