Gary Marcus Filmography

Occupation:: Associate Producer, First Assistant Director, Producer

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand, Bill Hader

Synopsis: In desperate need of a vacation after being unceremoniously dumped by his TV-star girlfriend, a man travels to a lavish Hawaiian resort to nurse his wounds and forget his heartache, only to discover that his ex and her handsome new boyfriend are currently staying at the exact same island hot spot. Read More

4/18/08
The Grand

Crew: Producer

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Dennis Farina, Richard Kind

Synopsis: Incident at Loch Ness director Zak Penn takes the helm for this mockumentary that finds film and television star Woody Harrelson entering the Grand Championship of Poker in hopes of saving his late grandfather's popular hotel casino from a scheming real estate developer. As the wrecking ball Read More

3/21/08
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Nathalie Kelley, Brian Tee, Kang Sung

Synopsis: Better Luck Tomorrow director Justin Lin picks up where John Singleton left off to offer a high-octane look at the world of underground Japanese drift-racing in the latest installment of the super-charged Fast and the Furious film series. A frustrated teen from a broken home, Sean Boswell (Lucas Black Read More

6/16/06
The Big Bounce

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Sara Foster, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: George Armitage directs this big-screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard's The Big Bounce. Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) is an occasional thief who tends to a judge (Morgan Freeman). A woman involved with Ray Ritchie (Gary Sinese), a real estate developer of questionable ethics, seduces Jack. Ritchie and Read More

1/30/04
Like Mike

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Lil' Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki, Robert Forster, Crispin Glover, Allen Iverson

Synopsis: Pint-size rap music star Lil Bow Wow shows that he can play ball as well as he raps in this youth-oriented comedy about a young boy whose dream comes true in an unexpected way. Calvin Cambridge (Lil Bow Wow) is a 14-year-old boy, who, since the death of his parents, has been living in an orphanage Read More

7/3/02
Mr. Deeds

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Allen Covert, John Turturro

Synopsis: One of Frank Capra's best-loved stories gets a modernized and wildly slapstick reinterpretation in this romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler. When Preston Blake (Harve Presnell), a remarkably wealthy media magnate, dies with neither a wife nor children, the question on the lips of most of his Read More

6/28/02
CQ

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jeremy Davies, Élodie Bouchez, Gérard Depardieu, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: The feature debut of Roman Coppola (son of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola) centers around an international film crew making a low-budget, Barbarella-like feature in Paris in 1969. The film is called Dragonfly and is being directed by Andrzej (Gérard Depardieu), who wishes to make a Read More

5/24/02
Just Visiting

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier, Matthew Ross, Tara Reid

Synopsis: Lots of people find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, but this comic fantasy takes that notion to a whole new level. Count Thibault of Malfete (Jean Reno) is a brave warrior and respected nobleman in 12th century France. Count Thibault has won the heart of the lovely Princess Read More

4/6/01
The Wedding Planner

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson, Justin Chambers, Judy Greer, Fred Willard

Synopsis: This lighthearted romantic comedy in the tradition of Runaway Bride (1999) casts Jennifer Lopez in the Julia Roberts mold. Lopez stars as Mary Fiore, an ambitious and successful San Francisco wedding planner who works only for the most wealthy and exclusive clients but who is also a perpetual Read More

1/26/01
Jack

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Brian Kerwin, Fran Drescher

Synopsis: In this film by director Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who is growing normally, but at many times the normal rate. In a bizarre flashback, we see that he was born when his mother was only ten weeks pregnant. Kept out of school for years, the neighborhood children Read More

1996
Kazaam

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Shaquille O'Neal, Francis Capra, Ally Walker, Marshall Manesh, James Acheson

Synopsis: Being a lone young boy in the 'hood" is dangerous and unpleasant. This is what Max (Francis Capra) experiences when he fools a gang of local toughs who cornered him at school. The gang finds out that the key he gave them is of no value in committing a robbery, and they chase him through the Read More

1996
Sunset Park

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Rhea Perlman, Fredro Starr, Carol Kane, Terrence Howard, Camille Saviola

