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Stephen Gyllenhaal is a Director, Scriptwriter and Co-Executive Producer American born on 4 october 1949 at Cleveland (USA)
Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/; born October 4, 1949) is an American film director and poet.
Stephen Gyllenhaall, élevé dans la religion luthérienne, a passé sa jeunesse dans la campagne de Pennsylvanie, au sein d'une famille très unie et restée fidèle aux préceptes d'Emanuel Swedenborg. Il fit ses études au Trinity College à Hartfort, dans l'État du Connecticut, et obtint un diplôme d'Anglais. Il eut pour mentor pendant cette période le poète Hugh Odgen.
Stephen Gyllenhaal est aussi poète. Ses œuvres ont été publiées dans des journaux littéraires américains, tels que Prairie Schooner et Nimrod. Son premier recueil est paru en juin 2006 chez un petit éditeur new-yorkais, Cantarabooks.
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Stephen Gyllenhaal
Birth name Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal
Nationality USA
Birth 4 october 1949 (75 years) at Cleveland (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 4 october 1949 (75 years) at Cleveland (USA)
Biography
Descendant de Leonard Gyllenhaal, il est le second mari de la scénariste américaine Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, avec qui il a eu deux enfants, les acteurs Maggie Gyllenhaal et Jake Gyllenhaal qui sont contrairement à leur père de religion juive. Il est également le frère du rédacteur en chef adjoint du journal Star Tribune de Minneapolis, Anders Gyllenhaal. La famille Gyllenhaal est issue de l'aristocratie suédoise. Son anoblissement remonte à 1652, lorsque la reine Christine de Suède conféra la charge de chevalier à l'officier Nils Gunnesson Haal, dont la déformation du nom aboutira à sa forme actuelle.Stephen Gyllenhaall, élevé dans la religion luthérienne, a passé sa jeunesse dans la campagne de Pennsylvanie, au sein d'une famille très unie et restée fidèle aux préceptes d'Emanuel Swedenborg. Il fit ses études au Trinity College à Hartfort, dans l'État du Connecticut, et obtint un diplôme d'Anglais. Il eut pour mentor pendant cette période le poète Hugh Odgen.
Stephen Gyllenhaal est aussi poète. Ses œuvres ont été publiées dans des journaux littéraires américains, tels que Prairie Schooner et Nimrod. Son premier recueil est paru en juin 2006 chez un petit éditeur new-yorkais, Cantarabooks.
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So B. It (2017)
Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Talitha Bateman, Jessie Collins, Alfre Woodard, John Heard, Jacinda Barrett, Dash Mihok
Rating67%
A 12-year-old girl named Heidi DeMuth (Talitha Bateman) decides to take a solo trip across the country.
An Amish Murder (2013)
, 1h25Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Neve Campbell, Noam Jenkins, Chistian Campbell, C. Thomas Howell, IronE Singleton, Jilon VanOver
Rating61%
Le lieutenant Kate Burkholder, chef de la police locale et ancienne amish, enquête sur le meurtre d'une jeune Amish retrouvée dans un champ. Elle a été violée, tuée et vidée de son sang, et un chiffre romain est gravé sur son abdomen. Ce meurtre est bientôt suivi d'un second. L'un et l'autre pourraient être l'œuvre d'un tueur en série qui a sévi dans la région une dizaine d'années auparavant.
Grassroots (2012)
, 1h39Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jason Biggs, Joel Moore, Lauren Ambrose, Cobie Smulders, Tom Arnold, Christopher McDonald
Rating53%
The film tells the story of Phil Campbell (Jason Biggs), a journalist who has just lost his job and gets roped into leading Grant Cogswell's political campaign. Grant, played by Joel David Moore, is Phil's enthusiastic friend whose passion for the monorail inspires him to run for Seattle City Council. Grant is running against Richard McIver, played by Cedric the Entertainer, and although McIver has more money and more supporters, Grant's blind passion paired with Phil's strategy makes Grant a contender.
