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

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 Date2001-06-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Russian Blue (voice)

Vote Count1731

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 Date2016-09-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count1605

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 Date2025-01-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count16

Vote Count432

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 Date1998-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count289

The Angry Beavers

Daggett and Norbert Beaver are two young beaver brothers who have left their home to become bachelors in the forest near Wayouttatown, Oregon.

Release Date1997-04-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count19

Vote Count249

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 Date2011-07-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9234

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 Date2022-03-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count211

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 Date2015-11-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count18

Vote Count181

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 Date2017-02-08

DepartmentCrew

JobCreative Consultant

Vote Count5376

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 Date2023-03-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count228

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 Date2021-07-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6138

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 Date2015-02-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8260

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 Date2019-02-06

DepartmentCrew

JobCreative Consultant

Vote Count2411

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 Date2020-10-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count10

Vote Count173

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 Date2016-09-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2493

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 Date2022-07-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1718

Bad Santa

You'd better watch out - Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Willie'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 Date2003-11-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2378

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 Date2018-09-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1614

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 Date2013-09-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count13

Vote Count23

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 Date2010-07-29

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count682

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 Date2016-11-23

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count871

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 Date2010-02-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1810

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Stuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by leaving her desk job in New York and taking a dangerous assignment in Afghanistan. Far from home and completely out of her comfort zone, a culture-shocked Kim befriends an adventurous reporter Tanya Vanderpoel, a stern Colonel, and a charming photojournalist to help her navigate this crazy new world.

Release Date2016-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1041

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 Date2005-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count282

Misadventure

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Honeymoon with Harry

A rough-around-the-edges man ends up sharing an unwanted journey with his fiancée’s prickly, overprotective father after a life-altering turn upends their plans. Against the backdrop of an island honeymoon, the two men clash and bicker before gradually uncovering an unexpected bond.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Guys and Dolls

A remake of the classic musical.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

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.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

King of the Jungle

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector