John Slattery

In 2013, Slattery directed his first feature film, God\'s Pocket (2014), which he co-wrote with Alex Metcalf. The film, based on a 1983 novel of same name by Pete Dexter, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and was picked up for distribution by IFC Films.\n', ' Slattery was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Joan (née Mulhern), a retired CPA, and John "Jack" Slattery, a leather merchant. He is one of six children. Slattery is of Irish descent and was raised Roman Catholic. He attended high school at St. Sebastian\'s School in Needham, Massachusetts, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Catholic University of America in 1984.\n', ' Slattery said when he was younger, he loved both TV and movies, staying up late to watch them and making it very hard to wake up in the morning.[citation needed] As a young boy, he dreamed of being a baseball player.\n', '