Mark S. Waters Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: A director with a talent for satire and a knack for remaining true to the written word of a well-penned screenplay, Mark S. Waters first came to the attention of film lovers with his biting 1997 black comedy The House of Yes. A graduate of the AFI directing program, Waters made his...Read More

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500 Days of Summer

Crew: Producer

Actors: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly, Matthew Gray Gubler

Synopsis: Fox Searchlight presents this romantic comedy concerning a woman (Zooey Deschanel) whose non-belief in love is tested when a man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falls head-over-heels with her. Marc Web directs from a script by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

2009
The Spiderwick Chronicles

Crew: Director

Actors: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Sarah Bolger, Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis: Mark S. Waters's adaptation of the popular fantasy novels The Spiderwick Chronicles tells the tale of the Graces, a family who must adapt to their new strange surroundings. As the story begins, twin brothers Jared and Simon, along with their sister Mallory and their mother, move away from the big Read More

2/14/08
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Crew: Director

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas, Anne Archer, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Matthew McConaughey stars as a freewheeling libertine who's haunted by the spirits of girlfriends of the present, past, and beyond at his brother's wedding, awakening long-lost feelings for his first love. Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas, Anne Archer and Robert Forster co-star in this Mark Waters Read More

1/1/08
Sorry, Haters

Crew: Executive 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
Just Like Heaven

Crew: Director

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Waters, Ben Shenkman, Jon Heder, Ivana Milicevic

Synopsis: A couple who live on different sides of the divide of life and death discover just how many boundaries love can cross in this romantic comic fantasy. Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon) is a hardworking and dedicated medical resident who, after 20 hours on duty, is heading home when she falls asleep at Read More

9/16/05
Mean Girls

Crew: Director

Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer

Synopsis: Tina Fey from Saturday Night Live wrote and appears in this comedy about the alternately funny and terrifying pecking order among teenage girls. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a 15-year-old girl who has spent most of her life in Africa, where she was home-schooled by her zoologist parents. When her Read More

4/30/04
Freaky Friday

Crew: Director

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray

Synopsis: A high-strung mom and her punky daughter learn what it's like to walk in each other's shoes -- literally -- in Disney's second update of their 1977 teen fantasy comedy. The new-millennium Freaky Friday has disgruntled teen Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) living, sans father, with her uptight Read More

8/6/03
Warning: Parental Advisory

Crew: Director

Synopsis: According to this irreverent made-for-cable movie, the mid-'80s movement to slap "parental advisory" labels on music videos and albums was fueled by clueless congressional wives and opportunistic hacks. Mariel Hemingway is cast as a sincere but misguided Tipper Gore, who in 1985 declares all-out Read More

2002
Head Over Heels

Crew: Director

Actors: Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah O'Hare

Synopsis: If you think you've seen a man killing someone, does that mean you shouldn't be dating him? This and other questions about modern relationships are explored in this offbeat romantic comedy. Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter) has found a great job (restoring paintings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Read More

2/2/01
The House of Yes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: A wealthy young man wants to wed a painfully ordinary girl, and a few hours with his family will convince anyone why he's doing so in this black comedy. Marty Pascal (Josh Hamilton) is engaged to marry Lesly (Tori Spelling), a dizzy blonde he met when she was working at a doughnut shop, and he Read More

1997