Biography
James Adam Ponsoldt (born 1978) is an American film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed the drama films Off the Black (2006) and Smashed (2012), the romantic comedy-drama The Spectacular Now (2013), and the dramas The End of the Tour (2015) and The Circle (2017). Description above from the Wikipedia article James Ponsoldt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Once More, Like Rain Man
2024
as Director 2
‘It’s up to you to make a future that has you in it…’ We follow Zoe and her dad, Gerry in a ‘day in the life’ of an autistic actress running the gambi...
Summering
2022
Producer, Director, Writer
Four best friends, on the brink of starting middle school, realize their lives are about to change forever. So on the last weekend of summer, they set...
The Circle
2017
Screenplay, Director
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situati...
The End of the Tour
2015
Director
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right af...
Mountain Low
2014
Producer
A lonesome game warden spends one final afternoon with his estranged daughter before she moves to Tampa. When he sidetracks their Arby's lunch to insp...
The Spectacular Now
2013
Director
Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in hi...
Sun Don't Shine
2013
Thanks
Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.
Smashed
2012
Director, Writer
Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying ...
Round Town Girls
2009
as Ronnie
Two gutter punks who call themselves Hymen Holoco$t terrorize an overly accommodating man for laughs.
Box Elder
2008
as Robby ‘Couv’ McGovern
Four best friends fart through their last years of college, hanging out, drinking and eating lots of sandwiches. Using break-ups and re-occurring scho...
Off the Black
2006
as Robby
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic gets a younger friend and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Off the Black
2006
Director, Writer
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic gets a younger friend and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Porn 'n Chicken
2002
as The Cowboy
In 1996, five overworked Yale undergrads formed a club to watch porno films on weekends while ingesting mass quantities of fried chicken and Miller Hi...
Inconstant Moon
N/A
Producer, Director
How would you spend your last night on Earth? When the Moon suddenly starts shining brighter, Stan and Leslie realize the sun must have gone nova and ...
Sponsor
N/A
Director, Writer
A drunk driver's court-ordered recovery program introduces him to an enigmatic 12-step guru — one who slowly drags him into a living hell.
I Want My MTV
N/A
Director, Producer, Writer
An adaptation of Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks's book with the same name.