Adam Brooks

Adam Brooks (born September 3, 1956) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for writing and directing Definitely, Maybe (2008) and for writing screenplays for French Kiss (1995), Wimbledon (2004), and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). His first film as a writer-director, Almost You, won the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1985. Brooks served as a council member of the Writers Guild of America East and is currently on the board of the Writers Guild of America East Foundation. He also teaches film at the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. Brooks lives in New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Brooks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Mozart in the Jungle
7.5

Mozart in the Jungle

In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians. From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon," Blair Tindall has played with some of the biggest names in classical music for twenty-five years. Now in "Mozart in the Jungle," Tindall exposes the scandalous rock and roll lifestyles of the musicians, conductors, and administrators who inhabit the insular world of classical music.

Release Date2014-02-06

Charactersd Middle Aged Man

Episode Count1

Vote Count230

Imposters
7.2

Imposters

Maddie, a persona shifting con-artist who is as beautiful as she is dangerous, leaves her unwitting victims tormented when they realize they have been used and robbed of everything – including their hearts. But things get complicated when her former targets, Ezra, Richard, and Jules team up to track her down.

Release Date2017-02-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Rabbi at Wedding

Episode Count9

Vote Count121

6.9

Definitely, Maybe

When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.

Release Date2008-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Bookstore Owner

Vote Count2499

6.5

French Kiss

After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris despite her crippling fear of flying. On the way she unwittingly smuggles something of value that has a charming crook chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.

Release Date1995-05-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Perfect Passenger

Vote Count751

7.1

Whatever Works

Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic entanglements. Everyone discovers that finding love is just a combination of lucky chance and appreciating the value of "whatever works."

Release Date2009-06-19

Charactersd Boris' Friend #1

Vote Count1774

4.7

Lovesick

A 30-something man between relationships must move quick when an exciting new woman enters his life.

Release Date2016-12-02

Charactersd Conrad

Vote Count10

6.9

The Life List

When her mother sends her on a quest to complete a teenage bucket list, a young woman uncovers family secrets, finds romance — and rediscovers herself.

Release Date2025-03-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count407

Partner Track
7.0

Partner Track

At an elite NYC law firm, Ingrid Yun fights to make partner — and hold onto her principles — while balancing romance, friends and family expectations.

Release Date2022-08-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count62

These Days

These Days

When COVID began, we relied on online interactions within social media and streaming platforms to provide some semblance of community. Days turned into weeks and then into months, but nothing got better—especially for singles like Mae, a thirty-something professional dancer navigating the dating scene in an era that forced personal interactions to go online.

Release Date2021-01-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

6.8

Practical Magic

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

Release Date1998-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1573

6.2

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.

Release Date2004-11-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2903

6.2

Wimbledon

Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran has watched his number slip to 119 as his confidence on the court slowly ebbs away.  Now, on the eve of his leaving the world of professional tennis, he’s granted a wild card, allowing him to play his final Wimbledon tournament…make that his final tournament ever.

Release Date2004-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1019

5.8

Beloved

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...

Release Date1998-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count104

7.2

Nappily Ever After

After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.

Release Date2018-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count811

6.7

Vettam

Petty thief Gopi steals a chain, and in order to escape a police inspector, drops it in Veena's bag. Later, he tries to take it from her, but the chain is no longer there. He becomes a part of her plan to stop her boyfriend from marrying a rich tycoon’s daughter

Release Date2004-08-20

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count15

6.5

Lianna

Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest cross to bear is dealing with her waning marriage to Dick. In order to find intellectual stimulus, Lianna takes a college extension child-psychology course taught by Ruth. When Lianna catches Dick having an affair with a young coed, she finds comfort and eventually true love in the arms of Ruth. However, this comes with a price as everything in her life is turned upside down.

Release Date1983-01-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobScript Supervisor

Vote Count33

5.9

Baby It's You

In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.

Release Date1983-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobScript Supervisor

Vote Count38

5.6

Subway Stories

An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

Release Date1997-07-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count14

5.8

Reckless

Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girls' hearts with equal cool. Cheerleader Tracey Prescott is reckless too. She dumps her conventional life and boring boyfriend to follow Johnny wherever his dangerous path leads.

Release Date1984-02-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobScript Supervisor

Vote Count32

Practical Magic 2

A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing for each other.

Release Date2026-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

5.3

Almost You

Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a private nurse, the beautiful Lisa enters the Boyers' lives. A complicated situation develops as Alex sees Lisa as the cure for his own problems as well as his wife's.

Release Date1985-03-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

5.4

Red Riding Hood

The high spirited daughter of the village lord and her mother have been living in the forest for seven years near her wise grandmother. They wait for her father to come home, meanwhile, her literally heartless uncle rules. He sells his soul for the aid of an enchanted wolf who turns himself human in order to spy. As the tyranical lord begins to see his niece as a threat, he sends the wolf to deal with her.

Release Date1989-05-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

5.3

The Invisible Circus

After learning that her sister, Faith, has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe, an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the life that led to her sister's death by retracing her footsteps, which eventually leads to Wolf -- Faith's boyfriend. However, as Phoebe's journey continues, a series of visions of Faith pushes her mind to the brink.

Release Date2001-02-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count40

2.2

Heads

A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.

Release Date1994-01-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

5.7

Duke of Groove

Mother takes her teenage son to a party, to make sure he will not be at home when father leaves the family for good.

Release Date1996-05-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

An Orgy in Joshua Tree

An outrageously funny obscene comedy. An awkward idiot is convinced by a friend that the desert retreat to which he has been invited is actually a sex party.

Release Date2019-10-01

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