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Don Roos is a Director, Scriptwriter and Executive Producer American born on 14 april 1955 at New York City (USA)

Don Roos

Don Roos
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Nationality USA
Birth 14 april 1955 (68 years) at New York City (USA)

Donald Paul "Don" Roos (born April 14, 1955) is an American screenwriter and film director.

Biography

Il a étudié à l'université Notre-Dame du Lac.

Best films

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
(Scriptwriter)
Marley & Me (2008)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Kudrow
(3 films)
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Don Roos (11 films)

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Director

The Other Woman, 1h59
Directed by Don Roos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Natalie Portman, Lisa Kudrow, Lauren Ambrose, Scott Cohen, Charlie Tahan, Anthony Rapp
Rating62% 3.1487553.1487553.1487553.1487553.148755
Emilia Greenleaf's life is turned upside down when she begins an affair with married high-powered attorney Jack Woolf and learns she is pregnant. After his quick divorce and their quick wedding, it is revealed through a series of flashbacks that her baby girl Isabel died three days after her birth from SIDS. Vilified as a homewrecker, she attracts the unyielding ire of his furious ex-wife, physician Carolyn, who is revealed to also be pregnant (after she heard about Emilia's pregnancy, she realized that she too wanted another child). Emilia thinks that this is purely out of spite. Now she must come to terms with her stepson, William (Tahan), who upsets her with constant references to her dead baby (including saying that under the terms of Jewish law, Isabel did not live long enough to be considered a full human being). Emilia's efforts to bond with William do not go well and succeed only in making both Carolyn and Jack think less of her.
Happy Endings, 2h8
Directed by Don Roos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Steve Coogan, Laura Dern, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Rating62% 3.146853.146853.146853.146853.14685
The film follows a diverse group of mostly middle-class Los Angelenos through the emotional ups and downs in their flawed yet very human lives, each loosely connected to each other through a restaurant.
Bounce
Bounce (2000)
, 1h46
Directed by Don Roos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tony Goldwyn, Natasha Henstridge, Jennifer Grey, Joe Morton
Rating57% 2.899862.899862.899862.899862.89986
In Chicago's O'Hare airport, advertising executive Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) is delayed by a snow storm for a return flight to Los Angeles, on the same airline he has just signed as a big client. He meets writer Greg Janello (Tony Goldwyn), and when his flight resumes boarding, Buddy gives his ticket to Greg so he can get home to his sons, Scott (Alex D. Linz) and Joey (David Dorfman). Buddy convinces his friend and airline employee Janice Guerrero (Jennifer Grey) to allow Greg to take his place on the flight. While spending the night with fellow stranded passenger Mimi (Natasha Henstridge), Buddy sees on television that the flight crashed. He has Janice check into the computer system to remove his name from the passenger manifest and add Greg's name.
The Opposite of Sex, 1h45
Directed by Don Roos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Johnny Galecki, Leslie Grossman, Ivan Sergei
Rating63% 3.1988853.1988853.1988853.1988853.198885
Sixteen-year-old Dedee Truitt (Christina Ricci) runs away from home. She is pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, Randy Cates (William Lee Scott). Not revealing her pregnancy, Dedee eventually moves in with her much older half-brother Bill (Martin Donovan), a gay teacher in a conservative, suburban community in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.

