Tom Shadyac

Tom Shadyac

Thomas Peter "Tom" Shadyac is an American comedian, director, screenwriter, and producer. Although Shadyac had been the youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, he is widely known for writing and directing the films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, and I Am. He is an adjunct professor of communication and teaches screenwriting at Pepperdine University's Seaver College. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

  • Title: Tom Shadyac
  • Popularity: 0.8963
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1958-12-11
  • Place of Birth: Falls Church, Virginia, USA
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Tom Shadyac Movies

  • 1986
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    Jocks

    Jocks

    4.25 1986 HD

    When an odd-ball tennis team of a Los Angeles college sets out on a road trip to a regional college tennis tournament in fun-filled Las Vegas, all the stops are out and literally "anything goes" both on and off the court.

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  • 2011
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    I Am

    I Am

    7.232 2011 HD

    I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners and the creative force behind such blockbusters as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” “The Nutty Professor,” and “Bruce Almighty.” However, in I AM, Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world.

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  • 2003
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    Bruce Almighty

    Bruce Almighty

    6.724 2003 HD

    Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.

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  • 2003
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    Bruce Almighty

    Bruce Almighty

    6.724 2003 HD

    Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.

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  • 1997
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    Liar Liar

    Liar Liar

    6.705 1997 HD

    Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.

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  • 1998
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    Patch Adams

    Patch Adams

    7.306 1998 HD

    The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.

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  • 2002
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    Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    6.526 2002 HD

    A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

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  • 2002
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    Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    6.526 2002 HD

    A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

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  • 2007
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    Evan Almighty

    Evan Almighty

    5.588 2007 HD

    God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

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  • 2007
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    Evan Almighty

    Evan Almighty

    5.588 2007 HD

    God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

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  • 1994
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    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    6.571 1994 HD

    He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!

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  • 1991
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    Frankenstein: The College Years

    Frankenstein: The College Years

    4.9 1991 HD

    When professor Lippzigger dies, his favorite student Mark inherits the key to his secret laboratory. There he and his friend Jay find the hundreds of years old body of Frankenstein - and revive it. But where to go with him? They take him with them to their dorms. He's dumb as a brick, but makes it into their football team and becomes popular. If there only wasn't Prof. Loman, who wants to become famous with Lipp's inventions...

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  • 2007
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    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

    6.084 2007 HD

    Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy agrees. However, things get dicey when a bureaucrat comes calling, and the boys are forced to present a picture of domestic bliss.

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  • 2000
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    Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

    Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

    5.019 2000 HD

    The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty.

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  • 1996
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    The Nutty Professor

    The Nutty Professor

    5.641 1996 HD

    When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped down Don Juan.

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  • 1996
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    The Nutty Professor

    The Nutty Professor

    5.641 1996 HD

    When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped down Don Juan.

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  • 2011
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    I Am

    I Am

    7.232 2011 HD

    I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners and the creative force behind such blockbusters as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” “The Nutty Professor,” and “Bruce Almighty.” However, in I AM, Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world.

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  • 2012
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    Happy

    Happy

    7.079 2012 HD

    Happy is a 2011 feature documentary film directed, written, and co-produced by Roko Belic. It explores human happiness through interviews with people from all walks of life in 14 different countries, weaving in the newest findings of positive psychology. Director Roko Belic was originally inspired to create the film after producer/director Tom Shadyac (Liar, Liar, Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty) showed him an article in the New York Times entitled "A New Measure of Well Being From a Happy Little Kingdom". The article ranks the United States as the 23rd happiest country in the world. Shadyac then suggested that Belic make a documentary about happiness. Belic spent several years interviewing over 20 people, ranging from leading happiness researchers to a rickshaw driver in Kolkatta, a family living in a "co-housing community" in Denmark, a woman who was run over by a truck, a Cajun fisherman, and more.

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  • 2014
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    After School Massacre

    After School Massacre

    4.053 2014 HD

    High school history teacher, Ty Anderson, has a minor online communication with a teasing student which finds him immediately fired and snaps him into a psychotic killing spree, terrorizing his former female students at their slumber party.

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  • 2015
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    The Thousand Year Journey

    The Thousand Year Journey

    1 2015 HD

    Routine is the enemy of time. Jedidiah Jenkins rides his bicycle from Oregon to Patagonia, the southern tip of South America, while expounding upon ideas that made him leave a job he loved for the open road.

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  • 2015
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    Racing Extinction

    Racing Extinction

    7.82 2015 HD

    An unlikely team of activists and innovators hatches a bold mission to save endangered species.

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  • 1994
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    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    6.571 1994 HD

    He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!

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  • 2006
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    Accepted

    Accepted

    6.434 2006 HD

    A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.

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  • 2019
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    Brian Banks

    Brian Banks

    7.203 2019 HD

    An All-American football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is falsely accused of rape and sent to prison.

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  • 1980
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    Magnum, P.I.

    Magnum, P.I.

    7.3 1980 HD

    A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.

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  • 2003
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    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    5.627 2003 HD

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.

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  • 1970
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    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    6.8 1970 HD

    Paul and Cate are raising their three children -- Bridget, Kerry and Rory -- which is no easy task. Oldest daughter Bridget is traversing the dating scene. Kerry is cute and smart, but she has a hard time getting in touch with her true feelings because of her lack of self-confidence. The youngest of the three children, and only boy, Rory is beginning to discover one of life's greatest mysteries -- girls.

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  • 1970
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    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    1 1970 HD

    From the grit of South Memphis, a group of young climbers set out to scale a 16,000-ft rock tower on Mt. Kenya—defying the limits of their world and themselves, and confronting thin air, raw fear, and the climb toward self-discovery.

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