Jake Gyllenhaal
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English
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Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald?s glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era. After the Great War, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to entice her. When Gatsby finally...
2) Wildlife
Publisher
Icon Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
American drama in which a boy observes both his mother and father's actions as their marriage begins to fail. Having been put out of work, Jerry Brinson (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggles mentally and begins to retreat from his family. Meanwhile, his wife, Jeanette (Carey Mulligan) begins to accept that her marriage may soon be over and looks elsewhere for affection and support for her and her son, Joe (Ed Oxenbould). While Joe sees from both sides the suffering...
3) Life
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Ent
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson star in this sci-fi thriller directed by Daniel Espinosa. When a crew of astronauts and scientists set out on a journey to the International Space Station, their task is to study a sample of matter taken from Mars and determine whether it can provide proof of extraterrestrial life. When the matter begins to display intelligence far beyond its suspected capabilities however, the crew realise that...
4) Nightcrawler
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this satirical thriller written and directed by Dan Gilroy. Gyllenhaal plays Lou Bloom, a desperate man living in Los Angeles who resorts to theft in order to support himself. One night, while on his way home from another unsuccessful job interview, he chances upon a terrible traffic accident where he meets freelance reporter Chris (Bill Paxton), who sells his footage to local news stations. Seeing a chance to make it rich,...
5) Everest
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin and Sam Worthington star in this adventure thriller directed by Baltasar Kormakur. The film tells the story of the 1996 climbing expedition in which two groups, led by Rob Hall (Clarke) and Scott Fischer (Gyllenhaal), attempted to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Although the two groups had plentiful experience and had trained to deal with the adverse conditions and low oxygen levels that are present at...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix star in this Western adventure in which two brothers, Eli and Charlie Sisters (Reilly and Phoenix) set out to take out a gold prospector under the instruction of their boss, the Commodore. With Eli beginning to question their line of work and Charlie succumbing to alcoholism, the brothers begin to struggle with the task ahead of them. Meanwhile, their target Hermann Warm (Riz Ahmed) has concocted a genius but dangerous...