Noah Baumbach Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1969
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: A writer and director who, with two films, established himself as a disciple of the Whit Stillman School of Well-Heeled Post-Modern Post-Collegiate Anxiety, Noah Baumbach emerged as one of the more talented and literate young directors of the 1990s. The son of Georgia Brown, a film critic for the...Read More

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jason Schwartzman

Synopsis: A wily fox uses his formidable cunning to outsmart three feeble-minded farmers who resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens in director Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of the popular Roald Dahl children's book. George Clooney supplies the voice for Mr. Fox, with Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray Read More

11/6/09
The Emperor's Children

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Ron Howard directs this adaptation of Claire Messud's novel about a group of young Ivy League socialites in New York City whose aimless lives are put into turnaround when the events of 9/11 disrupt their self-centered existence. Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) writes the screenplay, with Read More

1/1/09
Margot at the Wedding

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, John Turturro, Ciarán Hinds

Synopsis: Margot at the Wedding, writer/director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, stars Nicole Kidman as Margot, a woman who travels with her son to the wedding of her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The relationship between the two siblings has never been harmonious Read More

11/16/07
The Squid and the Whale

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, William Baldwin

Synopsis: Two boys learn the hard way about how a marriage falls apart in this independent comedy drama. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a novelist whose career has gone into a slow decline as he spends more time teaching and less time writing. His wife, Joan (Laura Linney), meanwhile, has recently begun Read More

10/5/05
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: The first effort from director Wes Anderson since his critically beloved The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou finds the filmmaker re-teaming with a number of familiar faces, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, and Seymour Cassel. Murray plays Steve Zissou, an Read More

12/10/04
Highball

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Justine Bateman, Rae Dawn Chong, Chris Reed, Eric Stoltz, Peter Bogdanovich

Synopsis: Over the course of one year, a group of friends gathers for three parties (a birthday dinner party, a Halloween costume party, and a New Year's celebration) at the Brooklyn apartment of a young married couple (Chris Reed, Lauren Katz). Friendships and relationships are formed, dissolved, and Read More

2000
Mr. Jealousy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, Christopher Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, former broadcast journalist and current substitute teacher Lester Grimm (Eric Stoltz) is not especially good at displaying a healthy trust in his relationships. Ever since the age of 15, when Lester's first girlfriend ditched him for a 24-year-old, Lester has displayed an Read More

6/5/98
Kicking and Screaming

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Josh Hamilton, Olivia D'Abo, Carlos Jacott, Christopher Eigeman, Eric Stoltz

Synopsis: Inspired by the advent of Seattle's grunge music sound and popular films such as Slacker (1991) and Singles (1992), the Generation X comedy-drama was born. Typified by characters in their early twenties sharing an abundance of education, a lack of career direction, stunted romantic aspirations and Read More

1995