Jacob Vargas Filmography

Love Lies Bleeding

Actors: Christian Slater

Synopsis: Christian Slater comes back for another round of that old True Romance in this tale of two young lovers who set out on the lam after discovering a substantial cache of dirty money. Duke is a hapless Iraq War veteran who just can't seem to pull his life together after returning home. While his love Read More

Sleep Dealer

Actors: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: In a bleak future where the borders have been sealed, vast computer networks commodify memories, and corporate warriors have been militarized, a tech-savvy campesino from a small Santa Ana farm village discovers a mysterious transmission that seems to be a blueprint for the city of the Read More

The Wendell Baker Story

Actors: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Kris Kristofferson, Eva Mendes, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Owen, Luke, and Andrew Wilson combine their fraternal filmmaking talents to tell the character-driven tale of a small-time con man who gets a fortuitous shot at redemption while working in a run down retirement community. Wendell Baker (Luke Wilson) is a con man whose large heart betrays his Read More

The Hills Have Eyes 2

Actors: Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Daniella Alonso, Jacob Vargas, Flex Alexander

Synopsis: A naïve group of National Guard trainees embark on a routine training mission in the New Mexico desert, only to find themselves face to face with a murderous band of cannibalistic mutants in prolific music video director Martin Weisz's sequel to the successful 2006 remake. An isolated desert Read More

Bobby

Actors: Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Sharon Stone, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Twenty-two people become unwitting participants in a tragic and defining moment of the 1960's in this period drama from actor and director Emilio Estevez. It's early June in 1968, and the California presidential primary elections are occupying the minds of many in the Golden State, with Robert F. Read More

National Lampoon's TV: The Movie

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Steve-O, Jason "Wee Man" Acuna, Preston Lacy, Chris Pontius

Synopsis: In his 1961 speech to the National Association of Broadcasters Newton Minnow claimed that television had become a "vast wasteland," and with this comedy the warped folks at National Lampoon prove that Minnow's so-called "vast wasteland" has since been flooded by a festering cesspool of filth and Read More

Jarhead

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Brian Gberaghty, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: A young man gets a crash course in the madness of war in this fact-based drama from director Sam Mendes. Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) decides to join the Marines, just like his father and his father before him, and signs on just in time to be sent to Iraq to fight in the Gulf War in Read More

The Virgin of Juarez

Actors: Minnie Driver, Ana Claudia Talancón, Esai Morales, Angus MacFadyen, Jorge Ververa Jr., Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: The Virgin of Juarez stars Minnie Driver as a reporter investigating numerous deaths in the border town of the title. During the course of her work, she befriends a young woman named Mariela who claims to have survived a vicious attack by the assailant. Since the attack, she believes she has Read More

Flight of the Phoenix

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Elleston Trevor, director John Moore's The Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of a 1965 film of the same name starring film icon James Stewart. The story revolves around the plight of Captain Frank Towns (Dennis Quaid), a pilot whose C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers could Read More

Kingpin

Actors: Yancey Arias, Sheryl Lee, Bobby Cannavale, Brian Benben, Ruben Carbajal

Synopsis: Widely touted as NBC's answer to The Sopranos, the six-episode series Kingpin also drew heavily from the British mini-series Traffik. The nominal protagonist in this seamy, violent tale of a Mexican drug-trading family was Yancey Arias as Miguel Cadena, the Stanford-educated heir apparent to the Read More

Truth Be Told

Synopsis: The truth doesn't come easy, and when the truth involves the mob, the police, and the vengeful survivor of a gangland massacre, it comes screaming in a hail of bullets in this tough-as-nails crime drama from King's Ransom director Jeff Byrd. Left for dead by the mob and then used by police to draw Read More

The Good Girl

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly, Tim Blake Nelson, Zooey Deschanel

Synopsis: Director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White, who had previously collaborated on Chuck and Buck, turn an eye toward suburban boredom with the quirky comedy The Good Girl. Jennifer Aniston stars as Justine, a woman who is feeling constrained by her life. Her husband, Phil (John C. Reilly), is a Read More

Dragonfly

Actors: Linda Hunt, Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, Kevin Costner plays Joe Darrow, a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily (Susannah Thompson) in a bus accident in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe works extra shifts at the hospital to take his mind off the Read More

Road Dogz

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Clifton Collins, Jr., Greg Serano, Jacob Vargas, Priscilla Garita

Synopsis: Three lifelong friends from East L.A. reach significant turning points in their lives that challenge their unshakable loyalty to one another. Danny (Jacob Vargas) desires to impress his handicapped father by taking a difficult, low-paying job at a bakery; Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) turns to Read More

Greetings from Tucson [TV Series]

Actors: Julio Oscar Mechoso, Rebecca Creskoff, Pablo Santos, Lupe Ontiveros, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: Series creator Peter Murrieta based the weekly, half-hour sitcom Greetings From Tucson on his own experience growing up in a multicultural household. When he received a promotion on his job, Mexican-American patriarch Joaquin (Julio Oscar Mechoso) moved his family into a slightly more upscale Read More

