Geoff LaTulippe

Geoff LaTulippe is an American screenwriter and film director best known as the writer of the 2010 film Going the Distance.

Early life LaTulippe was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His father's job as a casket salesman caused his family to move across the United States between numerous cities before they settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. LaTulippe attended James Madison University in Virginia, where he studied film and writing. In 2011, he was approached by the talent agency William Morris Endeavor (WME) to create a humorous short film about their company. The result was Yom Kippur at WME, which starred J. B. Smoove. The short film's popularity snowballed and it caught the attention of Adam Goodman, the president of Paramount Film Group, who then contacted LaTulippe to offer him a job as a film director. In 2012 Paramount announced that LaTulippe would direct an as-yet unnamed film for the studio.