Jennifer Jason Leigh

Date of Birth: 05 Feb 1962
Country: USA
Biography: Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts... - www.wikipedia.org
Total Credits at Criticker: 82 (Actor), 1 (Director), 2 (Writer)
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Taking place over the course of one night, The Anniversary Party is a serio-comic, sometimes scathing inspection of a group of friends gathered for a celebration that becomes a scorching dissection of a marriage on the brink. (Fine Line Features)
Stephen McCaffrey (Russell) and his younger brother Brian (Baldwin) are two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire department. Stephen is so relentless that he drives Brian out of firefighting and into arson investigation. Brian becomes involved in a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena known as backdrafts. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled and lives are shattered as the McCaffrey brothers fight to resolve their differences and solve the mystery. (Universal)
Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. She flees with a young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul, who is suddenly assigned as her bodyguard. Unfortunately, her pod, an organic gaming device that contains the only copy of the eXistenZ game program, is damaged... (imdb)
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope. (imdb)
When a powerful developer named Mr. Scheck wants to knock down all the stores and houses in Arnold's neighborhood to build a huge "mall-plex", it looks likes the neighborhood is doomed to disappear. But with the help of a superhero and a mysterious deep-voiced stranger, Arnold and Gerald will need to recover a crucial document in order to save their beloved neighborhood. (imdb)
A writing instructor (Ryan) has an erotic affair with a police detective (Ruffalo) investigating a murder in her New York neighborhood. (Sony)
This mind-bending drama melds elements of a thriller, romance, murder mystery and time-travel fantasy. (Warner Independent Pictures)
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of "King Lear" only manages to plunge this disparate group of travellers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own mortality. (IFC Films)
Trevor Reznik has not slept for a year. His every waking minute has become an unremitting nightmare of confusion, paranoia, guilt, anxiety and terror - each of which is part of an escalating series of clues that will lead to the source of his mysterious affliction. (Paramount Classics)
A noirish tale set in 1949, about a dissatisfied barber who hears from a customer about a speculative business venture. The barber, Ed Crane, is prompted to reflect on the direction he wishes his life to take, and on what he might do to change his current direction.
Bonds of loyalty are put to the test when a hitman's son witnesses what his father does for a living. (imdb)
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, even on a fishing trip. Starring Andie MacDowell, Fred Ward, 'Jack Lemmon' , Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Robbins. (imdb)
Described as a "fable of innocence," his latest film allows Todd Solondz to savor the profound flavor of moral complexity. (Wellspring Media)
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam. (imdb)
A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid. (imdb)
When a 'Single White Female' places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she's just left)... (imdb)
Two small town Texas cops goes undercover to catch a major drug runner & end up getting caught up in the drug culture. (imdb)
Sadie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia (Mare Winningham) who is a famous C&W artist... (imdb)
When sociopath Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave... (imdb)
Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems. (imdb)
Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers...
A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders (imdb)
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son... (imdb)
Buried Alive (1990) - TV Movie
Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money... (imdb)
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living, gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him. (imdb)
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair. (imdb)
It's 1963. Poor little rich girl Lydia and her 14-year-old love child Sam are banished from North Carolina while her powerful father runs for governor. They end up in Wyoming where she parties and Sam finds he's one of only two Grosvant High School students who read. Maury is the other, a pre-pubescent girl wanting to discover what sex is about... (imdb)
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone (Malone), the eldest daughter, and Anney (Leigh) her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen (Eldard) as her last chance. (imdb)
Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City... (imdb)
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets. (imdb)
A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories. (imdb)
Catherine Sloper has found the man of her dreams in Morris Townsend, but her plans to marry him are strongly opposed by her father, who believes Townsend is only interested in his daughter for her money. But Catherine is determined to follow her heart, even if she loses her inheritance in the process. But just what are Townsend's intentions? (imdb)
A theater director (Hoffman) struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play. (imdb)
A reporter suspects a creepy neighbor, who lives in the high-rise building across from hers, is a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area. (imdb)
Only Patrick Hale can prevent a desperate president, the head of the CIA, a trigger happy general, terrorists, an arms dealer, and religious fanatics from destroying our world, but he has other things on his mind. (imdb)
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. (imdb)
A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster. (imdb)
A group of men get together to form a "discussion group". They share their feelings about women, life, love, and work. The party gets rowdier and rowdier, and then the wife returns home. Thrown out, the men are not yet willing to call it a night... (imdb)
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Taylor Brandon Burns, a conflicted twelve-year-old TV star from the U.S., runs away from the set - and his problems - while shooting a big-budget film in Canada. His reluctant limo-driver, Rick Schiller, a down-on-his-luck indie filmmaker, is enlisted to find Taylor before the childstar destroys himself. (imdb)
Two sisters turn their family mansion in Louisiana into a guest house. One of their guests is an aide to a congressman, and turns their lives inside out. (imdb)
Death Ride to Osaka (1983) - TV Movie
Based on true events in the life of actor Tom Allard, whose girlfriend answered an advertisement for American singers to entertain in Japan and found herself trapped in a prostitution-slavery ring operated by the yakuza. (imdb)
Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special relationship with her uncle as she battles her memories and her surroundings in her new home. (imdb)
A cop goes undercover in a South Carolina high school. With the help of a local narcotics officer, he investigates the drug ring responsible for another cop's death. (imdb)
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts. (imdb)
An untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that led to the birth of an entire generation - their Beat revolution. (sundance.org)
Sutter is a high school senior who lives for the moment; Aimee is the introvert he attempts to "save." As their relationship deepens, the lines between right and wrong, friendship and love, and "saving" and corrupting become inextricably blurred. (sundance.org)
A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict. (imdb)
The Best Little Girl in the World (1981) - TV Movie
Casey Powell is a young teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-induced vomiting, because of her troubled home life and problems at school in which her bickering parents must put aside their differences to help her recover before her condition kills her. (imdb)
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show. (imdb)
A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had. (imdb)
Angel City (1980) - TV Movie
About a dirt poor family who pack all they have into their beat up pick up truck and head out in search of something better. They find work as migrant farm workers picking crops. They also quickly learn that their employment comes with a cost. They are held as virtual prisoners on what could be described as a cross between a slave plantation and a concentration camp. The corrupt head honcho has also developed a system to keep his employees from fleeing.
