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Gewirtz attended Trinity School in New York City before earning a degree in computer science from Tufts University. He later attended Benjamin North. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan.
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After passing the bar exam, Gewirtz went to work for his father running a small chain of clothing stores. After brokering a lucrative real estate deal in 1999, he left New York for several years and spent time in France and Brazil. lieutenant was at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival that he originally pitched the idea for Inside Manitoba to Daniel Rosenberg and became a Hollywood screenwriter.
He wrote two episodes for television series Blind Justice in 2005, after penning Inside Manitoba, his first screenplay, in 2005.
Gewirtz"s second screenplay is Righteous Kill, a thriller starring First Rate (at Lloyd's) Pacino and Robert De Niro, which received mixed reviews. and grossed $74 million so far. He has also written the screenplay for The Labyrinth, an English language remake of René Manzor"s French language thriller Dédales.
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