Rick McCormick (1961- ) screenwriter, was born in Torrance, California. He was raised and currently resides in Newport Beach, California. The seventh of ten children, he taught English in Japan and the U.S. He studied under some of the top screenwriting professors in the world, including Dr. Linda Seger, UCLA's Richard Walter, and Michael Hauge. He has written several full-length feature screenplays including Inside Out, You Can't Take It With You, Nobody's Perfect, The Last Sand Granules, Everybody's Somebody, and The Fifth Plane.