Tom GilroyFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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The Blue Tooth Virgin

Actors: Austin James Peck, Bryce Johnson, Tom Gilroy, Lauren Stamile, Roma Maffia

Synopsis: One man's unguarded honesty threatens to destroy the longtime friendship between an aspiring screenwriter and a successful magazine editor in writer/director Russell Brown's blistering comedy about the high price of being truthful. Sam has written a screenplay. He believes the film he has dreamt Read More

9/25/09
Wild Tigers I Have Known

Actors: Malcolm Stumpf, Patrick White, Max Paradise, Fairuza Balk, Kim Dickens

Synopsis: A soft-spoken, thirteen-year old dreamer enters into a tentative friendship with a decidedly older and more popular boy in director Cam Archer's compassionate coming of age drama. Logan is an adolescent boy who just doesn't seem to fit in. Though the majority of the kids in his school view Logan Read More

3/28/07
Sweet Land

Actors: Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, Lois Smith, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: A European exile finds herself a stranger in a strange land when she comes to the United States in this independent romantic comedy-drama. As a man ponders what to do with his family's estate after the death of his grandmother, he thinks back to how she first came to America shortly after World Read More

10/13/06
Harry and Max

Actors: Bryce Johnson, Cole Williams, Tom Gilroy, Rain Phoenix, Justin Zachary

Synopsis: Following up his critically acclaimed third film, 2001's The Sleepy Time Gal, filmmaker Christopher Munch helmed this dramedy about a pair of brothers who embark on a camping trip together. Harry (Bryce Johnson) is the eldest of the two, a 23-year-old former teen idol who has stopped off for the Read More

2/18/05
Spring Forward

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: Playwright and character actor Tom Gilroy made his feature directorial debut with this dialogue-driven character study set against the backdrop of the changing seasons. Liev Schreiber plays Paul, a short-fused ex-con who finds unlikely comfort, stability, and camaraderie when he takes an odd job Read More

12/8/00
On the Run

Actors: Michael Imperioli, John Ventimiglia, Drena De Niro, Nick Sandow, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: An ordinary guy with a crooked friend discovers no good deed goes unpunished in the comedy On The Run. Albert (Michael Imperioli) is having a quiet evening at home when he gets a call from his old pal Louie (John Ventimigila), whom he hasn't heard from in years. There's a good reason for this Read More

6/2/00
Claire Dolan

Actors: Katrin Cartlidge, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colm Meaney, John Doman, Maryann Plunkett

Synopsis: American filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan (Clean, Shaven) directed this French production, set in New York. Dublin native Claire (Katrin Cartlidge of Naked and Career Girls) is a New York prostitute constantly working to eliminate her debt to menacing Roland Cain (Colm Meaney), who's known her since she Read More

11/18/98
Getting Off

Actors: Christine Harnos, Brooke Smith, Bill Sage, David Marshall Grant, Amy Ryan

Synopsis: Julie A. Lynch made her directorial debut with this low-budget indie, an AIDS drama set in 1992 NYC, where three women -- promiscuous artist Josie Ray (Christine Harnos), stand-up comic Jennifer Sharp (Brooke Smith), and MBA student Elaine Devlin (Amy Ryan) -- learn their old college chum Chris Read More

1998
Spark

Actors: Terrence Howard, Nicole Ari Parker, Brendan Sexton III, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Timothy McNeil

Synopsis: Garret Williams made his directorial debut with this tale of an urban black couple trapped in a desert town of rednecks. Byron (Terrence Howard) and Nina (Nicole Ari Parker) are driving a BMW from Chicago to L.A. when they experience a back-road breakdown. Teen Mooney (Brendan Sexton III) tows Read More

1998
Inside/Out

Actors: Frederic Pierrot

Synopsis: American independent filmmaker Rob Tregenza, who includes Jean-Luc Godard among his admirers, directed this deliberately paced, minimalist drama about Jean Hammett (Frederic Pierrot), a French artist who has been committed to a mental institution in the United States. One of the female inmates Read More

1997
Girls Town

Actors: Lili Taylor, Anna Grace, Bruklin Harris, Aunjanue Ellis, Ramya Pratt

Synopsis: When one of their friends commits suicide, three young women learn to stand up for themselves and strike back against male-dominated society in this drama. Patti (Lili Taylor), Emma (Anna Grace), Angela (Bruklin Harris), and Nikki (Aunjanue Ellis) are four teenage girls who attend the same high Read More

1996
Ratchet

Actors: Tom Gilroy, Margaret Welsh, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Nurit Koppel, Matthew Dixon

Synopsis: In this noirish crime thriller, deeply troubled screenwriter/director Elliot Callahan, who made a brilliant debut with the innovative thriller "Criminal Intent," finds himself tormented with writers block that prevents him from starting on his eagerly awaited sophomore film. His studio is about to Read More

1996
Land and Freedom

Actors: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy, Marc Martinez

Synopsis: A reflective look at an idealistic young man's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom combines wartime drama with impassioned political debate. Director Ken Loach, better known for his intimate portraits of working-class British life, begins on familiar turf in the present day Read More

1995
Postcards from America

Actors: James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe, Michael Imperioli, Michael Ringer

Synopsis: This avant garde film is based on two angry autobiographical books by David Wojnarowicz: Close to the Knives and Memories That Smell Like Gasoline. Wojnarowicz, a noted performance artist, died of AIDS . The film examines three sides of his life. The first looks at his suburban childhood and the Read More

1994
A Matter of Degrees

Actors: Arye Gross, Tom Sizemore, Judith Hoag, Wendell Pierce, Christina Haag

Synopsis: A college student is torn between his friends' active-protest, anti-establishment mentality and the conservative values of his parents in this slow-moving drama. The film is leavened somewhat by a great soundtrack (Pixies, Throwing Muses, Minutemen) and appearances by Fred Schneider from the B-52's Read More

1990
Arena Brains

Synopsis: An extended short from painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, who would later helm Johnny Mnemonic, Arena Brains consists of a series of interlocking vignettes set in New York City in the late 1980s. The stories -- created by five different screenwriters, including Eric Bogosian, Richard Price Read More

1988