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Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenburg is certainly a face that we will be seeing a lot more of. In the last couple of years he has starred in movies like Zombieland, Adventureland, Rio and was nominated an Academy Award for The Social Network in which he won a Golden Globe for the role. His forthcoming movie 30 Minutes or Less will be released soon, but will prove he is here to stay.
Born October 5th 1983 , his screen debut was the comedy drama tv series Get Real in 1999, his first leading role in a movie was Roger Dodger in 2002. His mother worked as a clown at children's parties and his father became a college professor. At the age of ten he was acting in plays, studies at The New School in New York but declined enrollment at New York University to complete a movie.
Holy Rollers is released on dvd and blu ray on 30th October which sees him play an innocent looking Jewish drug smuggler.
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Jesse Eisenberg - news / articles
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Eisenberg taking play to the Philippines -
30 November 2011
-Actor Jesse Eisenberg is set to take his critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway play Asuncion to Southeast Asia.-The Social Network star wrote and appears in the comedic production alongside The Hangover's Justin Bartha, and Eisenberg reveals the global-themed show has attra
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Eisenberg once received cease and desist order from Allen -
1 November 2011
-Jesse Eisenberg has revealed he once received a cease and desist order from Woody Allen's lawyers after sending a proposed script to the famed director as a teenager.-The Social Network star has found success on the New York stage in his own play Asuncion, and Eisenberg
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Eisenberg's play praised by critics -
28 October 2011
-The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg has won rave reviews for both his acting and his writing after his new play debuted in New York this week (beg24Oct11).-The Oscar-nominated actor wrote Asuncion himself and he also takes a starring role in the Off-Broadway show op
Jesse Eisenberg - what members say
review by Maynard from Kent,
Exits with a woof not a wimper!! 22 April 2005
review by lesliejung from london, england
slick effort doesn't quite work 23 January 2011
review by Monkeymanbob from Folkestone
Zombieland - A road movie with guts 8 October 2009
Jesse Eisenberg - filmography
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Rio - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Rodrigo Santoro, Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway
Director: Carlos Saldanha
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Animated comedy adventure featuring the voice talents of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway. Blu (voiced by Eisenberg) is a rare macaw living in a bookshop in small-town Minnesota. Believing himself to be the last of his kind, he is thrilled to hear that a female macaw of the same species has been ..read more »
 
74%
from 112 members
Not available for rental
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Rio - 3D Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Rodrigo Santoro
Director: Carlos Saldanha
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Animated comedy adventure featuring the voice talents of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway. Blu (voiced by Eisenberg) is a rare macaw living in a bookshop in small-town Minnesota. Believing himself to be the last of his kind, he is thrilled to hear that a female macaw of the same species has been ..read more »
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from 112 members
Not available for rental
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Rio
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Rodrigo Santoro
Director: Carlos Saldanha
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When Blu, a domesticated, nerdy macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with this bird of his dreams.
72%
from 12,385 members
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Holy Rollers
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A. Abeckaser
Director: Kevin Asch
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Set between the bustling streets of New York City and Amsterdam, Holy Rollers is a story based on true events about an innocent young man, Sam (Eisenberg) who is lured into a dark, seedy underworld and becomes involved in smuggling drugs. As the stakes get higher, Sam becomes ever more involved in ..read more »
51%
from 1,575 member
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Holy Rollers - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny A. Abeckaser, Charlie Hewson
Director: Kevin Asch
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Drama based on real events that took place in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community in the late 1990s. Jesse Eisenberg stars as Sam Gold, a 20-something devout Hasidic Jewish boy who works in his father's fabric shop and wants nothing more than to be an asset to his family and his community. Sam's ..read more »
52%
from 965 members
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The Social Network
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Brenda Song, Joseph Mazzello, Rooney Mara
Director: David Fincher
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David Fincher's The Social Network is the stunning tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever. Shot through with emotional brutality and unexpected humour, this superbly crafted ..read more »
72%
from 78,152 members
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The Social Network - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Brenda Song, Joseph Mazzello, Rooney Mara
Director: David Fincher
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David Fincher's The Social Network is the stunning tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever. Shot through with emotional brutality and unexpected humour, this superbly crafted ..read more »
76%
from 23,933 members
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Adventureland
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader
Director: Greg Mottola
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A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centred around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
66%
from 22,571 members
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Adventureland - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr
Director: Greg Mottola
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Teen comedy set in the 1980s, starring Jesse Eisenberg as uptight, over-educated, recent college graduate James Brennan, who is forced to take a minimum wage job at a run-down local amusement park after his father gets a pay cut and can no longer subsidise the backtracking trip to Europe James was ..read more »
66%
from 6,932 members
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Some Boys Don't Leave
(2009)
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Eloise Mumford, Jennifer Rau
Director: Maggie Kiley
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"Some Boys Don't Leave" is a short film about what happens when the break-up happens but the break does not. 'Boy' is forced to come to terms with the fact that 'Girl' no longer wants him around. The only problem is he just can't seem to leave their once shared apartment.
80%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Zombieland - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Amber Heard
Director: Ruben Fleischer
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Directed by Ruben Fleischer, in his feature-length film debut, Zombieland is a Shaun Of The Dead-inspired comedy road movie starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg as two survivors of a zombie apocalypse thrown together in an unlikely but highly amusing partnership. Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg - ..read more »
77%
from 18,370 members
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Zombieland
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Amber Heard
Director: Ruben Fleischer
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Directed by Ruben Fleischer, in his feature-length film debut, Zombieland is a Shaun Of The Dead-inspired comedy road movie starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg as two survivors of a zombie apocalypse thrown together in an unlikely but highly amusing partnership. Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg - ..read more »
77%
from 47,032 members
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The Hunting Party
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg
Director: Richard Shepard
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A young journalist (Eisenberg), a seasoned cameraman (Howard) and a discredited journalist (Gere) embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no. 1 war criminal in Bosnia; they find themselves in serious jeopardy when they are mistaken as a CIA hit squad and their target decides to come after them.
66%
from 8,885 members
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The Living Wake
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Mike O'Connell, Jesse Eisenberg, Jim Gaffigan
Director: Sol Tryon
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Starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and comedian Mike O’Connell and hailed as "One of the most original American movies of the decade" (Indiewire), THE LIVING WAKE is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew (O'Connell), has one ..read more »
45%
from 62 members
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Cursed
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Rosenbaum, Portia de Rossi
Director: Wes Craven
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Horror directed by Wes Craven and starring Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg as two siblings who have to battle a werewolf that has been wreaking havoc on their neighbours, just as they learn that they have been marked with 'the sign of the beast', and may become werewolves themselves.
50%
from 16,957 members
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The Squid And The Whale
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, William Baldwin, Laura Linney
Director: Noah Baumbach
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Noah Baumbach writes and directs this off-beat comedy drama, based on his own experiences as a young boy growing up in the 1980s and trying to deal with his parents' divorce. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is the father of an eccentric Brooklyn family who claims to have been a great novelist in his youth, ..read more »
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from 19,829 members
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Jesse Eisenberg facts
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...A typical Wes Craven 'B' type horror movie. The story is of a brother (Jesse Eisenberg) and sister (Christina Ricci looking very ex Addams Family and extremely gothic at times...
