--- name: "Scott Moore" canonical: "https://film.one/person/scott-moore" fi1m_id: "scott-moore" imdb_id: "nm0601859" tmdb_id: 52115 wikidata_id: "Q7436898" roles: ["Writer","Director"] born: "1 January 2000" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 50 average_as: "writer" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-23T04:08:50.310123+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Scott Moore ## Identity Scott Moore - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/scott-moore - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** scott-moore - **IMDb ID:** nm0601859 - **TMDB ID:** 52115 - **Wikidata ID:** Q7436898 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Moore_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7436898, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601859/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52115 Writer and director. Born 1 January 2000 in Honolulu. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Director - **Born:** 1 January 2000, Honolulu - **Active:** 2009–present - **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 directing, 3 writing - **Frequently works with:** [Jon Lucas](https://film.one/person/jon-lucas.md), [Bradley Cooper](https://film.one/person/bradley-cooper.md), [Daniel Goldberg](https://film.one/person/daniel-goldberg.md), [Ed Helms](https://film.one/person/ed-helms.md), [Justin Bartha](https://film.one/person/justin-bartha.md), [Todd Phillips](https://film.one/person/todd-phillips.md), [Zach Galifianakis](https://film.one/person/zach-galifianakis.md), [Craig Mazin](https://film.one/person/craig-mazin.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 50, as writer, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 72 (1), 2010s 40 (2), 2020s 40 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 50 to 50 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60 - **Genres:** Comedy 3 - **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,418m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Moore_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7436898, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601859/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52115 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*The Hangover Part II*](https://film.one/film/the-hangover-part-ii.md) (44), [*The Hangover Part III*](https://film.one/film/the-hangover-part-iii.md) (35) - **Hulu:** [*The Hangover*](https://film.one/film/the-hangover.md) (72) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Scott Moore > Scott Moore writes and directs comedies, always with Jon Lucas, built on a one-line premise and a cast who can riff. The instinct is sound; in the films we have seen, the writing leaves too much of the work to the performers. A Scott Moore comedy begins with a plan about to go wrong and a group who have not noticed. Four friends wake up after a bachelor party with no memory of the night before. Four women book a spa break and behave badly. Moore writes, and lately directs, with Jon Lucas, on one principle across ten films: a premise that fits in a sentence, a cast who can improvise, and scenes allowed to grow beyond the page. They started in the mid-2000s with credits such as *Four Christmases* (2008), and broke through in 2009 by co-writing *The Hangover*. They moved behind the camera with *21 & Over* (2013), then *Bad Moms* (2016) and its 2017 sequel, then *Jexi* (2019) and *Spa Weekend* (2026). The subjects shift from stag nights to school runs to self-care; the shape does not: an ensemble, a licence to misbehave, and a location that will not survive the weekend. The first *Hangover* script is why they still get asked. When Todd Phillips remade it as *The Hangover Part II* (2011), Lucas and Moore were credited for the characters and nothing more, and the difference showed: the new script knew what its men were and had them do the same thing again, where the original had let the performers wander off the page. That looseness is what they are good at. Moore has said so himself: "We love working with actresses or actors who can riff, who have comedic timing, who can generate comedy, and who can ad lib. That's often where you get the best stuff." Fair enough, provided the page gives the cast something to push against. *Spa Weekend* shows what happens when it does not. Leslie Mann, Michelle Buteau, Anna Faris and Isla Fisher are the cast Moore says he wants, and the film hands them wellness jokes anyone could predict and comic types that stay familiar after the chaos begins. We laughed a handful of times, mostly at things the performers seemed to have found themselves, and we ended mildly cross on the cast's behalf, because four people this quick should not be doing the writers' work. The fault is not Danny Ruhlmann's photography, Michelle McGahey's sets or Philip White's score. It is on the page, in characters drawn too broadly to sharpen and in a script that never asks why anyone would want what the spa is selling. We have not seen a Moore and Lucas film we would send you to, and have not reviewed the two their admirers name first, *The Hangover* and *Bad Moms*. Casting people who can generate comedy is a good idea; it is not a script. The next film will have a likeable ensemble and a premise you can explain in one breath. Whether the writers have been harder on themselves before letting that ensemble loose is the thing to watch. ## Biography Scott Moore is an American screenwriter and film director. He has collaborated with writing and directing partner Jon Lucas for over two decades. Moore was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is an alumnus of Punahou School and the University of Colorado Boulder. With Lucas, he wrote *The Hangover* (2009), *The Hangover Part II* (2011), *The Hangover Part III* (2013), *The Change-Up* (2011), *Ghosts of Girlfriends Past* (2009), *21 & Over* (2013) and *Jexi* (2019). They also wrote and directed *Bad Moms* (2016), *A Bad Moms Christmas* (2017) and *Spa Weekend* (2026). The pair created the ABC series *Mixology* (2014). Moore and Lucas received Writers Guild of America and BAFTA nominations for Best Original Screenplay for *The Hangover*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, scottmoorewebsite.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) ### Directed (1) - *Spa Weekend* (2026), Fi1m 40, Executive Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/spa-weekend.md) ### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these - *The Hangover Part III* (2013), Fi1m 35, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hangover-part-iii.md) - *The Hangover Part II* (2011), Fi1m 44, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hangover-part-ii.md) - *The Hangover* (2009), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hangover.md) ## Complete filmography (20) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Spa Weekend* (2026), Writer, Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/spa-weekend.md) - *Stowaway* (2022), as Captain Al - *Jexi* (2019), Writer, Director - *A Bad Moms Christmas* (2017), Director, Writer - *Office Christmas Party* (2016), Writer - *Bad Moms* (2016), Director, Writer - *Mixology* (2014), series, Creator - *The Hangover Part III* (2013), Writer — Fi1m 35, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hangover-part-iii.md) - *21 & Over* (2013), Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer - *Flypaper* (2011), Writer - *The Change-Up* (2011), Writer - *The Hangover Part II* (2011), Writer — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hangover-part-ii.md) - *The Hangover* (2009), Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hangover.md) - *Ghosts of Girlfriends Past* (2009), Writer - *Four Christmases* (2008), Screenplay - *Full of It* (2007), Screenplay - *Rebound* (2005), Screenplay - *I Shot a Man in Vegas* (1996), Producer - *Celtic Colours: Spirit of the Festival*, Producer - *Bad Moms' Moms*, Writer, Director --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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