Joe RothFilmography

Born:: June 13, 1948 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: A onetime communications major at Boston University, producer/director Joe Roth worked as a production assistant with several San Francisco-based film companies. Utilizing several of the improvisational comics who had worked with him at Los Angeles' Pitchel Players (he ran lights while they got...Read More

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XXX: The Return of Xander Cage

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vin Diesel

Synopsis: Vin Diesel re-teams with producer Rob Cohen on the third installment of their extreme spy film franchise with XXX: The Return of Xander Cage. Screenwriting duties will be handled by Terminator Salvation writers Michael Ferris and John Brancato, with directing duties delegated to Fast and the Read More

1/1/11
Knight and Day

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis, Paul Dano

Synopsis: A fugitive couple (Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz) wages a war between truth and trust while speeding across the globe in an attempt to avoid capture by a determined federal agent (Peter Sarsgaard). Paul Dano, Viola Davis, Oliver Martinez, Maggie Grace, and Marc Blucas co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More

7/2/10
Alice in Wonderland

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Matt Lucas

Synopsis: Tim Burton takes a stab at Lewis Carroll's timeless tale of a young girl (Mia Wasikowska) lost within a fantasyland with this 3-D production of Alice in Wonderland. The Lion King's Linda Woolverton provides the script, with Hollywood heavyweights Richard Zanuck and Joe Roth heading up the Read More

3/5/10
Happiness Sold Separately

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julia Roberts

Synopsis: A suburban housewife begins to gravitate away from her husband and into the arms of the nutritionist at the couple's local gym in this heartfelt marriage drama starring Julia Roberts and directed by Scott Coffey. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
The Great Debaters

Crew: Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker

Synopsis: Drawing inspiration from the true story of a temperamental debate coach who molded the students of a small East Texas college into a formidable team that gave even Harvard's elite squad a run for their money, Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters features the director himself as the ambitious Read More

12/25/07
Freedomland

Crew: Director

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe

Synopsis: Joe Roth directs his adaptation of Richard Price's novel Freedomland from a script by the author. Samuel L. Jackson stars as a police detective who must investigate a distraught woman (Julianne Moore) who claims that her child was kidnapped by a black man. The accusation stirs up much racial Read More

2/17/06
An Unfinished Life

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Becca Gardner

Synopsis: Two generations of a damaged family are brought together in this emotional drama. Einar Gilkyson (Robert Redford) was a once successful rancher whose spread went to seed after he developed a serious drinking problem. Now on the wagon, Einar looks after what's left of his spread with his friend Read More

9/9/05
Christmas With the Kranks

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Erik Per Sullivan, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: Based on John Grisham's novel Skipping Christmas, Christmas With the Kranks revolves around Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther Krank's (Tim Allen) decision to put their normally fanatical enthusiasm for the holidays aside for a tropical cruise. With their daughter in Peru with the Peace Corps, the Read More

11/24/04
The Forgotten

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard, Linus Roache

Synopsis: A grieving woman must make a journey into her past in this psychological thriller. Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) is a mother who is struggling to put her life back together after the unexpected death of her eight-year-old son. Telly begins seeing a therapist (Gary Sinise) who offers a startling Read More

9/24/04
Mona Lisa Smile

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic West, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: Set in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a new young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-female campus with a prestigious reputation for academic excellence. Unfortunately for free-minded Berkeley grad Watson, her East Coast teaching stint Read More

12/19/03
Hollywood Homicide

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovich

Synopsis: Further cementing 2003 as the year of Ron Shelton cop movies, the director continued his vacation from the sports genre with Hollywood Homicide, a police comedy that comes right on the heels of Shelton's Dark Blue, a decidedly grittier cop thriller. The film stars Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett Read More

6/13/03
Daddy Day Care

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Steve Zahn, Regina King, Kevin Nealon, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: Two fathers get a crash course in caring for kids other than their own in this family-friendly comedy. Charlie Hinton (Eddie Murphy) is an advertising executive whose job monopolizes his time, making it difficult for him to stay in touch with his young son, Ben (Khamani Griffin). However, after Read More