Girl Fight (2011)
, 1h28Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Anne Heche, James Tupper, Jodelle Ferland, Genevieve Buechner, Keely Purvis, Christopher Jacot
Rating62%
Haley Macklin (Jodelle Ferland) is an academically advanced high school student. She sees herself as an outsider because she has skipped a grade. Her intelligence and well articulated contributions to class discussions cause her classmates to become jealous. Frustrated that she is left out from a popular group of girls, she posts negative comments about them on a social networking website. Unexpectedly, she befriends Alexa Simons (Tess Atkins), a popular girl in school who is head over heels for Derek (Rady Panov). Haley offers to help Alexa with her schoolwork. Haley soon breaks the social barrier between her and the popular girls and is accepted by most of them. The girls with whom she does not make a connection are slightly suspicious of her. Haley's behavior changes drastically. She disobeys her parents and is rude to her sister. Her mother, Melissa (Anne Heche) endeavors to make allowances for Haley's attitude and is more lenient than her father, Ray (James Tupper).
Time Bomb (2006)
, 1h23Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors David Arquette, Angela Bassett, Richard T. Jones, Sabine Karsenti, Neil Napier, Scott Faulconbridge
Rating46%
During a football game in Washington, D.C., a terrorist makes a bomb threat to the DHS, stating that a bomb is in a stadium. Meanwhile, the family of DHS agent Mike Bookman (Arquette), are taken hostage. This brings out issues of suspect and trust amongst colleagues as the terrorist is suspected to be amongst them.
Living with the Dead (2002)
Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Reece Thompson, Jack Palance, Diane Ladd, Michael Moriarty
Rating69%
Seven dead boys are trying to communicate through James (Ted Danson), to tell their story of how they died, and how their murderer is still out there. James agrees to work alongside the detective investigating the murders, and discovers who murdered the seven boys.
Homegrown (1998)
, 1h42Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Buddy films
Actors Billy Bob Thornton, John Lithgow, Hank Azaria, Ryan Phillippe, Jon Bon Jovi, Jon Tenney
Rating57%
When their kingpin is murdered, bungling small-fry marijuana harvesters in Northern California try to keep the business running, negotiating the biggest sale ever and keeping his death a secret. But when silent partners, the Mafia, the police, and other meddlers crash the party, they begin to realize they are in over their heads.
The Patron Saint of Liars (1998)
, 1h40Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dana Delany, Ellen Burstyn, Clancy Brown, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sada Thompson, Jill Gascoine
Rating52%
Losing Isaiah (1995)
, 1h51Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, Kasi Lemmons
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Jacqueline Brookes, Cuba Gooding Jr., Marc John Jefferies
Rating63%
Khaila Richards (Halle Berry) is a drug addict who is addicted to crack cocaine. The film starts with her breastfeeding her baby in an abandoned squat. As she lays the child down to leave, the other squatters tell her that she can't leave the baby there crying. Khaila takes the child outside and hides him in a box in the trash so that she can go get high. She promises to come back, puts a board over the box, and leaves. The next morning, the trash is being collected and everything is thrown in the garbage truck, but at the last moment the workers see the baby lying in the box and the infant is taken to the hospital.
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
, 1h41Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, Laurie Metcalf, John Terry, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Rating56%
Martha Horgan (Winger) struggles to have a normal life in spite of being mentally challenged. She is fired from a job at the local dry-cleaner's after accusations of stealing from the cash register, something she believes the boyfriend of her work colleague Birdie (Chloe Webb) has been doing.