RFK

Actors: Linus Roache, James Cromwell, David Paymer, Martin Donovan, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: The first biographical film produced by the FX cable channel, RFK covers the last five years in the life of Robert F. Kennedy, here played by British actor Linus Roache. The narrative begins in 1963, with the assassination of Bobby's brother, president John F. Kennedy (Martin Donovan). His Read More

Dr. Dolittle 2

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wilson, Jeffrey Jones, Kevin Pollak, Raven Symone

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy returns as a doctor with a gift for talking to animals in this sequel to a box-office blockbuster. Murphy is John Dolittle, who this time around attempts to save an endangered Pacific forest from lumber industry forces by reintegrating an endangered species of bear back into the wild. Read More

Come and Take it Day

Synopsis: Four blue collar Latino San Antonio restaurant workers become involved in a hunt for a mythical buried chest of silver coins with a startlingly tragic outcome. Jesse (Jesse Borrego), a dishwasher, is self-taught, intelligent, and very bitter; he's spent years putting together the pieces of the Read More

Traffic

Actors: Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Luis Guzman, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Erika Christensen

Synopsis: Described by director Steven Soderbergh as "Nashville meets The French Connection," this multi-character drama explores the effects of international drug trafficking on all fronts: from their source, to the U.S. border, to the federal government, to the private lives of users. Based upon a Read More

Next Friday

Actors: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Justin Pierce, John Witherspoon, Don "DC" Curry

Synopsis: In this sequel to the urban comedy Friday, rap music star Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a knack for getting into trouble. This time out, Craig is still trying to outsmart neighborhood bully Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.); after Craig gets Read More

Selena

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Rebecca Lee Meza, Jon Seda, Constance Marie, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: Selena Quintanilla was a major figure in Tejano music, a Grammy-winning recording artist, a beloved star in the American Southwest and Mexico, and seemed poised to cross over into mainstream popularity on the U.S. pop charts when she was murdered on March 31, 1995 by the president of her fan club. Read More

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Garofalo, Alan Cumming, Julia Campbell

Synopsis: Two dimwitted pals attempt to fib their way through their high school reunion with disastrous results in this bubbly comedy from David Mirkin, frequent director of the cult TV sitcom Get a Life!. Los Angeles dim-bulbs Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michelle (Lisa Kudrow) have been best friends since Read More

ER: A Miracle Happens Here

Synopsis: Christmas and Hanukkah are simultaneously acknowledged during the holiday season at the ER. The faith of Holocaust survivor Hannah Steiner (Joan Copeland) is sorely tested when she is injured in a carjacking and her baby granddaughter is apparently kidnapped; and a priest (Tony Plana) who has been Read More

Get Shorty

Actors: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to Read More

Crimson Tide

Actors: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Two leaders with different philosophies about battle and leadership wage war with each other in this tense military thriller. Capt. Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) is the commanding officer of a nuclear submarine, the U.S.S. Alabama. Ramsey is a distinguished veteran near the end of his career, and he Read More

My Family

Actors: Elpidia Carrillo, Jenny Gago, Esai Morales, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Jimmy Smits, Jacob Vargas, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Featuring Jennifer Lopez in her first major big-screen role, Gregory Nava's My Family traces three generations of the Sanchez's, a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. Beginning in the 1930s, the film outlines the struggles faced by Jose (Jacob Vargas) and Maria (Lopez) as a Read More

Huck and the King of Hearts

Actors: Graham Greene, John Astin, Chauncey Leopardi, Joe Piscopo

Synopsis: So many screenwriters have surreptitiously updated the works of Mark Twain with contemporary jargon and "political correctness", without saying they've done as much, that it's a bit refreshing to see an admitted, all-out updating of Twain. Scenarist Chrstopher Sturgeon has transplanted the Read More

Airborne

Actors: Shane Mc Dermott, Seth Green, Brittney Powell, Chris Conrad, Edie McClurg

Synopsis: The exciting world of rollerblading provides the basis of this tale of a young teen who tries to inspire the affection of a pretty girl with his skating prowess. The lad is 15-year-old Mitchell Goosen who is sent from sunny southern California to snowy Cincinnati to live with relatives while his Read More

Fatal Instinct

Actors: Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Fatal Instinct is an Airplane-style spoof of the late-'80s, early-'90s cycle of erotic crime thrillers. Setting the plot in motion is a kinky murder. Armand Assante plays the cop assigned to the case; he's also the prosecuting attorney; the "Sharon Stone" part is essayed by Sean Young. A dash of Body Heat Read More

My Crazy Life

Actors: Angel Aviles, Seidy Lopez, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: Neighborhood pride runs deep in Echo Park, so when two lifelong friends join the local gang as a matter of course, they're handed down gang names from the previous generation of homegirls. Unfortunately, Sad Girl (Angel Aviles) and Mousie (Seidy Lopez) don't remain friends for long. When Mousie Read More

