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By the age of 4, he lost his father.
To make ends meet, his single mother worked six days a week, leaving her son mostly alone.
Schumacher began drinking at the age of 9; decades of experience with methedrine and acid would follow.
I never would do it when I was on a job, he said.
(In 2019, he colorfully quipped that he had sex with over 20,000 men during his lifetime.)
The costume credits continued: Frank Perrys 1972 dramaPlay It As It Laysand Neil Simons 1975 comedyPrisoner onSecond Avenue.
Schumacher broke into screenwriting the next year.
Though the Lily Tomlin-vehicleThe Incredible Shrinking Womanmarked Schumachers directorial debut, his follow-up was the goofy Mr. TstarringD.C.
As nimbly as he wrote intriguing Black characters, he began crafting similarly rebellious teen flicks.
His suburban stories were darker, more dangerous fromSt.
Sutherlands unflinchingly demonic and enraged performance made it soar.
Unlike Tim Burtons dark comedyBatman, Schumachers sequels were unrepentantly kooky and off-kilter, pitching camp to the extreme.
Sure, his films sometimes missed big, but they often hit even bigger.
