Jim Gaffigan

Jim Gaffigan
Total Credits at Criticker: 73 (Actor), 4 (Director), 9 (Writer)
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Final
Bill wakes one morning to find himself imprisoned, his limbs numb, and his memory gone. In and out of sleep, he searches his dreams for scraps of truth as to where he is and what century he's in. With a blistering performance by Denis Leary, Final explores the boundary of memory and madness. (Cowboy Pictures)
Igby Goes Down
Igby Slocumb (Culkin), a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of "old money" privilege he was born in to. (MGM/UA)
Super Troopers
Thorny, Rabbit, Mac, and Foster are Vermont State Troopers stationed in the boonies on the Canadian border. When they find out that the state has targeted their low-volume station for a potential budget cut, the guys attempt to straighten up their act but find it's not so easy to change their brazen ways. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Three Kings
A small group of adventurous American soldiers (Clooney, Whalberg, Ice Cube, Jonze) in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War is determined to steal a huge cache of gold reputed to be hidden somewhere near their desert base. Finding a map they believe will take them to the gold, the soldiers embark on a journey that leads to unexpected discoveries, enabling them to rise to a heroic challenge that drastically changes their lives. (Warner Brothers)
13 Going on 30
It is 1987 and Jenna is a 13-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood. The problem is that adulthood is just not arriving fast enough. She makes a wish on her birthday: If only she could be all grown up, she'd have the life she's always wanted. Miraculously, her wish comes true. (Columbia Pictures)
The Great New Wonderful
The Great New Wonderful is populated by people you know: New Yorkers you see on the elevator, in the supermarket, at the gym. Without a trace of sentimentality, director Danny Leiner, a Brooklyn native, and his extraordinary cast paints five portraits of life in this city a year after the attacks of 9/11. (First Independent Pictures)
Trust the Man
An unflinching yet winsome exploration of modern relationships -- and modern men and women -- in all of their humor, tragedy, imperfection and triumph, this sophisticated comedy follows the romantic escapades of two New York couples. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
Under the white guy "everyman" exterior lurks one of the cleverest original comedians of today. (Amazon.com)
Stephanie Daley
This film weaves two parallel journeys into a sublime masterpiece about the absolute nature of truth. (Regent Releasing)
The Love Guru
Pitka (Meyers) an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player (Malco) whose wife left him for a rival athlete (Timberlake).
17 Again
About a guy whose life didn't quite turn out how he wanted it to and wishes he could go back to high school and change it. He wakes up one day and is seventeen again and gets the chance to rewrite his life.
Away We Go
A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.
Jim Gaffigan: King Baby
The highly anticipated follow up to his platinum release Beyond the Pale, Jim Gaffigan's sold-out stand-up performance is captured live on the last night of his 2008 tour. Few other comics can romanticize sloth like Gaffigan, a storyteller who makes laziness look like an art form and over-indulgence look like a vocation. (www.allmovie.com)
Strip Search
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City. (imdb)
Shoot First and Pray You Live
Tale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father. (imdb)
The Living Wake
"The Living Wake" is a dark comedy which chronicles the final day in the life of self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew. Binew is a dreamer who elevates his drab and somewhat pitiful existence into a personal mythology. For his final day K. Roth Binew enlists his best friend, the unrecognized poet and biographer Mills Joquin to chronicle his final hours.
Going the Distance
A look at the trials and tribulations of a long-distance relationship.
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Being a teenager is too much for 16-year-old Craig (Keir Gilchrist), who shocks his parents (Lauren Graham and Jim Gaffigan) by checking himself into a mental health clinic for a little R & R. But when the youth ward is unexpectedly closed, he's forced to live among the adult patients.
Salvation Boulevard
Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor. (imdb)
Cry Baby Lane
Andrew (Jase Blankfort) and his older brother Carl (Trey Rogers) enjoy listening to ghost stories that the local undertaker (Frank Langella) tells them. One night he tells the tale of a local farmer whose wife gave birth to Siamese twins, one being good natured while the other was clearly evil. Carl and his friends decide to hold a séance in the cemetery where the good twin is buried, but they unintentionally awaken the bad twin instead. (imdb)
Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe
Jim Gaffigan standup special
Bad Apple
Bad Apple (2004) - TV Movie
An undercover FBI agent tries to infiltrate a gang of goodfellas and falls in love with his informant's sister. Black humor and a cool attitude make the routine story fun. (imdb)
Kilimanjaro
A man decides to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro after his relationship ends.
Love Sick Love
A 'boy meets girl' romance that quickly turns into a twisted thriller. Dori, a sexy siren, traps Norman, a slick New York businessman, and forces him to live through a year of holidays to prove they're a perfect couple. But with Dori, Valentine's Day, Christmas and New Year's celebrations take place over one weekend in an isolated country house far from help or a phone tower. "Love Sick Love" is a complex and suspenseful journey into the darker side of passion. (imdb)
Jim Gaffigan: Obsessed
Jim Gaffigan bursts back on the scene with this eagerly anticipated fourth comedy special. (imdb)
Walter
A ticket-taker at the local cinema believes he is the son of God. He has agreed to decide the eternal fate of everyone he comes in to contact with. (imdb)
Hot Pursuit
An inept police officer must protect the widow of a drug dealer from criminals and dirty policemen. (imdb)
Experimenter
Experimenter is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey by using electric shock. We follow Milgram, from meeting his wife Sasha through his controversial experiments that sparked public outcry. (imdb)
Staten Island Summer
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future. (imdb)
Howard Cantour.com
An Internet film critic is consumed by his own influence as he works on a review of a director he once admired. (imdb)
The Jim Gaffigan Show
Comedy about a husband and wife trying to raise their five kids in a New York two-bedroom apartment. (imdb)
Chuck
A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner. (imdb)
Jim Gaffigan: Cinco
The king of clean comedy returns for his fifth hour long comedy special. (imdb)
No Sleep \
After years of going with his buddies to the state hockey tournaments, this year Owen must make the road trip alone regardless of what life throws in his path.
