Brokeback Mountain 2005  R, 134 min.
Genre: Drama / Western / Romance
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Scott Michael Campbell, Kate Mara, Graham Beckel, Roberta Maxwell, Peter McRobbie, Tom Carey, David Harbour, John Tench
Wyoming ranch hand Ennes Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) carry on a love affair in 1963 and then go their separate ways only to meet again four years later. Both are now married but find time every year for romantic getaways with each other that ensure their abiding love. Academy Awards were won for Best Director, Musical Score, and Writing; nominations included Best Picture, Actor (Heath Ledger), Supporting Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal), and Supporting Actress (Michelle Williams). 1 User Review
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| | babylove 08/29/2007 | | Although I loved this movie very much, there should have been more love scenes between Jack and Ennes. And Jack should have not died. |
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Bubble Boy 2001  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Blair Hayes
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo, Dave Sheridan, Verne Troyer, John Carroll Lynch, Patrick Cranshaw, Stephen Spinella, Brian George
Lacking an immune system, Jimmy Livingston (Jake Gyllenhaal) has lived his life inside a bubble. Now he meets a crisis head on. When the woman he loves, (Marley Shelton), is ready to marry another man, Jimmy designs a portable bubble suit and sets off from California to Niagara in search of her love.
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 The Day After Tomorrow 2004  PG-13, 124 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Sela Ward, Austin Nichols, Arjay Smith, Tamlyn Tomita, Sasha Roiz, Ian Holm, Nassim Sharara, Kenneth Welsh, Carl Alacchi, Michel "Gish" Abou-Samah
Well-orchestrated, eco-disaster scenes–a Tsunami swamping Manhattan, tornadoes devastating L.A., and hail pelting Tokyo, effects of melting ice caps–highlight this film, but the plot about Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) struggling to locate his son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), pales in comparison.
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 Donnie Darko 2001 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery
Director: Richard Kelly
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Jena Malone, Noah Wyle, Katharine Ross, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Daveigh Chase, Patrick Swayze, James Duval, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Arthur Taxier, Mark Hoffman, David St. James, Jazzie Mahannah
Bright, but emotionally disturbed, Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) hears voices from a six-foot-tall rabbit that warns him to prepare for the end of the world (in 28 days!). In his ensuing search for God, Donnie becomes obsessed with time travel and what he perceives as energy reaching out from people's bodies. The story ends on Halloween when the world that Donnie knows does come to an end, and the puzzle pieces fit together neatly.
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 The Good Girl 2002  R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Miguel Arteta
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly, Tim Blake Nelson, Zooey Deschanel, Mike White, Deborah Rush, John Carroll Lynch, John Doe, Roxanne Hart, Jacquie Barnbrook, Annie O'Donnell, Jon Shere, Jean Rhodes, Alice Amter
Thirty-year-old Justine (Jennifer Aniston) works at the Retail Rodeo department store and is married to her slacker husband Phil (John C. Reilly). She makes a BIG mistake when she has an illicit affair with the mysterious stock boy, Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal). The affair becomes an obsession, and now Justine's marriage is threatened as trouble looms in this dark comedy.
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Highway 2001   R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Cox
Cast: Jared Leto, Jake Gyllenhaal, Selma Blair, John C. McGinley, Jeremy Piven, Mark Rolston, Stephen Shellen, Kimberley Kates, Arden Myrin, Danny Comden
Jack and Pilot (Jared Leto and Jake Gyllenhaal) are losers in Las Vegas but enjoy their life with their menial jobs. When Jake has sex with a mobster's woman, the thugs are sent out to deal with him. So the two buddies hit the road to Seattle with the baddies in hot pursuit. Along the way, they run across a variety of characters in this, just another weak road picture.
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Jarhead 2005 R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Brian Garaghty, Evan Jones, Brianne Davis, Jacob Vargas, Lucas Black, Scott MacDonald, Damion Poitier, Lo Ming, Riad Galayini, Kevin Foster, Craig Coyne
This story, based on Anthony Swoffard's book about his first-hand and sometimes humorous memories of heat and boredom in Kuwait during "Operation Desert Storm." A U.S. Marine, "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal), and his fellow Marines are trained at Camp Pendleton, California, and then head for the Gulf as part of a scout/sniper platoon.
