Jay RoachFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer

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Little Fockers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner, Jessica Alba

Synopsis: The Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro franchise continues with this third outing of the Meet the Parents film series. Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner and Jessica Alba co-star, with Paul Weitz stepping in to handle directing duties from Jay Roach, who directed both Meet the Parents and Meet the Read More

7/30/10
Dinner for Schmucks

Crew: Director

Actors: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Stephanie Szostak, Lucy Punch

Synopsis: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and Zach Galifianakis star in this remake of director Francis Veber's César award-winning 1998 comedy concerning a renowned publisher who encourages his friends to find the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Brüno

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten

Synopsis: Borat trickster Sacha Baron Cohen returns to the big screen to offer yet another stinging dose of sociopolitical satire in this comedy that finds him assuming the persona of gay fashionmonger Bruno, the self-proclaimed "voice of Austrian youth TV." Originally conceived as part of Baron Cohen's Read More

7/10/09
Smother

Crew: Producer

Actors: Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler, Mike White, Ken Howard

Synopsis: When an everyday thirtysomething is fired from his job, his unemployment woes are soon compounded as the ticking of his wife's maternal clock reaches a deafening pitch, and his overbearing mother announces plans to move in with the struggling couple. Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler, and Diane Keaton star Read More

9/26/08
Charlie Bartlett

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey, Jr., Hope Davis, Kat Dennings, Tyler Hilton, Mark Rendall, Megan Park

Synopsis: Longtime film editor Jon Poll (Meet the Fockers and Austin Powers in Goldmember) makes his directorial debut with this coming-of-age comedy about a wealthy public school system newcomer (Anton Yelchin) who wins over his skeptical classmates by serving as a surrogate psychiatrist to the troubled Read More

2/22/08
Recount

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt

Synopsis: Kevin Spacey and Bob Balaban headline Austin Powers director Jay Roach's all-star docudrama examining the events surrounding the most controversial presidential election in United States history. The highest office in the country is up for grabs, and the fate of the free world may hang in the Read More

2008
Borat

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Jane Sanguinetti Luenell, Pamela Anderson

Synopsis: Master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen hits the road to explore America as the crude Kazakstani reporter Borat in a feature mockumentary that brings one of the Da Ali G Show star's most popular characters to life on the big screen. Sent by the Kazakh Ministry of Information to gain a better Read More

11/3/06
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis

Synopsis: Douglas Adams' oft-adapted tale of an normal guy making his way through the universe (it's already been presented as a novel, a radio serial, a television series, and a comic book) finally makes its way to the big screen in this endearingly goofy sci-fi comedy. Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is a Read More

4/29/05
Meet the Fockers

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: After suffering the humiliation of being given the third degree by his girlfriend's father, one man now faces the even more embarrassing task of introducing his own mother and father in this star-studded sequel to the box-office smash Meet the Parents. After getting off on the wrong foot (to put Read More

12/22/04
50 First Dates

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: Re-teaming Adam Sandler with Drew Barrymore, his co-star from The Wedding Singer, as well as Peter Segal, his director on Anger Management, Fifty First Dates finds the funnyman playing veterinarian Henry Roth. More than content with a life of one-night-stands, Henry decides to give up his Read More

2/13/04
American Candidate [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

2004
Austin Powers in Goldmember

Crew: Director

Actors: Mike Myers, Beyoncé Knowles, Seth Green, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Mike Myers' phenomenally successful spy spoof gains a few more characters, a slew of celebrity cameos, and even more free-associative laughs in this third installment of the popular franchise. Austin Powers in Goldmember continues the exploits of the swinging-'60s leftover, who, as the film opens Read More

7/26/02
Meet the Parents

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, James Rebhorn

Synopsis: In this comedy from Austin Powers director Jay Roach, Ben Stiller plays a young man who endures a disastrous weekend at the home of his girlfriend's parents. Greg Focker (Stiller) is completely in love with Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo), and views their upcoming trip to her parents' house on Long Island Read More

10/6/00
Mystery, Alaska

Crew: Director

Actors: Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack, Burt Reynolds, Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Maury Chaykin, Ron Eldard

Synopsis: In this comic drama about fame, sports, and small-town life, Mystery, Alaska is a small town in one of the least accessible parts of the coldest state in the union. It's a town where everyone knows each other and there isn't much to do. In places like this, small things tend to become very Read More

10/1/99
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Crew: Director

Actors: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Rob Lowe, Seth Green

Synopsis: Austin Powers -- fashion photographer, denizen of Swingin' London, international espionage agent, and bane of dental hygienists everywhere -- returns in his second screen adventure. Powers (once again played by Mike Myers), a 1960s superspy stranded in the 1990s, discovers that his nemesis Read More

6/11/99
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Crew: Director

Actors: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner, Michael York, Mindy Sterling, Seth Green

Synopsis: Less a parody of the early James Bond film than a parody of the films that parodied the early James Bond films, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery stars Mike Myers as Austin Powers, by day a hipster fashion photographer in mid-'60s swingin' London and by night a crime-fighting secret Read More

1997