Amanda Peet Filmography

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, Xzibit

Synopsis: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully with this long-delayed big-screen continuation that revives the series six years after it headed off the air in 2002. Creator Chris Carter returns to direct, co-writing the script with series veteran Frank Spotnitz Read More

Terra

Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Luke Wilson, Amanda Peet, Dennis Quaid

Synopsis: Aristomenis Tsirbas' animated short film Terra concerns an alien who becomes obsessed with an object in the sky. Eventually, his need to discover what the object is far outweighs the risks he must endure to his safety in order to find out. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Untitled Nicole Holofcener Comedy

Actors: Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener

Synopsis: Lovely & Amazing director Nicole Holofcener writes and directs this comedy drama dealing with death, family, and real estate, and starring Amanda Peet, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, and Rebecca Hall. A woman and her husband live directly next door to the elderly woman whose apartment they own. Read More

What Doesn't Kill You

Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet

Martian Child

Actors: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Oliver Platt, Bobby Coleman

Synopsis: Adapted from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novelette by author David Gerrold, Menno Meyjes's Martian Child stars John Cusack as a widowed science fiction writer who adopts a boy (Bobby Coleman) who claims to be from the Red Planet. The writer believes the child acts strangely in order to process Read More

The Ex

Actors: Zach Braff, Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: Acclaimed music-video director Jesse Peretz made his third feature with this comedy starring Zach Braff and Jason Bateman. Tom (Braff) is an aspiring chef whose wife Sofia (Amanda Peet) has just quit her high-paying job to stay home with their new baby. When it becomes abundantly clear that they Read More

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip [TV Series]

Actors: Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford, Amanda Peet, Steven Weber, Sarah Paulson, D.L. Hughley, Nathan Corddry, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: One of the two NBC series debuting in the fall of 2006 which took place backstage at a Saturday Night Live-style comedy show (the other was 30 Rock), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was the brainchild of The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin. This weekly, hour-long dramedy concerned itself with the Read More

Griffin & Phoenix

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Amanda Peet, Sarah Paulson, Blair Brown, Alison Elliott

Synopsis: Ed Stone's bittersweet drama Griffin & Phoenix concerns Griffin (Dermot Mulroney), a divorcee suffering from cancerous lesions in his chest that give him a life expectancy of less than two years. He falls in love with academic advisor Phoenix (Amanda Peet), and the pair decide to 'live life to the Read More

Syriana

Actors: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt

Synopsis: Oil drives greed in Oscar-winning Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's labyrinthine sophomore directorial effort that traces the corruption of the global oil industry from the backrooms of Washington, D.C., to the petroleum-rich fields of the Middle East. Based in part on the writings of former Read More

A Lot Like Love

Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Kathryn Hahn, Kal Penn, Tyrone Giordano, Ali Larter

Synopsis: Two friends who've convinced themselves they would never make a good couple discover they might just be wrong in this romantic comedy. Oliver (Ashton Kutcher) and Emily (Amanda Peet) first met when they were college students sharing a flight from California to New York; Emily spontaneously seduced Read More

Melinda and Melinda

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Chloë Sevigny, Jonny Lee Miller, Will Ferrell, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: While Woody Allen has long fused comedy and drama in his films, he embraces the two styles in a new and unusual way in this feature. Sy (Wallace Shawn) is enjoying dinner with some friends when they begin debating the nature of the tragic and the humorous. Sy, observing that a very fine line Read More

The Whole Ten Yards

Actors: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollak, Natasha Henstridge

Synopsis: Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry reprise their roles as a killer for hire and a dentist with a bad case of nerves in this sequel to the comedy hit The Whole Nine Yards. Former hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis) has retired from his life of crime and is living a quiet life of cooking and Read More

Something's Gotta Give

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Frances McDormand, Amanda Peet, Jon Favreau

Synopsis: In keeping with the light and slick tones of her earlier film What Women Want, Nancy Meyers writes and directs the romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give. Jack Nicholson plays Harry Langer, a swinging sixtysomething entertainment executive surrounded by plenty of young girlfriends. His latest Read More

Identity

Actors: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: Ten strangers are brought together during a weather emergency, only to discover a far greater danger awaits them in this suspense-drama. A sudden rainstorm in a remote desert town strands a disparate variety of people at a rundown motel. A convict sentenced to death, Malcolm Rivers (Pruitt Taylor Vince Read More

