Matthew Jacobs

Matthew Jacobs

Nascimento : , London, England, UK

Morte : 1956-07-01

História

Matthew Jacobs (born 1 July 1956) is a British screenwriter, director and actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Jacobs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Matthew Jacobs

Filmes

Doctor Who Am I
Self
In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with a fresh direction but was met only by an outcry from disapproving fans. Now, follow the film’s screenwriter, Matthew Jacobs, as he is pulled back into the world of the Doctor Who fandom, where he unexpectedly finds himself a kindred part of this close-knit, yet vast, family of fans.
Doctor Who Am I
Producer
In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with a fresh direction but was met only by an outcry from disapproving fans. Now, follow the film’s screenwriter, Matthew Jacobs, as he is pulled back into the world of the Doctor Who fandom, where he unexpectedly finds himself a kindred part of this close-knit, yet vast, family of fans.
Doctor Who Am I
Director
In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with a fresh direction but was met only by an outcry from disapproving fans. Now, follow the film’s screenwriter, Matthew Jacobs, as he is pulled back into the world of the Doctor Who fandom, where he unexpectedly finds himself a kindred part of this close-knit, yet vast, family of fans.
Traveling Light
Arthur
On May 30th, 2020, Uber and delivery driver Caddy searches for his missing son who has been living on the Los Angeles streets during the early days of the pandemic. Along the way, his path crosses that of Harry, a cult leader who is holding a bizarre ceremony up on Mulholland Drive. All the while, news of the horrific murder of George Floyd reverberates around the city and the social fabric collapses.
O Vice
Antonin Scalia
Acompanhe a ascensão de Dick Cheney ao se tornar um dos homens mais poderoso do mundo. Vice-presidente de George W. Bush, ele remodelou os Estados Unidos e o mundo, gerando mudanças que permanecem até os dias de hoje.
Sem Perdão
Screenplay
Não há punição pior para um homem do que ter sua família arrancada de seus braços. A vida de Vitaliy Kaloev parou no momento em que o avião com sua esposa e filhos cai. Agora, ele busca justiça para punir os responsáveis e um pedido de perdão para aliviar sua alma.
The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Producer
Faced with an early death sentence and struggling to pay the bills, Franz Schubert is inspired to write one of his most famous songs as he is haunted by a Hurdy Gurdy Man in the Vienna of the 1820s.
State of Modern Love
Josh
A womanizing man-child binges on sex and alcohol, experiments with ayahuasca for addiction therapy and comes to terms with past mistakes.
Frankenstein
Dr. Marcus
Situado na cidade de Los Angeles dos dias atuais, um mostro que recebe o nome de Adam é criado por um casal de cientistas excêntricos. Deixado para morrer pelos seus criadores, Adam é confrontado pelo mundo ao seu redor com nada além do que agressão e violência. Uma criatura imaginada perfeita, mas, desfigurada na realidade. Um ser criado por humanos que precisa enfrentar a natureza terrível da humanidade.
A Condessa Sangrenta
Writer
Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.
Your Good Friend
Producer
Zander, a widowed rabbi, and Jules, an out-of-date pornographer become friends. Their values are put to the test as Jules documents their unique relationship in a way that is both touching and funny.
Your Good Friend
Editor
Zander, a widowed rabbi, and Jules, an out-of-date pornographer become friends. Their values are put to the test as Jules documents their unique relationship in a way that is both touching and funny.
Your Good Friend
Writer
Zander, a widowed rabbi, and Jules, an out-of-date pornographer become friends. Their values are put to the test as Jules documents their unique relationship in a way that is both touching and funny.
Your Good Friend
Jules
Zander, a widowed rabbi, and Jules, an out-of-date pornographer become friends. Their values are put to the test as Jules documents their unique relationship in a way that is both touching and funny.
Your Good Friend
Director
Zander, a widowed rabbi, and Jules, an out-of-date pornographer become friends. Their values are put to the test as Jules documents their unique relationship in a way that is both touching and funny.
Bar America
Harry
Two best friends face losing each other and the show that has made them hometown celebrities when a conniving duo sees a way to strike it rich by destroying everything the two buddies have built.
Bar America
Editor
Two best friends face losing each other and the show that has made them hometown celebrities when a conniving duo sees a way to strike it rich by destroying everything the two buddies have built.
Bar America
