Background
Meyer grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and is the son of a Vietnam veteran.
Meyer grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and is the son of a Vietnam veteran.
He attended Boston College High School and then Boston College, graduating in 1991 as a double eagle.
Kris comes from a long family line of Boston Firefighters. Upon graduation, he relocated to California to pursue a career in the movie industry. In 1997, Meyer began working as an assistant to the Farrelly Brothers on the comedy There"s Something About Mary (1998).
In 2000 and 2001, he continued his work with the Farrelly Brothers as an associate producer on films Maine, Myself & Irene and Shallow Hal.
Meyer then co-produced Stuck On You (2003), Fever Pitch (2005), The Heartbreak Kid (2007) and Hall Pass (2011). Meyer has worked on many independent projects.
In 2007, he worked as a producer on the independent film On Broadway. Most recently, Meyer served as the executive producer on the documentary Plimpton! which debuted on United States television on Public Broadcasting Service American Masters on May 16, 2014, earning a 95% "Fresh" rating from Rotten Tomatoes.
While filming Fever Pitch in 2004, Meyer met Luis Tiant.
Tiant shared with Meyer his dream to return to Cuba, Tiant"s birth country. Tiant had been trying to return on his own. Meyer offered to help Tiant with hopes that a film crew could travel with him and film the journey.
Under the guise of a goodwill baseball team, Tiant and the crew entered Cuba.
The documentary, The Lost Son of Havana premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2009. Geoff Edgars, a Boston Globe writer, said of the film:
In 2011, Meyer co-produced The Three Stooges—a Farrelly Brothers adaptation of the classic shorts—in Atlanta.
Production wrapped in late July 2011. In 2014, Meyer was a production executive for Dumb and Dumber To.
The film was a sequel to the 1994 smash hit, Dumb and Dumber.
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