Fairuza Balk

Fairuza Balk
Date of Birth: 21 May 1974
Country: USA
Biography: Fairuza Alejandra Balk (born May 21, 1974) is an American film actress. She made her theatrical film debut as Dorothy Gale in Disney's Return to Oz. Balk also made notable appearances in Valmont, The Waterboy, The Craft, American History X and Personal Velocity: Three Portraits...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 37 (Actor)
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Almost Famous
William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo. (imdb)
American History X
A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family. (New Line Cinema)
Deuces Wild
Two brothers, Leon and Bobby are members of the street gang in Brooklyn known as the deuces. Their brother was killed by a drug overdose a few years earlier and the gang is determined to keep drugs off their block. Another more vicous gang known as the vipers is a possible threat to Leon and Bobby's efforts. The deuces are determined to do whatever is necessary to keep drugs off their block even if that means dying. (imdb)
Personal Velocity
A tale of three women who have reached a turning point in their lives. Delia is a spirited, working-class woman from a small town in New York who leaves her abusive husband and sets out on a journey to reclaim the power she has lost. Greta is a sharp, spunky editor who is rotten with ambition. To spite the hated infidel ways of her father, she has settled into a complacent relationship and is struggling (not too hard) with issues of fidelity to her kind but unexciting husband... (imdb)
Things to Do in Denver When You\
When a powerful mob boss (Walken) gives ex-gangster Jimmy the Saint (Garcia) one last job, it's an offer he can't refuse. But when someone gets killed, Jimmy and his partners are marked for death, leaving Jimmy just 48 hours to put things right for his buddies and the woman of his dreams (Anwar). (Miramax)
The Waterboy
Just an oddball mama's boy from the back bayous of Louisiana, Bobby Boucher (Sandler) never wanted anything more than to quench the thirst of the dehydrated athletes who treat him like dirt! But when Coach Klein (Winkler) makes the call that allows Bobby to finally stand up for himself, it unleashes a torrent of bottled-up frustration ... and exposes a talent for tackling that transforms him from a meek "water distribution engineer" into the hardest hitter ever to roam the gridiron! (Buena Vista Entertainment)
Don\
Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there. The very idea seems like a ray of hope that his life wasn't all in vain. So he sets out to find that young man or woman. He discovers an entire life that he has missed ... (imdb)
The Island of Dr. Moreau
After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that it's inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor. (imdb)
The Craft
A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them. (imdb)
Imaginary Crimes
A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two teenage daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1950s Indiana. (imdb)
Return to Oz
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful. (imdb)
Valmont
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman... (imdb)
Pick Me Up
In the middle of nowhere, with only a two-lane highway to connect it to anywhere (probably upstate New York), a recently divorced female traveler (Fairuza Balk), who is a passenger on a bus that has broken down, gets caught in a bizarre and violent turf war between two sadistic serial killers; one a truck driver, and the other a hitchhiker. (imdb)
Wild Tigers I Have Known
Wild Tigers I Have Known is an ethereal exploration of adolescent longing. Cam Archer's storytelling is unconventional, fresh and overflowing with the kind of heart that is touching and familiar to anyone who remembers junior high as a time of painful desire, confusion and questioning. (IFC First Take)
Murder in the Heartland
A wanna-be tough guy and his 14-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree. (imdb)
Gas, Food Lodging
In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could drive her away. (imdb)
Humboldt County
A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself. (imdb)
The Worst Witch
At a training school for witches, a new recruit is an ugly duckling razzed by fellow pupils. (John Stanley's Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
A rogue detective is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs - while playing fast and loose with the law.
Moby: Play
Moby: Play (2001) - Direct-to-Video
Eight live tracks; ten videos of songs from Moby's album, "Play"; a 90-minute megamix accompanied by psychedelic visuals; and a short film in which Moby captures behind-the-scenes footage while touring the world.