Chappaquiddick
Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne. (imdb)
Gilbert
GILBERT is a wildly funny and unexpectedly poignant portrait of the life and career of one of comedy's most iconic figures, Gilbert Gottfried. (imdb)
Duck Duck Goose
A bachelor goose must form a bond with two lost ducklings as they journey south.
Being Frank
Frank is the seemingly normal father of a loving family. However, his home life is hilariously turned upside down when his 17-year-old son discovers that his dad has a second family. (imdb)
Super Troopers 2
When a border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers are tasked with establishing a Highway Patrol station in the disputed area. (imdb)
Drunk Parents
Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes. (imdb)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Mavis surprises Dracula with a family voyage on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship so he can take a vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel.
Jim Gaffigan: Noble Ape
In his all new NOBLE APE stand up special, Jim Gaffigan gets personal as he discusses the medical crisis that befell his wife. Other topics include his kids, his travels, doctors, colonoscopy, Catholic saints and, of course, Philly.
Them That Follow
Set deep in the wilds of Appalachia, where believers handle death-dealing snakes to prove themselves before God, Them That Follow tells the story of a pastor's daughter who holds a secret that threatens to tear her community apart. (imdb)
Light From Light
A single mom and part-time paranormal investigator, is asked to look into a possible "haunting" at a widower's farmhouse in East Tennessee. (imdb)
Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time
Comedian Jim Gaffigan performs live at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, MN.
Above the Shadows
A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.
The Day Shall Come
An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI who plan to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.
Playmobil: The Movie
Animated feature film inspired by the Playmobil brand toys. (imdb)
American Dreamer
A down on his luck HAIL driver who makes extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child. (imdb)
Tesla
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.
Most Wanted
In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail. (imdb)
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Human lives grappling with all the flavors of existential despair intersect in a deadpan collage of comic suffering.
The Jim Gaffigan Show - Season 1
Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist
In The Pale Tourist, Gaffigan boldly goes where no stand-up comedian has gone before: everywhere. The two hour-long specials were filmed as part of Gaffigan's The Pale Tourist worldwide tour, in which he traveled the world--in each country meeting people, eating the food, and learning a bit about the history. He would then transform those experiences into a stand-up set of all-new material and perform it for locals and expatriates. (imdb)
Luca
A young boy experiences an unforgettable seaside summer on the Italian Riviera filled with gelato, pasta, and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: he is a sea monster from another world just below the ocean's surface.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
Drac and his monster pals are all transformed into humans, and Johnny becomes a monster! In their new mismatched bodies, Drac, stripped of his powers, and an exuberant Johnny, loving life as a monster, must team up and race across the globe to find a cure before it’s too late, and before they drive each other crazy. With help from Mavis and the hilariously human Drac Pack, the heat is on to find a way to switch themselves back before their transformations become permanent (metacritic.com).
Jim Gaffigan: Comedy Monster
Jim Gaffigan's 2021 stand-up comedy special
Linoleum
When the host of a failing children's science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality.
Peter Pan & Wendy
Live-action adaptation of J.M. Barrie's classic tale of a boy who wouldn't grow up and recruits three young siblings in London to join him on a magical adventure to the enchanted Neverland island (imdb.com).
Reindeer in Here
Blizzard, a young reindeer living at the North Pole, and his unique group of friends band together to save the future of Christmas, creating a magical holiday tradition in the process. (imdb)
Collide
Follows a group of characters as their paths intersect over the course of an evening at an L.A. restaurant. (imdb)
Full Circle
Full Circle (2023) - TV Mini-Series
An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City.
Jim Gaffigan: Dark Pale
Comedian Jim Gaffigan's 10th stand-up comedy special. (imdb)
Susie Searches
An awkward college student who seizes the opportunity to bolster her popularity and her under-the-radar true-crime podcast by solving the disappearance of a classmate. (IMDB.com)--
My Boys
My Boys (2006) - TV Series
A female sports columnist in Chicago deals with the men in her life including her brother, her best friend and a sportswriter for a rival publication. (imdb)
The Ellen Show
An Internet executive moves back to her small hometown. (imdb)
Unfrosted
In 1963 Michigan, business rivals Kellogg's and Post compete to create a cake that could change breakfast forever.
Greedy People
Follows the residents of a small island town who must navigate a sensational murder and the discovery of a million dollars; a series of increasingly bad decisions upend the once peaceful community. (IDMB)
Running on Empty
Follows Mort who discovers he has less than a year to live, and after his fiancé leaves him, he meets Kate in a dating service that matches people by their death dates, all while being stalked by a disturbed pimp. (imdb)
An Almost Christmas Story
Moon, a curious young owl, finds herself trapped in a Christmas tree destined for Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Trying to escape the city, Moon befriends a lost little girl named Luna. Together, they embark on an adventure.
Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny
Jim Gaffigan weighs in on everything from raising teenagers to appetite suppressants-but he's never light on laughs.