Movies with screenplay written by Paul Weitz
In the Magic Kingdom, they must be getting nervous. For years, Disney has had a death grip on the animated market, but, as we enter the latter years of the 1990s, the corporation that gave us Bambi and Snow White is finding their dominance cha...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-10-02
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Cast: (voices) Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, ...
Universal Pictures is touting In Good Company as being "from the producers of About a Boy." While that's a true enough statement, let's not forget that the team of Chris and Paul Weitz were also responsible for the popular American Pie series. Th...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-01-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, ...
Talk about an unenviable task... Universal Pictures has chosen About a Boy to be a sacrificial lamb, electing to open it on May 17, opposite Attack of the Clones. Maybe they're hoping that movie-goers disappointed by sell-outs at the latest Star ...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-05-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Cast: Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, ...
Is it possible to satirize something that, in and of itself, often crosses the line into self-parody? That's a question that American Dreamz attempts to address. The objects of Paul Weitz's lampoon are two ripe ones: American Bush and American Id...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-04-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Hugh Grant, Shoreh Aghdashloo, Sam Golzari, ...
Is it too much to ask that a narrative film have a beginning, a middle, and an end? Apparently in the case of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, a loose adaptation of Darren Shan's Vampire Blood trilogy, the answer is "yes." Developed with...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-10-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE/HORROR
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Chris Massoglia, Salma Hayek, Willem Dafoe, ...
Eddie Murphy's 1996 remake of The Nutty Professor is one of those movies that, at least from a creative perspective, neither deserves nor warrants a sequel. What's the point? More of the same, it seems. Any time a movie makes $130 million in the...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-07-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, ...