Thomas Jay Ryan Filmography

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Strange Culture

Actors: Peter Coyote, Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Josh Kornbluth, Steve Kurtz

Synopsis: Filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson examines a strange miscarriage of justice amplified by post-9/11 hysteria in this imaginative fusion of documentary and docu-drama. Steve Kurtz is an artist and political activist who was an associate professor at State University of New York's Buffalo campus and a Read More

10/5/07
Fay Grim

Actors: Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, James Urbaniak, Saffron Burrows, Liam Aiken

Synopsis: A single mother from Queens becomes unwittingly embroiled in international espionage indirector Hal Hartley's sequel to the critically acclaimed Henry Fool. Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is determined to raise her 14-year-old son Ned (Liam Aiken) so he won't be like his father Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan) Read More

5/18/07
The Attic

Actors: Jason Lewis, John Savage, Catherine Stewart, Thomas Jay Ryan, Elisabeth Moss, Tom Malloy

Synopsis: John Savage and Mary Catherine Stewart star in Pet Sematary director Mary Lambert's foreboding tale of a mysterious Victorian home, and one particularly vengeful doppelganger. Shortly after moving into a sprawling Victorian home with her controlling father (Savage) and former beauty-queen mother Read More

2007
The Dying Gaul

Actors: Patricia Clarkson, Campbell Scott, Peter Sarsgaard, Robin Bartlett, Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Synopsis: An artist who compromises his work for money finds his heart and soul are also being toyed with by his new patrons in this drama. Robert (Peter Sarsgaard) is a playwright who has recently lost his longtime lover and business partner, Malcolm (Bill Camp), to AIDS-related illnesses. Robert has Read More

11/4/05
The Pigs

Actors: Thomas Jay Ryan, Robert Longstreet, Kirk Wilson, Chris Crockett, Traci Dinwiddie

Synopsis: When a group pf unhappily married men decide to skip the divorce proceedings and instead hire a ruthless ex-mercenary to terminate their nuptials, the female population of a quiet coastal town must band together and fight for their lives in order to avoid being rendered extinct. ~ Jason Buchanan Read More

2005
The Cloud of Unknowing

Actors: Miho Nikaido, D.J. Mendel, Lisa Walter, Thomas Jay Ryan

Synopsis: In Richard Sylvarnes' debut feature as writer, director, cinematographer, and editor, a beautiful Japanese woman (Miho Nikaido) is found wandering the streets in a daze. She's brought to a hospital where a young doctor, Dr. John Bennett (D.J. Mendel), haunted by a past tragedy, discovers a Read More

9/29/04
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Actors: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood

Synopsis: The second feature from director Michel Gondry (Human Nature) finds the filmmaker reteaming with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman for this off-the-wall romantic comedy. Jim Carrey stars as Joel Barish, a man who is informed that his ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their Read More

3/19/04
Teknolust

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, Karen Black, Al Nazemian

Synopsis: In this offbeat sci-fi-drama, Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton) is a scientist specializing in biogenetics who has made a major breakthrough in artificial biological engineering. Rosetta has created a type of Self-Replicating Automaton, which looks like a human being, but is in fact part machine and Read More

2/20/04
Dischord

Actors: Thomas Jay Ryan, Annunziata Gianzero, Richard Bakalyan, Andrew Borba, Rick Wessler

Synopsis: A woman in love with music finds herself trapped between a husband jealous of her success and a brother-in-law with a deadly secret in this independent thriller. Lucian (Andrew Borba) is a talented but arrogantly self-important musician and composer who has recently released an album in Read More

2/21/03
Law & Order: Kid Pro Quo

Actors: Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: When the female admissions officer of an extremely exclusive private school is murdered, the detectives are plunged into a world where one's future social status is determined upon getting into the most prestigious school at the earliest possible age. Cell-phone evidence indicates that the Read More

2003
Noon Blue Apples

Actors: Lauren Fox, Thomas Jay Ryan, Norbert Leo Butz, Kelly Cole, Kia Joy Goodwin

Synopsis: A college student finds herself struggling to separate fact from bizarre supposition in this offbeat independent drama. Eris (Lauren Fox) is working on a research paper concerning fear and social phobia phenomena, when, in the course of her reading, she finds the obscure phrase "Noon Blue Apples" Read More

2002
The Legend of Bagger Vance

Actors: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch

Synopsis: Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journeys. Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) was a gifted amateur golfer from Savannah, GA, until traumatic experiences during World War I shattered his Read More

11/3/00
Degas and the Dancer

Actors: Thomas Jay Ryan, Alison Pill, Kathryn Long

Synopsis: The six-part made-for-television Artists' Specials Series is an entertaining and educational collection of children's films. Programs focus on a significant segment of an artist's life. Biographical information is mixed with fiction to create compelling stories reflecting turning points in the Read More

1999
Mary Cassatt: American Impressionist

Actors: Amy Brenneman, Thomas Jay Ryan, Charlotte Sullivan

Synopsis: The six-part made-for-television Artists' Specials Series is an entertaining and educational collection of children's films. Programs focus on a significant segment of a famous artist's life. Biographical information is mixed with fiction to create compelling stories reflecting turning points in Read More

1999
Henry Fool

Actors: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter, James Saito, Kevin Corrigan, Liam Aiken, Veanne Cox, Jan Leslie Harding

Synopsis: Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) is a garbageman, and his life is about as unpleasant and uneventful as you'd expect given his profession; he doesn't much care for his work, he's treated with violence or contempt by most of the people in his neighborhood, and he shares a house with Mary (Maria Porter) Read More

6/19/98
The Book of Life

Actors: Martin Donovan, PJ Harvey, Thomas Jay Ryan, David Simonds, Miho Nikaido

Synopsis: Hal Hartley directed this French-produced comedy about the Second Coming of Christ (Martin Donovan), with Thomas Jay Ryan in the role of Satan. While a gambler (David Simonds) and a waitress (Miho Nikaido) talk with Satan in a hotel bar, Jesus arrives at JFK airport with Magdalena (PJ Harvey). Read More

1998