5/9/03
Tears of the Sun

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nick Chinlund, Eamonn Walker, Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Fionnula Flanagan, Johnny Messner

Synopsis: A career soldier is forced to choose between following orders and saving lives in this action thriller. Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) is a veteran Navy SEAL whose commander (Tom Skerritt) has given his team a special assignment. A Central African nation is expected to explode into war at any Read More

3/7/03
America's Sweethearts

Crew: Director

Actors: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria

Synopsis: Studio mogul Joe Roth returns to his roots as a director with this romantic comedy co-written by Billy Crystal and starring Roth's longtime friend Julia Roberts. Crystal stars as Lee, a studio publicist desperately trying to keep several facts secret from reporters during a high-profile motion Read More

7/20/01
Before and After

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong, Julia Weldon, Alfred Molina

Synopsis: Director Barbet Schroeder and screenwriter Ted Tally adapted the novel by Rosellen Brown into this intriguing drama that, while heavily criticized for a third-act revelation that is something of a cop-out, nevertheless features -- typically of Schroeder's work -- compelling performances, domestic Read More

1996
Houseguest

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Jeffrey Jones, Kim Greist, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Sinbad offers some unusual advice on how to make friends in this wacky comedy. Kevin Frankin (Sinbad) is a guy who dreams of starting his own business. However, getting it off the ground is another matter altogether, and soon Kevin discovers that the two loan sharks who fronted him money want to Read More

1995
The Jerky Boys

Crew: Producer

Actors: Johnny Brennan, Kamal Ahmed, Alan Arkin, William Hickey, Alan North

Synopsis: Two guys from Queens wind up in trouble with the mob because of their fondness for prank phone calls in this quickie comedy. Stars Johnny Brennan and Kamal Ahmed first found fame as "The Jerky Boys" thanks to a series of comedy albums featuring real prank calls in which the duo assumed a variety Read More

1995
While You Were Sleeping

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden

Synopsis: This latter-day romantic screwball comedy stars Sandra Bullock as a love-starved subway toll booth operator, Lucy. Lucy pines for regular customer Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher), but the self-absorbed attorney pays her no heed. One day, Peter is beaten by a gang of thugs and tossed onto the Read More

1995
Heavyweights

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom McGowan, Aaron Schwartz, Ben Stiller

Synopsis: Camp Hope is a summer camp for fat kids; it is also the locale of this Disney family comedy. All of the kids at Camp Hope have a weight problem. It is the one place they can go without feeling different. But when the previous owners declare bankruptcy, the camp is purchased by an obnoxious fitness Read More

1995
I Love Trouble

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte, Saul Rubinek, James Rebhorn, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In the style of the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, I Love Trouble depicts the developing romance of two rival reporters who reluctantly fall for each other while competing for a major scoop. Old hand Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) and aspiring newcomer Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) Read More

1994
Angels in the Outfield

Crew: Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Tony Danza, Brenda Fricker, Christopher Lloyd, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Updated from the 1951 film of the same name, Angels In The Outfield takes liberties with the original to bring sentimental values to a modern setting. Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favorite baseball team, the Read More

1994
Angie

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Geena Davis, Stephen Rea, James Gandolfini, Aida Turturro, Philip Bosco, Jenny O'Hara

Synopsis: Angie is the study of a believable Italian-American woman who takes an honest look at herself and sees she's on a predictable path that will soon include an altar and a baby carriage. "There's gotta' be more!" she feels, and she's one gal with courage enough to find the answer. Geena Davis stars Read More

1994
A Low Down Dirty Shame

Crew: Producer

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Charles S. Dutton, Jada Pinkett Smith, Salli Richardson, Andrew Divoff

Synopsis: A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money in this action-comedy. Writer-director Keenan Ivory Wayans also stars as Los Angeles private eye Arthur Shame, a former cop whose troubled past resurfaces when a one-time colleague asks for Read More

1994
Tall Tale

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: This ambitious Disney movie uses a remarkable screenplay from Steven L. Bloom and Robert Rodat to tell a rollicking tale of America's transition from a close-to-the-land culture of mythic heroes to a corporate world of real estate tycoons. The strong theme about the decline of folk culture is Read More

