Jake Busey Filmography

Broken

Actors: Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto, Randall Batinkoff, Jake Busey, Michael A. Goorjian

Synopsis: A waitress looking to make good on a series of bad life choices finds her noble quest for redemption stifled when a deeply disturbed ex-boyfriend comes looking to win her back in a dark psychological drama from director Alan White. Hope (Heather Graham) has traveled quite a few darkened roadways Read More

Time Bomb

Actors: Jake Busey, David Haydn-Jones, Daniel Cook

Synopsis: An Iraq War veteran finds his ability to discern reality from fantasy quickly slipping as he attempts to uncover a clandestine military operation designed to create the ultimate suicide bomber. Jason (Jake Busey) was just a young father when he lost his son in a tragic automobile explosion. These Read More

Road House 2

Actors: Johnathon Schaech, Jake Busey, Will Patton

Synopsis: A group of malicious drug runners are attempting to take over the Black Pelican roadhouse, and it's up to the owner's nephew to beat down the bad guys and keep the club in the family in director Scott Ziehl's sequel to the 1989 Patrick Swayze cult classic. When undercover DEA agent Shane (Johnathon Schaech Read More

Death Row

Synopsis: A crew of documentary filmmakers exploring an abandoned prison which was shut down in the wake of a deadly riot discovers that sometimes the horrors of the past have a way of bleeding into the present. It was years ago when the inmates at Isla del Roca penitentiary rose up against the guards in a Read More

H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds

Actors: C. Thomas Howell

The Rain Makers

Actors: David Andrews, Jake Busey, Richard Hatch, Ray Wise, Louis Herthum

Synopsis: When Special Forces soldier Johnny Wing Foot returned from the Vietnam War, he thought he had seen the last of meaningless bloodshed. His dream of a peaceful, post-war life in the desert soon shattered by warring factions and a crooked sheriff's department, Johnny is forced to take up arms once Read More

Codebreakers

Actors: Scott Glenn, Zachery Ty Bryan, Jeff Roop, Corey Sevier, Jude Ciccolella

Synopsis: Produced for cable's ESPN network, Codebreakers dramatizes a real-life cheating scandal that rocked the foundations of West Point in 1951. Cadet Brian Nolan (Zachery Ty Bryan) is the roommate of varsity football players George Holbrook (Jeff Roop) and Bob Blaik (Corey Sevier), the latter being the Read More

Christmas With the Kranks

Actors: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Erik Per Sullivan, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: Based on John Grisham's novel Skipping Christmas, Christmas With the Kranks revolves around Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther Krank's (Tim Allen) decision to put their normally fanatical enthusiasm for the holidays aside for a tropical cruise. With their daughter in Peru with the Peace Corps, the Read More

Overnight

Synopsis: The megalomaniacal rise and fall of filmmaker Troy Duffy is chronicled by one-time friends and colleagues in director Mark Smith's documentary. The film takes its title from the "overnight success" that befell Duffy in 1996, when the then-bartender was signed by Miramax president Harvey Weinstein Read More

Charmed: Witchstock

Actors: Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, Drew Fuller, Jennifer Rhodes, Kara Zediker

Synopsis: Paige (Rose McGowan) is transported back to 1969, at the height of the "flower power" era. Here she finds that the younger version of Penny "Grams" Halliwell (Jennifer Rhodes) is an oh-wow hippie (Kara Zediker) who hopes to use the power of love to expunge the world of evil -- and hang the Read More

Identity

Actors: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: Ten strangers are brought together during a weather emergency, only to discover a far greater danger awaits them in this suspense-drama. A sudden rainstorm in a remote desert town strands a disparate variety of people at a rundown motel. A convict sentenced to death, Malcolm Rivers (Pruitt Taylor Vince Read More

The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Kari Wuhrer, Jake Busey

Synopsis: It's been over 15 years since Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) was terrorized by psychotic hitchhiker John Ryder (the always-evil Rutger Hauer) in Eric Red's low-budget gem The Hitcher. After blowing away the psychopath, Jim turned to the law and eventually settled down with Maggie (Kari Wuhrer), a Read More

Lost Junction

Actors: Neve Campbell, Billy Burke, Jake Busey, Charles Powell, Michel Perron

Synopsis: Peter Masterson's Lost Junction stars Billy Burke as Jimmy McGee, a hitchhiker who becomes involved with Missy Lofton (Neve Campbell) after she offers him a ride. He discovers that her husband's dead body is also along for the ride in the trunk. Jimmy has fallen for Missy and helps her get rid of Read More

The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest

Actors: Adam Garcia, Rosario Dawson, Jake Busey, Enrico Colantoni, Ethan Suplee

Synopsis: Hotshot marketing executive Andy Caspar (Adam Garcia) gives up his steady job to join a high-tech research and development center where he's teamed with three misfits, including socially-unacceptable Darrell (Jake Busey), to create a far-fetched and highly unlikely product -- a 99-dollar desktop Read More

Tomcats

Actors: Jerry O'Connell, Shannon Elizabeth, Jake Busey, Horatio Sanz, Jaime Pressly

Synopsis: This romantic comedy in the vein of There's Something About Mary and American Pie concerns the story of Michael Delaney (Jerry O'Connell), a struggling cartoonist who makes a bet with seven buddies over who will be the last to marry. Several years later, the pot has boiled down to two: Michael Read More

Fast Sofa

Actors: Jake Busey, Crispin Glover, Jennifer Tilly, Natasha Lyonne, Adam Goldberg

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Bruce Craven, this road picture follows a dope fiend named Rick (Jake Busey), who believes his goal in life is to track down Ginger (Jennifer Tilly), a famous porn star who is currently staying in her Beverly Hills hideaway. Rick is obsessed with Ginger, watches her movies Read More

