Amanda Peet

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem (2016)

As: Self

Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.

Runtime: 28 min.

Directed by: Caroline Suh

Stars: Lake Bell | Toni Collette | Catherine Hardwicke | Amy Heckerling | Jill Soloway

Sleeping with Other People (2015)

As: Paula

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said ...

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Leslye Headland

Stars: Adam Scott | Jason Mantzoukas | Jason Sudeikis | Natasha Lyonne | Alison Brie

The Way Way Back (2013)

As: Joan

Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Jim Rash | Nat Faxon

Stars: Sam Rockwell | AnnaSophia Robb | Liam James | Toni Collette | Steve Carell

Trust Me (2013)

As: Marcy

Trust Me follows flailing Hollywood agent Howard, who seemingly strikes gold after signing the next big child star. What results is an unexpected ride through the nasty inner workings of Hollywood, as Howard desperately tries to make it in an industry that has no interest in recognizing his bumbling but ultimately genuine nature.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Clark Gregg

Stars: William H. Macy | Clark Gregg | Allison Janney | Niecy Nash | Felicity Huffman

Identity Thief (2013)

As: Trish Patterson

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Seth Gordon

Stars: Melissa McCarthy | Amanda Peet | T.I. | Jason Bateman | Jon Favreau

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2012)

As: Ranger (voice)

Quantum Quest centers on the story of Dave, a young photon, who is forced out of the Sun on a journey of discovery. He must get to the Cassini Space Craft and save it from the forces of the Void, only Dave does not know exactly what he must do or even where the Cassini Space craft is or what it is. The forces of the Void must destroy Cassini before it sends its great discoveries back to Earth,Dave is the ...

Runtime: 45 min.

Directed by: Harry 'Doc' Kloor | Dan St. Pierre

Stars: Amanda Peet | Chris Pine | Hayden Christensen | Robert Picardo | Casey Kasem

Gulliver's Travels (2010)

As: Darcy Silverman

Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Rob Letterman

Stars: Amanda Peet | Emily Blunt | Jack Black | Chris O'Dowd | Jason Segel

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective (2010)

As: Self

A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

Runtime: 8 min.

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Stars: Amanda Peet | John Cusack | Woody Harrelson | Morgan Lily | Roland Emmerich

Please Give (2010)

As: Mary

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Nicole Holofcener

Stars: Oliver Platt | Catherine Keener | Rebecca Hall | Ann Morgan Guilbert | Amanda Peet

2012 (2009)

As: Kate Curtis

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer ...

Runtime: 158 min.

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Stars: Amanda Peet | Chiwetel Ejiofor | John Cusack | Thandie Newton | Woody Harrelson

What Doesn't Kill You (2008)

As: Stacy Reilly

Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Brian Goodman

Stars: Donnie Wahlberg | Amanda Peet | Mark Ruffalo | Will Lyman | Ethan Hawke

The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

As: ASAC Dakota Whitney

Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its ...

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Chris Carter

Stars: Amanda Peet | Gillian Anderson | Billy Connolly | David Duchovny | Xzibit

$5 a Day (2008)

As: Maggie

After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Nigel Cole

Stars: Dean Cain | Alessandro Nivola | Christopher Walken | Sharon Stone | Peter Coyote

Martian Child (2007)

As: Harlee

A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Menno Meyjes

Stars: Amanda Peet | John Cusack | Bobby Coleman | Joan Cusack | Sophie Okonedo

Battle for Terra (2007)

As: Maria Montez (voice)

A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Aristomenis Tsirbas

Stars: Brian Cox | Danny Glover | Chris Evans | Evan Rachel Wood | James Garner

The Ex (2006)

As: Sofia Kowalski

When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly hostile office rivalry with Chip, Sofia's paraplegic former lover.

