Jennifer Jason Leigh

Possessor (2020)

A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients.

Directed by: Brandon Cronenberg

Stars: Sean Bean | Andrea Riseborough | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Christopher Abbott | Stacy Martin

QT8: The First Eight (2019)

As: herself

A documentary that focuses on the first 21 years of Quentin Tarantino's career and includes interviews with his frequent collaborators.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Tara Wood

Stars: Uma Thurman | Samuel L. Jackson | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Diane Kruger | Christoph Waltz

Sid & Judy (2019)

As: Judy Garland (Voice)

Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, never-heard-before voice recordings and personal photos.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Stephen Kijak

Stars: Jon Hamm | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Judy Garland | Sid Luft

White Boy Rick (2018)

The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Yann Demange

Stars: Matthew McConaughey | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Bel Powley | RJ Cyler | Richie Merritt

The Making of Annihilation (2018)

Director Alex Garland, Natalie Portman, and other cast and crew take viewers behind the scenes for a deeper look inside the film's stunts, intricate set design and breathtaking visual effects.

Runtime: 73 min.

Directed by: Jon Mefford

Stars: Alex Garland | Andrew Macdonald | Jeff VanderMeer | Andrew Whitehurst | Mark Digby

Annihilation (2018)

As: Dr. Ventress

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Alex Garland

Stars: Natalie Portman | Gina Rodriguez | Tuva Novotny | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Tessa Thompson

Good Time (2017)

As: Corey Ellman

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld in an increasingly desperate - and dangerous attempt to get his brother Nick out of jail.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Benny Safdie | Josh Safdie

Stars: Robert Pattinson | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Benny Safdie | Buddy Duress | Taliah Webster

Amityville: The Awakening (2017)

As: Joan Walker

Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn't telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous ...

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Franck Khalfoun

Stars: Bella Thorne | Jennifer Morrison | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Cameron Monaghan | Thomas Mann

Morgan (2016)

As: Dr. Kathy Grieff

A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Luke Scott

Stars: Kate Mara | Toby Jones | Boyd Holbrook | Rose Leslie | Anya Taylor-Joy

LBJ (2016)

As: Lady Bird Johnson

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Rob Reiner

Stars: Richard Jenkins | Bill Pullman | Woody Harrelson | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Brian Stepanek

Journey to the Oscars (2016)

As: Herself

“Journey to the Oscars” features in-depth, emotional stories about some of the most notable 2016 Oscar nominees, including Sylvester Stallone, Brie Larson, Bryan Cranston, Sir Ridley Scott and Matt Damon. Using a cinematic, documentary-style approach, the one-hour special focuses on the key moments that have defined each one as an artist and put the nominee on their unique path to Hollywood’s biggest ...

Runtime: 42 min.

Directed by: John Hirsch

Stars: Mark Ruffalo | Sylvester Stallone | Tom McCarthy | Ryan Coogler | Robin Roberts

Anomalisa (2015)

As: Lisa Hesselman (voice)

A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Charlie Kaufman | Duke Johnson

Stars: David Thewlis | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Tom Noonan

The Hateful Eight (2015)

As: Daisy Domergue

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

Runtime: 187 min.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Stars: Kurt Russell | Walton Goggins | Samuel L. Jackson | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Demián Bichir

Crossed Over (2015)

As: Karla Faye Tucker

Based on the book Crossed Over: A Murder/A Memoir by Beverly Lowry, Crossed Over tells the true story of a woman, Beverly Lowry, who after the tragic hit-and-run death of her teenage son, sinks into a deep depression. Lowry and her supportive husband struggle to cope with this devastating loss. Lowry forms an unusual friendship with the first and only woman executed while on death row in Texas, Karla ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Bobby Roth

Stars: Diane Keaton | Maury Chaykin | Jennifer Jason Leigh

Welcome to Me (2014)

