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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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Gyllenhaal and Gainsbourg join Berlin Film Festival jury -
20 December 2011
-Jake Gyllenhaal and Charlotte Gainsbourg have been selected to sit on the jury at next year's (12) Berlin Film Festival.-The Brokeback Mountain star and the Melancholia actress will join revered director Mike Leigh, who has been appointed the jury president at the Febru
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Gyllenhaal teaches kids to garden -
23 August 2011
-Actor Jake Gyllenhaal is urging kids to adopt healthy eating habits by teaming up with American schools to foster the importance of gardening.-The Brokeback Mountain star has partnered with famed chef Alice Waters to promote the Edible Schoolyard Project, a programme ai
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Adele devastated by Gyllenhaal movie soundtrack snub -
9 August 2011
-Soul singer Adele's movie dreams were dashed last year (10) when one of her songs was rejected from the soundtrack of Jake Gyllenhaal's movie Love And Other Drugs.-The Someone Like You hitmaker submitted a track to movie bosses in the hope of landing a musical spot in t
Jake Gyllenhaal - what members say
review by from N. Yorkshire
A Wonderful Slice Of Life 18 October 2003
review by from Northern Ireland
Strange 29 September 2004
review by from Norwich, England
Good but could be better. 9 December 2003
Jake Gyllenhaal - filmography
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Source Code - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga
Director: Duncan Jones
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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 »
 
75%
from 14,272 members
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Source Code
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga
Director: Duncan Jones
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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 40,986 members
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Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley
Director: Mike Newell
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Set in 9th century medieval Persia, a young adventurous prince uncovers a dangerous artefact in a remote mountain kingdom and with the help of an enemy princess, must stop a despot from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy all mankind. Based on the video-game, 'Prince Of Persia'.
67%
from 40,516 members
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Brothers
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire
Director: Jim Sheridan
Certificate: 
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 23,735 members
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Nailed
(2009)
Starring: Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Marsden
Director: David O. Russell
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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
Currently unavailable
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Brothers - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal
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 »
68%
from 6,344 members
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Rendition - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Omar Metwally, Reese Witherspoon, Aramis Knight
Director: Gavin Hood
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Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon star in this timely thriller about a woman whose husband is kidnapped and taken to a foreign prison because he is suspected of being a terrorist. Gavid Hood, director of Academy Award winner TSOTSI, helms this film that also features Alan Arkin, Meryl Streep, ..read more »
67%
from 2,555 members
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Zodiac
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, Chloe Sevigny
Director: David Fincher
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Robert Graysmith (Gyllenhaal)is a cartoonist who works for the San Francisco Chronicle. His quirky ways irritate Paul Avery (Downey Jnr.), a reporter whose drinking gets in the way of doing his job. The two become friends thanks to a shared interest: the Zodiac killer. Graysmith steadily becomes ..read more »
67%
from 61,501 members
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Zodiac - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, Chloe Sevigny
Director: David Fincher
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David Fincher's (FIGHT CLUB, SE7EN) adaptation of the Robert Graysmith book masterfully transports viewers to the Bay Area in the 1960s and '70s by drawing on actual case files from the notoriously unsolved Zodiac killer mystery. As a murderer with seemingly random targets starts sending terrifying ..read more »
71%
from 4,270 members
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Jarhead
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Sam Mendes
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Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.
63%
from 61,249 members
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Brokeback Mountain
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams
Director: Ang Lee
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From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee comes an epic American love story, Brokeback Mountain . 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 ..read more »
66%
from 75,315 members
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Proof
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal
Director: John Madden, James D. Stern
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Based on the Pulizter Prize-winning play and directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), Proof stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a powerful story about a young woman haunted by her father's past and the shadow of her own future. Catherine has devoted years to caring for her brilliant but unstable father ..read more »
59%
from 16,335 members
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Brokeback Mountain - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Heath Ledger, Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal
Director: Ang Lee
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Based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author E. Annie Proulx, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is the tragic and moving story of two cowboys who unexpectedly fall in love while working together one summer in 1963. When the film begins, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch-hand Ennis ..read more »
69%
from 2,171 members
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The Day After Tomorrow
on DVD
(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 71,441 members
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The Good Girl
(2002)
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly
Director: Miguel Arteta
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THE GOOD GIRL, directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Mike White, stars Jennifer Aniston as Justine, a sullen 30-year-old woman stuck in a dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo department store. In addition to her mind-numbing occupation, Justine also has to contend with her dim-witted husband Phil (..read more »
53%
from 10,565 members
Not currently released
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Moonlight Mile
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Jake Gyllenhaal
Director: Brad Silberling
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Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, and Susan Sarandon, MOONLIGHT MILE is a romantic drama set in 1966. Joe (Gyllenhaal) is grieving over the death of his fiancee, Diana, and is living with her parents, Ben (Hoffman) and JoJo (Sarandon). Though Joe just wants to do what's right, he openly ..read more »
59%
from 1,850 member
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Donnie Darko - Blu-ray
(2 discs)
(2001)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Noah Wyle
Director: Richard Kelly
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Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-travelling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)...read more »
76%
from 2,157 members
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Donnie Darko
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Noah Wyle
Director: Richard Kelly
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Watch now: Unavailable
Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-travelling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)...read more »
71%
from 69,490 members
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Bubble Boy
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, John Carroll Lynch
Director: Blair Hayes
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BUBBLE BOY is a zany and lighthearted but irreverent road comedy from music video director Blair Hayes. Jake Gyllenhaal (OCTOBER SKY) stars as Jimmy Livingston, a young man born with an immune deficiency, who is forced to spend his life inside a sterile plastic bubble. His overprotective, fanatical ..read more »
66%
from 2,171 members
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Lovely And Amazing
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer
Director: Nicole Holofcener
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With a handful of dry one-liners that pepper the script with much-needed comic relief, LOVELY & AMAZING takes a glimpse at the everyday lives of three sisters and their middle-aged mom. Michelle (Catherine Keener) is the eldest sister. She is an artist that makes tiny chairs out of twigs and moss, ..read more »
56%
from 1,541 member
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October Sky
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Laura Dern, Chris Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal
Director: Joe Johnston
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The true story of Homer Hickam, a young boy trapped in a close-minded coal-mining town in the 1950's. When Sputnik is successfully launched, Homer becomes obsessed with the concept of rocket launching. To the dismay and disgust of the townspeople, as well as Homer's father, he and his friends try ..read more »
72%
from 1,484 member
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Jarhead - HD
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Sam Mendes
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Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.
66%
from 989 members
Not currently released
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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...
