Joshua LeonardFilmography

Occupation:
Actor
Biography:
Joshua Leonard melded his prior indie film experience on- and off-camera and achieved unexpected fame in the low-budget horror blockbuster The Blair Witch Project (1999). After doing theater as a child, Leonard worked in production, as well as acting, in independent and experimental films in New...Read More
  • 2010
  • Humpday

    Crew: Screenplay Consultant

    Actors: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton, Trina Willard

    Synopsis: My Effortless Brilliance writer/director Lynn Shelton takes the topic of male bonding to new extremes with this comedy about two best friends who make an unusual pact that both may soon come to regret. Back in college, Andrew and Ben were inseparable. Years later, Andrew comes knocking on Ben's Read More

    7/10/09
  • Beautiful Losers

    Crew: Co-Director

    Synopsis: Filmmaker Aaron Rose celebrates the independent spirit of D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) culture in this documentary detailing how a group of like-minded American artists emerged from the underground in the early 1990s to have an enormous impact on the worlds of fashion, film, art, music, and pop culture Read More

    8/8/08
  • Quid Pro Quo

    Actors: Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Pitts, Aimee Mullins, Jeane Fournier

    Synopsis: A man who can't walk meets a woman who envies his condition in this offbeat black comedy. Isaac Knott (Nick Stahl) lost the use of his legs when he was eight years old in an auto accident that also claimed the lives of his parents. Despite being confined to a wheelchair, Isaac has enjoyed a Read More

    6/13/08
  • Prom Night

    Actors: Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup, Dana Davis, Collins Pennie

    Synopsis: One of the most notorious slasher films of the 1980s returns to terrorize filmgoers with this blood-soaked remake that proves just how horrifying high school dances can truly be. Donna Keppel (Brittany Snow) has survived a terrible tragedy, but now the time has come to leave the past behind and Read More

    4/11/08
  • 20 Years After

    Actors: Azura Skye, Joshua Leonard, Nathan Baesel, Reg E. Cathey, Diane Salinger

    Synopsis: A woman (Azura Skye) becomes pregnant with the first child of the post-nuclear apocalypse era in director Jim Torres' feature adaptation of a 1987 play by Ron Harris. Desperate to provide a better life for her unborn child, the expectant mother joins a band of survivors two decades after the Read More

    2008
  • Mala Wielka Milosc

    Actors: Joshua Leonard, Agnieszka Grochowska

    Synopsis: A successful Los Angeles lawyer discovers that a short-term affair could have long-term consequences when a woman he had a brief affair with claims that she's currently pregnant with his unborn child. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

    2008
  • Hatchet

    Actors: Joel David Moore, Tamara Feldman, Deon Richmond, Mercedes McNab, Joleigh Fioreavanti

    Synopsis: A handful of college students looking for a good time are thrown into a world of danger in this homage to the slasher film cycle of the 1970s and '80s. Ben (Joel David Moore) has just been given his walking papers by his girlfriend and is deeply depressed. Needing a pick-me-up, Ben and his friend Read More

    9/7/07
  • Country Remedy

    Actors: Cameron Bancroft, Bellamy Young, Aidan Mitchell, Joshua Leonard, Amber Benson

    Synopsis: The warm-hearted drama Country Remedy concerns an ambitious doctor who must leave the familiar environs of the city in order to tend to a clinic in a rural North Carolina town. While there, he learns that he has been concentrating on the wrong elements in his life. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

    2007
  • The Shaggy Dog

    Actors: Tim Allen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Spencer Breslin

    Synopsis: An unexpected transformation helps a workaholic attorney learn that there's more to life than the courtroom in this remake of the 1959 Disney canine classic of the same name. Deputy District Attorney Dave Douglas (Tim Allen) takes his job in the halls of justice very seriously -- so seriously in Read More

    3/10/06
  • Shooting Livien

    Actors: Jason Behr, Dominic Monaghan, Joshua Leonard, Sarah Wynter, Ally Sheedy

    Synopsis: An aspiring musician on the brink of stardom attempts to do battle with his personal demons before they finally get the best of him in an emotional musical drama from filmmaker Rebecca Cook. John Livien (Jason Behr) is a struggling New York City rocker who, along with band-mates Owen (Dominic Monaghan Read More

    2004
  • Madhouse

    Synopsis: A deadly form of madness has taken over Cunningham Mental Hospital, and it's not just the patients whose sanity is slipping in this dark thriller from director William Butler. Cunningham is infamous for housing some of society's most dangerously psychotic criminals, and when a staff nurse is Read More

    2004
  • Scorched

    Actors: Rachael Leigh Cook

    Synopsis: A handful of disgruntled bank employees decide to stage a robbery, but with no plans of doing it together, in this comedy. Sheila (Alicia Silverstone) is a teller at a small town bank who reaches her breaking point when her boyfriend, Rick Becker (Joshua Leonard), who also happens to be her boss Read More