As: Deb Moseley

A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Shira Piven

Stars: Kristen Wiig | Linda Cardellini | Jennifer Jason Leigh | James Marsden | Wes Bentley

Jake Squared (2014)

As: Sheryl

A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Howard Goldberg

Stars: Elias Koteas | Mike Vogel | Virginia Madsen | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Jane Seymour

Me (2014)

As: Kelly

A down and out actress secretly sells a reality show about her friend, a delusional eccentric, a once famous creator of reality shows, who now believes that his entire life is being filmed by hidden cameras and that he is the star of his very own reality show.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Jefery Levy

Stars: Steve Agee | Julian Sands | Michael Des Barres | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Allison Byrnes

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

As: Naomi Ginsberg

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: John Krokidas

Stars: Michael C. Hall | Daniel Radcliffe | Ben Foster | Elizabeth Olsen | Dane DeHaan

The Spectacular Now (2013)

As: Sara Keely

A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: James Ponsoldt

Stars: Miles Teller | Brie Larson | Masam Holden | Shailene Woodley | Dayo Okeniyi

Hateship Loveship (2013)

As: Chloe

A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Liza Johnson

Stars: Kristen Wiig | Guy Pearce | Hailee Steinfeld | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Sami Gayle

The Moment (2013)

As: Lee

Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover's (Martin Henderson) disappearance.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Jane Weinstock

Stars: Meat Loaf | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Alia Shawkat | Martin Henderson | Jennifer Jason Leigh

Greenberg (2010)

As: Beth

A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Noah Baumbach

Stars: Ben Stiller | Rhys Ifans | Merritt Wever | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Greta Gerwig

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

As: Maria

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: Charlie Kaufman

Stars: Michelle Williams | Catherine Keener | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Samantha Morton

Margot at the Wedding (2007)

As: Pauline

Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Noah Baumbach

Stars: John Turturro | Nicole Kidman | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Jack Black | Zain Pais

Rag Tale (2005)

As: Mary Josephine 'MJ' Morton

A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Mary McGuckian

Stars: Rupert Graves | John Sessions | Lucy Davis | Bill Paterson | Jennifer Jason Leigh

The Jacket (2005)

As: Dr. Beth Lorenson

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: John Maybury

Stars: Keira Knightley | Kelly Lynch | Adrien Brody | Kris Kristofferson | Jennifer Jason Leigh

The Machinist (2004)

As: Stevie

The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia...

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Brad Anderson

Stars: Christian Bale | John Sharian | Michael Ironside | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Childstar (2004)

As: Suzanne

Childstar is about an egotistical 12-year-old named Taylor Brandon Burns who has skyrocketed to fame at that young age. His relationship with his driver, Rick, takes a turn when Taylor confides in him about the problems of celebrity and the fears of his impending teenage years. When Taylor disappears with his new girlfriend, Rick attempts to find the boy and help him through this troubling period.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Don McKellar

Stars: Gil Bellows | Don McKellar | Alan Thicke | Mark Rendall | Peter Paige

Palindromes (2004)

As: 'Mark' Aviva

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Todd Solondz

Stars: Ellen Barkin | Angela Pietropinto | Matthew Faber | Bill Buell | Emani Sledge

In the Cut (2003)

As: Pauline

Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City--as if to test the limits of her own safety--propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison. Soon she grows increasingly wary about the motives of every man with whom she has contact--and about her own.

Runtime: 119 min.

Directed by: Jane Campion

Stars: Mark Ruffalo | Nick Damici | Meg Ryan | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Heather Litteer

Road to Perdition (2002)

As: Annie Sullivan

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

Runtime: 117 min.

Directed by: Sam Mendes

Stars: Tom Hanks | Liam Aiken | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Paul Newman | Tyler Hoechlin

Hey Arnold! The Movie (2002)

As: Bridget

When a powerful developer named Mr. Scheck wants to knock down all the stores and houses in Arnold's neighborhood to build a huge "mall-plex", it looks likes the neighborhood is doomed to disappear. But with the help of a superhero and a mysterious deep-voiced stranger, Arnold and Gerald will need to recover a crucial document in order to save their beloved neighborhood.

