Henry Jaglom Filmography

Hollywood Dreams

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Tanna Frederick, Justin Kirk, Zack Norman, David Proval, Karen Black

Synopsis: When an aspiring young starlet from Iowa falls in love with a handsome and promising young actor, she finds her dreams of fame slowly fading in a poignant tale of show-business aspirations from director Henry Jaglom. Upon arriving in Los Angeles to seek her fortune on film and stage, an innocent Read More

Edge of Outside

Synopsis: A documentary produced for the Turner Classic Movies cable station, Edge of Outside surveys the careers of various filmmakers who have attempted to bring their uncompromised visions to the screen. Interspersing clips of classic films, the filmmakers take a look at the careers of such famous Read More

Searching for Orson

Actors: Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Oja Kodar

Synopsis: Croatian father-and-son filmmakers Jakov and Dominik Sedlar explore the genius of Citizen Kane director Orson Welles through the examination of lost footage from unfinished projects and interviews with the friends, family, and colleagues who knew him best in this documentary, which delves deeper Read More

Going Shopping

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Victoria Foyt, Rob Morrow, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Director Henry Jaglom once again casts his quirky gaze on a common female obsession in this comedy drama. Holly (Victoria Foyt) owns a small and upscale boutique in Santa Monica, and has just learned that her accountant and significant other, Adam (Bruce Davison), has betrayed her -- even worse Read More

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Synopsis: The Z Channel wasn't America's first premium cable outlet specializing in feature films, and it wasn't the most commercially successful, but few, if any, had as strong an impact on the film industry or a more influential list of customers. Based in California and blanketing sections of the state Read More

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Actors: Dede Allen, Peter Bart, Andrew Cohen, Tony Bill, Karen Black

Synopsis: Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable onscreen. Influenced by such European Read More

Festival In Cannes

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Jenny Gabrielle, Greta Scacchi, Kim Kolarich, Rachel Bailit, Zack Norman

Synopsis: The romance, intrigue, and industry politics of the world's biggest film festival -- which is also the world's biggest film marketplace -- provides the backdrop for this typically understated comedy-drama from director Henry Jaglom. Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) is a well-known American actress who Read More

Deja Vu

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Stephen Dillane, Victoria Foyt, Vanessa Redgrave, Glynis Barber, Michael Brandon

Synopsis: Los Angeles store owner Dana (Victoria Foyt) is shopping in Israel where a meeting with a mysterious woman leads her to Paris and the White Cliffs of Dover, an appropriate spot to fall in love with English painter Sean (Stephen Dillane) who is married. Soon, however, Dana is off to London to Read More

Who is Henry Jaglom?

Synopsis: Henry Jaglom is a filmmaker who was a pioneer of the independent film movement long before it had a name. Jaglom began his Hollywood career in the mid-Sixties as an actor, but in 1971 he wrote and directed his first feature film, A Safe Place, which starred his friends Orson Welles and Jack Read More

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Brooke Smith, Victoria Foyt, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Robin Baitz, Melissa Leo, Martha Plimpton

Synopsis: A legendary theatrical family gather for one final show at their East Hamptons estate in this verbose comedy-drama. Swedish actress Viveca Lindfors takes center stage as Helena, the family matriarch, who has made the difficult decision to sell the estate due to financial problems. A mixed group Read More

Babyfever

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Victoria Foyt, Matt Salinger, Dinah Lenney, Eric Roberts, Frances Fisher

Synopsis: In this semi-improvised comic drama from maverick filmmaker Henry Jaglom, Gena (Victoria Foyt) is a businesswoman starting to creep into middle age. She thinks she might be pregnant, and she isn't sure how she feels about it: she wants to have children, and her body's clock is starting to tick Read More

Venice / Venice

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Nelly Alard, Henry Jaglom, Suzanne Bertish, Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, Melissa Leo

Synopsis: For sheer abject self-indulgence this side of an Eric Schaeffer movie, one need look no further than the films of Henry Jaglom. Jaglom's vanity productions require an intense Stalin-like loyalty to the filmmaker and his films going in, otherwise a viewer is lost. So when, in Venice/Venice, Henry Jaglom Read More

Little Noises

Crew: Producer

Actors: Crispin Glover, Steven Schub, Tatum O'Neal, Rik Mayall

Synopsis: Joey (Crispin Glover) thinks he's a writer, even though he's never written (or published) anything. He has advertised this "fact" to everyone he knows, but particularly to himself. He has an acquaintance, Marty (Matthew Hutton), who is mute but who writes like a dream. Of course, people try to Read More

Eating

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Lisa Richards, Mary Crosby, Gwen Welles, Nelly Alard, Frances Bergen

Synopsis: The title of Henry Jaglom's stream-of-consciousness Eating says it all. Three women (Lisa Blake Richards, Mary Crosby and Marlena Giovi), each celebrating a "milestone" birthday, decide to throw a joint party. Attending the revelries is French documentary filmmaker Martine Nely Alard, who becomes Read More