    7/25/03
  • 2 Days

    Actors: Paul Rudd, Donal Logue, MacKenzie Astin, Joshua Leonard

    Synopsis: A struggling actor decides to quit the business in the most permanent way possible in this dark comedy drama starring Paul Rudd, Donal Logue, and Mackenzie Astin. Dismayed at his lack of success onscreen and depressed by his lackluster personal life, actor Paul Miller (Rudd) announces that in two Read More

    2003
  • Deuces Wild

    Actors: Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk, Norman Reedus, Max Perlich

    Synopsis: This gang warfare drama is from director Scott Kalvert, whose previous film was the controversial and violent The Basketball Diaries (1995). In the sweltering summer of 1958, Leon (Stephen Dorff) and Bobby (Brad Renfro) are leaders of the Brooklyn street gang known as the Deuces. When their Read More

    5/3/02
  • Hellion

    Synopsis: A formerly remote house and shed used for bloody satanic rituals involving children is now in the middle of a burgeoning Australian suburb. The long-abandoned house is bought by Lynn (Belinda McClory), an unsuspecting American, who moves into it with her teenaged son Danny (Joshua Leonard) and her Read More

    2002
  • Live From Baghdad

    Actors: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Lili Taylor, Joshua Leonard, David Suchet

    Synopsis: As America geared itself for another possible armed conflict in Iraq, the HBO cable service offered a dramatization of events surrounding the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Originally telecast on December 8, 2002, Live From Baghdad recounted the efforts by the CNN network to be first on the scene when Read More

    2002
  • Things Behind the Sun

    Actors: Kim Dickens, Gabriel Mann, Don Cheadle, Eric Stoltz, Elizabeth Peña

    Synopsis: Writer and director Allison Anders, who used the world of rock & roll as the backdrop for her films Border Radio, Grace of My Heart, and Sugar Mountain, returns to the music scene for this tale of a woman struggling to come to terms with an emotionally devastating past. Sherry McGrale (Kim Read More

    10/12/01
  • Cubbyhouse

    Actors: Joshua Leonard, Belinda McClory, Jerome Ehlers, Lauren Hewett

    Synopsis: Actor-turned-director Murray Fahey set this haunted house horror flick in the suburbs of Australia. The film opens with brash American Lynn Graham (Belinda McClory) moving into her new suburban dream home with her three kids, including teenaged Danny (Joshua Leonard). Unfortunately, the house Read More

    2001
  • Larceny

    Actors: Audrey Marie Anderson, Robert Bagnell, Tyra Banks

    Synopsis: The Blair Witch Project's Joshua Leonard stars in this offbeat independent comedy, the sophomore directorial effort from filmmaker Irving Schwartz. Leonard plays Nick, a mild-mannered guy who finds himself thrust into a madcap cross-country adventure after a case of mistaken identity. Along the Read More

    2001
  • Men of Honor

    Actors: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis, Hal Holbrook

    Synopsis: This military drama is based on the true story of Carl Brashear, who was the first African-American to serve as a diver in the United States Navy. Brashear (played by Cuba Gooding Jr.) was born to a poor farming family in the deep South, and joined the Navy in hopes of bettering himself. When Read More

    11/10/00
  • In The Weeds

    Actors: Joshua Leonard, Molly Ringwald

    Synopsis: At a restaurant located somewhere in midtown New York, waiters, waitresses, cooks, a struggling playwright, and one exceptionally nasty restaurant owner serve up lavish helpings of food and mordant comedy. Among the players is a narcissistic would-be screen idol (Michael Buchman Silver), a naive Read More

    2000
  • Mission

    Actors: Chris Coburn, Joshua Leonard, Sandrine Holt, Evan Arnold

    Synopsis: When an aspiring East Coast writer becomes enamored with the pulsating energy of San Francisco's Mission District, a special friendship helps him through difficult times in this coming-of-age tale from independent filmmaker Loren Marsh. Though the West Coast lifestyle is taking a bit of getting Read More

    2000
  • The Blair Witch Project

    Actors: Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard

    Synopsis: Combining Hi-8 video with black-and-white 16 mm film, this film presents a raw look at what can happen when college students forego common sense and enter the world of voodoo and witchcraft. Presented as a straightforward documentary, the film opens with a title card explaining that in 1994, three Read More

    7/16/99
  • Sacrifice

    Actors: Michael Madsen, Bokeem Woodbine

    Synopsis: A serial killer with a singularly nasty penchant for peculiar mutilations makes a mistake when his next victim is the daughter of Tyler Pierce $Michael Madsen), a career bank robber who does not let a little thing like being in prison stop him from finding out who the killer is. Pierce escapes Read More

    1999

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