1994
The Three Musketeers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry

Synopsis: This comedy-adventure is one of several adaptations of Alexadre Dumas' (pere) classic novel. Provincial swordsman D'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) travels to Paris to follow in his father's footsteps and become a king's guard, a musketeer. Meanwhile, the evil royal advisor Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Read More

1993
Pacific Heights

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are a middle class couple who lie on their financial statement in order to buy an old Victorian house in San Francisco, planning Read More

9/28/90
Young Guns II

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group Read More

8/1/90
Coupe De Ville

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern, Annabeth Gish, Rita Taggart

Synopsis: Three rebellious bickersome brothers reunite to drive their father's title car from their Detroit homes to Florida. The auto is to be a gift to celebrate their mother's birthday party. Along the way, their adventures are punctuated by pop tunes from 1963 that include "Louie, Louie," a song that Read More

3/9/90
Nightbreed

Crew: Producer

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, Hugh Ross

Synopsis: Multimedia horror maven Clive Barker followed the success of his feature directorial debut Hellraiser with this equally surreal effort, based on his novella Cabal. The story involves the plight of Aaron Boone Craig Sheffer, a young man tormented by visions of monstrous, graveyard-dwelling Read More

2/16/90
Enemies: A Love Story

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Margaret Sophie Stein, Alan King

Synopsis: Ron Silver stars as Herman, a Holocaust survivor who believes that his wife Tamara (Anjelica Huston) perished in the concentration camps. He marries fellow immigrant Yadwiga (Margaret Sophie Stein), whose family sheltered him from the Nazis, and resettles in the Coney Island area of New York. Not Read More

12/13/89
Renegades

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jami Gertz, Robert Knepper, Bill Smitrovich

Synopsis: Director Jack Sholder followed his surprise sleeper hit The Hidden (1987) with this action drama that re-teamed Young Guns (1988) co-stars Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips. Sutherland stars as Buster McHenry, a Philadelphia cop working undercover as a thief in the gang of wealthy Read More

6/2/89
Skin Deep

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Ritter, Vincent Gardenia, Alyson Reed, Joel Brooks, Julianne Phillips

Synopsis: Blake Edwards, mining the same territory as in his 10, Micki and Maude, The Man Who Loved Women, and That's Life, (not to mention Blind Date), once again deals with male mid-life menopausal angst. Zach (John Ritter) is a novelist suffering from writer's block, spiraling downward in a sea of women Read More

3/3/89
Dead Ringers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas

Synopsis: Two twin brothers, both renowned gynecologists, descend into madness after becoming romantically involved with the same woman in this disturbing, horrific drama. Jeremy Irons delivers a bravura performance as both Beverly and Elliot Mantle, Toronto-based surgeons who operate an exclusive Read More

9/23/88
Young Guns

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Palance

Synopsis: In this Western based loosely on actual events and people, Emilio Estevez stars as William H. Bonney (aka Billy the Kid). Sought for a petty crime in Lincoln County, Billy is taken in by John Tunstall (Terrence Stamp), a British ranch owner seeking to make it in the cattle business. Tunstall Read More

8/12/88
P.K. and the Kid

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Molly Ringwald, Alex Rocco, Charles Hallahan, John de Santi

Synopsis: Paul Le Mat and Molly Ringwald star in this limp-wristed drama about an arm-wrestling contest. P.K. (Ringwald) runs away from home after her mother's boyfriend Lester (Alex Rocco) continues his unwanted advances. She hitches a ride with The Kid (Paul Le Mat), who is on his way to an annual Read More

1/23/87
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: In this follow-up to Revenge of the Nerds the nerdy frat boys from Lambda Lambda Lambda go to Ft. Lauderdale to a national frat conference where they again must outwit the thick-tongued jock frat-boys who are also at the conference. This they can do. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Streets of Gold

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes, Ángela Molina, Elya Baskin

Synopsis: Klaus Maria Brandauer stars in this drama as Alek Neuman, a one-time boxing champion in the Soviet Union. While he was one of the top-ranked Russian fighters of his day, he was never allowed to box in the Olympics, because the Soviets would not permit Jews to compete on their national teams. Many Read More