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Jesse Peretz

Stars: Amanda Peet | Zach Braff | Jason Bateman | Mia Farrow | Charles Grodin

Griffin and Phoenix (2006)

As: Phoenix

A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Ed Stone

Stars: Amanda Peet | Dermot Mulroney | Alison Elliott | Blair Brown | Sarah Paulson

Syriana (2005)

As: Julie Woodman

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an ...

Runtime: 128 min.

Directed by: Stephen Gaghan

Stars: Matt Damon | George Clooney | Amanda Peet | Chris Cooper | Jeffrey Wright

A Lot Like Love (2005)

As: Emily Friehl

On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Nigel Cole

Stars: Taryn Manning | Amanda Peet | Ali Larter | Ashton Kutcher | Aimee Garcia

Melinda and Melinda (2004)

As: Susan

While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning ...

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Woody Allen

Stars: Will Ferrell | Amanda Peet | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Radha Mitchell | Jonny Lee Miller

The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

As: Jill St. Claire

Jimmy 'The Tulip' Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep; it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife, Cynthia.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Howard Deutch

Stars: Amanda Peet | Bruce Willis | Matthew Perry | Kevin Pollak | Natasha Henstridge

Something's Gotta Give (2003)

As: Marin

Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.

Runtime: 128 min.

Directed by: Nancy Meyers

Stars: Keanu Reeves | Diane Keaton | Amanda Peet | Jack Nicholson | Frances McDormand

Identity (2003)

As: Paris

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: James Mangold

Stars: John Hawkes | Amanda Peet | Alfred Molina | John Cusack | Ray Liotta

Whatever We Do (2003)

As: Patty

Twenty margaritas and 10 shots of tequila, with a few ounces of debauchery, bring four friends closer to the truth than they have been for years.

Runtime: 25 min.

Directed by: Kevin Connolly

Stars: Tim Roth | Amanda Peet | Zooey Deschanel | Robert Downey Jr. | Scott Bloom

Igby Goes Down (2002)

As: Rachel

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Burr Steers

Stars: Jeff Goldblum | Amanda Peet | Kieran Culkin | Jared Harris | Claire Danes

Changing Lanes (2002)

As: Cynthia Delano Banek

A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Roger Michell

Stars: Samuel L. Jackson | Ben Affleck | Toni Collette | Kim Staunton | Sydney Pollack

High Crimes (2002)

As: Jackie

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Carl Franklin

Stars: Morgan Freeman | Jim Caviezel | Adam Scott | Amanda Peet | Ashley Judd

Saving Silverman (2001)

As: Judith Fessbeggler

A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Dennis Dugan

Stars: Amanda Peet | Steve Zahn | Jack Black | Amanda Detmer | Jason Biggs

Two Ninas (2000)

As: Nina Harris

After a long lonely period of involuntary celibacy, Marty Sachs decides that he has had enough of New York and wants to pack up and run the family business in Maine. Yet before he leaves, he meets two available, attractive women, both named Nina. Nina Cohen shares many of the same eccentric interests as Marty, but she has grow gun-shy from one too many bad relationships. Blonde bombshell Nina ...

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Neil Turitz

Stars: Amanda Peet | Cara Buono | Ron Livingston | Linda Larkin | Fred Norris

Whipped (2000)

As: Mia

Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the "one" is one very irresistible woman and the "three" are three hopelessly smitten guys, the deck is pretty stacked. In the battle of the sexes, the first rule is to never underestimate the power of a woman.

Runtime: 82 min.

Directed by: Peter M. Cohen

Stars: Amanda Peet | Judah Domke | Brian Van Holt | Jonathan Abrahams | Zorie Barber

Takedown (2000)

As: Karen

Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, he constantly looks for bigger challenges. When he breaks into the computer of a security expert and an ex-hacker, he finds one - and much more than that...

