His father coached hockey at the college level, and the family moved to the Boston area not long after Kelley began elementary school so his father could coach for Boston University. Jack Kelley later coached the Hartford Whalers and held an executive position with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and not surprisingly, Kelley emerged as an avid hockey player himself. Despite lackluster grades, he was recruited by Princeton University to play for its team, where his indifference to books and tests continued. He did, however, exhibit a creative streak when it came to writing papers. He once composed an assignment on American-Cuban relations in the 1960s entirely in verse, and on another occasion penned a stage version of the Bill of Rights in which all the articles were cast as characters who explained their meaning. After graduating in 1979 with a political science degree, Kelley played a year of professional hockey in Switzerland. He returned home to enroll in law school at Boston University.
Beginning in 1983, Kelley worked for a Boston firm that specialized in real-estate law. He was still interested in writing, however, and decided to try his hand at a screenplay.
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