Henry Jaglom

Henry Jaglom

Date of Birth: 26 Jan 1941

Country: USA

Biography: Henry Jaglom has been writing and directing independent films since 1971. They are Always, A Safe Place, Babyfever, Can She Bake A Cherry Pie?, Eating, Festival In Cannes, Going Shopping, Last Summer in the Hamptons, New Year's Day, Someone to Love, Tracks and Venice/Venice. His last two films (Hollywood Dreams and Irene in Time) feature his new leading lady, Tanna Frederick. Their newest film, Queen of the Lot, is scheduled to be released in November 2010.

Total Credits at Criticker: 11 (Actor), 20 (Director), 19 (Writer)

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    Festival in Cannes
    Looking at three love stories -- and three generations -- Festival in Cannes reveals the sometimes glamorous, often duplicitous world of the haves and have-nots of the international movie business. (Paramount Classics)
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    Going Shopping
    Focusing on Holly G. (Foyt), a successful clothing designer with her own boutique, this film portrays a complex aspect of women's lives, one that is usually overlooked or dismissed by mainstream Hollywood: shopping! (Rainbow Releasing)
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    Last Summer in the Hamptons
    It concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances have forced them to put on the market.
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    Hollywood Dreams
    Hollywood Dreams follows the journey of a young woman from a small town in Iowa who arrives in Los Angeles deeply scarred by certain events in her childhood and profoundly obsessed with a life-long dream of achieving fame and stardom. (Rainbow Releasing)
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    Someone to Love
    A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews each one on their opinions on love and loneliness. (imdb)
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    Déjà Vu
    Dana (Victoria Foyt), a young American woman traveling on business in Jerusalem, meets a mysterious older French woman at a café who shares a fascinating story of lost love revolving around the expensive antique ruby pin she's wearing. The woman exits the café abruptly, leaving the pin behind and Dana, who is on her way to meet her fiancé (Michael Brandon) in London, finds herself forced to reschedule her trip - and her life... (imdb)
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    A Safe Place
    A young woman named Noah lives alone in New York. She is a disturbed flower child, who retreats into her past, yearning for lost innocence. She is romantically involved with two totally different men. Fred is practical but dull. Mitch is dynamic and sexy, her ideal fantasy partner. Neither man is able to totally fulfill her needs.
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    Irene in Time
    A film about the complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the potential lifelong consequences of those relationships
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    Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
    Zee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli. A very unlikely, funny and touching relationship develops between two lost souls in the big city, which is the third major character in this film. (imdb)
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    Tracks
    A soldier (Dennis Hopper) returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat. (imdb)
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    Always
    A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
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    Sitting Ducks
    Two small-time thieves come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. In a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from the mob, they take off for Miami, where they plan to fly to a safe haven in Costa Rica. On the road they pick up a singer/chauffeur plus two unlikely women they meet in a Holiday Inn.
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    Queen of the Lot
    An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her Iowa hometown, but far less than Angelina Jolie, Maggie is desperate to claw her way off the B-list of action/adventure pictures and into major movie stardom. (The Rainbow Film Co)
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    Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
    Whether trodding the boards for paying audiences or performing at the kitchen table for her theatrical family (mother Diane Salinger, father Jack Heller, uncle David Proval, boarder Harriet Schock) the only place Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) has ever felt truly safe and entirely at home is onstage. Like so many actors she is not completely sure about the difference between real life and the theater and - as she willingly admits - she really doesn't want to.
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    National Lampoon\
    A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories. (imdb)
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    New Year\
    A man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day. (imdb)
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    The M Word
    The 'M' Word" explores the themes of "menopause, men and menses.
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    Venice/Venice
    Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist arrives at the festival with the apparent intention of interviewing the unique and eccentric filmmaker. In the midst of all the festival madness, she is forced to confront the wide divergence between things as they really are and things as they seem to be - both on screen and off. And so, finally, are we. (Henry Jaglom)
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    Eating
    A group of young and middle-aged women gather for the birthday party of a friend and talk about their lives and food they cook for their husbands, boyfriends, or themselves. (imdb)
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    Ovation
    Several stories intersect as a small heater troupe attempt to put on a show.
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