Movies by Donald Petrie
As a director:
-
My Life in Ruins (2009)
Cast: Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, María Adánez …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Greek American travel guide Georgia is so distracted by what's going wrong as she leads a motley crew of tourists through some of Greece's most historic sites that she almost misses…
-
Just My Luck (2006)
Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
After a chance meeting with a rock group's jinxed manager (Chris Pine), independent New Yorker Ashley (Lindsay Lohan) discovers that she's caught his bad luck like a disease. Now,…
-
Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Maura Tierney …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Former U.S. President Monroe Cole (Gene Hackman) plans to retire in a small northeastern coastal town, but he has his hands full when he tries to fill an empty mayoral seat. The unlikely…
-
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Cast: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
To help land a big ad account, notorious player Ben (Matthew McConaughey) makes a wager with his co-workers that he can get a woman to fall in love with him in just 10 days. But he bets on…
-
Miss Congeniality (2000)
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Unpolished and disheveled, FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) needs a serious makeover before going undercover as a Miss United States beauty pageant contestant to catch a psychopathic…
-
My Favorite Martian: The Movie (1999)
Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Hurley, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Tim O'Hara (Jeff Daniels) takes in an alien with plans to exploit him, but has second thoughts after the alien wins his trust in this comedy based on the 1960s sitcom. Hunted by…
-
The Associate (1996)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Tim Daly …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
When Laurel (Whoopi Goldberg) learns that her less-smart and sexist protégé, Frank (Tim Daly), is promoted, she quits to start her own company -- only to find out that the…
-
The Favor (1994)
Cast: Harley Jane Kozak, Elizabeth McGovern, Brad Pitt …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Despite being a happily married mother of two, Kathy (Harley Jane Kozak) has always wondered what it would've been like to sleep with her high school sweetheart, Tom (Ken Wahl). Her…
-
Richie Rich (1994)
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- yet he has no playmates. What's more, scoundrel…
-
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max (Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau) have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow (Ann-Margret) moves…
-
Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Cast: Dana Carvey, Robert Loggia, Todd Graff …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Eddie (Dana Carvey, who makes his screen debut) an urban con man with a talent for mimicry, runs afoul of a gangster and has to find a hideout -- quick! So, he breaks into a palatial suburban…
-
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Cast: Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Reality rudely intrudes on the plans of three blue-collar, New England teens who share their dreams while slinging hash at the local pizzeria. Daisy (Julia Roberts) entertains visions of…