Scriptwriter

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, 2h3
Directed by Mike Newell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Katherine Parkinson, Matthew Goode
Roles Ecrivain
Rating73% 3.651493.651493.651493.651493.65149
Londres, 1946. A la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Juliet Ashton, une jeune écrivaine britannique en manque d'inspiration, reçoit une lettre d'un mystérieux membre du Club de Littérature de Guernesey créé durant l'Occupation allemande. Intriguée et curieuse d'en savoir plus, elle se rend sur l'île et rencontre alors les membres excentriques et attachants du Cercle littéraire des amateurs d'épluchures de patates dont Dawsey Adams, le charmant fermier à l'origine de la lettre. Leurs confidences, son attachement à l'île et à ses habitants ou encore son affection pour Dawsey et pour les autres férus de littérature changeront à jamais le cours de sa vie ainsi que sa carrière d'écrivaine.
The Other Woman, 1h59
Directed by Don Roos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Natalie Portman, Lisa Kudrow, Lauren Ambrose, Scott Cohen, Charlie Tahan, Anthony Rapp
Roles Ecrivain
Rating62% 3.1487553.1487553.1487553.1487553.148755
Emilia Greenleaf's life is turned upside down when she begins an affair with married high-powered attorney Jack Woolf and learns she is pregnant. After his quick divorce and their quick wedding, it is revealed through a series of flashbacks that her baby girl Isabel died three days after her birth from SIDS. Vilified as a homewrecker, she attracts the unyielding ire of his furious ex-wife, physician Carolyn, who is revealed to also be pregnant (after she heard about Emilia's pregnancy, she realized that she too wanted another child). Emilia thinks that this is purely out of spite. Now she must come to terms with her stepson, William (Tahan), who upsets her with constant references to her dead baby (including saying that under the terms of Jewish law, Isabel did not live long enough to be considered a full human being). Emilia's efforts to bond with William do not go well and succeed only in making both Carolyn and Jack think less of her.
Marley & Me, 1h55
Directed by David Frankel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Haley Hudson
Rating70% 3.5025553.5025553.5025553.5025553.502555
Soon after their wedding, John and Jenny Grogan (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) escape the brutal Michigan winters and relocate to a cottage in South Florida, where they are hired as reporters for competing newspapers. At The Palm Beach Post, Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments, while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, John finds himself writing obituaries and two-paragraph articles about mundane news like a fire at the local garbage dump.
The Devil Wears Prada, 1h49
Directed by David Frankel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, La mode, Children's films
Actors Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Tracie Thoms
Rating69% 3.456053.456053.456053.456053.45605
Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Despite her ridicule for the shallowness of the fashion industry, she lands a job "a million girls would kill for," junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the icy editor-in-chief of Runway fashion magazine. Andy plans to put up with Miranda's bizarre and humiliating treatment for one year in hopes of getting a job as a reporter or writer somewhere else.
Happy Endings, 2h8
Directed by Don Roos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Steve Coogan, Laura Dern, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Roles Writer
Rating62% 3.146853.146853.146853.146853.14685
The film follows a diverse group of mostly middle-class Los Angelenos through the emotional ups and downs in their flawed yet very human lives, each loosely connected to each other through a restaurant.
Bounce
Bounce (2000)
, 1h46
Directed by Don Roos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tony Goldwyn, Natasha Henstridge, Jennifer Grey, Joe Morton
Roles Writer
Rating57% 2.899862.899862.899862.899862.89986
In Chicago's O'Hare airport, advertising executive Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) is delayed by a snow storm for a return flight to Los Angeles, on the same airline he has just signed as a big client. He meets writer Greg Janello (Tony Goldwyn), and when his flight resumes boarding, Buddy gives his ticket to Greg so he can get home to his sons, Scott (Alex D. Linz) and Joey (David Dorfman). Buddy convinces his friend and airline employee Janice Guerrero (Jennifer Grey) to allow Greg to take his place on the flight. While spending the night with fellow stranded passenger Mimi (Natasha Henstridge), Buddy sees on television that the flight crashed. He has Janice check into the computer system to remove his name from the passenger manifest and add Greg's name.
The Opposite of Sex, 1h45
Directed by Don Roos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Johnny Galecki, Leslie Grossman, Ivan Sergei
Roles Writer
Rating63% 3.1988853.1988853.1988853.1988853.198885
Sixteen-year-old Dedee Truitt (Christina Ricci) runs away from home. She is pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, Randy Cates (William Lee Scott). Not revealing her pregnancy, Dedee eventually moves in with her much older half-brother Bill (Martin Donovan), a gay teacher in a conservative, suburban community in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
Diabolique
Diabolique (1996)
, 1h47
Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates, Spalding Gray, Shirley Knight
Rating54% 2.701282.701282.701282.701282.70128
The wife and mistress (Adjani and Stone) of a cruel school master (Palminteri) collaborate in a carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The strain starts to tell on the two women as a retired police investigator (Bates) who is looking into the disappearance on a whim begins to think that they know more than they are telling, and further complications arise when their victim is seen, apparently alive and well by several of the pupils.
Boys on the Side, 1h55
Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Political films, Road movies, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore, Matthew McConaughey, James Remar, Billy Wirth
Roles Writer
Rating64% 3.2483853.2483853.2483853.2483853.248385
Three unique women embark on a cross-country road trip: Jane (Whoopi Goldberg), a lesbian lounge singer in search of a new life after breaking up with her girlfriend and getting fired; Holly (Drew Barrymore), a pregnant girl who just wants to escape her brutal boyfriend; and Robin (Mary-Louise Parker), an uptight real estate agent who has her own secrets (namely being infected with HIV).
Love Field
Love Field (1993)
, 1h42
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Political films
Actors Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Brian Kerwin, Beth Grant, Louise Latham, Peggy Rea
Roles Writer
Rating64% 3.244923.244923.244923.244923.24492
In November 1963, Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett (Michelle Pfeiffer) is obsessed with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Lurene feels a special connection with Jackie through her own loss of a child. Knowing that President John F. Kennedy and his wife will be visiting Dallas, Lurene travels to Love Field Airport to try to catch a glimpse of the couple as they arrive by plane on November 22, 1963. Driving away a few hours later, she notices a quiet chaos developing, and discovers that the President has been assassinated. Lurene leaves her car in the middle of the street and rushes to watch the news through a store window. Lurene's anguish over the death of John F. Kennedy reflects the collective grief of the nation over this tragedy. Ignoring her overbearing husband Ray (Brian Kerwin), she travels by bus to attend the funeral in Washington, D.C. Much to the chagrin of the black patrons on the bus, Lurene talks constantly of the assassination during the bus ride. During her journey, she befriends Jonell (Stephanie McFadden), the young black daughter of Paul Cater (Dennis Haysbert). After the bus has an accident, Lurene notices wounds on Jonell's body. Lurene senses something is wrong, suspects Paul and calls the FBI to report that there has been a kidnapping. Moments after her well-intentioned interference, Paul explains that Jonell's wounds are from an orphanage that he rescued her from and he is indeed her real father. Nevertheless, Lurene's FBI call leads the three of them on an increasingly difficult road trip across America with both the police and Ray in pursuit. Over the course of the film Lurene and Paul develop a deep relationship, leading to a one-night sexual encounter. The police eventually catch Paul and Lurene, and Paul is sentenced to a year in jail.
Single White Female, 1h47
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Erotic thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman, Stephen Tobolowsky, Frances Bay
Rating63% 3.198633.198633.198633.198633.19863
Allison "Allie" Jones (Bridget Fonda) is a software designer in New York City, engaged to Sam Rawson (Steven Weber). In the middle of the night, Sam's ex-wife calls, and it is revealed that he slept with her recently. A hurt and angry Allie throws Sam out, breaking off their engagement, and is comforted by neighbor Graham Knox (Peter Friedman), an aspiring actor. The next morning she attends a business lunch with Mitchell Myerson (Stephen Tobolowsky), a fashion house owner who is looking to buy Allie's revolutionary new program. He manipulates her into significantly lowering the cost, on the basis that his recommendations within the industry will be her future business. As he is her first and only client, she accepts.