Thomas Jay Ryan

Thomas Jay Ryan

Born: August 1, 1962
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Thomas Jay Ryan (born August 1, 1962) is an American actor. He may be best known for his starring role in the 1997 film Henry Fool.

Movies for Thomas Jay Ryan...

Darla in Space
Title: Darla in Space
Character: Arnot Pickens
Released: April 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Darla owes the IRS $349,000.22. Her burgeoning business Kitty Kasket will never generate that kind of revenue in one month. Enter Mother; your typical sentient yeast mass who grants mind-blowing orgasms. Will she be willing to help?
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Ghostwritten
Title: Ghostwritten
Character: Martin
Released: June 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a reclusive island whose residents seem friendly at first. The discovery of a lost manuscript and its possible ties to a longstanding local murder case, however, throw into question the intentions of everyone around him.
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Cryptozoo
Title: Cryptozoo
Character: Nicholas (voice)
Released: August 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
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Scenes from an Empty Church
Title: Scenes from an Empty Church
Character: Father James
Released: June 24, 2021
Type: Movie
In a locked-down NYC, two priests open their church doors to those seeking salvation during the most isolating of times. From the commonplace to the truly metaphysical, their visitors reflect the full spectrum of personal crises of spirituality. Throughout their encounters with the city's sweetest, wildest and weirdest, the two priests learn the importance of connection, empathy and open-mindedness. Sometimes a little faith is all you need to make it through the bad times.
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The Return of Tragedy
Title: The Return of Tragedy
Character: Chief of Police
Released: September 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is presented in a variety of ways and all possibilities are explored.
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Dedalus
Title: Dedalus
Character: William
Released: October 28, 2018
Type: Movie
In rural Iowa, a grocery cashier watches helplessly as classmates conceal their act of sexual violence against his teenaged step-sister. A hustler tricks for food, shelter, and intimacy during a winter in New York City. Mortality compels a father to leave his home in Los Angeles and move in with his daughter. Jonah Greenstein's gorgeously shot feature debut laces loneliness with beauty to create a film of startling cinematic intimacy.
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My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Title: My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Character: Principal Grimm (voice)
Released: September 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely-distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of a cover-up by the administration that puts the entire student body in danger.
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Burn Country
Title: Burn Country
Character: Dmitri Sokurov
Released: April 16, 2016
Type: Movie
A former war journalist now writing for a paper in Northern California is drawn into conflict at home.
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The Missing Girl
Title: The Missing Girl
Character: Stan Colvins
Released: September 13, 2015
Type: Movie
THE MISSING GIRL tells the story of Mort, the lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, and Ellen, the emotionally disruptive graphic novelist he's hired. The story involves the search for a girl who isn't missing and the discovery that it's never too late for late bloomers.
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Ned Rifle
Title: Ned Rifle
Character: Henry Fool
Released: September 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.
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My America
Title: My America
Released: July 4, 2014
Type: Movie
21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the hilarious, from the angry to the tentatively celebratory, many of the major and recurrent issues associated with our fraught but beloved union are reconsidered with elegance, wit, brutal honesty, and a little outright insanity.
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Sabbatical
Title: Sabbatical
Character: Dan Keaton
Released: April 4, 2014
Type: Movie
After his mother suffers a stroke, Ben Hardin returns to his rural hometown to care for her and complete his most recent book. While home, his relationships with family and friends are strained and tested.
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Title: Elementary
Character: Ken Whitman
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: TV
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
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The Dollar General
Title: The Dollar General
Character: James Baldwin
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Theatre director Daniel Fish re-stages old talk show interviews and a scene from Sesame Street in an abandoned Ford dealership in Hudson, New York, over the course of a year as it is renovated into a Dollar General store.
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Years Later: The Unbelievable Truth and Its Consequences
Title: Years Later: The Unbelievable Truth and Its Consequences
Character: Himself
Released: November 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and process.
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Dream Boy
Title: Dream Boy