Runtime: 76 min.

Directed by: Tuck Tucker

Stars: Tress MacNeille | Francesca Smith | Jamil Walker Smith | Spencer Klein | Dan Castellaneta

The Quickie (2001)

As: Lisa

A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Sergei Bodrov

Stars: Dean Stockwell | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Brenda Bakke | Yevgeni Lazarev | Sergei Bodrov Jr.

The Anniversary Party (2001)

As: Sally Therrian

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the British novelist Joe Therrian (Alan Cumming) receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Alan Cumming | Jennifer Jason Leigh

Stars: Alan Cumming | Parker Posey | Jennifer Jason Leigh | John Benjamin Hickey | Phoebe Cates

Skipped Parts (2000)

As: Lydia Callahan

A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Tamra Davis

Stars: Drew Barrymore | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Brad Renfro | Bug Hall | Mischa Barton

The King Is Alive (2000)

As: Gina

Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Kristian Levring

Stars: Romane Bohringer | Brion James | David Bradley | Jennifer Jason Leigh | David Calder

eXistenZ (1999)

As: Allegra Geller

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: David Cronenberg

Stars: Ian Holm | Willem Dafoe | Jude Law | Don McKellar | Jennifer Jason Leigh

Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998)

As: Teri Small

An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically.

Runtime: 204 min.

Directed by: Rod Holcomb

Stars: Ted Danson | Brian Dennehy | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Marg Helgenberger

The Love Letter (1998)

As: Elizabeth Whitcomb

20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Dan Curtis

Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh | Campbell Scott | David Dukes | Estelle Parsons

Washington Square (1997)

As: Catherine Sloper

Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only because of her inheritence.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Agnieszka Holland

Stars: Ben Chaplin | Maggie Smith | Albert Finney | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Judith Ivey

A Thousand Acres (1997)

As: Caroline Cook

A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Jocelyn Moorhouse

Stars: Colin Firth | Michelle Pfeiffer | Jessica Lange | Jason Robards | Jennifer Jason Leigh

Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

As: Anney Boatwright

Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance. The film won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special" and was nominated for "Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Anjelica Huston

Stars: Christina Ricci | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Lyle Lovett | Jena Malone | Ron Eldard

Kansas City (1996)

As: Blondie O'Hara

Robert Altman's story is a riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place in Kansas City in 1934.

Runtime: 116 min.

Directed by: Robert Altman

Stars: Miranda Richardson | Michael Murphy | Dermot Mulroney | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Harry Belafonte

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)

HBO documentary about movies

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Chuck Workman

Stars: Candice Bergen | Warren Beatty | Robert Altman | George Burns | Peter Coyote

Georgia (1995)

As: Sadie Flood

Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing ...

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Ulu Grosbard

Stars: Ted Levine | Mare Winningham | Max Perlich | Jennifer Jason Leigh | John Doe

Dolores Claiborne (1995)

As: Selena St. George

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns ...

Runtime: 132 min.

Directed by: Taylor Hackford

Stars: Christopher Plummer | David Strathairn | Kathy Bates | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Judy Parfitt

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)

As: Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

Runtime: 125 min.

Directed by: Alan Rudolph

Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow | Jennifer Beals | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Campbell Scott | Matthew Broderick

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

As: Amy Archer

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Joel Coen

Stars: Tim Robbins | Charles Durning | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Paul Newman | John Mahoney

Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker (1994)

Portrait of writer Dorothy Parker, her Algonquin Round Table friends, her writing and her troubled life. Includes interviews, archival footage of Parker reading poetry and scenes from the 1994 film on Parker's life, "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Matthew ...

Runtime: 40 min.

