Movies starring Amanda Peet

Biography: 
Amanda Peet grew up in New York with her older sister and their parents, Charles, a lawyer, and Penny, a social worker. She made an unconventional stage debut at the age of three when she jumped onto the stage during a play yet despite this early start she later studied acting more as a hobby than anything else. She studied history at Columbia University where a drama professor convinced her to a ...  show all 

Martian Child (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cusack | Bobby Coleman | Amanda Peet | Sophie Okonedo | Joan Cusack | Oliver Platt | Bud | Richard Schiff | Taya Calicetto | David Kaye | Braxton Bonneville | Samuel Charles | Zak Ludwig | Samuel Patrick Chu | Ryan Morrissette
Directors: Menno Meyjes
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A science-fiction writer, recently widowed, considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially rejected boy who says he’s really from Mars.

Simply Irresistible (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar | Sean Patrick Flanery | Patricia Clarkson | Dylan Baker | Larry Gilliard Jr. | Christopher Durang | Betty Buckley | Olek Krupa | Amanda Peet | Alex Draper | Drew Nieporent | Anthony Ruivivar | Andrew McFarlane | Steven Skybell | Phyllis Somerville
Directors: Mark Tarlov
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A department store executive (Flanery) tries to resist falling in love with a young woman (Gellar), who he believes has possessed magical powers after inheriting a restaurant.

Igby Goes Down (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kieran Culkin | Claire Danes | Jeff Goldblum | Jared Harris | Amanda Peet | Ryan Phillippe | Bill Pullman | Susan Sarandon | Rory Culkin | Peter Anthony Tambakis | Bill Irwin | Kathleen Gati | Gannon Forrester | Celia Weston | Elizabeth Jagger
Directors: Burr Steers
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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast “old money” family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan. His darkly comic trip—shared by a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie, his Godfather’s trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing performance artists Russel—veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby’s ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from “going down.”

Saving Silverman (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Steve Zahn | Jack Black | Jason Biggs | Amanda Peet | Amanda Detmer | R. Lee Ermey | Neil Diamond | Kyle Gass | Norman Armour | Colin Foo | Chris Logan | Esme Lambert | Max Fomitchev | Tony Parsons | Brett Armstrong
Directors: Dennis Dugan
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Two dim-witted former high school buddys and Neil Diamond fanactics, Wayne and J.D., plot to keep their friend Darren from marrying the wrong woman, a domineering and spiteful psychologist named Judith by kidnapping her and trying to set Darren up with his old high school girlfriend Sandy who plans to become a nun.

High Crimes (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ashley Judd | Morgan Freeman | James Caviezel | Adam Scott | Amanda Peet | Bruce Davison | Tom Bower | Juan Carlos Hernández | Michael Gaston | Jude Ciccolella | Emilio Rivera | Michael Shannon | John Billingsley | Dendrie Taylor | Paula Jai Parker
Directors: Carl Franklin
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High powered lawyer Claire Kubik finds her world turned upside down when her husband, who she thought was Tom Kubik, is arrested and is revealed to be Ron Chapman. Chapman is on trial for a murder of Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Claire soon learns that to navigate the military justice system, she’ll need help from the somewhat unconventional Charlie Grimes; meanwhile, Claire’s sister, Jackie, is falling in love with wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant Embry assigned as the official defense lawyer. And most of the eyewitnesses have rather too conveniently died.

Syriana (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kayvan Novak | George Clooney | Amr Waked | Christopher Plummer | Jeffrey Wright | Chris Cooper | Robert Foxworth | Nicky Henson | Nicholas Art | Matt Damon | Amanda Peet | Steven Hinkle | Daisy Tormé | Peter Gerety | Richard Lintern
Directors: Stephen Gaghan
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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company’s law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Matthew Perry | Amanda Peet | Kevin Pollak | Natasha Henstridge | Frank Collison | Johnny Messner | Silas Weir Mitchell | Tasha Smith | Elisa Gallay | Tallulah Belle Willis | Johnny Williams | George Zapata | Carlo Zapata | McNally Sagal
Directors: Howard Deutch
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Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by his former neighbor Nicholas Oz Oseransky, retired hitman 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 from the Hungarian mob. To complicate matters even further, the men, who are out to get Oz, are led by Lazlo Gogolak, a childhood rival of Jimmy’s and another notorious hitman. Oz, Jimmy and Jill will have to go the whole nine yards—and then some—to manage the mounting Mafioso mayhem.

Identity (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cusack | Ray Liotta | Amanda Peet | John Hawkes | Alfred Molina | Clea DuVall | John C. McGinley | William Lee Scott | Jake Busey | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Rebecca De Mornay | Carmen Argenziano | Marshall Bell | Leila Kenzle | Matt Letscher
Directors: James Mangold
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Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a movie star, parents with a young son, a cop transporting a convict, a prostitute, a young couple, and a motel manager are caught up in a nasty rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they’re there. Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.

Changing Lanes (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Samuel L. Jackson | Kim Staunton | Toni Collette | Sydney Pollack | Tina Sloan | Richard Jenkins | Akil Walker | Cole Hawkins | Ileen Getz | Jennifer Dundas | Matt Malloy | Amanda Peet | Myra Lucretia Taylor | Bruce Altman
Directors: | Roger Michell
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An attorney (Ben Affleck) in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman (Samuel Jackson), who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties’ part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions. Contains mild violence and profanity.

The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Matthew Perry | Rosanna Arquette | Michael Clarke Duncan | Natasha Henstridge | Amanda Peet | Kevin Pollak | Harland Williams | Carmen Ferland | Serge Christianssens | Renee Madeline Le Guerrier | Jean-Guy Bouchard | Howard Bilerman | Johnny Goar | Deano Clavet
Directors: Jonathan Lynn
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Oz is a Montréal dentist, paying off debts so he can divorce his wife: the dislike is mutual. When she learns their new neighbor is hit man Jimmy the Tulip, with a price on his head, she sends Oz to Chicago to earn a finder’s fee telling Mob boss Yanni where to find Jimmy. To get his wife off his back, Oz goes, his assistant Jill urging him to get laid while there. One of Yanni’s men awaits Oz at the hotel; Oz’s now in too deep to avoid telling Yanni what he knows. Meanwhile, Oz’s wife rats on Oz to Jimmy, hoping Jimmy will kill Oz and she can cash in on life insurance. Oz meets Jimmy’s wife (Yanni’s captive), flips for her, and the double-crosses mount. Even Jill isn’t whom she seems.