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Thomas Jay Ryan is a Actor American born on 1 august 1962
Thomas Jay Ryan est un acteur américain, né le 1er août 1962 à Pittsburgh en Pennsylvanie.
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Thomas Jay Ryan est un acteur américain, né le 1er août 1962 à Pittsburgh en Pennsylvanie.
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The Missing Girl (2015)
, 1h29Directed by A.D. Calvo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Alexia Rasmussen, Eric Ladin, Thomas Jay Ryan, Shirley Knight, Kevin Corrigan
Roles Stan Colvins
Rating60%
Ned Rifle (2014)
Directed by Hal Hartley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Liam Aiken, Aubrey Plaza, Parker Posey, James Urbaniak, Martin Donovan, Lloyd Kaufman
Roles Henry Fool
Rating61%
Fay Grim (Parker Posey) a passé quatre ans en détention préventive pour des activités terroristes présumées et est transférée dans un pénitencier fédéral pour purger une peine d'emprisonnement à vie. Son fils, Ned Rifle (Liam Aiken), a été placé sous protection de témoins dans une famille chrétienne. Le film suit l'intention de Ned de tuer son père, Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan), pour avoir ruiné la vie de sa mère, Fay Grim. Par la suite, Ned rencontre Susan (Aubrey Plaza), qui a une connexion au passé de Henry Fool.
The Attic (2008)
, 1h25Directed by Mary Lambert
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Elisabeth Moss, Jason Lewis, Tom Malloy, John Savage, Catherine Mary Stewart, Alexandra Daddario
Roles Dr. Perry
Rating34%
Emma (Moss) has a strong aversion towards her family's new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously.
Dream Boy (2008)
, 1h26Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Stephan Bender, Randy Wayne, Diana Scarwid, Rooney Mara, Tom Gilroy, Thomas Jay Ryan
Roles Harland Davies
Rating61%
Fifteen-year-old Nathan Davies (Stephan Bender) moves to St. Francisville, Louisiana, a small Southern town with his parents (Thomas Jay Ryan and Diana Scarwid) and starts to befriend the older boy next door, Roy (Maximillian Roeg), fellow high school student and bus driver, who is in a relationship with Evelyn (Rooney Mara). Nathan and Roy start to develop their relationship by helping each other with school work at Nathan's house. While Roy is teaching Nathan how to solve an Algebra problem, Nathan touches his hand. Roy pulls away at first, but then takes hold of Nathan's hand.
Strange Culture (2007)
, 1h15Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Peter Coyote, Josh Kornbluth, Wallace Shawn
Roles Steve Kurtz
Rating60%
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, Hope, died of heart failure, paramedics arrived and became suspicious when they noticed petri dishes and other scientific equipment related to Kurtz's art in his home. They summoned the FBI, who detained Kurtz within hours on suspicion of bioterrorism.
Fay Grim (2006)
, 1h58Directed by Hal Hartley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Actors Parker Posey, James Urbaniak, Liam Aiken, Jeff Goldblum, Jasmin Tabatabai, Megan Gay
Roles Henry Fool
Rating60%
Seven years after the events of Henry Fool, Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Jeff Goldblum) to try to locate 'the confession novel' notebooks that belonged to her fugitive husband (Thomas Jay Ryan) whom he believes to be deceased. Fay is launched into a world of espionage as she travels to Paris to retrieve some of the journals, each having mysteriously appeared in the hands of the most unlikely of people. Simon Grim, Fay's brother and Nobel Prize–winning poet because of Henry, remains home with his sister's son, the CIA and his publisher.
The Dying Gaul (2005)
, 1h45Directed by Craig Lucas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Animation
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Mise en scène d'un scénariste, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Campbell Scott, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Robin Bartlett, Kelli O'Hara
Rating63%
In 1995 Hollywood, novice screenwriter Robert Sandrich has written an autobiographical script inspired by his lover's death by AIDS-related cerebral tuberculosis. It impresses both studio executive Jeffrey Tishop and his wife Elaine, but for commercial reasons Jeffrey is willing to greenlight the project only if Robert changes his protagonist from Maurice to Maggie and shifts the focus of his plot from gay to straight people. Robert initially refuses to compromise his principles, but when Jeffrey threatens to make the film without his participation, he decides to accept the $1 million paycheck he's been offered and make the requested edits.
, 1h48Directed by Michel Gondry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about altered memories, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about marriage
Actors Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson
Roles Frank
Rating81%
The emotionally withdrawn Joel Barish and the unrestrained free-spirit Clementine Kruczynski begin a relationship on a Long Island Rail Road train from Montauk, New York. They are almost immediately drawn to each other despite their radically different personalities.
Teknolust (2002)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, Karen Black, Josh Kornbluth, Thomas Jay Ryan
Roles Preacher
Rating52%
The film is about the scientist Rosetta Stone (Swinton) who injects her DNA into three Self Replicating Automatons (S.R.A.s). These cyborg clones must habitually venture into the real world in order to obtain a supply of Y chromosome in the form of semen to keep them alive. Unfortunately, their periodic treks into the outside world seem to leave the males they obtain the chromosome from, with a strange virus that overtakes both their bodies and their computers. Unfortunately the lust carries over into the technology leaving the males' world aghast.
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
, 2h6Directed by Robert Redford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films based on mythology, Sports films, Golf films, Children's films
Actors Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch
Roles Spec Hammond
Rating66%
Promising golfer Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) is the favorite son of Savannah, Georgia and a noteworthy golfer; Adele Invergordon (Charlize Theron) was his girlfriend before he went off to war and is from a rich family. While serving as a captain in the US Army during World War I, Junuh is traumatized when his entire company is wiped out in battle. Though he earns the Medal of Honor, he returns to Georgia and lives a shadowy life as a drunk, golf being just a distant memory.
Henry Fool (1998)
, 2h17Directed by Hal Hartley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors James Urbaniak, Thomas Jay Ryan, Parker Posey, Liam Aiken, James Saito, Kevin Corrigan
Roles Henry Fool
Rating70%
Socially inept garbage-man Simon Grim is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty rogue and untalented novelist. Henry opens the world of literature to Simon, and inspires him to write "the great American poem". Simon struggles to get his work recognized, and it is often dismissed as pornographic tat, but Henry continues to push and inspire Simon to get the poem published.
The Book of Life (1998)
, 1h5Directed by Hal Hartley
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Martin Donovan, Thomas Jay Ryan, Miho Nikaido, Michael Marisi Ornstein, James Urbaniak, Don Creech
Roles Satan
Rating64%
Aéroport JFK, New York, le 31 décembre 1999. Jésus débarque avec son assistante, la belle et mystérieuse Magdalena. Tout le monde se pose la même question : le commencement du nouveau millénaire signifie-t-il la fin du monde ? Au cours de la journée, Jésus va parcourir New-York, croiser croyants et impies, à l'heure où il faut décider du sort des âmes humaines. Le Diable est également en ville, errant de bar en bar, pour récupérer les âmes pures. Un homme et une femme, un couple parmi tous les autres, va être soumis à sa rhétorique tentatrice. Secondé par une armée d'avocats, Jésus va tenter de renégocier les termes de l'Apocalypse. La colère de Dieu plane dans le ciel de New-York, en ce jour où tout peut basculer.