Jerry Stahl

Birth : 1953-09-28, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jerry Stahl (born September 28, 1953) is an American novelist and screenwriter, He is best known for his memoir of addiction Permanent Midnight. A film adaptation followed with Ben Stiller in the lead role. Stahl has worked extensively in film and television. He has one daughter named Stella, who is a senior at Northwestern University and is studying theater and political science. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerry Stahl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Movies

The Icarus Line Must Die

Jerry

The Icarus Line Must Die is a dramatic narrative feature set against the backdrop of the current LA music scene. The film tracks Joe Cardamone, front man of The Icarus Line, as he navigates his way through the ups and downs of the modern music landscape.

Chuck

Screenplay

A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner.

After Adderall

Himself

In 2010 James Franco optioned the rights to Stephen Elliott’s memoir, The Adderall Diaries. In 2015 The Adderall Diaries starring James Franco and Ed Harris premiered at the TriBeca Film Festival. After Adderall is a surreal re-imagining about what happens when James Franco makes a movie about your life.

Urge

Writer

A group of friends on holiday on an island experiment with a new designer drug that makes them lose their ability to control their urges.

August: Osage County

Liquor Store Owner

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Writer

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

Inland Empire

Devon Berk's Agent

An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

Bad Boys II

Screenplay

Out-of-control, trash-talking buddy cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force reunite, and bullets fly, cars crash and laughs explode as they pursue a whacked-out drug lord from the streets of Miami to the barrios of Cuba. But the real fireworks result when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sexy sister.

Zoolander

VH1 Reporter

Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the opportunity to turn Derek into a killing machine. It's a well-designed conspiracy and only with the help of Hansel and a few well-chosen accessories like Matilda can Derek make the world safe for male models everywhere.

12 Rounds

Brian Buzzini plays a bisexual boxer who's fighting his sexual orientation as well as his opponents.

Gun Shy

Lucien

Legendary undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough has suddenly lost his nerves of steel. On the verge of a career-induced mental breakdown, and in complete fear of trigger-happy Mafia leader Fulvio Nesstra, Charlie seeks psychiatric help and finds himself relying on the support of an unstable therapy group and nurse Judy just to get through his work.

Permanent Midnight

Novel

Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.

Permanent Midnight

Dr. Murphy

Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.

Dr. Caligari

Screenplay

Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido.

Café Flesh

Screenplay

In the future, humans are divided into Sex Negatives and Sex Positives. The negatives get sick if they have sex so they go to Cafe Flesh to see positives who are forced to perform on stage for the negatives. Lana is a positive who everyone thinks is a negative and she must decide whether to come clean or not.

Nightdreams

Screenplay

In an experiment, a pair of scientists use electric jolts to induce a sleeping woman to have erotic dreams.