Tom Gilroy

Tom Gilroy

Movies for Tom Gilroy...

Tom's Dilemma
Title: Tom's Dilemma
Character: Mr. Jacobson
Released: September 9, 2016
Type: Movie
After the molestation of his son, a father struggles with his need to seek revenge and the fear that feeds his inability to do so.
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Houses
Title: Houses
Released: October 31, 2015
Type: Movie
A director fumbles through a self-inspired play in an attempt to reclaim his creative integrity.
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The World Made Straight
Title: The World Made Straight
Character: Mr. Anderson
Released: January 9, 2015
Type: Movie
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
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The Cold Lands
Title: The Cold Lands
Character: Tom
Released: February 9, 2013
Type: Movie
After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drifter.
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Dream Boy
Title: Dream Boy
Character: Preacher John
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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The Blue Tooth Virgin
Title: The Blue Tooth Virgin
Character: Louis
Released: June 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: what happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn't good? Sam, an aspiring screenwriter, and David, a successful magazine editor, have been pals for years. When David doesn't appreciate Sam's latest attempt, it opens a fissure in their friendship, one that spreads through the rest of their lives. Ultimately, both men must reevaluate their motivations to write, their need for praise and validation, and what it means to see yourself as you actually are.
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Wild Tigers I Have Known
Title: Wild Tigers I Have Known
Character: The Principal
Released: July 12, 2006
Type: Movie
A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.
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Sweet Land
Title: Sweet Land
Character: Comrade Vik
Released: October 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
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Shooting Vegetarians
Title: Shooting Vegetarians
Character: Bailliff
Released: February 8, 2005
Type: Movie
Neil, a punk rock vegetarian, is being forced to go into the family butcher business. He decides to save the world instead.
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Everyday People
Title: Everyday People
Character: Erin's Professor
Released: January 18, 2004
Type: Movie
The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery
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Harry + Max
Title: Harry + Max
Character: Josiah
Released: January 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Harry is a 23-year-old former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max, 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry has detoured on his way to a Japanese concert tour to escort Max on a long-promised camping adventure. Their trip begins on a note of camaraderie but quickly turns serious as old wounds resurface, forcing them to come to terms with their dysfunctional past--Harry's drinking problems, his disconnection from the family, and, most of all, his relationship with Max and the emotional dependency that keeps them from moving into adulthood.
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Series 7: The Contenders
Title: Series 7: The Contenders
Character: Dawn's Cameraman
Released: January 20, 2001
Type: Movie
A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill each other in order to be the last person alive.
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Bread and Roses
Title: Bread and Roses
Character: Director of Campaigns
Released: May 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Cal Oman
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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On the Run
Title: On the Run
Character: Tom
Released: January 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
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Claire Dolan
Title: Claire Dolan
Character: Client #3/$1000 Trick
Released: November 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.
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Lulu on the Bridge
Title: Lulu on the Bridge
Character: Restaurant Man #1
Released: September 6, 1998
Type: Movie
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
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Title: Sex and the City
Character: Tom
Released: June 6, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 
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Spark
Title: Spark
Character: Jack
Released: January 16, 1998
Type: Movie
.An urban black couple (Terrence Howard, Nicole Parker) traveling via back roads from Chicago to LA has a car breakdown in a backwater town where everyone is white trailer trash and racial epithets are common graffiti. The film tries to examine the thoughts of the lower class that they get involved in and the loud mouth impetuosity of the black man which ultimately leads the couple into greater problems.
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Inside/Out
Title: Inside/Out
Character: David Sheppard
Released: September 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. We meet the artist Jean and his lover Monica, patients of the facility, and several characters circling its periphery: a guard, an Episcopalian priest, and a church organist. Minimalizing dialogue and plot intricacy, Tregenza concedes only kernels of information, demanding that the viewer breathe dimensionality into his archetypes. Acting out primal instincts of lust, envy, fear, and love, subjects teeter vulnerably on the brink of sanity and insanity, freedom and repression in their attempts to navigate their existence.
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Ratchet
Title: Ratchet
Character: Elliot Callahan
Released: September 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Having missed several deadlines, and with the studio's attorneys hassling him, screenwriter Elliot Callahan (Tom Gilroy) takes the advice of his agent and rents a beachside house on the island Nantucket to find the peace and quiet he needs to get the creative juices flowing. There he meets the seriously intense Henry Carver (Matthew Dixon), who's written a screenplay he wants Callahan to read. Before long, Callahan suspects that Henry might be a serial killer writing about himself and that his screenplay is worth plagiarizing.
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Girls Town
Title: Girls Town
Character: Richard Helms
Released: August 21, 1996
Type: Movie
The death of a friend galvanizes three high school young women to reassess their friendship and their lives.
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Land and Freedom
Title: Land and Freedom
Character: Lawrence
Released: April 7, 1995
Type: Movie
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
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Postcards from America
Title: Postcards from America
Character: Adult David's Friend
Released: September 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Inspired by the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz, "Postcards From America" chronicles the abuse the artist suffered as a child at the hands of his father and his subsequent running away to New York to become a street hustler.
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A Matter of Degrees
Title: A Matter of Degrees
Character: The Scuzz
Released: September 13, 1991
Type: Movie
Max can't face his yuppie future. Graduation's only weeks away and he's having second thoughts. Inspired by the campus radio station, he decides to get a little crazy.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Eric Johnson
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Arena Brains
Title: Arena Brains
Character: Artist
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s New York City, satirizing the neuroses and eccentricities of this milieu.