Synopsis: A Jewish high school teacher, Phyllis Saroka (Rhea Perlman), steps in to take on the thankless job of coaching the school's inept basketball team, which is filled with ne'er-do-wells from the slums. She takes the job to get extra money to fulfill her dream of opening a restaurant on the Caribbean Read More

1996
Leaving Las Vegas

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Valeria Golino

Synopsis: Mike Figgis' grim drama documents a romantic triangle of sorts involving prostitute Sera (Elisabeth Shue), failed Hollywood screenwriter Ben (Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage), and the constant flow of booze which he loves more dearly than life itself. Arriving in Las Vegas with the intention of drinking Read More

1995
Rhythm Thief

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Jason Andrews, Eddie Daniels, Kimberly Flynn, Kevin Corrigan, Sean Haggerty

Synopsis: This drama, set in the gritty areas of New York's Lower Eastside and filmed in black and white, focuses upon the lonely and often pathetic lives of the down and out. Simon is a hustler who makes a minimal living by selling boot-leg homemade recording of underground metal-leather bands. He lives a Read More

1994
Vanya on 42nd Street

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Wallace Shawn, Brooke Smith, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Andre Gregory, Madhur Jaffrey, Jerry Mayer, George Gaynes, Phoebe Brand, Lynn Cohen

Synopsis: In the late 1980s, noted theatrical director Andre Gregory assembled a group of friends and actors and began rehearsing a new translation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya by David Mamet, not with any specific performance in mind but as a way of exploring the beauty and precise construction of Read More

1994
Wagons East!

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: John Candy, Richard Lewis, John C. McGinley, Ellen Greene, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Comedian John Candy, who died during the making of this poorly received comic western, plays James Harlow, a 19th century wagon master who is heading back east with a wagon train full of oddball characters who have had their fill of Western life. They include ex-doctor Phil Taylor (Richard Lewis) Read More

1994
Passenger 57

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore, Alex Datcher, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: This fast-paced action picture plays like Die Hard (1988) on an airplane. Grieving over the death of his wife at the hands of an armed robber and blaming himself for her death, anti-terrorism expert John Cutter (Wesley Snipes) is retiring from his dangerous job. The flight he's on is occupied by a Read More

11/6/92
Far From Berlin

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Werner Stocker, Nikolai Volev

Synopsis: East Berliner Dieter was working at a very low-level factory job when East and West Germany were unified. He has a very ill child to take care of who requires expensive and special treatments that are not covered by the state medical system. When he loses his job in the inevitable downsizing, he Read More

1992
End of the Night

Crew: Associate Producer, First Assistant Director

Actors: Eric Mitchell, Audrey Matson

Synopsis: In this black and white independent melodrama, Joe Belinsky (Eric Mitchell) doesn't know how to cope with his wife's pregnancy and his loss of an insurance agency job, and feels adrift. As a consequence of that, he takes a job working the counter of a low-cost, somewhat hip eatery, and meets a Read More

1990
Eight Men Out

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: John Cusack, Clifton James, David Strathairn, Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, D.B. Sweeney, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World Series -- is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal Read More

9/2/88
Call Me

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie, Boyd Gaines, Sam Freed, Steve Buscemi, Patti D'Arbanville

Synopsis: In Call Me a lonely, frustrated journalist for an alternative newspaper begins receiving intriguing erotic telephone calls, calls which trigger her own fantasies and leads her into danger. Anna (Patricia Charbonneau) is having an affair with Alex (Sam Freed), who travels frequently and has little Read More

5/20/88
Forever, Lulu

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Deborah Harry, Alec Baldwin, Annie Golden, Paul Gleason

Synopsis: In this comedy, a young German woman named Elaine Hines (Hanna Schygulla) moves to New York City with dreams of becoming a writer. Elaine becomes entangled in a mystery and falls in with a group of gangsters who lead her through a series of crazy adventures. Released on video under the title Crazy Read More

4/24/87
Sweet Lorraine

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Maureen Stapleton, Trini Alvarado, Lee Richardson, John Bedford Lloyd, Freddie Roman

Synopsis: The elderly owner of an aging but still beloved Catskill's landmark inn must decide whether to make necessary repairs to the hotel or to sell the land to developers. Meanwhile the owner's granddaughter toils in the hotel kitchen for the summer and the other staff members do their jobs. Essentially Read More

1987