Gary Winick Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Producer
Biography:: A 1984 graduate of Tufts University, Gary Winick quickly moved into filmmaking as a full-time vocation, placing a stronger emphasis on producing than on directing. He earned M.F.A. degrees from both the American Film Institute and the University of Texas at Austin, then jump-started his career by...Read More

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Bride Wars

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Candice Bergen, Kristen Johnston

Synopsis: Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson go head-to-head in Bride Wars, a romantic comedy that follows two best-friend brides who find they've scheduled their wedding dates on the same day. 13 Going on 30's Gary Winick directs the 20th Century Fox production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/08
Lipstick Jungle: Pilot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Three women - movie executive Wendy Healy (Brooke Shields), Nico Reilly (Kim Raver), and Victory Ford (Lindsay Price) take on New York armed with thick skins and a sense of humor. Their friendship outweighs the superficial differences between them as each woman navigates the challenges of career Read More

2008
Flakes

Crew: Producer

Actors: Aaron Stanford, Zooey Deschanel, Keir O'Donnell, Ryan Donowho, Frank Wood

Synopsis: Zooey Deschanel, Aaron Stanford, Izabella Miko, and Christopher Lloyd star in director Michael Lehmann's comedy concerning a New Orleans cereal bar manager whose slacker lifestyle is turned upside down when a rival cereal shop threatens both his livelihood and his love life. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More

12/19/07
Starting Out in the Evening

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor, Adrian Lester

Synopsis: Frank Langella (Dracula, Good Night, and Good Luck.) stars in Andrew Wagner's independent drama Starting Out in the Evening, an adaptation of the acclaimed 1999 best-seller by Brian Morton. Langella plays Leonard Schiller, a once-celebrated author whose first four novels inspired Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose Read More

11/23/07
Puccini for Beginners

Crew: Producer

Actors: Elizabeth Reaser, Justin Kirk, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Dundas, Julianne Nicholson

Synopsis: A woman who loves opera finds herself playing a romantic version of musical chairs in this independent comedy from writer and director Maria Maggenti. Allegra (Elizabeth Reaser) is a writer who has been involved with Samantha (Julianne Nicholson) for some time, but Allegra just isn't willing to Read More

2/2/07
Charlotte's Web

Crew: Director

Actors: Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the Read More

12/15/06
Lonesome Jim

Crew: Producer

Actors: Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: A less than auspicious homecoming for an introspective artist sets the stage for this low-key comedy drama directed by Steve Buscemi. Jim (Casey Affleck) is a chronically glum aspiring novelist who, after a failed two-year sojourn in New York City, has returned home to his parents' home in Goshen Read More

3/24/06
Sorry, Haters

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robin Wright Penn, Abdel Kechiche, Élodie Bouchez, Aasif Mandvi

Synopsis: An embittered television executive working for a hip-hop-oriented music channel finds her fate intricately tied with a New York City taxi driver after hailing his cab for questionable purposes in director Jeff Stanzler's intimate look at the tenuous relationship between Caucasians and Muslims in Read More

3/1/06
Kill the Poor

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Krumholtz, Clara Bellar, Paul Calderon, Jon Budinoff, Cliff Gorman

Synopsis: The down-and-dirty side of building management in pre-gentrification Manhattan sets the stage for this dark comedy. It's 1981, and Joe Peltz (David Krumholtz) runs a newsstand in New York City, where he has recently married Annabelle (Clara Bellar), an exotic dancer from France who isn't in love Read More

1/6/06
Land of Plenty

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michelle Williams, John Diehl, Shaun Toub, Wendell Pierce, Richard Edson

Synopsis: Wim Wenders drama Land of Plenty stars John Diehl and Michelle Williams as two very different people who are brought together for an unconventional road trip. The film takes place after September 11, 2001, and the main characters are dealing with their grief in very different ways. Paul (Diehl) Read More

9/22/05
November

Crew: Producer

Actors: Courteney Cox Arquette, James LeGros, Michael Ealy, Nora Dunn, Nick Offerman

Synopsis: From a script by first-time screenwriter Benjamin Brand, filmmaker Greg Harrison helmed this fantastical, psychological drama, the follow-up to his 2000 Independent Spirit-award nominated debut, Groove. Courteney Cox Arquette (TV's Friends) stars as Sophie Jacobs, a photographer who is stricken Read More

7/22/05
13 Going on 30

Crew: Director

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Jenna (Shana Dowdeswell) has had enough with the trials of adolescence. In addition to being saddled with a devoted-but-nerdy best friend, Matt (Sean Marquette), she falls victim to one of the dangers of playing Seven Minutes in Heaven with the coolest kids in school: being Read More

4/23/04
Pieces of April

Crew: Producer

Actors: Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Derek Luke, Alison Pill