Writer
Two best friends face losing each other and the show that has made them hometown celebrities when a conniving duo sees a way to strike it rich by destroying everything the two buddies have built.
Bar America
Director
Two best friends face losing each other and the show that has made them hometown celebrities when a conniving duo sees a way to strike it rich by destroying everything the two buddies have built.
Justin e a Espada da Coragem
Screenplay
Justin e um adolescente que sempre quis ser um cavaleiro, mas seu pai, conselheiro chefe da rainha, quer que seu filho siga seus passos e se torne um grande advogado. Contra o desejo de seu pai, Justin decide ir em busca de seu sonho e vai atrás de antigos companheiros de seu avô — um antigo e prestigiado cavaleiro — para ser treinado. Justin está agora em uma corrida contra o tempo contra Sir Heraclio, que deseja tomar o trono e reacender a época de glória dos cavaleiros. E dessa forma, Justin começa seu caminho para definitivamente vestir uma armadura e brandir uma espada e um escudo.
Dia de Desconto
Nick
Basili é um empresário astuto que embarca em uma viagem com Nick no volante. Ao entrar em uma área montanhosa, com condições meteorológicas adversas, eles ficam presos na neve e terão que enfrentar um destino incerto.
Howard Marks: Mr Nice
Eddie Laxton
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
The Seven Year Hitch
Self
This documentary looks at executive producer Philip Segal’s seven-year quest to return Doctor Who to the screen, from his initial contact with the BBC shortly before its cancellation in 1989, through to the production and transmission of the movie in 1996. Featuring Philip Segal, BBC executive producer Jo Wright, BBC Head of Series Peter Cregeen, BBC1 controller Alan Yentob, writer Matthew Jacobs and Graeme Harper, the director of BBC Enterprises' abandoned Doctor Who movie. Narrated by Amanda Drew.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Driver
A man becomes obsessively jealous of his pianist wife and her violinist companion.
A Nova Onda do Imperador
Original Story
Divirta-se com o arrogante imperador Kuzco que é transformado em Ihama pela malvada conselheira Yzma e seu capanga bonitão Kronk, para governar o reino. Agora o imperador, que sempre teve o mundo a seus pés, tem de se aliar a um caipira simpático chamado Pacha. Mas será que essa realeza tão antipática conseguirá mudar, tornando-se uma pessoa mais bondosa e gentil?
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Screenplay
In the third film in the series, in 1908, Henry Jones Sr. takes his wife, son and the boy's tutor to the world's first psycho-analytical conference in Viena, Austria. Young Indy meets Princess Sophie of Austia, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and develops deep feelings for her. He even asks Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler for love advice. On their next stop in Florence, Anna Jones becomes the object of affection for the persuasive opera composer Giacomo Puccini. With her husband away in Rome, Anna is torn between her feelings for her husband and the impulsive Italian.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life
Writer
In the second film in the series, in 1908, ten-year-old Indiana Jones is on safari in British East Africa. Here, he befriends a Massai boy named Meto who helps him in his search for the little seen Fringe-Eared Oryx for former US President Teddy Roosevelt. Later, he and his family and tutor travel to Paris, France where Indy meets a young Norman Rockwell and gets involved in a quarrel between the painters Edgar Degas and Pablo Picasso. The young American boys get a fascinating insight into modern art as Picasso schemes to one up the old master Degas.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
Screenplay
In the sixth film in the series, in February 1916, high school student Indy's plan of taking his girlfriend Nancy is sidetracked when a mysterious break-in, the theft of an electric motor, and rumors of German spies result in a mystery that only young Indy and Nancy can unravel. Indy and his father then head to the southwest to visit family in Albuquerque, where Junior is taken captive by Pancho Villa and his riders.
Mothertime
Writer
Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage daughter runs the house and tries to engineer a reunion between her parents. But the parents have been keeping secrets from their children, and nothing is as it seems.
Mothertime
Director
Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage daughter runs the house and tries to engineer a reunion between her parents. But the parents have been keeping secrets from their children, and nothing is as it seems.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
Writer