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Lovely & Amazing 2001 R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Cast: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer, Raven Goodwin, Aunjanue Ellis, Clark Gregg, Jake Gyllenhaal, James LeGros, Michael Nouri, Dermot Mulroney, Lee Garlington
The Marks family is not exactly your typical next-door neighbors. Sisters Michelle (Catherine Keener) and Annie (Raven Goodwin) possess their own quirky sets of problems. But, the mother, Jane (Brenda Blethyn), is the icing on the cake whose flavor can be found in each of her daughters' personality traits.
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 Moonlight Mile 2002 PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brad Silberling
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Holly Hunter, Ellen Pompeo, Allan Corduner, Richard T. Jones, Dabney Coleman, Aleksia Landeau, Mary Ellen Trainor, Careena Melia, Richard Messing, Jim Fyfe
Set in the 1970s and fictionalized from a true event, this story revolves around Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) who stays in his fiancee's (Careena Melia) family home after her apparent murder. As her parents (Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon) work with Joe and the district attorney to track down the killer, somewhere along the trail Joe begins to fall in love with another woman (Ellen Pompeo).
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October Sky 1999 PG, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott, Chad Lindberg, Natalie Canerday, Scott Miles, Randy Stripling, Chris Ellis
"October Sky" is the true story of Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal). Born in a West Virginia coal-mining town, Homer was ready to follow his father into the mines UNTIL the Russians launched Sputnik on 5 October 1957. That single event redirected Homer's future as, undaunted by his mine-superintendent father's (Chris Cooper) reticence, he entered the space age to become a NASA engineer.
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 Proof 2005 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Madden
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis, Gary Houston, Anne Wittman, Danny McCarthy, Leigh Zimmerman, Colin Stinton, Leland Burnett
Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow) is concerned that she has inherited the insanity suffered by her father, Robert (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant University of Chicago mathematics professor who has recently died. Catherine's sister Claire (Hope Davis) arrives to help with their father's affairs while one of Robert's favorite students, Hal (Jake Gyllenhaal), searches through Robert's notebooks. Hal comes up with a mathematics proof that should change thinking in the math world. Genius or madness? That is the question this film explores.
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Rendition 2007 R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Omar Metwally, Yigal Naor, Aramis Knight, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Moa Khouas, Zineb Oukach, Laila Mrabti, J.K. Simmons, Bob Gunton
This political thriller involves circumstances surrounding an Egyptian-born American chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi who–under orders of CIA anti-terrorism chief Corrine Whitman (Meryl Streep)–was snatched by the CIA and then flown to a foreign prison where he was tortured. This all happens under the watch of CIA rookie Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) who begins to question his assignment. Meanwhile, Anwar's American wife Isabella (Reese Witherspoon) becomes concerned with her husband's disappearance and asks an old friend, Alan Smith (Peter Sarsgaard), for help. Coincidences add up in this film that questions the validity of confessions obtained through torture.
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 Zodiac 2007  R, 156 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Richmond Arquette, Bob Stephenson, John Lacy, Chloe Sevigny, Ed Setrakian, John Getz, John Terry, Candy Clark, Elias Koteas
This film presents a fictionalized account of the true story about the Zodiac serial killer who stalked the San Francisco Bay area during the 1970s. Police investigators and newspaper reporters become obsessed with tracking down clues–all of which turn out to be red herrings in this still-unsolved series of murders.
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| 1. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
2. Bubble Boy (2001)
3. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
4. Donnie Darko (2001)
5. The Good Girl (2002)
6. Highway (2001)
7. Jarhead (2005)
8. Lovely & Amazing (2001)
9. Moonlight Mile (2002)
10. October Sky (1999)
11. Proof (2005)
12. Rendition (2007)
13. Zodiac (2007)
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