Mark Waters

Mark Waters

Director (b. 1964)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Mark Waters (72.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 10 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Mark's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

10
Movies
72.0%
Avg ThumbScore
Comedy
Top Genre

Frequent Collaborators

Lindsay Lohan (2)Lacey Chabert (2)Rosalind Chao (2)Rachel McAdams (1)Lizzy Caplan (1)

Mark Stephen Waters (born June 30, 1964) is an American film director and producer. Waters is perhaps best known for directing Just Like Heaven, Freaky Friday, and Mean Girls, and producing 500 Days of Summer. He is the brother of screenwriter Daniel Waters and has been married to actress Dina Spybey since 2000. He is a graduate of the American Film Institute and as of September 2006 has a development deal with Paramount pictures. He directed The Spiderwick Chronicles, filming in Montreal in the fall of 2006. In 2008 he shot "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" in Boston. He has a daughter named Zoe. Waters was one of the 120 invitees to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Waters (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1964-06-30 in Wyandotte, Michigan, USA.

On ThumbScore, Mark Waters appears in 10 films with an average audience score of 72.0%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.

Sources: TMDB

Filmography & Ratings

Mean Girls
Mean Girls
2004
๐Ÿ‘ 86%
Freaky Friday
Freaky Friday
2003
๐Ÿ‘ 82%
Just Like Heaven
Just Like Heaven
2005
๐Ÿ‘ 80%
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011
๐Ÿ‘ 72%
Bad Santa 2
Bad Santa 2
2016
๐Ÿ‘ 71%
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009
๐Ÿ‘ 69%
Vampire Academy
Vampire Academy
2014
๐Ÿ‘ 69%
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008
๐Ÿ‘ 64%
He's All That
He's All That
2021
๐Ÿ‘ 64%
La Dolce Villa
La Dolce Villa
2025
๐Ÿ‘ 63%
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