on the big picture he's directed some of hollywood's funniest films like the nutty professor at ace ventura pet detective tom shadyac joins tonight's conversations with great minds will discuss how his love for filmmaking and a very difficult experience led him to make a seminal documentary about some of the biggest challenges facing the world john boehner lives on politically to see another day just hours ago the house passed his budget scheme so now as the entire republican party drunk the tea party's kool-aid and the midst of congress is back and forth bickering there is a third party that poses a greater threat to america's economy than the riddick that the democrats or the republicans tell you they are still eating. for through his conversations with great minds i'm joined by renowned filmmaker tom shadyac he's been a director a producer a screenwriter an actor a comedian you name it he's done it and his movies are some of the most widely recognized films in the last few decades from ace ventura pet the attack of series to the nutty professor movies the liar liar and bruce almighty his

recognized films in the last few decades from ace ventura pet detective series to the nutty professor movies to liar liar and bruce almighty his most recent film i am he takes us on a journey in search of the nature of humanity what it means to live a truly fulfilling life on this topic will definitely get into a little later in the interview carly is a professor of communications and teaches screenwriting pepperdine university seaver college i'm pleased to welcome from our studios in los angeles tom shadyac tom welcome. tom it's great to be here and just for a point of clarification a class i teach at pepperdine is actually called film and life because it's a conversation that i don't think we have with our youth which is we use films as an access point to start a conversation about the seasons and choices that our youth are going to make. in their when they're graduate from college and when they move on with their lives so that's a conversation that i also wanted to start with i am just reflected that in the class i teach well it's fascinating it's kind of. robert mckee comes home t