Biography
Adam Brooks (born September 3, 1956) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for writing and directing Definitely, Maybe (2008) and for writing screenplays for French Kiss (1995), Wimbledon (2004), and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). His first film as a writer-director, Almost You, won the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1985. Brooks served as a council member of the Writers Guild of America East and is currently on the board of the Writers G...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Practical Magic 2
2026
Characters
A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing f...

The Life List
2025
Writer, Director, Executive Producer
When her mother sends her on a quest to complete a teenage bucket list, a young woman uncovers family secrets, finds romance — and rediscovers herself...

An Orgy in Joshua Tree
2019
An outrageously funny obscene comedy. An awkward idiot is convinced by a friend that the desert retreat to which he has been invited is actually a sex...

Nappily Ever After
2018
Screenplay
After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.

Lovesick
2016
as Conrad
A 30-something man between relationships must move quick when an exciting new woman enters his life.

Whatever Works
2009
as Boris' Friend #1
Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When...

Definitely, Maybe
2008
as Bookstore Owner
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second ch...

Definitely, Maybe
2008
Director, Writer
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second ch...

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
Screenplay
Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time...

Wimbledon
2004
Writer
Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran h...

Vettam
2004
Original Story
Petty thief Gopi steals a chain, and in order to escape a police inspector, drops it in Veena's bag. Later, he tries to take it from her, but the chai...

The Invisible Circus
2001
Screenplay, Director
After learning that her sister, Faith, has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe, an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home...

Practical Magic
1998
Screenplay
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, d...

Beloved
1998
Screenplay
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Belov...

Subway Stories
1997
Writer
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

Duke of Groove
1996
Writer
Mother takes her teenage son to a party, to make sure he will not be at home when father leaves the family for good.

French Kiss
1995
as Perfect Passenger
After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris ...

French Kiss
1995
Screenplay
After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris ...

Heads
1994
Writer
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughte...

Red Riding Hood
1989
Director
The high spirited daughter of the village lord and her mother have been living in the forest for seven years near her wise grandmother. They wait for ...

Almost You
1985
Director, Story
Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an...

Reckless
1984
Script Supervisor
Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girls' hearts with equal cool. Cheerleader Tracey Pres...

Baby It's You
1983
Script Supervisor
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.

Lianna
1983
Script Supervisor
Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest cross to bear is dealing with her waning marriage t...