"Dawson's creek" is a TV show together with which a lot of teenagers grew up. Most of these people say they will never forget how the characters lived, behaved, loved, cried and laughed.
Most of the fans say the story depicted in "Dawson's creek" is rather simple. Nevertheless, it is extremely involved. The show depicts the life of 5 young adults who lived in a small town and after that moved to a big city to study at college. The story is about different life situations in which the characters find themselves. "Dawson's creek" depicts various conflicts that can happen in the life of any teenager and the way it is possible to solve this or that problem.
The story tells about true friendship and the way true friends behave in tough situations. There are several main characters in the story. Dawson is a big dreamer and takes life as a good movie. Joey is a very kind-hearted girl. Pacey is the person who always has some mysteries. Jen is a naughty girl whom her parents have sent to live with her grandmother. Jack is a guy who tries to thinks about his role in this life. During six years of their life which are depicted in the story the children get a lot of lessons in living and growing up and become more mature.
The story ends in depicting all the characters at the age of 25 living their new lives. Dawson lives in Hollywood and produces The Creek which is based on the facts of his own life story. Joey is a book editor in New York. Jen has a child but no husband. Pacey owns a restaurant. And, finally, Jack is a student of high school always trying to clear out the relations with himself. All the friends are brought to their native town thanks to the wedding. But a tragedy happens and now they have to decide the way they are going to live in the future.
Kevin Williamson is the creator of "Dawson's creek". He was born in North Carolina. But when he was going to start his studying at school, the parents moved to Texas. However, they came back to North Carolina before Kevin entered high school. Since his childhood Kevin was interested in movies, especially with those created by Steven Spielberg. That is why he decided to apply to the film school of New York University. He entered the school but as he had no opportunity to pay the tuition, he attended the school situated closer to his home, East Carolina University. There he received the Bachelor of Arts in theatre arts.
After the graduation Kevin Williamson went to New York to build his acting career. In 1990, he played a part in the soap opera called Another World. Then he moved to Los Angeles where he had some small roles. He took the lessons of screenwriting at UCLA and the first script he wrote was "Killing Mrs. Tingle" which he sold to a production company. Unfortunately, the company put the script on the shelf.
Some years later Kevin Williamson wrote a script for the horror movie "Scream". The movie was hammered by critics but made for great box office. Kevin Williamson won the Saturn Award for the movie. It also created a genre for similar films, most written by Williamson himself, among them: "I Know What You Did Last Summer, "Scream 2", "Scream 3", "The Faculty" and others.