In the independent coming-of-age drama The Tribes of Palos Verdes, she reunited with her Butter co-star Jennifer Garner, playing a actual-estate agent dwelling in Palos Verdes, an affluent, coastal suburb of Los Angeles. Silverstone portrayed the shut close friend of a teenager turned magic formula agent in the action-spy film Stormbreaker (2006), directed by Geoffrey Sax and co-starring Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor and Mickey Rourke.