
October 20, 1958 · 67 years old
Valerie Faris (born October 20, 1958) is an American music video and film director. She and filmmaker husband Jonathan Dayton received critical acclaim for their feature film directorial debut, Little Miss Sunshine (2006). Later they directed the romantic comedy-drama Ruby Sparks (2012), and the bio…

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence.

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

An existential comedy about a man struggling in life who undergoes a new treatment to become a better person, only to find that he's been replaced by a new and improved version of himself.

Toby Fleishman knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost 15 years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, and the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations.

An over-the-hill ex-golfer, fired from his job, sees hope in coaching a troubled teen prodigy after his wife leaves him, staking his future on the youth's success.

Documentary showcase, what life was like for the music artists living during the Los Angeles Heavy Metal scene in the mid and late 1980s.