Directed by: Robert Yuhas

Stars: Matthew Broderick | Heywood Hale Broun | Wendy Liebman | Randy Sue Coburn | Brendan Gill

Short Cuts (1993)

As: Lois Kaiser

Multi-storied, fish-eyed look at American culture with some 22 characters intersecting--profoundly or fleetingly--through each other's lives. Running the emotional gamut from disturbing to humorous, Altman's portrait of the contemporary human condition is nevertheless fascinating. Based on nine stories and a prose poem by Raymond Carver.

Runtime: 188 min.

Directed by: Robert Altman

Stars: Tim Robbins | Andie MacDowell | Julianne Moore | Anne Archer | Jack Lemmon

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country (1993)

As: Herself

A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: John Dorr | Mike Kaplan

Stars: Tim Robbins | Matthew Modine | Fred Ward | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Robert Altman

Single White Female (1992)

As: Hedra 'Hedy' Carlson

Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Barbet Schroeder

Stars: Peter Friedman | Stephen Tobolowsky | Bridget Fonda | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Steven Weber

The Prom (1992)

As: Lana

Short film by Steven Shainberg. Won the Grand Prize at the Houston International Film Festival, the Critics’ Award at the Breckenridge Film Festival, and the Silver Medal for Drama at the New York Film Festival.

Directed by: Steven Shainberg

Stars: Tuesday Knight | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Natalija Nogulich | Andras Jones | J.T. Walsh

Rush (1991)

As: Kristen Cates

Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines (Gregg Allman). While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will ...

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Lili Fini Zanuck

Stars: Sam Elliott | Jason Patric | Max Perlich | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Gregg Allman

Crooked Hearts (1991)

As: Marriet Hoffman

The father of a family has a an affair. This affects every member of the family.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Michael Bortman

Stars: Noah Wyle | Juliette Lewis | Vincent D'Onofrio | Peter Berg | Jennifer Jason Leigh

Backdraft (1991)

As: Jennifer Vaitkus

They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey are battling each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.

Runtime: 137 min.

Directed by: Ron Howard

Stars: Kurt Russell | Robert De Niro | Donald Sutherland | Jennifer Jason Leigh | William Baldwin

Buried Alive (1990)

As: joanna goodman

Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money. Only trouble the drug overdose they give him doesn't kill him. Lucky for Clint he's buried in a cheap wooden box and he unburies himself. Just remember, Hell hath no fury like a man buried alive!

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Frank Darabont

Stars: William Atherton | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Tim Matheson | Hoyt Axton

Miami Blues (1990)

As: Susie Waggoner

When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student Susie. Opposing Fred is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old for the job, especially since the job of cop in 1980's Miami is getting crazier all the time.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: George Armitage

Stars: Fred Ward | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Alec Baldwin | Georgie Cranford | Cecilia Pérez-Cervera

Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

As: Tralala

A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Uli Edel

Stars: Peter Dobson | Stephen Lang | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Burt Young | Jerry Orbach

The Big Picture (1989)

As: Lydia Johnson

Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Christopher Guest

Stars: Michael McKean | Kevin Bacon | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Emily Longstreth | J.T. Walsh

Heart of Midnight (1988)

As: Carol

A young woman who is getting back on her feet after a mental breakdown, Carol Rivers discovers that her late uncle has left her a rundown nightclub. Carol decides to renovate the venue, but, in the process, uncovers dark secrets about the club and her dead relative. After a series of disturbing events, Carol becomes increasingly unstable, but she finds some measure of comfort in Sharpe, ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Matthew Chapman

Stars: Frank Stallone | Brenda Vaccaro | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Peter Coyote | Denise Dumont

Under Cover (1987)

As: Tanille Laroux

A cop goes undercover in a South Carolina high school. With the help of a local narcotics officer, he investigates the drug ring responsible for another cop's death.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: John Stockwell

