A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Falls Church, Virginia, USA
Born:
December 11, 1958
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.
Associate Producer:
2015 Racing Extinction
Director:
1991 Frankenstein: The College Years
1994 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1996 The Nutty Professor
1997 Liar Liar
1998 Patch Adams
2002 Dragonfly
2003 Bruce Almighty
2007 Evan Almighty
2011 I Am
2015 Racing Extinction
2019 Brian Banks
Executive Producer:
1991 Frankenstein: The College Years
1994 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1996 The Nutty Professor
1997 Liar Liar
1998 Patch Adams
2000 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2002 Dragonfly
2003 Bruce Almighty
2007 Evan Almighty
2011 I Am
2012 Happy
2015 Racing Extinction
2015 The Thousand Year Journey
2019 Brian Banks
Producer:
1991 Frankenstein: The College Years
1994 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1996 The Nutty Professor
1997 Liar Liar
1998 Patch Adams
2000 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2002 Dragonfly
2003 Bruce Almighty
2006 Accepted
2007 Evan Almighty
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2011 I Am
2012 Happy
2015 Racing Extinction
2015 The Thousand Year Journey
2019 Brian Banks
Screenplay:
1991 Frankenstein: The College Years
1994 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1996 The Nutty Professor
1997 Liar Liar
1998 Patch Adams
2000 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2002 Dragonfly
2003 Bruce Almighty
2006 Accepted
2007 Evan Almighty
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2011 I Am
2012 Happy
2015 Racing Extinction
2015 The Thousand Year Journey
2019 Brian Banks
Thanks:
1991 Frankenstein: The College Years
1994 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1996 The Nutty Professor
1997 Liar Liar
1998 Patch Adams
2000 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2002 Dragonfly
2003 Bruce Almighty
2006 Accepted
2007 Evan Almighty
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2011 I Am
2012 Happy
2014 After School Massacre
2015 Racing Extinction
2015 The Thousand Year Journey
2019 Brian Banks
Executive Producer:
2002 8 Simple Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.