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Jake Gyllenhaal
Born 19 Dec 1980, in Los Angeles
"We live in a sad time where actors are politicians, and politicians are actors.
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Jake Gyllenhaal - news / articles
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Man murdered in front of Jake Gyllenhaal -
17 September 2012
-Jake Gyllenhaal was left scarred by his first midnight ride-along with Los Angeles police officers as he prepared to play a cop in new film End Of Watch - a man was murdered in front of him.-The Jarhead star spent months patrolling the mean streets at night before filmi
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Jake Gyllenhaal beaten up by teens for End of Watch preparation -
14 September 2012
-Actor Jake Gyllenhaal received a daily beating from teenagers in martial arts training while preparing for new film End Of Watch.-The Brokeback Mountain hunk had to undergo a gruelling exercise regime to bulk up for movie, in which he and co-star Michael Pena play cops
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Jake Gyllenhaal zapped with stun gun for new cop role -
22 August 2012
-Jake Gyllenhaal bonded with his co-stars in new cop movie End Of Watch after they were Tasered as part of their intense training.-The Brokeback Mountain star plays a Los Angeles police officer in the new drama and he had to patrol the city's mean streets to get an under
Jake Gyllenhaal - what members say
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A Wonderful Slice Of Life 18 October 2003
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Strange 29 September 2004
review by from Norwich, England
Good but could be better. 9 December 2003
Jake Gyllenhaal - filmography
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End Of Watch
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Cody Horn, Natalie Martinez, Frank Grillo
Director: David Ayer
Certificate: 
Two LAPD cops find themselves on a drug cartel's death list in this gritty action drama from writer/director David Ayer. Patrolling the mean streets of south central Los Angeles, cops Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Zavala (Michael Peņa) intercept a car, confiscating money and guns belonging to a ..read more »
 
71%
from 6,228 members
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End Of Watch - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Cody Horn, Natalie Martinez, Frank Grillo
Director: David Ayer
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Two LAPD cops find themselves on a drug cartel's death list in this gritty action drama from writer/director David Ayer. Patrolling the mean streets of south central Los Angeles, cops Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Zavala (Michael Peņa) intercept a car, confiscating money and guns belonging to a ..read more »
75%
from 3,865 members
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Source Code
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga
Director: Duncan Jones
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Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on a mission to identify a bomber who destroyed a train just hours earlier and who plans to kill thousands more with a much larger explosion in the heart of Chicago.
A top-secret program, named "Source Code", allows Colter to exist briefly as another man ..read more »
74%
from 74,932 members
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Brothers
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire
Director: Jim Sheridan
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Watch now: Unavailable
Captain Sam Cahill is embarking on his fourth tour of duty, leaving behind his beloved wife and two daughters. When Sam's Blackhawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains of Afghanistan, the worst is presumed, leaving an enormous void in the family. Despite a dark history, Sam's charismatic ..read more »
69%
from 26,513 members
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Brothers - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard, Luce Rains
Director: Jim Sheridan
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Jim Sheridan directs Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman in this remake of Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish drama. Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) is a decorated Marine who goes missing in action while on duty in Afghanistan. In his absence, his younger brother Tommy (Gyllenhaal) - an ex-con drifter recently ..read more »
68%
from 7,153 members
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Nailed
(2009)
Starring: Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Marsden
Director: David O. Russell
Certificate: 
A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, DC, where sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love interferes with what you stand for?
47%
from 7 members
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Zodiac - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Charles Fleischer, Brian Cox
Director: David Fincher
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Director David Fincher's cut of his acclaimed thriller based on actual case files surrounding the notorious San Francisco Bay area murders of the 1970s. As the serial killer known as 'Zodiac' taunts the police with letters and cryptic clues, reporters and investigators become increasingly obsessed ..read more »
71%
from 5,175 members
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Rendition - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: J.K. Simmons, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Aramis Knight
Director: Gavin Hood
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Tense political thriller spanning two continents. Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal), a CIA analyst working in North Africa, starts to question his assignment when he witnesses the brutal interrogation of an Egyptian-American by secret North African police. When Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwalley), ..read more »
67%
from 2,917 members
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Zodiac
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, Chloe Sevigny
Director: David Fincher
Certificate:
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Based on the Robert Graysmith books about the real life notorious Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco with a string of seemingly random murders during the 1960s and 1970s.
