Jesse Peretz Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: Filmmaker Jesse Peretz was originally the bass player for the Lemonheads in the late '80s, and he directed the music video for "It's a Shame about Ray." As the son of the publisher of The New Republic, he stayed around the Boston area directing music videos, commercials, and the "Jimmy the...Read More

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The Ex

Crew: Director

Actors: Zach Braff, Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: Acclaimed music-video director Jesse Peretz made his third feature with this comedy starring Zach Braff and Jason Bateman. Tom (Braff) is an aspiring chef whose wife Sofia (Amanda Peet) has just quit her high-paying job to stay home with their new baby. When it becomes abundantly clear that they Read More

12/29/06
The Château

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Paul Rudd, Sylvie Testud, Didier Flamand

Synopsis: Two siblings with practically nothing in common are brought together by a real estate deal that threatens to leave them even more at odds than they were before in this semi-improvised comedy. Graham (Paul Rudd) and Rex (Romany Malco) are about as different as two brothers can get -- Graham is Read More

8/9/02
First Love, Last Rites

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, Eli Marienthal, Robert Burke, Jeanetta Arnette

Synopsis: Jesse Peretz made his directorial debut with this intimate romantic drama adapted from a short story by Ian McEwan, switching McEwan's setting from an industrial English seaside town to the Louisiana bayou. Joey (Giovanni Ribisi) and Sissel (Natasha Gregson Wagner) live in a drab house on stilts Read More

9/11/98

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