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Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Jennifer Jason Leigh - what members say
review by A customer from B-O-T, Staffs
Too good to miss 9 March 2004
review by from Manchester
Misses the mark 5 November 2005
review by from reading, england
THE HORRORS OF INSOMNIA!! 27 September 2005
Jennifer Jason Leigh - filmography
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Greenberg
(2010)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans
Director: Noah Baumbach
Certificate: 
A fortysomething New Yorker in the throes of a midlife crisis falls for his brother's assistant while house-sitting for his sibling in Los Angeles. Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is single and jobless. He's at a crucial crossroads in life when his successful family-man brother summons him to Los ..read more »
 
61%
from 244 members
Not available for rental
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Greenberg - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans
Director: Noah Baumbach
Certificate:
A fortysomething New Yorker in the throes of a midlife crisis falls for his brother's assistant while house-sitting for his sibling in Los Angeles. Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is single and jobless. He's at a crucial crossroads in life when his successful family-man brother summons him to Los ..read more »
56%
from 45 members
Not available for rental
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Margot at the Wedding
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Zane Pais, Susan Blackwell, Nicole Kidman
Director: Noah Baumbach
Certificate:
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.
47%
from 9,460 members
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Synecdoche, New York
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Watson
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Obsession and identity are recurring themes in screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's work, and he draws on them again in his directorial debut, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK. Kaufman's film focuses on the wiles of Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a regional theatre director who has won a MacArthur grant to ..read more »
57%
from 6,218 members
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Rag Tale
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Rupert Graves, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bill Paterson
Director: Mary McGuckian
Certificate:
An editor who's sleeping with his deputy, who also happens to be the boss' wife. A pack of hacks whose weekly battle cry is "Who are we going to get this week?". A photographer whose camera does lie and who will stop at nothing to destroy his chairman's dream of a knighthood. Welcome to the world ..read more »
36%
from 1,394 member
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The Jacket
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson
Director: John Maybury
Certificate:
Soldier Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) very nearly dies during the Gulf War, and is discharged back to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. When he is accused of murder and lands in an asylum, Starks is subjected to a shocking and highly unorthodox treatment involving restraint, drugs ..read more »
61%
from 27,775 members
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The Machinist - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon
Director: Brad Anderson
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Christian Bale delivers one of cinema's most sacrificial performances in Brad Anderson's mesmerising thriller. Written by Scott Kosar (2003's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), THE MACHINIST takes place in a bleak and nondescript American city, where Trevor Reznick (Bale) is quite literally withering ..read more »
73%
from 613 members
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Palindromes
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Valerie Shusterov
Director: Todd Solondz
Certificate:
12 year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a mum. She does all she can to make this happen, but her plans are thwarted by her sensible parents. She runs away, still determined to get pregnant, but instead finds herself lost in another world, one filled with all sorts of strange possibilities...
50%
from 6,388 members
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The Machinist
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon
Director: Brad Anderson
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Having not slept for a year, lathe operator Trevor Reznick (Christian Bale) is dying of insomnia. Why he can't sleep, he can't remember. His every waking minute has become an unrelenting nightmare of confusion, paranoia, guilt, anxiety and terror; each of which is part of an escalating series of ..read more »
64%
from 59,251 members
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In The Cut
(2003)
Starring: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: Jane Campion
Certificate: 
The acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion (THE PIANO) here turns her unusual artistic eye toward the urban erotic thriller genre. Based on the novel by Susanna Moore, IN THE CUT tells the story of Frannie (Meg Ryan) an English teacher living in Manhattan's East Village who finds herself mixed ..read more »
48%
from 13,146 members
Currently unavailable
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Road To Perdition
(2002)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman
Director: Sam Mendes
Certificate:
Directed by Sam Mendes and based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, the Depression-era crime epic ROAD TO PERDITION stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, a quiet hit man who is duty bound to Mafia boss John Rooney (Paul Newman). The mobster's close bond with Sullivan,..read more »
68%
from 32,059 members
Not currently released
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Road To Perdition - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Liam Aiken
Director: Sam Mendes
Certificate:
Directed by Sam Mendes and based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, the Depression-era crime epic ROAD TO PERDITION stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, a quiet hit man who is duty bound to Mafia boss John Rooney (Paul Newman). The mobster's close bond with Sullivan,..read more »
73%
from 396 members
Not available for rental
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The Wonder Of Sex
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brad Renfro
Director: Tamra Davis
Certificate:
Young Sam Callahan (Bug Hall) is reaching an age where his curiosity about the opposite sex and his possible interactions with it is reaching a boiling point. As an aspiring writer, he needs this information to give his stories realism. With the help of his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and equally ..read more »
51%
from 612 members
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Existenz
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Kristopher Lemche
Director: David Cronenberg
Certificate:
Set in the near-future, eXistenZ depicts a society in which game designers are worshipped as superstars and players can organically enter inside the games. At the center of the story is Allegra Geller whose latest games system eXistenZ taps so deeply into its users fears and desires that it blurs ..read more »
59%
from 12,532 members
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A Thousand Acres
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kevin Anderson
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
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A THOUSAND ACRES, director Jocelyn Moorhouse's screen adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, finds skeins of KING LEAR-like conflict running through the bedrock of a midwestern family. Jason Robards stars as Larry Cook, a powerful, stoic Iowa farmer who decides to retire and ..read more »
61%
from 495 members
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Bastard Out of Carolina
(1996)
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard, Glenne Headly
Director: Anjelica Huston
Certificate: 
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.
