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About FourBoys Entertainment
The story of FourBoys
David Hunt and Patricia Heaton founded FourBoys Entertainment to make film and television projects about people under real pressure: families, marriages, faith, work, loss, comedy, and hope. The company's recent work includes Unexpected, the feature comedy-drama directed by Hunt and starring Anna Camp and Joe Mazzello. Early producing credits include the West End production of This is Our Youth with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. FourBoys Entertainment also co-produced Amazing Grace, directed by Michael Apted and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Gambon, and Albert Finney. Television projects include Carol's Second Act for CBS, The Engagement Ring for TNT, The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania, the web series Versailles, The Christmas Heart, and Christmas at Cartwright's. The company continues to develop film and TV projects shaped by craft, family, faith, and human dignity.
The team behind FourBoys
David Hunt
David Hunt trained at The Juilliard School and has worked across film, television, and stage with directors including Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Apted, and William Friedkin. His film credits include Merv, The Dead Pool, Jade, Mom's Night Out, The Black Velvet Gown, The Engagement Ring, Just Like A Woman, Bobby Jones, Trip to Tunis, and The Deal with William H. Macy and Meg Ryan. His television work includes Closing Ranks, The Bombmaker, Anna Lee, The Dancer's Touch, The Grid for TNT and BBC, Murder on The Orient Express, Miracle In The Woods, and Liz & Dick. Series and guest roles include 24, The Chief, Beck, The Dream Team, Homeland, White House Farm Murders, Mad Men, Castle, Numbers, Monk, Everybody Loves Raymond, Nasty Boys, and The Client. His stage work includes Memory of Water at Manhattan Theatre Club, Therese Raquin and Triumph of Love at La Jolla Playhouse, Progress at Long Wharf Theatre, and Hamlet at Baltimore Center Stage.
Hunt founded FourBoys Films with his wife, Patricia Heaton, to make film and television projects about the human condition that leave audiences with hope. Through FourBoys, he directed the documentary The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania, which won a Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival in 2006. He later directed and produced Unexpected, the 2023 comedy-drama starring Anna Camp and Joseph Mazzello, now available on Amazon Prime Video.
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Patricia Heaton
Patricia Heaton is best known for playing Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond and Frankie Heck on The Middle. She received seven consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations and won twice for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She also received five consecutive SAG Award nominations, won the SAG Award for Ensemble in a Comedy, won a Viewers for Quality Television award for comedy actress, and received a Daytime Emmy Award for Patricia Heaton Parties on Food Network. Her credits include Mom's Night Out for Sony Affirm, Front of the Class, The Goodbye Girl, The Engagement Ring, The Star, The Path to 9/11, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Beethoven, New Age, Space Jam, and Mending the Line starring Brian Cox. Upcoming releases include Unbreakable Boy, Merv, The Beldham, and The Ritual with Al Pacino.
Heaton's theater work includes Stella in The Scene by Theresa Rebeck, a role that earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. She wrote Your Second Act for Simon and Schuster, following her cookbook Food for Family and Friends and her New York Times bestselling autobiography Motherhood and Hollywood: How to Get a Job Like Mine.
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