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Joe Chappelle

Stars: Tom Berenger | Donal Logue | Christopher McDonald | Skeet Ulrich | Angela Featherstone

The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

As: Jill St. Claire

A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbors figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit, suburban style.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Lynn

Stars: Amanda Peet | Bruce Willis | Michael Clarke Duncan | Matthew Perry | Natasha Henstridge

Isn't She Great (2000)

As: Debbie

An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "The Valley Of The Dolls" and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career, Susann meets a successful promoter who becomes her husband. After several failures to place her in commercials and a TV quiz show, he hits upon the idea for her to become a writer. ...

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Andrew Bergman

Stars: Stockard Channing | John Cleese | David Hyde Pierce | Nathan Lane | Bette Midler

Body Shots (1999)

As: Jane Bannister

The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the clubs seeking good times, companionship and maybe a little sex. But in the harsh light of the morning after, their worlds are thrown into a spin of confusion when hungover Sara accuses hard-partying Mike of date rape. Loyalties are tested as each among them ...

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Michael Cristofer

Stars: Jerry O'Connell | Amanda Peet | Sean Patrick Flanery | Ron Livingston | Tara Reid

Southie (1999)

As: Marianne Silva

South Boston Irish bad boy Danny Quinn returns back home from New York and gets stuck between his pals, who are supported by one Irish mafia clan, and his family, which are members of another.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: John Shea

Stars: Rose McGowan | Donnie Wahlberg | Amanda Peet | Will Arnett | Anne Meara

Jump (1999)

As: Lisa

Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off than he is.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Justin McCarthy

Stars: Jessica Hecht | Amanda Peet | Ione Skye | Michael McGlone | James Le Gros

Simply Irresistible (1999)

As: Chris

After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to ...

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Mark Tarlov

Stars: Patricia Clarkson | Sean Patrick Flanery | Dylan Baker | Lawrence Gilliard Jr. | Sarah Michelle Gellar

Playing by Heart (1998)

As: Amber

Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit. An adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars.

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Willard Carroll

Stars: Sean Connery | Ryan Phillippe | Ellen Burstyn | Angelina Jolie | Gillian Anderson

1999 (1998)

As: Nicole

The century is coming to an end, and New York City is freaking out. "1999" takes place at a New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. As a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to come to terms with their identities, relationships, and self-doubts before the millennium turns. The partygoers are astonished and reawakened as passions flare and ignite, ...

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Nick Davis

Stars: Jennifer Garner | Buck Henry | Allyson Downey | Dan Futterman | Matt McGrath

Origin of the Species (1998)

As: Julia

A weekend in a summer house, where six late twenties friends have reunited. A series of life crises force them to confront their relationships and lives, leading them to discover what it really means to grow up.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Andres Heinz

Stars: Jean Louisa Kelly | Amanda Peet | Michael Kelly | Jonathan LaPaglia | Elon Gold

Ellen Foster (1997)

As: Julia Hobbs

After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.

Runtime: 94 min.

Stars: Ted Levine | Debra Monk | Julie Harris | Glynnis O'Connor | Jena Malone

Touch Me (1997)

As: Bridgette

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: H. Gordon Boos

Stars: Erica Gimpel | Amanda Peet | Peter Facinelli | Michael Vartan | Kari Wuhrer

Grind (1997)

As: Patty

When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. Things only get worse when he tries to turn a quick buck in a one-time insurance fraud operation.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Chris Kentis

Stars: Frank Vincent | Paul Schulze | Adrienne Shelly | Billy Crudup | Saul Stein

One Fine Day (1996)

As: Celia

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ...

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Michael Hoffman

Stars: George Clooney | Mae Whitman | Michelle Pfeiffer | Charles Durning | Alex D. Linz

She's the One (1996)

As: Molly

Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Though both brothers have beautiful wives, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Edward Burns

Stars: Edward Burns | Cameron Diaz | Jennifer Aniston | Maxine Bahns | John Mahoney

Animal Room (1995)

As: Debbie

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Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Craig Singer

Stars: Matthew Lillard | Gabriel Olds | Amanda Peet | Neil Patrick Harris | Lori Heuring