Biography
Paul John Weitz (born 1965) is an American film producer, screenwriter, actor, and film director.
Known For
Complete Filmography

If You Were the Last
2024
Executive Producer
Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining da...

About My Father
2023
Producer
Encouraged by his girlfriend Ellie, Sebastian and his Italian immigrant father, Salvo, spend the 4th of July weekend with her wealthy and exceedingly ...

Moving On
2023
Producer, Director, Screenplay
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.

Pinocchio
2022
Executive Producer
A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.

Crush
2022
Executive Producer
When an aspiring young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she's been harboring a lo...

Fatherhood
2021
Director, Screenplay
A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story.

Bel Canto
2018
Screenplay, Producer, Director
A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party. ...

The Little Hours
2017
as Lurco
Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister A...

Joshy
2016
as Private Investigator
After his engagement ends badly, Josh decides to take advantage of his bachelor-party plans in Ojai, California, with the few friends still willing to...

Grandma
2015
Writer, Director, Producer
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them ...

Life After Beth
2014
as Mr. Levin
Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole wor...

Admission
2013
Director, Producer
Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school ...

The Queen of Versailles
2012
Thanks
With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover t...

Being Flynn
2012
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick w...

Little Fockers
2010
Director
It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. A...

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
Screenplay, Director, Producer
When Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and receives a life-changing bite on the neck.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
2008
Producer
Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night f...

The Golden Compass
2007
Executive Producer
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor...

American Dreamz
2006
Screenplay, Director, Producer
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to ...

In Good Company
2004
Producer, Director, Screenplay
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naiv...

See This Movie
2004
as Filmmaker Who Isn't Wim Wenders
Two bumbling but determined three-day film school graduates enter the Montreal World Film Festival with a feature film that doesn't exist.

American Wedding
2003
Executive Producer
With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married — and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk do...

About a Boy
2002
Director, Screenplay
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imag...

American Pie 2
2001
Executive Producer
After a year apart - attending different schools, meeting different people - the guys rent a beach house and vow to make this the best summer ever. As...

Down to Earth
2001
Director
Struggling comic Lance Barton knows what it's like to die on stage. But when his life takes an unexpected turn - straight to heaven - Lance is sure th...

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2000
Screenplay
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that rever...

Chuck & Buck
2000
as Sam
Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed beh...

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
2000
as Assistant Director
A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood...

American Pie
1999
Director
At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they n...

Antz
1998
Screenplay
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a pa...
Husband's Secret
N/A
Producer
Three women whose lives unexpectedly interconnect after one of them discovers a devastating secret.