Waterland (1992)
, 1h35Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, John Heard, Pete Postlethwaite
Rating64%
The film follows the story of an anguished English-born Pittsburgh high school teacher (Irons) in 1974 going through a reassessment of his life. His method is to narrate his life to his class and interweave three generations of his family's history. The film portrays the history teacher's narrative in the form of flashbacks to tell the story of a teenage boy and his mentally challenged older brother living in The Fens of England with their widowed father. In an opening scene the teacher's childless wife (Cusack) takes a child from a supermarket and believes it to be hers. The teacher explains to his class how he and his wife had a teenage romance which led to a disastrous abortion that left her infertile. The teacher is tortured by the guilt of this as well as the jealousy he demonstrated to his older brother when he suspected his girlfriend's child was his brother's. The girl's flirtation with the older brother sets off events that lead to the older boy's death by drowning. A side-theme is the teacher's grandfather, who was a successful brewer and who fathered with his daughter the narrator's older brother. The film ends with the teacher's dismissal from his school and a possible renewal of his relationship with his wife.
Paris Trout (1991)
, 1h40Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about racism
Actors Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon, RonReaco Lee, Dan Biggers
Rating63%
Paris Trout is an unrepentant racist in 1949 Georgia. The greedy and paranoid shopkeeper murders the sister of a black man who refuses to repay Trout’s IOU. When Trout is arrested for the crime, he is stunned and enraged, showing himself to be a man of the Old South. Lawyer Harry Seagraves arrives to calm the waters in court but is soon caught in crimes of his own, including a dangerous and doomed affair with Trout’s wife.
A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
, 1h40Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Barbara Hershey, Brian Dennehy, John Terry, Richard Gilliland, Hal Holbrook, Marco Perella
Rating66%
A small town is shocked by the brutal ax murder of a woman. However, they are even more shocked when a reserved neighboring woman, Candy Morrison (Hershey), who is a wife and mother, becomes the chief suspect. During the investigation, she is placed under hypnosis which reveals a different personality completely. The film is based on the story of Wylie, Texas, housewife Candy Montgomery's murder of Betty Gore in 1980, and sometimes is titled Evidence of Love, after a 1984 book on the murder case.
Family of Spies (1990)
, 2h55Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Powers Boothe, Angela Bassett, Lesley Ann Warren, John M. Jackson, Lili Taylor, Graham Beckel
Rating64%
John A. Walker, Jr. is a cryptologist with the US Navy on a sub. While he is away at sea his wife learns he has been unfaithful to her. He convinces her to stay with him and transfers to a shore post. Walker goes to the Soviet Embassy and agrees to become a spy for cash. He starts stealing secrets, but his wife becomes suspicious and learns what he’s doing. The Navy also becomes suspicious because of the increased number of suspicious encounters between Soviet and American subs. Walker goes on a tour at sea and upon his return his wife threatens to shoot him. The Navy fakes a nuclear accident, which establishes that the Soviets are indeed getting inside info from the US Navy because of the way they react. When a Marine officer starts to get suspicious of him, Walker retires from the Navy. Walker recruits Jerry Whitworth, a navy radio operator into spying; telling him the info is going to Israel. Walker and his wife separate. John Walkers daughter joins the army and he tries to recruit her as a spy, but she gets married, becomes pregnant and leaves the service. Walker becomes a private detective. Walker’s son joins the Navy. Whitworth delivers a blurry roll of film because he wants more money. The Soviets think he has been turned and they try to kill Walker. Eventually Walker repairs his relationship with the Soviets. Walker recruits his son in the Navy as a spy. His ex-wife blackmails him into paying more so she won’t tell. However, she finally calls the FBI and Walker’s daughter confirms he tried to recruit her. After a lengthy investigation Walker, his son and Whitworth are arrested and sentenced to lengthy jail terms.
Certain Fury (1985)
, 1h27Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Tatum O'Neal, Irene Cara, Nicholas Campbell, George Murdock, Moses Gunn, Peter Fonda
Rating53%
Scarlett (Tatum O'Neal) is a hardened street kid who supports herself with prostitution and drug dealing. Facing charges for killing a client, Scarlett is brought to court. At court, she briefly encounters Tracy Freeman (Irene Cara). Tracy, a doctor's daughter, has been arrested for drug possession and resisting arrest. Tracy admits to using racial slurs against the white officer who arrested her, implying that he also used racial slurs toward her.