Spawn 3: The Animation (1999) - TV Series
Spawn is still on his quest to return to his love, Wanda, but is still in trouble. He is guided though by Cogliostro, who is the only one who can give him his humanity back. (imdb)
Spawn 2: The Animation (1998) - Direct-to-Video
Spawn 2 is the slick and darkly realized animated adaptation of the popular comic book of the same name. This is an Uncut condensed version of the second Season of the HBO series. (imdb)
After a tumultuous affair between international photojournalist Lee (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and troubled writer John (Martin Henderson) ends in John's disappearance, Lee lands in a mental hospital to recuperate. (imdb)
Workaholic attorney Alex is forced to reinvent her life after her husband suddenly leaves. Now faced with the humdrum and sometimes catastrophic events that permeate the fabric of our lives, Alex discovers both a vulnerability and inner strength she had not yet tapped all while trying to hold together her broken family. (imdb)
Charlie Kaufman's first stop-motion film about a man crippled by the mundanity of his life. (imdb)
The Killing of Randy Webster (1981) - TV Movie
A young man is shot and killed in an altercation with Houston police. His father doesn't believe the police version of the incident and starts digging around on his own. It's sort of a scaled-down, TV version of RASHOMON.
In post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunters try to find shelter during a blizzard but get involved in a plot of betrayal and deception. Will they survive? (imdb)
Morgan is about a corporate risk-management consultant who has to decide and determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment. (imdb)
The Making of 'Road to Perdition' (2002) - TV Special
This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Road to Perdition, about a mafia hit man who must deal with the toll his job takes on his family. Included are interviews with star Tom Hanks and other members of the cast and crew who talk about the experience of making the film, as well as all of the effort that went into it. (imdb)
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House. (imdb)
A single mother moves her three children into a haunted house, unaware of its bloody history. (imdb)
Atypical (2017) - TV Series
Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it's time to find a girlfriend, a journey that sets Sam's mom on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence. (imdb)
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don't apply. (imdb)
Patrick Melrose (2018) - TV Mini-Series
Based on the Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn. This mini-series is about a rich, drug addict British man Patrick Melrose. (imdb)
The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison. (imdb)
A documentary that focuses on the first 21 years of Quentin Tarantino's career and includes interviews with his frequent collaborators. (imdb)
Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients. (imdb)
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors, only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Marty is not comfortable showing his body at school or in private, as he suffers from a skin disease called nevus flammeus. In town he stumbles on The Dunes, a porn-shop-theme-park with one booth named "The Prom", where Marty meets Lana.
After a devastating global event wipes out all electronics and eliminated people's ability to sleep, a former soldier may have found a solution with her daughter. (imdb)
- Antarctica (2017) - Season 1
- A Human Female (2017) - Season 1
- Julia Says (2017) - Season 1
- A Nice Neutral Smell (2017) - Season 1
- That's My Sweatshirt (2017) - Season 1
- The D-Train to Bone Town (2017) - Season 1
- I Lost My Poor Meatball (2017) - Season 1
- The Silencing Properties of Snow (2017) - Season 1
- Juiced! (2018) - Season 2
- Penguin Cam and Chill (2018) - Season 2
- Little Dude and the Lion (2018) - Season 2
- Pants on Fire (2018) - Season 2
- The Egg Is Pipping (2018) - Season 2
- In the Dragon's Lair (2018) - Season 2
- The Smudging (2018) - Season 2
- Living at an Angle (2018) - Season 2
- Ritual-licious (2018) - Season 2
- Ernest Shackleton's Rules for Survival (2018) - Season 2
- Best Laid Plans (2019) - Season 3
- Standing Sam (2019) - Season 3
- Cocaine Pills and Pony Meat (2019) - Season 3
- Y.G.A.G.G. (2019) - Season 3
- Only Tweed (2019) - Season 3
- The Essence of a Penguin (2019) - Season 3
- Shrinkage (2019) - Season 3
- Road Rage Paige (2019) - Season 3
- Sam Takes a Walk (2019) - Season 3
- Searching for Brown Sugar Man (2019) - Season 3
Lisey's Story (2021) - TV Mini-Series
A widow becomes the object of a dangerous stalker, obsessed with her husband's work.
Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. She just longs to be seen. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power. - IMDb
The Love Letter (1998) - TV Movie
20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time (imdb.com).
Darren Barrenman is an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno who spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live. (imdb)
- The Tragedy of the Commons (2023) - Season 5
- Trials and Tribulations (2023) - Season 5
- The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions (2023) - Season 5
- Insolubilia (2023) - Season 5
- The Tiger (2023) - Season 5
- The Tender Trap (2023) - Season 5
- Linda (2023) - Season 5
- Blanket (2024) - Season 5
- The Useless Hand (2024) - Season 5
- Bisquik (2024) - Season 5