- His father was a playwright, his mother was a homemaker. He has 3 siblings. He graduated from Harvard and spent one year there in graduate school. He then took after his father and began writing screenplays such as Mississippi Burning (1988), which was nominated for 7 Academy Awards. He married his wife, Joan, in 1999 and now lives a happy life with his 3 children with her and his stepson from his wife's previous marriage.
- IMDb mini biography by: princess5363
- SpouseJoan Gerolmo(1999 - December 27, 2007) (her death, 3 children)
- He had a very bad relationship with director Alan Parker on "Mississippi Burning", claiming that Parker had been both arrogant and ignorant of American life. Parker, for his part, claimed he had rewritten Gerolmo's script extensively.
- Has an 11 year-old stepson named Eddie, a 3 year-old son, and 1 year-old twins - as at September 2004
- Attended St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island and graduated in the same class as Hunt Block.
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