Adam Brooks

Adam Brooks

1956-09-03 Toronto, Ontario, Canada 24 Credits

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...

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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

The Life List

2025

Writer, Director, Executive Producer

6.9
Writing Directing Producing

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

An Orgy in Joshua Tree

2019

Acting

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

Nappily Ever After

2018

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

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

Lovesick

2016

as Conrad

4.7
Acting

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

Whatever Works

Whatever Works

2009

as Boris' Friend #1

7.1
Acting

Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When...

Definitely, Maybe

Definitely, Maybe

2008

as Bookstore Owner

6.9
Acting

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

Definitely, Maybe

2008

Director, Writer

6.9
Directing Writing

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

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

2004

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

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

Wimbledon

2004

Writer

6.2
Writing

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

Vettam

2004

Original Story

6.7
Writing

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

The Invisible Circus

2001

Screenplay, Director

5.3
Writing Directing

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

Practical Magic

1998

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

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

Beloved

Beloved

1998

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

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

Subway Stories

1997

Writer

5.6
Writing

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

Duke of Groove

1996

Writer

5.7
Writing

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

French Kiss

1995

as Perfect Passenger

6.5
Acting

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

French Kiss

1995

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

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

Heads

1994

Writer

2.2
Writing

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

Red Riding Hood

1989

Director

5.4
Directing

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

Almost You

1985

Director, Story

5.3
Directing Writing

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

Reckless

1984

Script Supervisor

5.8

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

Baby It's You

1983

Script Supervisor

5.9

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

Lianna

1983

Script Supervisor

6.5

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...