Gas Food Lodging

Actors: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Richard Peck called Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Allison Anders' melodramatic coming-of-age tale Gas Food Lodging takes place in Laramie, NM, a small town right off the highway. Nora (Brooke Adams) is a truck-stop waitress who lives in a trailer park with her two teenaged Read More

American Me

Actors: Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Pepe Serna, Danny De La Paz, Evelina Fernandez

Synopsis: Edward J. Olmos made his directorial bow with the powerhouse crime saga American Me. Olmos stars as street-gang leader Santana, who during his 18 years in Folsom Prison rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending Read More

Full House: Educating Jesse

Synopsis: When DJ (Candace Cameron) and Kimmy (Andrea Barber) work together on a "Stay at School" campaign as class project, everyone in the Tanner household cooperates--everyone except Jesse. When confronted, Jesse (John Stamso) confesses that he himself dropped out of high school, leading to a momentous Read More

Steel Justice

Actors: Robert Taylor, Joan Chen, J.A. Preston

Synopsis: In this futuristic sci-fi fantasy, a police officer is assisted in stopping crime by a giant mechanical dinosaur. The great creature was transformed from a child's toy by an enigmatic time traveler. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Never Forget

Actors: Leonard Nimoy

Synopsis: In this fact-based made-for-cable docudrama, Leonard Nimoy stars as Mel Mermelstein, a Nazi death camp survivor who wages a court battle against the revisionist Institute for Historical Review over their claims that the Holocaust never occurred. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Seeds of Tragedy

Synopsis: Sarah Pillsbury and Midge Sanford, the producing team responsible for the theatrical-movie "sleeper" The River's Edge, were the mentors of the made-for-TV Seeds of Tragedy. Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, the story involves a single cache of cocaine, from creation to consumption. The coca Read More

Crack House

Actors: Jim Brown, Anthony Geary, Richard Roundtree, Cheryl Kay, Gregg Thomsen

Synopsis: A drama involving the world of inner-city drug dealing, Crack House concerns two students (Gregg Gomez Thomsen, Cheryl Kay) trying to attend school while living with the pressures of ghetto life. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Little Nikita

Actors: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins, Caroline Kava, Richard Bradford, Loretta Devine, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: Jeff Grant (River Phoenix) is a San Diego teen who discovers his father Richard (Richard Jenkins) and mother Elizabeth Grant) are KGB agents. When he applies to the Air Force Academy, a routine FBI check leads to the shocking news. Soon the suburb of Fountain Grove becomes the focus of Read More

The Principal

Actors: James Belushi, Louis Gossett, Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright, J.J. Cohen, Esai Morales

Synopsis: An impulsive but determined white principal brings order and respect to a predominantly African-American and Latino high school in this comedy-drama from the director of Young Guns and That Was Then, This Is Now. Rick Latimer (James Belushi), a high-school teacher, is in the process of a divorce Read More

Ernest Goes to Camp

Actors: Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, John Vernon, Iron Eyes Cody, Lyle Alzado

Synopsis: Ernest (Jim Varney) gets a job as a fix-it man at a summer camp for troubled boys, but what he really wants to be is a counselor. This juvenile comedy, filled with potty humor and slapstick, chronicles his campaign to get a promotion. A consummate bungler, he ends up causing all kinds of comical Read More

The Last Resort

Actors: Charles Grodin, Robin Pearson Rose, John Ashton, Ellen Blake, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: George Lollar (Charles Grodin) overrides his wife's judgment and takes his family for a vacation on a sunny Caribbean island that just happens to be on the verge of a revolution. Their hotel is not the usual Hilton on the beach but a pick-up joint for singles where the main activities are sex Read More

The B.R.A.T. Patrol

Actors: Sean Astin, Brian Keith

Synopsis: The acronymic B.R.A.T. Patrol originally aired as a 2-hour entry on The Disney Sunday Movie. The appropriately named title characters are the children of a group of Marine non-coms. Running roughshod around a UMC base, the "patrol's" reputation is so bad that no one believes the kids' story Read More

The Children of Times Square

Actors: Joanna Cassidy, Brandon Douglas, Danny Nucci

Synopsis: The Children of Times Square are alienated and disenfranchised kids from all over the country. With nowhere to go and no real purpose in life, they converge on the streets of New York, totally vulnerable despite their outward toughness. Howard Rollins plays a ruthless cocaine dealer who, in the Read More

Hunter: Fagin 1986

Synopsis: After a teenager is killed in a robbery, Hunter (Fred Dryer) discovers that the kid was working for his old enemy Hector "El Gallo" Rivas (Trinidad Silvas). Determined to circumvent the law, El Gallo has assembled a gang of teens who are too young to prosecute as adults to do his dirty work. Read More