Synopsis: Novelist and screenwriter Peter Hedges makes his directorial debut with the comedy drama Pieces of April. Family outcast April Burns (Katie Holmes) lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby (Derek Luke). In order to spend some time with her dying mother Read More

10/17/03
Uptown Girls

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, Jesse Spencer

Synopsis: In this comedy from director Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans), Brittany Murphy stars as Molly Gunn, the daughter of a dead rock star, who lives off her inheritance and has never worked a day in her life. When her father's estate is swindled away from her, Molly suddenly finds her life of luxury Read More

8/15/03
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Ventimiglia, Kyra Sedgwick, David Warshofsky, Brian Tarantina, Mara Hobel, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk

Synopsis: Three women whose lives have followed very different paths ponder their pasts and their futures in this omnibus film from second-time director Rebecca Miller, adapted from her acclaimed short story collection of the same name. Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) grew up in a fractured household; her mother Read More

11/22/02
Tadpole

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Stanford, John Ritter, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Iler

Synopsis: Most 15-year-old boys are obsessed with the opposite sex, but this may be the only area in which Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) could be called typical. An honor student at an exclusive prep school, Oscar is confident, keenly intelligent, speaks fluent French, and is well versed in the work of a Read More

7/19/02
Chelsea Walls

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kevin Corrigan, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Sean Leonard

Synopsis: Actor Ethan Hawke takes the director's chair for a test drive with this independent feature, based on a play by Nicole Burdette, in which a number of creative types living in New York's famed bohemian enclave the Chelsea Hotel struggle with their muses as well as their personal concerns. Read More

4/19/02
Tape

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman

Synopsis: In the same year that filmmaker Richard Linklater explored the possibilities of image manipulation in digital filmmaking with Waking Life, he also embraced the new medium's potential for creating intimate character portraits under confined circumstances with this feature, based on the play by Read More

11/2/01
Women In Film

Crew: Producer

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Portia de Rossi

Synopsis: Novelist/filmmaker Bruce Wagner skews the classic George Cukor film The Women in this digital video effort adapted from a section of his novel I'm Losing You (which was also made into a feature film). Using a video diary format, the director focuses on three women desperate to become filmmakers. Read More

2001
Eric Bogosian: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The writer and performer of such stinging monologues as Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Eric Bogosian returns to the stage to skewer everything from pop culture to religion in this striking return to the stage. Portraying a series of characters that include a salesman who may just be Satan and a Read More

2001
The Tic Code

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Hines, Polly Draper, Christopher Marquette, Desmond Robertson, James McCaffrey

Synopsis: Actress Polly Draper, best known for her role on the TV series thirtysomething, wrote and co-produced this family drama, as well as playing the female lead. Draper plays Laura, a single mother whose ten-year-old son Miles (Christopher Marquette) is already displaying a remarkable gift as a jazz Read More

8/4/00
Sam the Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Fisher Stevens, Annabella Sciorra

Synopsis: Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't seem to deliver the follow-up. Instead, he spends his Read More

2000
Getting Off

Crew: Co-producer, Editor

Actors: Christine Harnos, Brooke Smith, Bill Sage, David Marshall Grant, Amy Ryan

Synopsis: Julie A. Lynch made her directorial debut with this low-budget indie, an AIDS drama set in 1992 NYC, where three women -- promiscuous artist Josie Ray (Christine Harnos), stand-up comic Jennifer Sharp (Brooke Smith), and MBA student Elaine Devlin (Amy Ryan) -- learn their old college chum Chris Read More

1998
Dead Broke

Crew: Editor

Actors: Paul Sorvino, John Glover, Tony Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Justin Theroux

Synopsis: The potential witnesses to a mysterious murder all become suspects when a determined detective fails to crack the case in a hard-boiled mystery directed by Edward Vilga and starring Jill Hennessy, Paul Sorvino, and John Glover. When gunshots pierce the black stillness of the night and a body Read More

1998
Sweet Nothing

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Mira Sorvino, Paul Calderon, Billie Neal, Brian Tarantina

Synopsis: This unflinching and straightforward look at a middle-class man's descent into drug addiction was based on the diaries of an addict named Angel. Found in a Bronx apartment, the diaries were made into a film by screenwriter Lee Drysdale and director Gary Winick. Angel (Michael Imperioli) is a Wall Read More

1995
Out of the Rain

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: In this thriller, a murder throws a small town into chaos. Things get worse when the brother of the deceased wanders back to town and launches a private investigation that exposes a cesspool of corruption. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Curfew

Crew: Director

Actors: Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, John Putch, Frank Miller

Synopsis: After late-night carousing on too many weekends and having her parents impose a curfew upon her, a teen-age girl (Kyle Richards) speeds home to keep from winding up in hot water again but finds when she gets home that two escaped convicts (Wendell Wellman, John Putch) have taken her family Read More

1988