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Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 15 march 1946 at New York City (USA)

Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
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Birth name Naomi Achs
Nationality USA
Birth 15 march 1946 (78 years) at New York City (USA)

Naomi Gyllenhaal (née Achs, previously Foner; born March 15, 1946) is an American screenwriter. She has written the screenplays for several feature films, including Running on Empty (for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won a Golden Globe Award for the same category), Losing Isaiah, and most recently Bee Season. She played the character Naomi in the Love of Chair segment of The Electric Company, where she was an associate producer for two seasons.

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Filmography of Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (7 films)

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Director

Very Good Girls, 1h30
Directed by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Demi Moore, Richard Dreyfuss, Boyd Holbrook, Ellen Barkin
Rating58% 2.949282.949282.949282.949282.94928
Best friends Lily (Fanning) and Gerri (Olsen), home for one last New York summer, make a pact to lose their virginity before leaving for college. But when they both fall for the same handsome artist (Holbrook) and Lily starts seeing him in secret, a lifelong friendship is tested.

Scriptwriter

Very Good Girls, 1h30
Directed by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Demi Moore, Richard Dreyfuss, Boyd Holbrook, Ellen Barkin
Roles Writer
Rating58% 2.949282.949282.949282.949282.94928
Best friends Lily (Fanning) and Gerri (Olsen), home for one last New York summer, make a pact to lose their virginity before leaving for college. But when they both fall for the same handsome artist (Holbrook) and Lily starts seeing him in secret, a lifelong friendship is tested.
Bee Season
Bee Season (2005)
, 1h44
Directed by Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche, Max Minghella, Flora Cross, Kate Bosworth, Anna Maria Perez de Taglé
Rating54% 2.7485652.7485652.7485652.7485652.748565
Saul Naumann (Gere) is a somewhat controlling Jewish husband and father. A Religious Studies professor at UC Berkeley, Saul wrote his graduate thesis on the Kabbalah. Because he was a devout Jew, his wife Miriam (Binoche) converted to Judaism when they married, and he nurtured his son Aaron (Max Minghella) as a traditional studious Jew like himself. When Eliza (Flora Cross) wins her class spelling bee, they embark on a course of Kabbalah study to help her win. The film follows the family and the spiritual quests upon which they journey, in large part because of Saul: Miriam's attempt to make herself whole, Aaron's religious uncertainty, and Eliza's desire to be closer to her father.
Losing Isaiah, 1h51
Directed 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% 3.199543.199543.199543.199543.19954
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, 1h41
Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, Laurie Metcalf, John Terry, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Roles Ecrivain
Rating56% 2.849622.849622.849622.849622.84962
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.
Running on Empty, 2h
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, Martha Plimpton, Alice Drummond, L. M. Kit Carson
Roles Writer
Rating75% 3.7983953.7983953.7983953.7983953.798395
The story revolves around parents Annie and Arthur Pope (Lahti and Hirsch) who in the 1970s were responsible for the anti-war protest bombing of a napalm laboratory. The incident accidentally blinded and paralyzed a janitor who wasn't supposed to be there. They've been on the run ever since, relying on an underground network of supporters who help them financially. At the time of the incident, their son Danny (Phoenix) was two years old. As the film begins, he is in his late teens, and the family (along with younger son Harry) are again relocating and assuming new identities.

Production

Homegrown
Homegrown (1998)
, 1h42
Directed 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
Roles Executive Producer
Rating57% 2.8510852.8510852.8510852.8510852.851085
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.
Losing Isaiah, 1h51
Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, Kasi Lemmons
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Jacqueline Brookes, Cuba Gooding Jr., Marc John Jefferies
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.199543.199543.199543.199543.19954
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, 1h41
Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, Laurie Metcalf, John Terry, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Roles Producer
Rating56% 2.849622.849622.849622.849622.84962
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.
Running on Empty, 2h
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, Martha Plimpton, Alice Drummond, L. M. Kit Carson
Roles Executive Producer
Rating75% 3.7983953.7983953.7983953.7983953.798395
The story revolves around parents Annie and Arthur Pope (Lahti and Hirsch) who in the 1970s were responsible for the anti-war protest bombing of a napalm laboratory. The incident accidentally blinded and paralyzed a janitor who wasn't supposed to be there. They've been on the run ever since, relying on an underground network of supporters who help them financially. At the time of the incident, their son Danny (Phoenix) was two years old. As the film begins, he is in his late teens, and the family (along with younger son Harry) are again relocating and assuming new identities.