Igby Goes Down

Actors: Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: The cynical son of an upper-class New York family bedeviled by booze, pills and mental illness strikes out on his own in this caustic, darkly comic drama. Igby Slocomb (Kieran Culkin) and his older brother, Oliver (Ryan Phillippe), are are in the process of killing their mother, Mimi (Susan Sarandon Read More

Changing Lanes

Actors: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt

Synopsis: Director Roger Michell follows up the hit romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999) with this thought-provoking thriller. Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson star, respectively, as Gavin Banek and Doyle Gibson, two New York men whose lives become accidentally intertwined in a Good Friday fender bender on Read More

High Crimes

Actors: Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, James Caviezel, Amanda Peet, Tom Bower

Synopsis: Defense attorney Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) seems to have the perfect life. She has a high profile job at a big firm, a beautiful home outside San Francisco, and a husband, Tom (James Caviezel of The Thin Red Line), who loves her. Claire's biggest problem appears to be that she wants to have a Read More

Saving Silverman

Actors: Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Jack Black, Amanda Peet, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: This romantic comedy is from director, former actor, and regular Adam Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan. Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs) is a loser at love, so his best friends J.D. (Jack Black) and Wayne (Steve Zahn) set him up on a date with his dream girl, Judith (Amanda Peet). A serious Read More

Two Ninas

Actors: Cara Buono, Amanda Peet, Bray Poor, Linda Larkin, Ron Livingston

Synopsis: After a long lonely period of involuntary celibacy, Marty Sachs decides that he has had enough of New York and wants to pack up and run the family business in Maine. Yet before he leaves, he meets two available, attractive women, both named Nina. Nina Cohen shares many of the same eccentric Read More

Whipped

Actors: Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Judah Domke, Zorie Barber, Jonathan Abrahams, Callie Thorne

Synopsis: In this independent comedy, three buddies who have been sharing their thoughts on love and sex suddenly find that that's not all they're sharing. Stylish stockbroker Brad (Brian Van Holt), bohemian hipster Zeke (Zorie Barber), and socially inept Jonathan (Jonathan Abrahams) get together with their Read More

The Whole Nine Yards

Actors: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: In this black comedy, a criminal discovers a market for murder in the suburbs. After doing time in prison, mobster Jimmy the Tulip (Bruce Willis) moves to a suburban neighborhood. But Jimmy's new neighbors (Rosanna Arquette and Matthew Perry) soon figure out who he is. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Read More

Isn't She Great

Actors: Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, David Hyde Pierce, John Cleese

Synopsis: Jacqueline Susann spent a long career on the edges of show business as an actress and model, but it never really paid off until she quit acting to write her first novel. Valley of the Dolls was a proudly sleazy potboiler that sold 26 million copies and had readers wondering which characters Read More

Track Down

Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Russell Wong, Angela Featherstone, Donal Logue, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Follow a skilled computer hacker and a determined computer-crimes expert on a thrilling, cat-and-mouse race through cyberspace in this high-tech tale of intrigue from Halloween 6 and prolific television director Joe Chappelle. Based on actual events, this thriller follows top cyber-schemer Kevin Read More

Body Shots

Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell, Amanda Peet, Tara Reid, Ron Livingston

Synopsis: After making his directorial debut with the acclaimed made-for-cable movie Gia, writer Michael Cristofer helmed his first big-screen offering with this drama. When eight men and women in their early-to-mid-20s head out for a night on the town, hopping from one Los Angeles club to the next, not Read More

Simply Irresistible

Actors: Anthony Ruivivar, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanery, Patricia Clarkson, Dylan Baker, Christopher Durang

Synopsis: An airy romance in the tradition of classic Hollywood comedies of the Depression Era, Simply Irresistible (1999) also presses into service the food-obsessed magical realism of Like Water for Chocolate (1992). Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Amanda Shelton, the chef at Southern Cross, a trendy Read More

Jump

Actors: Peter Appel, Jessica Hecht, James LeGros, Mike McGlone, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: David (Mark Rosenthal) is standing on the roof ledge of a building in lower Manhattan, threatening to jump. Several of his friends try to convince him to safely get down from the ledge, that suicide is not the answer. But as they speak to him, the audience sees moments from the friends' lives in Read More

Jack & Jill [TV Series]

