Career
Schulman earned a Bachelor in philosophy from his hometown university, Vanderbilt. Though Schulman had already written a number of telemovies, Dead Poets Society was his first movie script to reach the screen. He was hired to rewrite the hit movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids shortly before the film was due to begin shooting.
Schulman had just seven days to turn it from a drama into a comedy.
Other scripts written or co-written by Schulman include comedies Welcome to Mooseport, What About Bob?, Second Sight (which Schulman sold the same day as Dead Poets Society) and Holy Manitoba, which stars Eddie Murphy. The Sean Connery drama Medicine Manitoba, originally entitled The Stand, proved a critical failure, although likely not a financial one.
Schulman"s only film as director to date is 1997 black comedy 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, which stars Joe Pesci as a gangster attempting to transport a bag of severed heads across the United States. In 2009 Schulman was elected vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West.
Tom Schulman lives in Los Los Angeles