9 Movies Directed by Adam Shankman

The Wedding Planner

The Wedding Planner

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-01-26

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.2 (56514 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Fullplot:

Mary Fiore is the wedding planner. She's ambitious, hard-working, extremely organized, and she knows exactly what to do and say to make any wedding a spectacular event. Bt when Mary falls (literally) for a handsome doctor her busy yet uncomplicated life is turned upside down - he's the groom in the biggest wedding of her career! Will she help him walk down the aisle with his internet tycoon girlfriend, or will Mary finally get to be the bride herself? When it comes to love, you can never plan what's going to happen.

A Walk to Remember

A Walk to Remember

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-01-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (149103 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Nicholas Sparks (novel)

Karen Janszen (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Beaufort, North Carolina, a prank on a student goes terribly wrong and puts the student in the hospital. Landon Carter, a popular student with no defined plans for the future, is held responsible and forced to participate in after-school community service activities as punishment, which include starring as the lead in the school play. Also participating in these activities is Jamie Sullivan, the reverend's daughter who has great ambitions and nothing in common with Landon. When Landon decides he wants to take his activities seriously, he asks Jamie for help and begins to spend most of his time with her. But he starts to develop strong feelings for her, something he did not expect to do. The two start a relationship, much to the chagrin of Landon's old popular friends and Jamie's strict reverend father. But when a heart-breaking secret becomes known that puts their relationship to the test, it is then that Landon and Jamie realize the true meaning of love and fate.

Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-03-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (28694 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Peter Sanderson is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife and can't figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. However, Peter's trying to move on, and he's smitten with a brainy, bombshell barrister he's been chatting with online. However, when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face, she isn't refined, isn't Ivy League, and isn't even a lawyer. Instead, it's Charlene, a prison escapee who's proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help her clear her name. But Peter wants nothing to do with her, prompting the loud and shocking Charlene to turn Peter's perfectly ordered life upside down, jeopardizing his effort to get back with his wife and woo a billion dollar client.

Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-03-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (28711 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Peter Sanderson is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife and can't figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. However, Peter's trying to move on, and he's smitten with a brainy, bombshell barrister he's been chatting with online. However, when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face, she isn't refined, isn't Ivy League, and isn't even a lawyer. Instead, it's Charlene, a prison escapee who's proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help her clear her name. But Peter wants nothing to do with her, prompting the loud and shocking Charlene to turn Peter's perfectly ordered life upside down, jeopardizing his effort to get back with his wife and woo a billion dollar client.

The Pacifier

The Pacifier

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-03-04

Languages:

English, Korean

Countries:

Canada, USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (59709 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Cast:

Writer:

Thomas Lennon

Robert Ben Garant

Fullplot:

After a Navy SEAL fails to rescue a scientist who developed a top secret device, he is assigned to guard the man's children while searching for information on where the device may be hidden inside the house. Along the way, he must cope with rebellious teens, child care, an overbearing school official, and foreign spies also looking for it.

Hairspray

Hairspray

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-07-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

117 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (92127 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Cast:

Writer:

Leslie Dixon (screenplay)

John Waters

Mark O'Donnell (musical play)

Thomas Meehan (musical play)

Fullplot:

Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Collins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it's not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father and Edna, she's going to integrate the show.....without denting her 'do!

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-12-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (39077 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Cast:

Writer:

Sam Harper

Craig Titley (characters)

Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. (novel)

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (novel)

Fullplot:

Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children, headed by Eugene Levy.

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-12-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (67134 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Cast:

Writer:

Matt Lopez (screenplay)

Tim Herlihy (screenplay)

Matt Lopez (story)

Fullplot:

In 1974, Marty Bronson builds the Sunny Vista Motel in Los Angeles, California, with the intention of raising his son Skeeter and his daughter Wendy in the place where he works. However he is not a good businessman and the hotel goes bankrupt. Marty is forced to sell his motel to Barry Nottingham that promises to hire Skeeter in a general manager position when he grown up. Years later, Barry builds a new hotel; forgets his promise to Marty; and Skeeter Bronson is only the handyman of his hotel. The general manager is the arrogant Kendall, who is engaged with the shallow Barry's daughter Violet Nottingham. When the Webster Elementary School where Wendy is the principal will be closed to be demolished, she needs to travel to Arizona for a job interview. Wendy asks her friend Jill, who is teacher in the same school, to watch her son Patrick and her daughter Bobbi during the day and Skeeter to watch them during the night. Skeeter meets the estranged kids with his best friend Mickey and makes up bedtime stories to help them to sleep but the kids add details to the stories, changing their endings. Soon Skeeter realizes that the plot of the stories are coming true and affecting his life. Meanwhile Barry Nottingham decides to give a change to Skeeter to dispute the manager position in his new hotel with Kendall like in one of his stories. But Skeeter has told to his nephew and his niece that stories do not have happy endings.

Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-06-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (58484 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Cast:

Writer:

Justin Theroux (screenplay)

Chris D'Arienzo (screenplay)

Allan Loeb (screenplay)

Chris D'Arienzo (musical book)

Fullplot:

1987. Naive Sherrie Christian has just arrived in Hollywood from Tulsa looking to become a rock star. She is just like Drew Boley was when he first arrived in Hollywood, he, now the Hollywood veteran, who works as a bar back at the Bourbon Club, known as the center of the rock scene in town and the place where many of the biggest acts in rock got their big break. The two meet as Drew helps Sherrie with a situation when she first arrives in town. Despite Dennis Dupree, the Bourbon's owner/manager, not liking to hire people like Drew or Sherrie - someone who has musical aspirations - as service staff, Drew is able to convince Dennis and his assistant Lonny to hire Sherrie as a server, Drew and Sherrie who have a blossoming mutual attraction. Dennis and Lonny, who are having financial difficulties, are able to convince rock star Stacee Jaxx, the perpetually stoned front man for the band Arsenal who got his first break performing at the Bourbon, to perform for free at a benefit concert at the club. Rumors are that Stacee is leaving Arsenal after their next gig to go solo, Rolling Stones reporter Constance Sack who wants to get the true story as to the reason. Another problem for the Bourbon is that Mayor Mike Whitmore is taking a tough stance on what he sees as bad societal influences like rock music. His Christian fundamentalist wife Patricia Whitmore is leading the on the ground campaign in this area, she who is determined to shut down the Bourbon. But Patricia is hiding a secret from her past as to the reason for her extreme fervor in getting rid of the Bourbon. As Drew and Sherrie's romance blossoms, other romances around them blossom as well. But their romance and their musical aspirations are threatened by trying to stay true to their musical visions, changing musical tastes, and by Stacee himself.

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