In the fourth film in the series, in 1910's Russia, a few acts of clumsiness puts Indy at odds with his father who is greatly displeased with Indy. Indy runs away into the Russian countryside and wakes in the morning on a haystack. He encounters colorful Gypsies, fierce Imperial Cossack troops, and an odd, cantankerous old man named Leo Tolstoy, who is in full agreement that "hell" is other people. Later, in Greece, Indy meets Nikos Kazantzakis, the writer who would some day write Zorba the Greek.
Doctor Who
Co-Producer
Próximo ao fim de sua sétima vida, o Doctor é encarregado de transportar os restos do Master de volta ao planeta natal deles. Apesar de seu cuidado, seu velho inimigo não apenas está vivo, como também busca se vingar. Ele faz a TARDIS falhar, o que leva a nave a pousar em San Francisco em 1999, onde o Master consegue escapar e tenta colocar seu plano em prática. O Doctor precisa impedi-lo, mas acaba baleado por uma gangue.
Doctor Who
Screenplay
Próximo ao fim de sua sétima vida, o Doctor é encarregado de transportar os restos do Master de volta ao planeta natal deles. Apesar de seu cuidado, seu velho inimigo não apenas está vivo, como também busca se vingar. Ele faz a TARDIS falhar, o que leva a nave a pousar em San Francisco em 1999, onde o Master consegue escapar e tenta colocar seu plano em prática. O Doctor precisa impedi-lo, mas acaba baleado por uma gangue.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
Writer
In the twelfth film in the series, in 1917, Indiana Jones transfers from the Belgian army to the French intelligence service, where his first assignment is as a reconnaissance photographer for the 124th Squadron, a group of volunteer American pilots in the French army. When his plane is shot down, Indy encounters the infamous "Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen. After a daring escape, Indy is parachuted back into Germany on a mission to convince aircraft designer Anthony Fokker to defect to France, and he discovers a new German superweapon - a new airplane intended to bring the war overseas.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
Screenplay
In the twenty-second and final film in the series, in 1920's Hollywood, Indy is working as assistant to Hollywood movie mogul Carl Laemmle, who charges him to get notoriously megalomaniacal director Erich Von Stroheim to complete his latest epic on time and on budget... or else!
Lassie: Uma Verdadeira Amizade
Writer
Determinada a começar uma vida nova no campo, a família Turner – o pai Steve (Jon Tenney), a madrasta Laura (Helen Slater), a pequena Jennifer (Brittany Boyd) e o adolescente Matt (Tom Guiry) – trocam a cidade pelas paisagens naturais da Virginia. A mudança causa problemas a todos, em especial a Matt, que se sente sozinho e perdido neste novo ambiente. Felizmente, eles são ajudados por Lassie, um cão pastor abandonado, que passa a fazer parte das suas vidas e Matt cresce bastante com a sua lealdade.
Hallelujah Anyhow
Writer
When Adlyn, a woman preacher at a Gospel Church in London, meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an agonising choice between her faith and family and her heart. Sundance 1992 (Official Selection).
Hallelujah Anyhow
Director
When Adlyn, a woman preacher at a Gospel Church in London, meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an agonising choice between her faith and family and her heart. Sundance 1992 (Official Selection).
Lorna Doone
Writer
A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
Somewhere to Run
Writer
Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.
A Casa dos Sonhos
Screenplay
Anna, uma garota de 11 anos, está se tornando perdida na solidão de seu próprio mundo quando ela descobre que pode visitar um outro, uma casa que ela mesma desenhou e ocupada por um jovem deficiente. Mas quanto mais ela descobre ligações entre seu mundo de fantasia e o presente mundano, ela é atraída cada vez mais fundo em um sonho que se transforma em um pesadelo.
Smart Money
Writer
Leon, a hacker convicted for a crime he did not commit, escapes from detention centre following the death of his father, to take revenge on the man who really did it.
Starship
Writer
Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids incapable of any emotion. The young Lorca and his android professor, Kid, are both in this tended situation. To find the liberty, they must at any costs seize a spaceship, the "Red Star", but they quickly have to face an android killer...
The Ninja Mission
Writer
CIA, KGB and the amazing ninja masters are all in the center of Russia where the Swedish nuclear professor Karl Markov have invented a new kind of nuclear technology. Markov's invention can change the balance of power in the world. All want this information and will use any force necessary to obtain it first.
John, Love
Producer
A BAFTA award nominated drama about a young boy's memories of his first communion, set in Dublin in 1950.