Jason ReitmanFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: The son of directors Ivan Reitman (Stripes, Ghostbusters) and Geneviève Robert (Casual Sex?), Jason Reitman initially essayed bit and supporting on-camera roles, typically in his father's projects -- such films as Ghostbusters (1984), Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), and Dave (1993). Reitman...Read More

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Chloe

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried

Synopsis: An untrusting wife attempts to prove that her husband is cheating by hiring an escort to seduce him, inadvertently endangering her entire family in the process. Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried star in a thriller written by Erin Cressida Wilson, and directed by Atom Egoyan (The Read More

3/26/10
Pierre Pierre

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jim Carrey

Synopsis: A French nihilist (Jim Carrey) is given the job of smuggling a stolen painting from Paris to London in this comedy from director Jason Reitman (Juno) and Fox Atomic Pictures. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
The Wedding

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Friel

Synopsis: Jesse Eisenberg stars as a young man who interrupts the wedding of an older woman (Anna Friel) whom he's enamored with in this romantic comedy executive produced by Juno's Jason Reitman. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Up in the Air

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Danny R. McBride

Synopsis: Juno's Jason Reitman heads into corporate America territory once again with this adaptation of Walter Kirn's novel Up in the Air for Montecito Pictures. The plot surrounds a human resource administrator (George Clooney) whose life up in the friendly skies becomes his only world as he works to Read More

12/4/09
Jennifer's Body

Crew: Producer

Actors: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Sal Cortez

Synopsis: Demon possession, devilish cheerleaders, and Satanic rock stars are all on the chopping block with this horror comedy from the production team behind Juno. Screenwriter Diablo Cody provides the script, with producing duties handled by Jason Reitman and Dan Dubiecki. The story centers on an impish Read More

9/18/09
Bonzai Shadowhands

Crew: Director

Actors: Rainn Wilson

Synopsis: Thank You for Smoking director Jason Reitman teams with The Office star Rainn Wilson for this dark comedy concerning a depressed former master ninja whose once great life has gradually deteriorated into disheartening mediocrity. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Juno

Crew: Director

Actors: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons

Synopsis: When a teenage girl is faced with an unexpected pregnancy, she enlists the aid of her best friend in finding the unborn child a suitable home in this coming-of-age comedy drama from Thank You for Smoking director Jason Reitman. Juno (Ellen Page) may seem wise beyond her years, but after sleeping Read More

12/7/07
Thank You for Smoking

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott

Synopsis: The directorial debut from Jason Reitman, the media satire Thank You for Smoking stars Aaron Eckhart as Nick, a man who has turned spinning news and information into a successful career for the tobacco lobby. He plots strategies with his colleagues (Maria Bello and David Koechner) on how to make Read More

3/17/06
Dave

Actors: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: The ghost of Frank Capra must have smiled when he saw Dave, an amusing and effective update of one of Capra's favorite themes -- the scrupulously honest little guy who becomes a force for good against a corrupt system. Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) runs an employment agency and seems to genuinely enjoy Read More

1993
Kindergarten Cop

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger sheds his action image in Ivan Reitman's police comedy Kindergarten Cop, where he plays an undercover cop teaching a class of hyperactive six-year-olds. As the film begins, John Kimble (Schwarzenegger) and his partner Phoebe O'Hara (Pamela Reed) are in pursuit of notorious Read More

12/21/90
Ghostbusters 2

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Ivan Reitman's sequel to the phenomenally successful Ghostbusters is looser and more self-assured than the original. The film opens with a title reading "Five Years Later" and finds the ghostbusters living in hard times. A restraining order has forbidden the boys to partake in paranormal warfare Read More

6/16/89
Twins

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlett

Synopsis: The central "gimmick" of the comedy-adventure Twins is established early on. Unbeknownst to one another, king-sized Arnold Schwarzenegger and gnomeish Danny De Vito are twin brothers. Even better: Schwarzenegger is a mild-mannered, bookish type, while De Vito is a vitriolic troublemaker. The film Read More

12/9/88
Ghostbusters

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is Read More

1984