Taking the Heat is a film directed by Tom Mankiewicz released on June 6, 1993.
Thomas Frank "Tom" Mankiewicz was a screenwriter/director/producer of motion pictures and television, perhaps best known for his work on the James Bond films and his contributions to Superman: The Movie and the television series, Hart to Hart. Mankiewicz was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1942.... His parents were Austrian-born actress Rosa Stradner and the celebrated screenwriter/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. In 1950, his father, after winning four Oscars in two years for the screenplays and direction of A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve, decided to move his family back to New York City where he had been raised, the son of a German immigrant language professor. Mankiewicz was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University . He majored in drama at Yale, completing the first two years of the Yale Drama School while still an undergraduate. During vacations he worked at the Williamstown Summer Theater in Massachusetts both in production and as an actor.more