Glenn Ficarra

Glenn Ficarra (born May 27, 1969) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He has frequently collaborated with John Requa. Ficarra is the son of Marianne and Robert F. Ficarra, grandchild of Theresa (née Filippone) and Frank Ficarra, and brother of Chris Ficarra. Ficarra attended St. John Vianney High School in Holmdel Township, New Jersey. Ficarra met John Requa at Pratt Institute, where both were studying film. After college, Requa and Ficarra went to work in animation for the Nickelodeon TV channel. As writers, they wrote the comedy films Cats & Dogs (directed by Lawrence Guterman), Bad Santa (directed by Terry Zwigoff), and Bad News Bears (directed by Richard Linklater). In 2009, they made their directorial debut with their self-penned I Love You Phillip Morris, based on the life of con man Steven Jay Russell. For their writing on this film, Ficarra and Requa received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Their subsequent release was the comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Julianne Moore, again directed by Requa, released in July 2011. With Requa and Charlie Gogolak, he has formed the production company Zaftig Films. The pair also directed Focus, starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie, and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, starring Tina Fey and Robbie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Ficarra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Paradise
8.0

Paradise

The tranquility in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world's most prominent individuals explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.

Release Date:2025-01-26

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:60

Rabbit Hole
7.2

Rabbit Hole

Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations.

Release Date:2023-03-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:184

7.2

DC League of Super-Pets

When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto the Super-Dog must convince a rag-tag shelter pack - Ace the hound, PB the potbellied pig, Merton the turtle and Chip the squirrel - to master their own newfound powers and help him rescue the superheroes.

Release Date:2022-07-27

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1588

WeCrashed
7.3

WeCrashed

Inspired by actual events — and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its valuation dropped $40 billion. What happened?

Release Date:2022-03-18

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:170

7.3

Jungle Cruise

Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

Release Date:2021-07-28

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:5764

NEXT
7.1

NEXT

A Silicon Valley pioneer discovers that one of his own creations – a powerful A.I. – might spell global catastrophe, and teams up with a cybercrime agent to fight a villain unlike anything we’ve ever seen – one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves.

Release Date:2020-10-06

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:155

6.7

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.

Release Date:2019-02-06

Department:Crew

Job:Creative Consultant

Vote Count:2239

6.8

Smallfoot

A bright young yeti finds something he thought didn't exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village.

Release Date:2018-09-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1525

7.2

The Lego Batman Movie

A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick.

Release Date:2017-02-08

Department:Crew

Job:Creative Consultant

Vote Count:5048

5.4

Bad Santa 2

Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie's sliver of humanity. Issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, who raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior.

Release Date:2016-11-23

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Vote Count:800

6.7

Storks

Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl...

Release Date:2016-09-22

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:2356

This Is Us
8.2

This Is Us

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

Release Date:2016-09-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:1469

6.3

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.

Release Date:2016-03-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:974

Patriot
7.6

Patriot

To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.

Release Date:2015-11-03

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:18

Vote Count:151

6.9

Focus

Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

Release Date:2015-02-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7885

Back in the Game
6.5

Back in the Game

Terry Gannon Jr. was an All Star softball player until life threw her a couple curve balls: a baby, a lost college scholarship and a loser for a husband. After striking out on her own, Terry and her son Danny move in with her estranged father, Terry Sr. aka "The Cannon," an opinionated, beer-guzzling, ex-athlete who never quite made the cut as a single father or professional baseball player. When Terry reluctantly offers to coach Danny and a group of other athletically-challenged hopefuls, her past comes rushing back.

Release Date:2013-09-25

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:22

7.3

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.

Release Date:2011-07-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8637

5.2

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.

Release Date:2010-07-29

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Vote Count:643

6.4

I Love You Phillip Morris

Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest – even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the State Penitentiary where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another.

Release Date:2010-02-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1661

5.8

Bad News Bears

Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.

Release Date:2005-07-22

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:262

6.5

Bad Santa

You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Wille's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.

Release Date:2003-11-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2163

5.4

Cats & Dogs

When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets the fragile balance of power between cats and dogs and touches off an epic battle for pet supremacy. The fur flies as the feline faction, led by Mr. Tinkles, squares off against wide-eyed puppy Lou and his canine cohorts.

Release Date:2001-07-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Russian Blue (voice)

Vote Count:1644

Misadventure

In early development. In the vein of Crazy Stupid Love. Plot TBA.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

King of the Jungle

After making a fortune with his antivirus software, its creator moves to the Belize jungle and sets up a compound.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

16 States

A pandemic, this time with zombies, with a story of a mother trying to reach her family at the center of it. The project has been described as having shades of the Will Smith zombie movie I Am Legend.

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Guys and Dolls

A new adaptation of the classic musical about a pair of big city gamblers place a bet on whether one guy can convince a wholesome, pious woman to join him on a weekend island rendezvous.

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

The Wild Thornberrys
6.8

The Wild Thornberrys

Travel the world with the Thornberrys and come face-to-face with blue sheep in Nepal, emus in Australia, marmots in Pakistan, flash floods in Siberia, Egyptian burial chambers, a runaway hot air balloon, a rock slide on the Karakoram Highway and more!

Release Date:1998-09-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:259

The Angry Beavers
6.9

The Angry Beavers

The Angry Beavers is an American animated television series created by Mitch Schauer for the Nickelodeon channel. The series revolves around Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two young beaver brothers who have left their home to become bachelors in the forest near the fictional Wayouttatown, Oregon.

Release Date:1997-04-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:19

Vote Count:231

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