Actors: Ivan Sergei, Amanda Peet, Jaime Pressly, Sarah Paulson, Justin Kirk

Playing by Heart

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Gena Rowlands, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Connery, Anthony Edwards, Ryan Phillippe, Jay Mohr, Jon Stewart, Gillian Anderson, Angelina Jolie, Madeleine Stowe

Synopsis: Sophomore writer/director Willard Carroll weaves together an all-star cast in interlocking stories about finding love in Los Angeles. The film's theme is spoken by young club-hopper Joan (Angelina Jolie). Taken by the mysterious Keenan (Ryan Phillippe), she tells him that "talking about love" is Read More

Touch Me

Actors: Amanda Peet, Michael Vartan

Synopsis: This drama deals with the impact of the AIDS epidemic on modern relationships. Bridgette (Amanda Peet) is an aspiring young actress who pays her bills by teaching aerobics classes. She meets Adam (Michael Vartan), a ladies' man who runs his father's gymnasium business. They embark on an affair. Read More

Southie

Actors: Donnie Wahlberg, Rose McGowan, Anne Meara, James Cummings, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: "Southie" is common usage in Massachusetts for a resident of South Boston. John Shea directed and co-scripted (with James Cummings and Dave McLaughlin) this low-budget crime drama which won the American Independent Award at the 1998 Seattle Film Festival. Out of money and out of luck, Danny Quinn (Donnie Wahlberg Read More

1999

Actors: Dan Futterman, Jennifer Garner, Matt McGrath, Amanda Peet, Steven Wright

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Nick Davis, the grandson of famed Hollywood screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), wrote and directed this comedy-drama about young New Yorkers at a party on New Year's Eve in the year 1999. The dawning millennium brings the partygoers to an existential precipice Read More

Origin of the Species

Synopsis: Six friends in their mid- to late twenties are forced to deal with the sticky business of adulthood in this independent comedy drama. For close to ten years, Paul (Elon Gold) has organized a weekend getaway for his college friends every summer at his folks' cottage in upstate New York. This year Read More

Ellen Foster

Actors: Julie Harris, Jena Malone, Ted Levine, Glynnis O'Connor, Debra Monk

Synopsis: Filmed in Vancouver, this Hallmark Hall of Fame takes place during the '70s in the U.S. After the death of her mother, Charlotte (Glynis O'Connor), 10-year-old Ellen Foster (Jena Malone, who narrates) suffers abuse from her alcoholic father (Ted Levine) and is ill-treated by her maternal aunts Read More

Seinfeld: The Summer of George

Synopsis: In the closing episode of Seinfeld's eighth season, George (Jason Alexander) decides to take the summer off after getting his severance package from the Yankees. Kramer (Michael Richards) lands a job as a seat-filler at the Tony Awards, leading to a potentially nasty situation with an angry Raquel Welch Read More

Grind

Actors: Adrienne Shelly, Billy Crudup, Paul Schulze, Frank Vincent, Saul Stein

Synopsis: A young man trying to break out of his blue collar life in New Jersey finds himself snared by a web of crime and deceit in this independent drama. Just released after an 18-month stretch in prison, 20-year-old Eddie Dolan (Billy Crudup) has few prospects and nowhere to go, so he appears on the Read More

She's the One

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Maxine Bahns, Edward Burns, Cameron Diaz, John Mahoney

Synopsis: This is the second film by actor/director Ed Burns, his first being The Brothers McMullen. The two Fitzpatrick brothers, Mickey (Ed Burns) and Francis (Mike McGlone), would appear to have little in common, as the older is a rather volatile cab driver, the younger is a very settled stockbroker. Read More

One Fine Day

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning, Robert Klein

Synopsis: Even without money problems, many divorced single parents have a hard row to hoe. At the drop of a hat, a competent, responsible professional person can be reduced to a frazzled, bumbling parent, when his or her children become unexpected daytime wards. This is what happens to Jack Taylor (George Clooney Read More

Law & Order: Hot Pursuit

Synopsis: Memories of the Patty Hearst affair are invoked in this episode, in which detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) investigate a series of murders committed by a ski mask-wearing holdup team. After the criminals are captured in a deli, it turns out that one member of the team Read More

Animal Room

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, Catherine Hicks, Matthew Lillard, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: Neil Patrick Harris and Matthew Lillard star in writer/director Craig Singer's violent tale of rehabilitation gone horribly awry. When high school student Arnold Mosk (Neil Patrick Harris) is busted for using drugs, he's immediately placed in an experimental isolation program known as "The Animal Read More