55%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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Dolores Claiborne
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Strathairn
Director: Taylor Hackford
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Eighteen years ago, the abusive husband of Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) died under mysterious circumstances. His death was ruled an accident despite the suspicions of police detective John Mackey. Now the elderly woman she has nursed for many years has also died-with Dolores found standing over ..read more »
67%
from 2,821 members
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Luck, Trust and Ketchup - The Making of ...
on DVD
(1993)
Director: Mike Kaplan, John Dorr
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
This documentary takes the viewer behind the scenes of the making of the Robert Altman film SHORT CUTS. Based on a collection of short stories by Raymond Carver, the movie chronicles the triumphs and failures of ordinary people. The documentary presents interviews with the cast, the director, and ..read more »
57%
from 32 members
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Short Cuts
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Tim Robbins, Madeline Stowe
Director: Robert Altman
Certificate:
Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls ..read more »
69%
from 4,626 members
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Single White Female
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Peter Friedman, Frances Bay, Stephen Tobolowsky
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
When self-employed New York career woman Bridget Fonda advertises for a roommate, her problem is apparently solved when Jennifer Jason Leigh answers her ad. The delicate balance of their relationship goes terrifyingly awry, spiraling toward a violent climax in which only one of them will survive.
63%
from 7,995 members
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Rush
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Max Perlich
Director: Lili Fini Zanuck
Certificate:
Jim and Kristen are undercover narcotics officers, partners who become lovers - and addicts - as they infiltrate the local drug scene in order to bring down a suspected drug lord. But as their relationship intensifies and their drug use turns to abuse, the fine line between the good guys and the ..read more »
59%
from 440 members
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Buried Alive
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton
Director: Frank Darabont
Certificate: 
From Frank Darabont, acclaimed director of 'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'The Mist' comes this terrifying claustrophobic tale starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Matherson.
Hard-working construction company owner Clint is married to Joanna, but little does he know she's having an affair with a ..read more »
56%
from 138 members
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Backdraft - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro
Director: Ron Howard
Certificate:
Two feuding brothers carry on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire Department. Whilst trying to resolve their own differences, they must solve a baffling series of arson attacks. Each fire ignited by the phenomena known as backdraft.
66%
from 104 members
Not available for rental
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Miami Blues
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: George Armitage
Certificate:
Junior (Alec Baldwin), an ex-con psychopath who sets twisted goals and achieves them at any cost, meets his match in Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward), a weather-beaten Miami detective who attempts to avenge Junior's antics when the lifelong criminal steals the detective's badge, gun, and even his false ..read more »
58%
from 466 members
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Backdraft - HD
(1990)
Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, J.T. Walsh
Director: Ron Howard
Certificate:
Two feuding brothers carry on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire Department. Whilst trying to resolve their own differences, they must solve a baffling series of arson attacks. Each fire ignited by the phenomena known as backdraft.
67%
from 350 members
Not currently released
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Backdraft
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, J.T. Walsh
Director: Ron Howard
Certificate:
Two feuding brothers carry on a heroic family tradition in the Chicago Fire Department. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled and lives are shattered as the brothers fight to resolve their differences and solve a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena ..read more »
66%
from 10,216 members
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Heart Of Midnight
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Coyote, Frank Stallone
Director: Matthew Chapman
Certificate:
Carol Rivers is on the hard road to recovery after a serious breakdown when she inherits a nightclub from her uncle. But her plans to revive it are being thwarted. For Carol doesn't know her uncle's secret, and finding out will be terrifying.
36%
from 140 members
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Sister, Sister
(1987)
Starring: Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey
Director: Bill Condon
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Matt Rutledge is in search of 'two whole days peace and quiet'. He gets more than he bargained for when he checks into 'The Willows' in New Orleans. As the secret of the house and it's inhabitants are unravelled during this hot, rainy weekend, years of lies are stripped away and the nightmare begins.
48%
from 8 members
Currently unavailable
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The Hitcher
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell
Director: Robert Harmon
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A magnanimous young man who picks up a strange hitchhiker on a desert highway on a dark, rainy night soon wishes he had just driven on. The deranged hitchhiker turns the innocent fellow's journey into a living nightmare.
69%
from 9,102 members
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Flesh and Blood
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
The year is 1520. Martin (RUTGER HAUER) leads a band of wretched mercenaries, betrayed by their leader Arnolfini. Steven (TOM BURLINSON) is Arnolfini's idealistic son, forced to marry Agnes (JENNIFER JASON LEIGH), a woman he has never met. Their lives cross when, disguised as a band of pilgrims, ..read more »
56%
from 1,188 member
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Grandview U.S.A.
(1984)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell
Director: Randal Kleiser
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Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" ..read more »
63%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Fast Times At Ridgemont High
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: Amy Heckerling
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Amy Heckerling's adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High is often considered one of the finest films of a disreputable genre (the teen sex comedy), and kick-started the careers of many future stars. The center of this ensemble film is Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton. She ..read more »
60%
from 5,286 members
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Jennifer Jason Leigh facts
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...Any movie in which Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh take their kit off, not once, but several times, cannot be all bad and this movie could never be described as bad.
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