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John Miller Tobin is an American television director and producer.
As a director, Tobin has worked most notably on the television series Oz, The Agency, Numb3rs, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Supernatural, 90210, Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries in which he is also a producer.
He also worked as an assistant director on number of feature films most notably Fresh (1994), The 24 Hour Woman (1999) and among other films.
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As a director, Tobin has worked most notably on the television series Oz, The Agency, Numb3rs, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Supernatural, 90210, Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries in which he is also a producer.
He also worked as an assistant director on number of feature films most notably Fresh (1994), The 24 Hour Woman (1999) and among other films.
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The Jerky Boys (1995)
, 1h21Directed by J. Miller Tobin
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Alan Arkin, Alan North, William Hickey, James Lorinz, Paul Bartel, Vincent Pastore
Rating47%
The film opens in a New York police station as a pair of "low-lifes from Queens" named Johnny B. (John G. Brennan) and Kamal (Kamal Ahmed) are taken into police custody and interrogated by an NYPD detective named Robert Worzic (Brad Sullivan). Worzic demands to know exactly how the pair got into their situation, so Johnny explains that for the past twenty years, he and Kamal frequently entertained themselves by performing prank calls on the telephone. He brings up an early call where he got his neighbor Brett Weir, the local goody-two-shoes kid, in trouble with his mother by impersonating an angry citizen and claiming that Brett has been spitting and cursing.
Fresh (1994)
, 1h54Directed by Boaz Yakin, J. Miller Tobin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about children, Jeu, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Hip hop films, Films about chess, Gangster films
Actors Giancarlo Esposito, Sean Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, Jean-Claude La Marre, José Zúñiga
Rating74%
12-year-old Michael a.k.a. "Fresh" stops at a latina woman's apartment to pick up dime bags of heroin before he goes to school. Fresh notices that she has given him the wrong amount and Fresh tries to warn her that his boss Esteban will be angry with the incorrect amount. He sees the track marks on her arm, indicating that she is a drug addict trying to swindle him out of his delivery. He leaves, disgusted.
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The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
, 1h33Directed by Nancy Savoca
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Rosie Perez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Patti LuPone, Melissa Leo, Karen Duffy, Wendell Pierce
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating53%
Grace (Rosie Perez) struggles to be both a successful television producer and mother.
FireHouse (1997)
Directed by John McNaughton
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Disaster films
Actors Richard Dean Anderson, Lillo Brancato, Morris Chestnut, Edie Falco, Burt Young, Dean Winters
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating44%
Subway Stories (1997)
, 1h20Directed by Bob Balaban, Jonathan Demme, Abel Ferrara, Ted Demme, Julie Dash, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Bill Irwin, KRS-One, Bonnie Hunt, Kevin Corrigan, Taral Hicks, Paul Lazar
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating64%
"Subway Stories," structured similarly to films such as "Paris, Je t'aime" and "New York, I Love You," is divided according to director into short films, each with their own title, but strung almost seamlessly together.
Washington Square (1997)
, 1h56Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films
Actors Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith, Judith Ivey, Jennifer Garner
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating66%
A prologue introduces us to Dr. Austin Sloper (Albert Finney), a New York City doctor and resident of a large house on Washington Square whose wife dies in childbirth, leaving a daughter, Catherine (Jennifer Jason Leigh), to be raised by her father. As a child, Catherine is overweight, clumsy, and untalented; however, she is also a sweet, affectionate child. She adores her father and tries hard to please him, but he considers her a disappointment and treats her with ironic condescension. His thoughts are still much occupied with his beloved wife and with a promising son who died before Catherine was born, and he privately – but bitterly – resents his only surviving child for causing his wife's death.
Fresh (1994)
, 1h54Directed by Boaz Yakin, J. Miller Tobin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about children, Jeu, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Hip hop films, Films about chess, Gangster films
Actors Giancarlo Esposito, Sean Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, Jean-Claude La Marre, José Zúñiga
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating74%
12-year-old Michael a.k.a. "Fresh" stops at a latina woman's apartment to pick up dime bags of heroin before he goes to school. Fresh notices that she has given him the wrong amount and Fresh tries to warn her that his boss Esteban will be angry with the incorrect amount. He sees the track marks on her arm, indicating that she is a drug addict trying to swindle him out of his delivery. He leaves, disgusted.
Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Sandra Bullock, Vincent Pastore, Tony Darrow, Steve Buscemi, John Costelloe, Stephen Lee
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating39%
The Night We Never Met (1993)
, 1h39Directed by Warren Leight
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Christine Baranski, Kevin Anderson, Tim Guinee
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating59%
This script must be run from the command line
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Directed by Julie Dash
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films
Roles Assistant Director
Rating65%
Daughters of the Dust is set in 1902 among the members of the Peazant family, Gullah who live at Ibo Landing on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Their ancestors were brought there as slaves centuries ago, and the islanders developed a language and culture that was creolized from West Africans, of Ibo, Yoruba, Kikongo, Mende, and Twi origin. Developed in their relative isolation of large plantations on the islands, the slaves' unique culture and language have endured in areas of the Low Country. The Peazant family, including a couple of contrasting daughters who have come back for a last dinner on the island, is meeting before most leave for the North. The film is narrated by the Unborn Child, and is influenced by accounts of ancestors, represented especially by Nana Peazant, the matriarch. She says, "We are two people in one body. The last of the old and the first of the new." Lyrical visual images convey much of the story. The dialogue is in Gullah creole.
Dogfight (1991)
, 1h34Directed by Nancy Savoca
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Elizabeth Daily, Anthony Clark, Mitchell Whitfield, Holly Near
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating72%
The first portion of the film is set on November 21, 1963 (the day before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated). Birdlace and three of his Marine buddies have arrived in San Francisco for twenty-four hours, before shipping off to Vietnam, and are planning on attending a "dogfight" (a party where Marines compete to bring the ugliest date, unbeknownst to the girls they bring) later that evening. They separate into the city to attempt to find dates. After a few women reject his advances, Birdlace ducks into a coffee shop, where he encounters Rose, a waitress, on her break, practicing her guitar. She is not particularly "ugly", but rather plain, shy and awkward. Birdlace attempts to charm her, complimenting her on her guitar playing, and inviting her to a party. She is suspicious of his motives, but decides to accept his invitation.