Character: Harland Davies
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
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South of Heaven
Title: South of Heaven
Character: Hood 2
Released: September 21, 2008
Type: Movie
A man returning from a tour of duty is mistaken for his brother by debt-collecting gangsters, while the brother goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with a loose-cannon convict.
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The Making of 'Fay Grim' or: How Do You Spell Espionage?
Title: The Making of 'Fay Grim' or: How Do You Spell Espionage?
Character: Himself
Released: May 22, 2007
Type: Movie
A short documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'
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Strange Culture
Title: Strange Culture
Character: Steve Kurtz
Released: February 9, 2007
Type: Movie
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, Hope, died of heart failure, paramedics arrived and became suspicious when they noticed petri dishes and other scientific equipment related to Kurtz's art in his home. They summoned the FBI, who detained Kurtz within hours on suspicion of bioterrorism.
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Fay Grim
Title: Fay Grim
Character: Henry Fool
Released: September 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe-trotting odyssey that soon leads to the discovery that he is alive, and his journals are more than they appear to be.
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The Attic
Title: The Attic
Character: Dr. Perry
Released: April 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Emma has a strong aversion towards her family’s new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously.
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The Dying Gaul
Title: The Dying Gaul
Released: January 20, 2005
Type: Movie
A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.
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The Pigs
Title: The Pigs
Character: Larry
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A group of middle-aged men want out of their marriages, so they hire an ex-mercenary to do the dirty work. Before long, everyone wants in on the action, and the wives of a sleepy coastal town find themselves on the endangered gender list.
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Tiger: His Fall & Rise
Title: Tiger: His Fall & Rise
Character: Joe Luck
Released: May 11, 2004
Type: Movie
A small rubber frog named Tiger becomes a major singing star overnight and has to cope with the trappings of stardom.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Character: Frank
Released: March 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
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The Cloud of Unknowing
Title: The Cloud of Unknowing
Released: May 10, 2002
Type: Movie
A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.
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New World Order
Title: New World Order
Character: Zeus
Released: January 13, 2002
Type: Movie
The diary of an occult novelist sends a young college student, on a journey into the paranormal and fantastic, evolving into a living nightmare of paranoia and terror.
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Teknolust
Title: Teknolust
Character: Preacher
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and Marine.
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Dischord
Title: Dischord
Character: Jimmy
Released: August 1, 2001
Type: Movie
On the brink of her world tour, at the height of her success, alternative rock violinist, Gypsy, put down her violin and walked away... A man brutally beats his girlfriend to death and tosses her remains into a local river... A retired Boston PD detective isn't buying the news report of a local girl accidentally drowning... While Gypsy's unprecedented disappearance perplexes the entire music industry, she retreats with her husband to the desolation of Cape Cod in winter... Seeking refuge in his past, the murderer contacts his estranged brother and falls in love with his brother's wife, Gypsy... And then a body turns up on Cape Cod... And the detective isn't convinced that this will be the last... Here, in the smallest quietest corner of New England unfolds a disquieting tale of what happens when music meets murder... and a lyrical portrait of the ever-present guardians who preserve life's natural harmony.
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
Title: The Legend of Bagger Vance
Character: Spec Hammond
Released: November 2, 2000
Type: Movie
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.
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The Book of Life
Title: The Book of Life
Character: Satan
Released: August 22, 1998
Type: Movie
The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdelina discuss and debate the end of the world, the opening of the seven seals, and the essence of being human.
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Henry Fool
Title: Henry Fool
Character: Henry Fool
Released: June 19, 1998
Type: Movie
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
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Degas and the Dancer
Title: Degas and the Dancer
Character: Edgar Degas
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A struggling Degas finds inspiration for his art in Marie, a young ballerina. Degas helps Marie tap into the talent she doesn't believe she has while she convinces Degas to persevere despite criticism from the art establishment. An artist and model, they become friends and find in each other what they need to follow their dreams.