Movies Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
You'll Believe That Pigs Can Fly!
Nonso Anozie, Bill Bailey, Asa Butterfield, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Sam Kelly, Daniel Mays, Oscar Steer, Eros Vlahos, Katy Brand, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maggie Smith, Rosie Taylor-Ritson, Emma Thompson, Lil Woods
DIRECTOR:Susanna White
Nanny McPhee (Thompson) arrives to help a harried young mother (Gyllenhaal) who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.
Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges, James Keane, Anna Felix, Paul Herman, Tom Bower, Ryan Bingham, Beth Grant, Rick Dial, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Debrianna Mansini, Jerry Handy, Jack Nation, Ryil Adamson, J. Michael Oliva, David Manzanares
DIRECTOR:Scott Cooper
An alcoholic country music singer who, through his relationship and experiences with a female reporter, is able to get his life and career back on track and becomes the mentor of a contemporary country star at the peak of his career, while struggling in the younger star's shadow.
Away We Go
John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Carmen Ejogo, Catherine O'Hara, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Jim Gaffigan, Samantha Pryor, Conor Carroll, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Josh Hamilton, Bailey Harkins, Jaden Spitz, Chris Messina
DIRECTOR:A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.
The Dark Knight
Why So Serious?
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Eric Roberts, Cillian Murphy, Anthony Michael Hall, Monique Curnen, Nestor Carbonell, Joshua Harto, Michael Jai White, Colin McFarlane
DIRECTOR:Right after taking out Ra's Al Ghul's plan and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jonathan Crane AKA Scarecrow, Batman continues his seemingly-endless effort to bring justice to Gotham's crime and corrupt with the help of Lt. James Gordon and new appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent. But this time, The Dark Knight faces a rising psychopathic criminal called The Joker, who's eerie grin makes him more dangerous than what he has yet to unleash. It becomes an agenda to both enemies that only one of them remains and are willing to break every part of what they believe in to stop the other.
SherryBaby
No one makes it alone.
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michelle Hurst, Sandra RodrÃguez, Anna Simpson, Giancarlo Esposito, Caroline Clay, Rio Hackford, Brad William Henke, Bridget Barkan, Ryan Simpkins, Stephen Peabody, Danny Trejo, Sam Bottoms, Kate Burton, Michael Dillon
DIRECTOR:Laurie Collyer
Sherry Swanson returns home to New Jersey after serving a three year prison sentence. Eager to reestablish a relationship with her young daughter, Sherry soon discovers that coming back to the world she left behind is far more difficult than she had planned.
Stranger Than Fiction
Harold Crick isn't ready to go. Period.
Will Ferrell, Queen Latifah, Peter Grosz, Ricky Adams, Christian Stolte, Denise Hughes, Peggy Roeder, Tonray Ho, Tony Hale, William Dick, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Danny Rhodes, Helen Young, David Pompeii, Linara Washington
DIRECTOR:For twelve years, the methodic IRF agent Harold Crick has had a routine lonely life guided by his wristwatch. However, one day he hears the narration of his life in off, telling that he is going to die pretty soon. Meanwhile, he audits Ana Pascal, the owner of a bakery that is in debt with the IRF, and falls in love for her. Harold is advised by Professor Jules Hilbert to change his monotonous lifestyle while he tries to find Karen Eiffel, the author of the story of his life, who is researching means of killing the character, and convince her to change the ending of the story.
Monster House
There Goes The Neighborhood.
Ryan Newman, Steve Buscemi, Mitchel Musso, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, Sam Lerner, Woody Schultz, Ian McConnel, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Lee, Spencer Locke, Kevin James, Nick Cannon, Jon Heder, Kathleen Turner
DIRECTOR:The teenage DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of their street in the suburb that destroys tricycles of children that trespass his lawn. When DJ's parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive nanny Zee stays with him, he calls his clumsy best friend Chowder to play basketball. But when the ball falls in Nebbercracker's lawn, the old man has a siege, and sooner they find that the house is a monster. Later the boys rescue the smart Jenny from the house and the trio unsuccessfully tries to convince the babysitter, her boyfriend Bones and two police officers that the haunted house is a monster, but nobody believes on them. The teenagers ask their video-game addicted acquaintance Skull how to destroy the house, and they disclose its secret on the Halloween night.
Mona Lisa Smile
In a world that told them how to think, she showed them how to live.
Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin, Dominic West, Juliet Stevenson, Marcia Gay Harden, John Slattery, Marian Seldes, Donna Mitchell, Terence Rigby, Jennie Eisenhower, Leslie Lyles, Laura Allen
DIRECTOR:Set in 1953, Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Adaptation.
Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes... with foolish abandon. Susan writes about life... But can't live it. John's life is a book... Waiting to be adapted. One story... Four Lives... A million ways it can end.
Nicolas Cage, Brian Cox, Chris Cooper, Judy Greer, Meryl Streep, Cara Seymour, Jim Beaver, Tilda Swinton, Bill Livingston, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Litefoot, Doug Jones, Jim Tavaré, Stephen Tobolowsky, Roger Willie
DIRECTOR:Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief" into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Some things are better left top secret
Rutger Hauer, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, Jennifer Rae Westley, Dick Clark, Michelle Sweeney, Chelsea Ceci, Michael Cera, Aimee Rose Ambroziak, Isabelle Blais, Melissa Carter, Jennifer Hall, Ilona Elkin, Sean Tucker, Jaye P. Morgan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, David Julian Hirsh, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon
DIRECTOR:Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
Secretary
Assume the position.
Jeremy Davies, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau
DIRECTOR:Steven Shainberg
Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.
Donnie Darko
Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions.
Drew Barrymore, Holmes Osborne, Mary McDonnell, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daveigh Chase, James Duval, Arthur Taxier, Mark Hoffman, David St. James, Tom Tangen, Jazzie Mahannah, Jolene Purdy, Stuart Stone, Gary Lundy
DIRECTOR:Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.
