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Sean Anders

Sean Anders

Highest Rated: 82% Instant Family (2018)

Lowest Rated: 20% That's My Boy (2012)

Birthday: Not Available

Birthplace: DeForest, Wisconsin, USA

Sometimes small town boys do end up making it to the big world of film, even if that wasn't what they were aiming for in the first place. Comedic writer/director Sean Anders was born and raised in the village of DeForest, Wisconsin; he left town to be a rock star and soon found himself working with fellow musician John Morris on a no-budget film that mocked the world they wanted to enter. Irreverent and more than a bit odd, ″Never Been Thawed″ made the festival rounds in 2005 and quietly sank out of sight. But the film cracked open a few doors for Anders and Morris, and they were offered a chance to work in television. They developed a concept specifically for the new Fox audience in 2006 and the following year were writing the made-for-TV movie ″Playing Chicken″ (2007). When the opportunity came up for the two to re-write and for Anders to direct ″Sex Drive″ (2008) a new comedy starring internet sensation Clark Duke, they jumped at the chance. Still, Anders knew they were capable of more. In 2008 they began to shop a new idea they had for a script, which landed on the coveted Black List, an industry insider's list of top unproduced screenplays. There it caught the attention of Dreamworks and in 2010 production began on ″She's Out of My League.″ The film did well and it added to their reputation as writers, at the same time that Anders was beginning to do more directing. His helming of the Adam Sandler film ″That's My Boy″ in 2012 led to his next project and most high-profile project, a pass with Morris on the script of the highly anticipated sequel ″Dumb and Dumber To″ (2014), starring Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey.

Highest rated movies

58% Never Been Thawed

Photos

INSTANT FAMILY, FROM LEFT: JODY THOMPSON, MARK WAHLBERG, DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS, ON SET, 2018. PH: HOPPER STONE/© PARAMOUNT DADDY'S HOME 2, L-R: DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JULIO MACAT, DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS, LINDA CARDELLINI, MARK WAHLBERG, WILL FERRELL ON SET, 2017. PH: CLAIRE FOLGER/©PARAMOUNT PICTURES DADDY'S HOME, from left: director Sean Anders, Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, on set, 2015. ph: Patti Perret/©Paramount Pictures DADDY'S HOME, director Sean Anders (right), on set, 2015. ph: Patti Perret/©Paramount Pictures INSTANT FAMILY, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS, ILIZA SHLESINGER, ON SET, 2018. PH: HOPPER STONE/© PARAMOUNT INSTANT FAMILY, TIG NOTARO (LEFT), OCTAVIA SPENCER (SITTING, CENTER), DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS (STANDING), ON SET, 2018. PH: HOPPER STONE/© PARAMOUNT INSTANT FAMILY, DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS, ON SET, 2018. PH: HOPPER STONE/© PARAMOUNT INSTANT FAMILY, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS, OCTAVIA SPENCER, ON SET, 2018. PH: HOPPER STONE/© PARAMOUNT INSTANT FAMILY, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS, GUSTAVO QUIROZ, JULIANNA GAMIZ, ON SET, 2018. PH: HOPPER STONE/© PARAMOUNT DADDY'S HOME 2, L-R: DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS, MEL GIBSON, MARK WAHLBERG, WILL FERRELL, 2017. PH: CLAIRE FOLGER/©PARAMOUNT PICTURES DADDY'S HOME 2, L-R: DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JULIO MACAT, DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS, PRISCILLA MANNING, CAPTAIN CHESLEY 'SULLY' SULLENBERGER ON SET, 2017. PH: CLAIRE FOLGER/©PARAMOUNT PICTURES DADDY'S HOME 2, L-R: DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS, CAMERA OPERATOR CHRIS JONES, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JULIO MACAT, 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR MATT REBENKOFF ON SET, 2017. PH: CLAIRE FOLGER/©PARAMOUNT PICTURES DADDY'S HOME 2, DIRECTOR SEAN ANDERS, 2017. PH: CLAIRE FOLGER/©PARAMOUNT PICTURES SEX DRIVE, from left: director Sean Anders, Clark Duke, on set, 2008. ©Summit Distribution

Filmography

Movies

Credit
70% 81% Spirited Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 2022
26% 72% Countdown Producer $25.6M 2019
82% 83% Instant Family Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$67.3M 2018
21% 51% Daddy's Home 2 Director,
Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
$104.0M 2017
30% 49% Daddy's Home Director,
Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
$150.3M 2015
35% 47% Horrible Bosses 2 Director,
Screenwriter
$54.4M 2014
30% 35% Dumb and Dumber To Screenwriter $86.2M 2014
48% 76% We're the Millers Screenwriter $150.4M 2013
20% 51% That's My Boy Director $36.9M 2012
47% 53% Mr. Popper's Penguins Screenwriter $68.2M 2011
64% 56% Hot Tub Time Machine Screenwriter $50.2M 2010
57% 59% She's Out of My League Screenwriter $31.6M 2010
45% 58% Sex Drive Director,
Writer
$8.4M 2008
58% 62% Never Been Thawed Shawn (Character),
Director,
Writer
$46.8K 2005
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