Amanda Peet : Filmography

March 2013

Identity Thief

Directed by: Seth GordonWith: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Amanda PeetMild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.

February 2011

Gulliver's Travels

Animation (classic style), Adventure

Directed by: Rob LettermanWith: Jack Black, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Amanda Peet,...Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.

July 2010

Please Give

Drama

Directed by: Nicole HolofcenerWith: Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet,...Kate (Catherine Keener) has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store (and how much markup can she get away with?). There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter (Sarah Steele)... Read more...

November 2009

2012

Action, Thriller

Directed by: Roland EmmerichWith: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Johann Urb,..."2012" revolves a family who goes on vacation in December 2012, just as the Mayan calendar is coming to a close. Over the decades, many have prophesized that the world will end when the ancient calendar ceases on Dec. 21, 2012.

July 2008

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Science Fiction

Directed by: Chris CarterWith: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda PeetIn grand "X-Files" manner, the film's storyline is being kept under wraps, known only to top studio brass and the film's principals. This much can be revealed: The supernatural thriller is a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the show's most acclaimed and beloved episodes, and takes the... Read more...

Martian Child

Comedy, Drama

Directed by: Menno MeyjesWith: John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet,...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.

March 2006

Syriana

Thriller

Directed by: Steven GaghanWith: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet,...

August 2005

A Lot Like Love

Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Directed by: Nigel ColeWith: Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Kathryn Hahn,...A young man and woman meet on a cross-country flight. Oliver is a brand new college graduate with an airtight timeline for attaining his dreams of both business success and finding true love. Emily is a bold, free spirit drawn to spontaneity and wild extremes. Two different choices, two... Read more...

January 2005

Melinda and Melinda

Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Directed by: Woody AllenWith: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller,...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... Read more...

September 2004

The Whole Ten Yards

Comedy, Thriller, Crime

Directed by: Howard DeutchWith: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet,...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... Read more...

March 2004

Something's gotta give

Comedy

Directed by: Nancy MeyersWith: Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Amanda Peet,...

September 2003

Identity

Thriller

Directed by: James MangoldWith: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Jake Busey,...

September 2003

Igby Goes Down

Comedy

Directed by: Burr SteersWith: Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Ryan Phillippe,...

High Crimes

Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Directed by: Carl FranklinWith: Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel,...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.