Round 5: Tossup 4

In a film by a director with this surname, a documentarian copies Gone With the Wind by burning down the house of a family he’s been filming for a year. A director with this surname wrote the line “I’ll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time” for a film that opens with scenes of the leads as children, as on-screen text states their future professions. That director with this surname created a character who says his romantic rival is, “while being a nice guy, the Devil” in a rant fueled by his anger at suffering a bout of sweating at work. This is the stage surname of the director of Real Life, (15[1])Modern (*) Romance, and a 1991 film about a dead ad agent in “Judgment City.” A 1980 film by a director with this surname centers on a love triangle between Tom, Aaron, and Jane, three colleagues at a TV station. For 10 points, give this surname of the directors of the rom-coms Defending Your Life and Broadcast News, who go by the names Albert and James L. ■END■ (10[1])

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