11/14/86
Where the River Runs Black

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charles Durning, Alessandro Rabelo, Ajay Naidu, Peter Horton, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: This drama concerns the clash of two worlds in the person of a young boy. The small boy (Alessandro Rabelo) is the offspring of a missionary who died before the he was born, and a Native American who is later killed by white prospectors. Father O'Reilly (Charles Durning) comes to hear about the Read More

9/19/86
Off Beat

Crew: Producer

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna, Jacques D'Amboise

Synopsis: In this charming comedy that lives up to its title, Judge Reinhold stars as Joe Gower, a librarian's assistant posing as a police officer and trying to win the heart of a beautiful police officer, Rachel Wareham (Meg Tilly). A complex chain of events is put in place when Joe agrees to help out a Read More

4/11/86
Moving Violations

Crew: Producer

Actors: Neal Israel, John Murray, Jennifer Tilly, James Keach, Brian Backer, Ned Eisenberg

Synopsis: In this flat attempt at comedy by the director of the Police Academy series, Neal Israel, a brash Dana Cannon (John Murray, brother of Bill) lands in a crooked re-education school for delinquent drivers, run by Deputy Halik (James Keach, brother of Stacey). The objective is to lord it over the Read More

1985
The Stone Boy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Duvall, Jason Presson, Frederic Forrest, Glenn Close, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: In this tightly-wound, perceptive film, a young farm boy kills his older brother when a shotgun accidentally goes off then retreats into a shell of silence as his family seems to react against him. Arnold (Jason Presson) and his brother get up at the crack of dawn to go duck hunting, but their Read More

1984
Bachelor Party

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Barbara Stuart

Synopsis: Tom Hanks stars in this raunchy teen comedy from veteran screenwriters Pat Proft and Neil Israel, who had previously collaborated on the amusing sketch film Tunnelvision (1976) and the disappointing Americathon (1980). Bus-driver Rick Gasko (Hanks) is engaged to wealthy Debbie Thompson (Tawny Kitaen Read More

1984
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

Crew: Producer

Actors: Diane Lane, Peter Donat, David Clennon, John Lehne

Synopsis: A very inexperienced rock band flirts with fame thanks to a valuable assist from the media in this comedy-drama directed by veteran music producer Lou Adler. Corinne Burns (Diane Lane) is a fifteen-year-old orphan who gains a measure of local notoriety when she quits her job at a burger stand Read More

1982
The Final Terror

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Friedrich, Adrian Zmed, Daryl Hannah, Rachel Ward, Mark Metcalf

Synopsis: This mediocre slasher film from director Andrew Davis is worth watching more for its cast than for its cliched story. The film is set in the usual isolated forest, where a ratty-looking killer (who seems to be covered with Spanish moss) makes survival difficult for some foul-tempered campers. Read More

1981
Americathon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Peter Riegert, Harvey Korman, Fred Willard, Zane Buzby, Nancy Morgan

Synopsis: In the future (the distant year of 1997), the United States of America is in crisis. The oil shortage has grown to epic proportions, leading to people living in their cars and bicycling to work. Cigarettes and meat have been outlawed, gold coins are needed to operate common household appliances Read More

1979
Our Winning Season

Crew: Producer

Actors: Scott Jacoby, Deborah Benson, Dennis Quaid, Randy Herman, Joe Penny

Synopsis: In this youthful drama, a high-school senior aspires to become a track star while simultaneously dealing with the other travails of youth. One of his best friends is drafted and ends up getting killed in Vietnam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Cracking Up

Crew: Producer

Actors: Philip Proctor, Peter Bergman

Synopsis: The Big One finally hits California and as it slides into the waiting Pacific a television news team with anchor people Walter Concrete and Barbara Halters is there to record the resulting chaos and help themselves to whatever is left. This satire features performers from such noted comedy troupes Read More

1977
Tunnel Vision

Crew: Producer

Actors: Philip Proctor, Howard Hesseman, Ernest Anderson, Edwina Anderson

Synopsis: This futuristic parody on television is made up of various sketches, and features some early performances of later well-known comics. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1976

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