67%
from 65,310 members
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Brokeback Mountain - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Randy Quaid, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
Director: Ang Lee
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Drama from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger. Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong ..read more »
69%
from 2,457 members
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Jarhead
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Matthew Ather, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx
Director: Sam Mendes
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Sam Mendes directs this adaptation of former Marine Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir. Young recruit Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) joins up with the US Marines (nicknamed 'Jarheads' because of their distinctive haircuts) on the eve of the 1990 Gulf War. After a brutal spell in boot camp, during which ..read more »
63%
from 62,576 members
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Proof
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal
Director: John Madden, James D. Stern
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Watch now: Unavailable
A devoted daughter comes to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity, forcing her to face her own long-harbored fears and emotions. She adjusts to his death with the help of one of her father's former mathematical students, who ..read more »
59%
from 17,082 members
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Brokeback Mountain
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Scott Michael Campbell, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini
Director: Ang Lee
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Drama from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger. Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong ..read more »
66%
from 77,093 members
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The Day After Tomorrow
(2004)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum
Director: Roland Emmerich
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Scientists talk about the planet being threatened by a possible climatological disaster. In this big budget feature the threat becomes a reality in quick time. The planet's oceans become cooler sparking deadly storms. A new ice age begins.
62%
from 71,765 members
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Moonlight Mile
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Susan Sarandon
Director: Brad Silberling
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When Joe Nast's plans for marriage change due to an unexpected loss, he wants to be the man he believes everyone wants him to be--dutifully bereaved husband-to-be, and perfect would-be son-in-law to Ben and JoJo. But when another woman unexpectedly enters his life, he's quickly torn between ..read more »
59%
from 1,917 member
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The Good Girl
(2002)
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, John C. Reilly, Tim Blake Nelson
Director: Miguel Arteta
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A black comedy starring Jennifer Aniston. Justine Last's (Aniston) life is going nowhere: her husband (John C. Reilly) spends most of the time getting stoned with his best friend Bubba (Tim Blake Nelson), and she has a dead-end job at the cosmetics desk in a department store. However, all is about ..read more »
53%
from 10,742 members
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Lovely And Amazing
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Catherine Keener, Raven Goodwin
Director: Nicole Holofcener
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Jane Marks is the matriarch of a confused trio of daughters -- a heady brew of vanity, insecurity and humor -- that seem to have nothing in common. Former homecoming queen Michelle, the eldest daughter, is in a loveless marriage with a spouse who does not appreciate her decidedly obscure artistic ..read more »
56%
from 1,636 member
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Bubble Boy
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Stephen Spinella, Marley Shelton, John Carroll Lynch
Director: Blair Hayes
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Jimmy Livingstone (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a teenager whose faulty immune system has caused him to spend his entire life inside a sealed plastic bubble. Unable to leave his house, Jimmy has conceived a great love for his next-door neighbour Chloe (Marley Shelton), and is shocked to hear that she is ..read more »
66%
from 2,317 members
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Donnie Darko - Blu-ray
(2 discs)
(2001)
Starring: Noah Wyle, Holmes Osborne, Jena Malone
Director: Richard Kelly
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Watch now: Unavailable
This release comprises both versions of the 2001 cult classic: the original version and the director's cut. The directorial debut of Richard Kelly, the film is a darkly comic mixture of '80s sci-fi, horror and teen movie genres. It is October 1988 and small-town USA is about to witness the end of ..read more »
76%
from 2,634 members
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Donnie Darko
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Noah Wyle, Holmes Osborne, Jena Malone
Director: Richard Kelly
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
The directorial debut of Richard Kelly is a comic mixture of 80s sci-fi, horror and teen movie genres. October 1988 and small-town USA is about to witness the end of the world. Well, that's according to Frank, a giant, talking rabbit that only Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a brilliant but ..read more »
71%
from 71,217 members
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October Sky
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Chris Owen, William Lee Scott, Chris Cooper
Director: Joe Johnston
Certificate: 
West Virginia, 1957. In the tiny mining community of Coalwood, high school student Homer Hickam Jr (Jake Gyllenhaal) is inspired by the Soviet Sputnik satellite, and dreams of building a rocket of his own. He is hampered by his father's (Chris Cooper) resistance, but with the help of his teacher, ..read more »
72%
from 1,593 member
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Jake Gyllenhaal facts
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...wn from life and superbly crafted by a largely unknown cast of actors, although Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko) who plays true-life character Homer Hickam jr., has become flavo...
