Gail ParentFilmography

Occupation:: Producer, Screenwriter

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Tracey Ullman's State of the Union [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

2008
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox, Adam Garcia, Glenne Headly, Alison Pill

Synopsis: British actress/director Sara Sugarman makes her U.S. feature debut with the Disney-produced comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, based on the young-adult novel by Dyan Sheldon and adapted for the screen by Gail Parent. The story concerns a popular urban teenager named Mary Elizabeth Cep (Lindsay Lohan Read More

2/20/04
Cadet Kelly

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Hilary Duff, Christy Romano, Gary Cole

Synopsis: Two of the Disney Channel's brightest young sitcom stars, Hilary Duff (Lizzie Maguire) and Christy Romano (Even Stevens), team up for laughs and tears in the made-for-cable Cadet Kelly. The life of cool, artistically inclined 14-year-old Kelly Collins (Duff) is turned upside down when she is Read More

2002
Tracey Takes On: Season 04

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Originally telecast by HBO from January 13 to March 17, 1999, season four of Tracey Takes On... finds the multi-talented Tracey Ullman utilizing scores of comic characterizations to poke satiric jabs at 12 different topics. This year's crop of single-issue episodes include "Dating," "Drugs," Read More

1999
Payne [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Larroquette, JoBeth Williams, Julie Benz, Rick Batalla, Gretchen German

1999
Tracey Takes On: Season 03

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Originally telecast by HBO from January 4 to June 4, 1998, season three of Tracey Takes On... finds the multi-talented Tracey Ullman utilizing scores of comic characterizations to poke satiric jabs at ten different topics. Among the sacred institutions skewered this season are "Marriage," Read More

1998
Tracey Takes On: Season 02

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Originally telecast by HBO from January 18 to May 28, 1997, season two of Tracey Takes On... finds the multi-talented Tracey Ullman utilizing scores of comic characterizations to poke satiric jabs at 15 different topics. Episode titles this season include "Sex," "Fantasy," "Mothers," "Las Vegas," Read More

1997
Tracey Takes On: Season 01

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Originally telecast by HBO from January 24 to April 3, 1996, the first season of Tracey Takes On... finds the multi-talented Tracey Ullman utilizing scores of comic characterizations to poke satiric jabs at ten different topics. This year's episodes include "Romance," "Charity," "Nostalgia," Read More

1996
Breaking the Rules

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Bateman, C. Thomas Howell, Jonathan Silverman, Annie Potts, Krista Tesreau

Synopsis: Dying of leukemia, Phil is given only one more month to live, so he gathers together his two childhood friends and travels to California where he intends to audition for a television trivia game show. While on their road trip, they encounter various situations and meet a middle-aged woman with a Read More

10/9/92
All I Want for Christmas

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Ethan Randall, Thora Birch, Lauren Bacall

Synopsis: The leading lady of the Christmas tale knows just what she wants for Christmas and she lets Macy's Santa know, too. She wants nothing more than the reuniting of her recently divorced parents. Bordering on being a Miracle on 34th Street re-make, this film follows much the same theme, but the kids Read More

11/8/91
Cross My Heart

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Martin Short, Annette O'Toole, Paul Reiser, Joanna Kerns, Jessica Puscas

Synopsis: Martin Short and Annette O'Toole star in this comedy documenting a date from hell. Short is David, a sunglasses salesman, who makes a date with Kathy (Annette O'Toole) in order to celebrate his new promotion. David and Kathy have gone out a few times before, but they both think that this is the Read More

11/13/87
The Main Event

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Patti D'Arbanville, Whitman Mayo, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal attempt to recapture the screwball spark of What's Up, Doc? in the labored farce The Main Event. Streisand plays Hillary Kramer, a bankrupt perfume executive who discovers that one of her tax write-offs from more prosperous times was the ownership of prizefighter Read More

1979
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeannie Berlin, Roy Scheider, Rebecca Diana Smith, Janet Brandt, Sid Melton

Synopsis: Sheila (Jeannie Berlin) is not one of life's golden people: she's not especially good-looking, charming, charismatic, or smart. As a result, she has to struggle constantly. For some reason, she decides to move from the suburbs to New York City. Now she has a roommate (Rebecca Dianna Smith), a job Read More

1975
Call Her Mom

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: "Mom" is Connie Stevens, who stars in this made-for-TV comedy. Stevens plays a small-town waitress who is appointed the housemother for a rambunctious fraternity house on the local college campus. The frat boys assume that freewheeling Stevens will allow them to party to their hearts' content, but Read More

1972
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: We Closed in Minneapolis

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Would-be playwright Murray (Gavin MacLeod) has completed his autobiographical masterpiece, All Work and No Play. The good news is that the play is going to be produced. The bad news is that the production deal was cinched by Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) -- which of course means that Ted will be playing Read More

1971