Stars: Kathleen Wilhoite | Barry Corbin | Jennifer Jason Leigh | David Neidorf | David Harris

Sister, Sister (1987)

As: Lucy Bonnard

A congressional aide (Eric Stoltz) explores an old Louisiana mansion two kooky sisters (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey) run as a guest house.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Bill Condon

Stars: Eric Stoltz | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Anne Pitoniak | Dennis Lipscomb | Judith Ivey

The Men's Club (1986)

As: Teensy

Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Peter Medak

Stars: Harvey Keitel | Frank Langella | David Dukes | Richard Jordan | Roy Scheider

The Hitcher (1986)

As: Nash

A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Robert Harmon

Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn | C. Thomas Howell | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Rutger Hauer | John M. Jackson

Flesh + Blood (1985)

As: Agnes

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.

Runtime: 126 min.

Directed by: Paul Verhoeven

Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh | Rutger Hauer | Jack Thompson | Susan Tyrrell | Tom Burlinson

Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)

As: Candy Webster

Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is on of the drivers in the derby who's wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be ...

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Randal Kleiser

Stars: C. Thomas Howell | Jamie Lee Curtis | William Windom | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Patrick Swayze

Girls Of The White Orchid (1983)

As: Carol Heath

In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work at the White Orchid nightclub, she discovers the scheme of prostitution in the club that belongs to Yakuza. Alone, without money and her passport, she is protected by Shiro, but pressed by the managers Madame Mori and her husband Hatanaka to be receptive to ...

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Kaplan

Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh | Carolyn Seymour | Ann Jillian | Mako | Thomas Byrd

Easy Money (1983)

As: Allison Capuletti

To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living, gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: James Signorelli

Stars: Joe Pesci | Rodney Dangerfield | Val Avery | Geraldine Fitzgerald | Candice Azzara

The First Time (1982)

As: Bonnie Dillon

An emotionally troubled teenage girl drops out of high school and travels with her boyfriend to San Diego, while the girl's mother enlists the help of an old U.S. Navy friend to help find her daughter.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Noel Nosseck

Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh | Alex Rocco | Edward Winter | Susan Anspach | Peter Barton

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

As: Stacy Hamilton

Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Amy Heckerling

Stars: Judge Reinhold | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Phoebe Cates | Sean Penn | Brian Backer

Wrong Is Right (1982)

As: Young Girl

Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hal on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of ...

Runtime: 117 min.

Directed by: Richard Brooks

Stars: Sean Connery | Katharine Ross | George Grizzard | Robert Conrad | G. D. Spradlin

The Best Little Girl in the World (1981)

As: Casey Powell

Casey Powell is a young teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nevosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-induced vomiting, because of her troubled home life and problems at school in which her bickering parents must put aside their differences to help her recover before her condition kills her.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Sam O'Steen

Stars: Melanie Mayron | Charles Durning | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Eva Marie Saint | Lisa Pelikan

The Killing of Randy Webster (1981)

As: Amy Wheeler

A young man is shot and killed in an altercation with Houston police. His father doesn't believe the police version of the incident and starts digging around on his own.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Sam Wanamaker

Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh | Hal Holbrook | Dixie Carter | Gary McCleery | James Whitmore Jr.

I Think I'm Having A Baby (1981)

As: Laurie Mcintyre

Laurie is 15 and she thinks she's pregnant. Her boyfriend doesn't care. Her mother doesn't know. Why did it happen? And whom can she turn to?

Runtime: 44 min.

Directed by: Arthur Allan Seidelman

Stars: Helen Hunt | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Shawn Stevens | Shane Sinutko | Samantha Paris

Eyes of a Stranger (1981)

As: Tracy Harris

A TV newswoman (Lauren Tewes) catches a pervert (John DiSanti) watching her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who cannot see, hear or speak.

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: Ken Wiederhorn

Stars: John DiSanti | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Lauren Tewes | Peter DuPre | Gwen Lewis