The Heart Is a Drum Machine
What is music? Many of today's top artists and scholars grapple with the question in this cinematic look at a uniquely human obsession. (imdb)
Blood Into Wine
Blood Into Wine is a documentary about the Northern Arizona wine industry focusing on Maynard James Keenan and Eric Glomski and their Caduceus brand wine. (wikipedia.org)
Deceptions
Deceptions (1985) - TV Mini-Series
Twin sisters trade places with unexpected results. (imdb)
American Perfekt
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which every decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, disenchanted professional, is en route to pick up her flunked out sister, Alice. After being forced off the road by a mysterious assailant, however, Sandra is picked up by Jake, who's coin flipping amoral attitude quickly excites her own desire to break a few rules. (imdb)
The Maker
Josh is a high school guy who lives with adoptive parents and is involved in little crimes with his friends (including young lesbian Bella). Suddenly his elder brother Walter comes out of the blue (he left home 10 years ago when he was 18 and was never heard during these years). After that Walter starts to involve Josh in various new criminal activities, including robbery. (imdb)
Shadow of a Doubt
Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdaughter Angel, who is accused of murder. Sloan is out of his depth as his opponents mount a bitter campaign to portray him as a drunk and the trial becomes a media circus. Can Sloan justify Robin's faith in him? (imdb)
Dose of Reality
AM, closing time: A cocky bar manager with a shady past and a young handsome bartender discover a beautiful woman bloodied and unconscious in the bathroom of a late night lounge. When she awakens, Tony, Matt and the mysterious Rose are plunged into a stirring evening of dangerous role playing in an ever-escalating game of cat and mouse that forces them to face the dark shadows of themselves. As we begin to piece together the elaborate puzzle, nothing is what it seems (imdb)
Beyond Clueless
Narrated by cult teen star Fairuza Balk, Beyond Clueless is a dizzying journey into the mind, body and soul of the teen movie, as seen through the eyes of over 200 modern coming-of-age classics. The film was written and directed by Charlie Lyne with an original score by Summer Camp. It had its world premiere at SXSW in March 2014. (beyondclueless.co.uk)
Grindstone Road
After a car accident, that their son Daniel in an extended coma. Hannah and her husband Graham, move into their recently purchased farm home. Suffering feelings of guilt and responsibility for her son's condition, Hannah turns is prescribed anti-depressants. She begins witnessing strange and mysterious occurrences causing Graham to become increasingly concerned with the medications that Hannah is taking. Is Hannah losing her mind, or are there supernatural forces at work? (imdb)
Red Letters
After a sexual harassment incident, Dennis Burke, a Nathaniel Hawthorne scholar, goes to work at a California college. He begins correspondence with an imprisoned murderer, Lydia Davis. Burke is finding old habits hard to break, developing relationships with obsessive coeds. Meanwhile, Lydia escapes from prison. Dennis and his colleague Thurston, a computer scientist and hacker, find themselves caught in a web of intrigue.
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley\
Behind the scenes chronicle of how clash of vision, bad creative decisions, lack of interest and really bad weather plagued the disastrous production of the infamous 1996 remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau. (imdb)
Family Guy
Family Guy (1999) - TV Series
In a wacky Rhode Island town, a dysfunctional family strive to cope with everyday life as they are thrown from one crazy scenario to another. (imdb)
Masters of Horror
Anchor Bay has amassed some of the greatest horror film writers and directors to bring to you the anthology series, "Masters of Horror". For the first time the foremost names in the horror film genre have joined forces for the series consisting of 13 one-hour films each season. (imdb)
Battle Scars
Luke shows up on his brother Nicky's doorstep after a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Suffering from PTSD and unseen, devastating physical wounds, Luke wants nothing more than to forget the war, but his veteran father won't let him. Then, at a local strip club run by a ruthless killer, Luke crosses paths with Michelle, who leads him into a violent world every bit as dangerous as the brutality he so desperately tried to leave behind in Afghanistan.
Hell Is Where the Home Is
Two dysfunctional couples rent a modern luxury desert home for the weekend hoping to sort out their messed-up lives. Just as they are about to settle in for a fun night, a neighbour turns up at their front door saying she has car trouble. And that's when the murderous trouble really starts. Because without knowing it, the four friends have landed slap-bang in the wrong violent place at precisely the wrong bloody time. (imdb)
Paradise City
The lives of a rock star who seems to have it all and a young rookie kid who idolizes him collide through their broken homes built by the music business. (imdb)
There\
Mona wishes for her life to change - and it does; in a big way - only it gets worse. Mona's boyfriend, somewhat crazy, mails himself to her. When she opens the box with a pair of scissors, she accidentally kills him. (imdb)