
May 9, 1940 · 86 years old
James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of Gracie Films. He co-created the sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Simpsons and directed the films Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), and As Good as It Gets (1997)…

The satiric half-hour adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.

After Homer pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.

A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.

High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.

A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.

A woman and her daughter leave Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family whose patriarch is a newly-celebrated chef with an insecure wife.

Three friends plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run.

Widow Aurora Greenway juggles her own struggles with a new romantic interest while trying to sort out the emotional problems of her daughter who's married to a philandering husband.

A married couple tries everything to drive each other out of the house in a vicious divorce battle.

After being cut from the U.S.A. softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing ...

Eleven-year-old Margaret moves from the city to the suburbs and starts to contemplate everything about life, friendship and adolescence. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who offers loving support, and her grandmother, Sylvia.

A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting reporter and a charming new anchor, who embodies the growing trivialization of news that she is determined to fight against.

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.

An idealistic young woman juggles her family and work life in a comedy about the people you love and how to survive them.

Albert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.

A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.

An aspiring actor's life gets upended when his ex-wife dumps their bossy, wild little daughter into his custody.

Follows Lisa Simpson as she is unexpectedly discovered by chart-topping artists Billie Eilish and FINNEAS, and is invited to Billie's studio for an unforgettable special jam session.