New Year's Day

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maggie Jakobson, Gwen Welles, Melanie Winter, Henry Jaglom, Milos Forman, David Duchovny

Synopsis: Filmmaker Henry Jaglom plays the leading male role in his characteristically gabby New Year's Day. Jaglom is a writer who insists upon asking disturbing and intrusive questions to the revellers at a New Year's Eve party. His inclusion in the story is explained by having him sublet a California Read More

Someone to Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Orson Welles, Henry Jaglom, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Emil, Sally Kellerman

Synopsis: Orson Welles made his final screen appearance as, appropriately enough, Orson Welles (or "Danny's Friend") in Henry Jaglom's "emotional vérité" comedy Someone to Love. The film begins as filmmaker Danny (Henry Jaglom) prepares to spend the night at his girlfriend Helen (Andrea Marcovicci)'s Read More

Always

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

Actors: Patrice Townsend, Henry Jaglom, Joanna Frank, Alan Rachins, Melissa Leo

Synopsis: Henry Jaglom, the best professional "home movie" maker in the business, produced, directed, wrote and starred in Always. Also appearing is Jaglom's ex-wife Patrice Townsend, here cast as...his ex-wife. Showing up one night at Jaglom's home to finalize the divorce decree, Townsend is persuaded to Read More

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Karen Black, Michael Emil, Michael Margotta, Frances Fisher

Synopsis: After a man (Michael Emil) and a woman (Karen Black) meet and begin to become romantically involved, his confirmed bachelorhood and her post-divorce trauma start to clash. As their interactions become more complex, and they move from one scenario to the next, they begin to learn more about one Read More

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Riegert, Diane Lane, Candy Clark, Teresa Ganzel, Anne Dusenberry

Synopsis: Originally divided into four segments and now cut to three, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies is a story about a man who is determined to get in touch with himself and sends his wife away so she can do the same thing. The next tale features a female business magnate who wreaks appropriate Read More

Sitting Ducks

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Emil, Zack Norman, Patrice Townsend, Richard Romanus, Irene Forrest

Synopsis: In this enjoyable comedy, an outlandish heist of mobster money, taken by Simon (Michael Emil) the syndicate's bookkeeper, provides the momentum that starts the action. The brash Simon and his undermotivated cohort Sidney (Zack Norman) are in a wild ride down the East Coast to catch a plane to Read More

Tracks

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power, Dean Stockwell, Topo Swope, Michael Emil

Synopsis: Henry Jaglom directed this moody meditation on the Vietnam War and one of its disturbed veterans. Dennis Hopper stars a sergeant who travels across the United States with the body of a fallen comrade, on a train to his friend's final burial place. As the train wends its way across the United Read More

Drive, He Said

Actors: William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, Robert Towne

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson first put his well-documented enthusiasm for basketball to good use in this film, which he wrote and directed between his roles in Five Easy Pieces and Carnal Knowledge. William Tepper plays Hector, a student at a college in Ohio who shares a room with his friend Gabriel (Michael Margotta Read More

The Last Movie

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Samuel Fuller, Peter Fonda, Julie Adams

Synopsis: With a barrage of cinematic distancing devices at hand (flashbacks and flash-forwards, super-imposed titles, missing frames, projectionist cue-marks placed in the wrong locations in a film reel), Dennis Hopper concocts a hallucinatory acid-trip concerning an American movie company making a western Read More

A Safe Place

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Rhonda Alfaro, Sylvia Zapp, Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Philip Proctor, Gwen Welles

Synopsis: A Safe Place, writer/director Henry Jaglom's feature film debut, is a time-fractured, hallucinatory fantasy, featuring Tuesday Weld as a lonely and confused woman named, at times, Susan and at other times Noah, who comments that "Tomorrow is where the past is." Too delicately ethereal to cope with Read More

The Thousand Plane Raid

Actors: Christopher George, Laraine Stephens, J.D. Cannon, Michael Evans

Synopsis: Colonel Greg Brandon (Christopher George) is the commander of a B-17 fighter unit. His plan to send 1000 planes to bomb a strategic German airplane factory meets with continual rejection by everyone except General Palmer (J.D. Cannon). The tough-guy Colonel alienates himself to his men and Read More

Psych-Out

Actors: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke

Synopsis: Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney has seen in his various attempts to start a rock & roll band. Stoney and his pals transform the square Read More

The Flying Nun: The Dig In

Synopsis: Future film director Henry Jaglom (Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, Venice/Venice etc.) teams with future Oscar winner Sally Field in this episode of The Flying Nun. A mine cave-in has trapped Sr. Bertrille with escaped convict and self-avowed born loser Bill Watkins (Jaglom). All but oblivious to her Read More

Gidget: All the Best Diseases Are Taken

Synopsis: Gidget (Sally Field) is outraged when the local movie theater raises its prices for teenagers. Organizing a protest against this egregious example of capitalism run amok, Gidge enlists the aid of some folk singers to plead her cause. Heading the singers is one Billy Ray Soumes, played by future Read More