Held Up

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Nia Long, Barry Corbin, Eduardo Yañez, John Cullum, Jake Busey

Synopsis: In this fish-out-of-water comedy, Jamie Foxx plays a man named Michael Dawson, though he's confused for both Puff Daddy and Mike Tyson by the citizenry of the podunk southwest town that serves as the setting for Held Up. Road-tripping Michael and Rae (Nia Long) stop in for gas in Michael's new Read More

Shasta NcNasty [TV Series]

Actors: Carmine Giovinazzo, Jake Busey, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Tail Lights Fade

Actors: Denise Richards, Breckin Meyer, Jake Busey, Tanya Allen, Elizabeth Berkley

Synopsis: Fast cars, quarreling lovers, two-faced drug dealers, and a house full of marijuana collide head-on in this comic road movie. Cole (Breckin Meyer) and Bruce (Jake Busey) run an auto repair shop for vintage cars; the shop is steadily losing money, thanks to Bruce's refusal to work on cars he Read More

Home Fries

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson, Catherine O'Hara, Jake Busey, Shelley Duvall

Synopsis: Dean Parisot, who won a live-action short Oscar, made his feature directorial debut with this black comedy from a producer team that included Barry Levinson and Lawrence Kasdan. A philandering stepdad is the victim of vengeful Mrs. Lever (Catherine O'Hara), who sends her sons out to scare him to Read More

Enemy of the State

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King

Synopsis: The action producing-directing team of Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott is back with another thrill-a-minute ride called Enemy of the State. Taking its "innocent man accidentally caught up in political corruption" story from such films as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, Alfred Hitchcock's Read More

Black Cat Run

Actors: Patrick Muldoon, Peter Greene, Russell Means, Kevin J. O'Connor, Amelia Heinle

Synopsis: In this thriller, a young man finds himself accused of abducting his own girlfriend and holding her for ransom. Meanwhile, his lover is in grave danger from her murderous captor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Contact

Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the Read More

Starship Troopers

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Director Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Total Recall) reunited many from his 1987 Robocop team for this $100-million science fiction adventure, adapted from Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October-November, 1959). After Read More

Twister

Actors: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt and Carey Elwes may be billed as the stars of Twister, but the film's real attractions are the cyclones themselves. Best experienced in a theater, the nail-biting, blow-the-audience-out-of-their-seats computer generated graphics, cutting edge sound and other special effects Read More

The Frighteners

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Read More

PCU

Actors: Jeremy Piven, Chris Young, Jon Favreau, David Spade, Sarah Trigger

Synopsis: Is it possible to be politically correct and unified? Find out in this satire set on a fictional eastern university. Port Chester University espouses pc thinking. From the Womynists to the Republicans, everyone there is involved in a cause; many of them are militant. So involved are they, that Read More

S.F.W.

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Busey, Joey Lauren Adams, Pam Gidley

Synopsis: Embracing the supposed nihilism and cynicism of the "slacker" generation, S.F.W. (1995) caused nary a blip on the media-saturated cultural radar screen that it criticized. Stephen Dorff stars as Cliff Spab, an aimless, hard-drinking youth. Spab becomes a national hero when he is one of several Read More

The Stoned Age

Actors: Michael Kopelow, Bradford Tatum, China Kantner, Renee Griffin, David Groh

Synopsis: Though it was also released as Tack's Chicks, The Stoned Age is a more accurate summation of this engagingly sloppy "head" movie. The protagonists are Joe (Michael Kopelow) and Hubbs (Bradford Tatum), who are obsessed with an unending quest for beautiful girls and nonstop sex. In the course of a Read More

I'll Do Anything

Actors: Nick Nolte, Whittni Wright, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Joely Richardson, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: James L. Brooks' showbiz comedy I'll Do Anything is "The Musical That Almost Was" (after test screenings Brooks removed all the musical numbers in the film, turning the film into a songless romantic comedy). Matt Hobbs (Nick Nolte) is a hardly working actor who finds himself raising his 6-year-old Read More

Windrunner

Actors: Russell Means, Jason Wiles, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: Margot Kidder and Russell Means star in this drama about a young man whose father is convicted of a serious crime and sent to prison. His family moves to be closer to where their father is incarcerated, but the teen quickly discovers that people look down on him because of his father's legal Read More

Motorcycle Gang

Actors: Gerald McRaney

Synopsis: A retired soldier (Gerald McRaney) is driving his family from Texas to California. As they cross the desert, they are terrorized by a gang of heroin-dealing bikers who kidnap his teenage daughter and take her across the Mexican border. He follows them to their hideout and devises a plan to rescue Read More

Shimmer

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt, Tom Bower

Synopsis: Spacy Callahan (Markus Klemp) has two problems. In the first place, he's a young teen, which is difficult enough. In the second place, he has been placed "for his own good" in an Iowa juvenile facility which has more than a passing resemblance to a military prison. If a boy breaks one of the Read More

Hider in the House

Actors: Gary Busey, Mimi Rogers, Michael McKean, Kurt Christopher Kinder, Elizabeth Ruscio, Candy Hutson

Synopsis: Hider in the House is a well-made and produced but ultimately unsatisfying and formulaic slasher thriller. Tom (Gary Busey) was an abused child who learned to avoid the abuse by hiding under sinks, in closets or anywhere he could be out of sight. After spending 10 years in a mental institution for Read More

Barbarosa

Actors: Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega, Gilbert Roland, Danny De La Paz

Synopsis: Barbarosa is a western starring the unlikely screen team of Willie Nelson and Gary Busey. Nelson is an outlaw, Busey his country-bumpkin buddy. They decide to ride together, since both are on the run from separate family feuds. Directed by Australian filmmaker Fred Schepisi, the screenplay for Read More