Paul Schneider Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: Since his debut performance in director David Gordon Green's bleak rural drama George Washington (2000), actor Paul Schneider has appeared alongside Sarah Jessica Parker and Diane Keaton in The Family Stone (2005) and co-starred in the comedy drama Elizabethtown. Schneider also co-stars in Mr. Woodcock...Read More

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Pretty Bird

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Kristen Wiig, David Hornsby

Synopsis: A fast-talking rainmaker, his wealthy acquaintance, and an unemployed aerospace engineer forge an unusual partnership that hastens the deterioration of their relationships while forever altering the course of their lives in director Paul Schneider's minimalist tale of American entrepreneurialism. Read More

2008
Untitled Sam Mendes Comedy

Actors: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines

Synopsis: Authors Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida provide the script for Sam Mendes' (Revolutionary Road) untitled comedy focusing on a married couple (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph) searching for a place to live before their baby is born in this Focus Features production. Maggie Gyllenhaal and Curb Your Read More

1/1/08
Lars and the Real Girl

Actors: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Patricia Clarkson, Kelli Garner, Nancy Beatty, Karen Robinson

Synopsis: Lars (Ryan Gosling) and Gus (Paul Schneider) are the grown children of a father who died recently and a mother who died giving birth to Lars. But as brothers, they couldn't be more different. While Gus lives in the family home and has a loving wife (Emily Mortimer) and a child on the way, Lars Read More

10/12/07
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Actors: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider

Synopsis: Brad Pitt stars as legendary Wild West outlaw Jesse James in Chopper director Andrew Dominik's cinematic rendering of the events that would eventually bring about the death of the man rumored be the "fastest gun in the West." An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually Read More

9/21/07
Live Free or Die

Actors: Aaron Stanford, Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Rapaport, Judah Friedlander

Synopsis: An aspiring small-town criminal edges in on the family business of an old acquaintance, only to find things quickly spinning out of control when an emotionally unstable cop begins investigating the case. Clueless criminal wannabe John "Rugged" Rudgate (Aaron Stanford) spends most of his time Read More

3/30/07
The Family Stone

Actors: Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: A woman meets her future in-laws and discovers they don't much care for her in this comedy from writer and director Thomas Bezucha. Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) is a successful young businessman who is dating Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), and has asked her to spend Christmas with his Read More

12/16/05
Elizabethtown

Actors: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Jessica Biel

Synopsis: A young man in need of a fresh start gets one under highly unexpected circumstances in this emotionally resonant comedy drama from writer and director Cameron Crowe. Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is considered the big success story in his family, having moved away from the small Kentucky town where Read More

10/14/05
How to Lose Your Lover

Actors: Paul Schneider, Jennifer Westfeldt, Poppy Montgomery, Tori Spelling, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Owen (Paul Schneider of All the Real Girls) wants to be a serious writer, but ever since moving to Los Angeles, the only work he can get is co-writing trashy autobiographies for people who'd prefer he omit the unseemly truth, like Bucky (Fred Willard) an egotistical, philandering former astronaut. Read More

1/1/04
All the Real Girls

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Shea Whigham, Patricia Clarkson, Maurice Compte, Benjamin Mouton, Danny R. McBride

Synopsis: David Gordon Green, who in 2000 made a splash on the festival circuit with his independent debut feature, George Washington, directed this drama about two people entering into a mature romantic relationship -- the sort that neither has been accustomed to. Paul (Paul Schneider) is a guy in his Read More

2/14/03
Crude

Actors: Paul Schneider, David Connolly, Yigit Ozsener, Ipek Deger, Mehmet Guleryuz

Synopsis: American independent filmmaker Paxton Winters makes his writing and directing debut with the offbeat comedy Crude. Shot in digital video, the film follows American backpackers Gabe (Paul Schneider) and Bryce (David Connolly) making their way through Europe. After losing their money in Turkey, they Read More

2003
The Rough South of Larry Brown

Actors: Vic Chesnutt, Justin Stone, Jill Johnson, Scott Clackum, Brent Burditt

2002
George Washington

Actors: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Paul Schneider

Synopsis: David Gordon directs this bleak drama about a gang of rural teens going astray. The title character is 13-year-old boy who lives in an impoverished corner of North Carolina. While wandering around with his rag-tag band of mates, one boy gets inadvertently killed. Fearing parental retribution, the Read More

10/27/00