Amanda Peet

Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.

Dir. Jim Rash, Nat Faxon · With Liam James, Steve Carell, Toni Collette

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

Dir. James Mangold · With John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet

A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.

Dir. Ed Stone · With Amanda Peet, Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Paulson

On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to... lovers?

Dir. Nigel Cole · With Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Kathryn Hahn

When a financial titan suddenly finds himself divorced and jobless, he starts robbing his wealthy neighbors to stay afloat. Stealing from his own social circle strangely exhilarates him—but he gradually gets tangled in a deadly web.

Dir. Jonathan Tropper · With Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

Dir. Menno Meyjes · With John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

Dir. Burr Steers · With Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum

After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbours figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit—suburban style.

Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Matthew Perry, Bruce Willis, Natasha Henstridge

A behind-the-scenes look at a fictional sketch-comedy TV show.

Dir. Aaron Sorkin · With Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Bradley Whitford

A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.

Dir. Roger Michell · With Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.

Dir. Michael Hoffman · With Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman

Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, he constantly looks for bigger challenges. When he breaks into the computer of a security expert and an ex-hacker, he finds one - and much more than that...

Dir. Joe Chappelle · With Skeet Ulrich, Angela Featherstone, Donal Logue

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

Dir. Leslye Headland · With Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Adam Scott

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

Dir. Nicole Holofcener · With Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt

While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.

Dir. Woody Allen · With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller

A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.

Dir. Aristomenis Tsirbas · With Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, James Garner

When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry's sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.

Dir. Nancy Meyers · With Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves

Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

Dir. Brian Goodman · With Ethan Hawke, Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Peet

Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.

Dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass · With Mark Duplass, Melanie Lynskey, Steve Zissis

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

Dir. Stephen Gaghan · With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer who has been AWOL for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

Dir. Carl Franklin · With Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel

A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.

Dir. Dennis Dugan · With Steve Zahn, Jack Black, Jason Biggs

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.

Dir. Roland Emmerich · With John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep; it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife, Cynthia.

Dir. Howard Deutch · With Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

Dir. Seth Gordon · With Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau

Anthology series in which each season is based on a true crime story featuring an epic tale of love gone wrong.

Dir. Alexandra Cunningham · With Amanda Peet, Christian Slater, Rachel Keller

After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.

Dir. Mark Tarlov · With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanery, Dylan Baker

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

Dir. Chris Carter · With David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet

When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly hostile office rivalry with Chip, Sofia's paraplegic former lover.

Dir. Jesse Peretz · With Zach Braff, Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman

At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.

Dir. Amanda Peet, Annie Julia Wyman · With Nana Mensah, Holland Taylor, Sandra Oh