Tom Gilroy

Tom Gilroy

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Tom Gilroy

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Tom's Dilemma
Mr. Jacobson
After the molestation of his son, a father struggles with his need to seek revenge and the fear that feeds his inability to do so.
Houses
A director fumbles through a self-inspired play in an attempt to reclaim his creative integrity.
Fúria Cannabis
Mr. Anderson
Década de 70. Em uma comunidade rural dos Alapaches ainda assombrada e dividida pelo legado do massacre da Guerra Civil, um jovem rebelde luta para driblar a violência que tenta prendê-lo a um triste passado e a um presente corrupto.
The Cold Lands
Tom
After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drifter.
The Cold Lands
Screenplay
After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drifter.
The Cold Lands
Director
After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drifter.
Garoto dos Sonhos
Preacher John
Dois jovens se envolvem e uma história de amor sensual se desenvolve rapidamente entre eles, porém, ambos precisam esconder esse amor da comunidade extremamente religiosa da década de 1970 em que vivem. Especialmente Nathan (Stephan Bender), que tem de enfrentar seus demônios e a violência que prevalece dentro da sua própria família.
The Blue Tooth Virgin
Louis
Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: what happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn't good? Sam, an aspiring screenwriter, and David, a successful magazine editor, have been pals for years. When David doesn't appreciate Sam's latest attempt, it opens a fissure in their friendship, one that spreads through the rest of their lives. Ultimately, both men must reevaluate their motivations to write, their need for praise and validation, and what it means to see yourself as you actually are.
Tigres Selvagens
The Principal
A história do amadurecimento de um garoto de 13 anos que aprende a lidar com sua sexualidade e seu amor não-correspondido por um colega de sala.
O Verdadeiro Amor
Comrade Vik
Inge (Elizabeth Reaser) veio de Minnesota para um casamento arranjado com Olaf (Tim Guinee), um discreto fazendeiro que imigrou da Noruega. Como é alemã Inge enfrenta um forte preconceito local, decorrente do clima pós-1ª Guerra Mundial, e com isso o pastor proíbe seu casamento. Apesar dos problemas, Inge e Olaf se apaixonam perdidamente. Quando Frandsen (Alan Cumming) tem sua fazenda ameaçada por um banqueiro Olaf decide ajudá-lo, reunindo em torno de si a comunidade local.
Gente Comum
Funcionários de muitos anos de um pequeno restaurante no Brooklyn veem seu futuro ameaçado pela possibilidade de venda do estabelecimento para uma empresa de urbanismo.
Harry + Max
Josiah
Dois irmãos, o jovem Harry (Bryce Johnson) e o adolescente Max (Cole Williams), são ídolos juvenis que se envolvem em um escândalo envolvendo incesto no conturbado passado familiar, no qual existiu uma profunda afeição entre ambos.
Series 7: The Contenders
Dawn's Cameraman
A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill each other in order to be the last person alive.
Spring Forward
Writer
Trying to put himself back together after serving prison time for robbery, Paul takes a job as a parks employee in a small Connecticut town. His co-worker, Murph, a generation older than Paul, is dealing with his own issues, chiefly the the impending death of his very ill son. After the men have a run-in with local snob Frederickson, Murph's age and experience starts to temper Paul's fiery nature, as the younger man begins to embrace his new life.
Spring Forward
Director
Trying to put himself back together after serving prison time for robbery, Paul takes a job as a parks employee in a small Connecticut town. His co-worker, Murph, a generation older than Paul, is dealing with his own issues, chiefly the the impending death of his very ill son. After the men have a run-in with local snob Frederickson, Murph's age and experience starts to temper Paul's fiery nature, as the younger man begins to embrace his new life.
Claire Dolan
Client #3/$1000 Trick
A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.
O Mistério de Lulu
Restaurant Man #1
Enquanto Izzy retoma sua vida, ele se depara com uma pedra azul e um número de telefone da atriz Célia. Os dois combinam um encontro e a pedra acaba unindo-os. Mas um sinistro sequestro pode acabar com os planos de felicidade do casal.
Spark
Jack
.An urban black couple (Terrence Howard, Nicole Parker) traveling via back roads from Chicago to LA has a car breakdown in a backwater town where everyone is white trailer trash and racial epithets are common graffiti. The film tries to examine the thoughts of the lower class that they get involved in and the loud mouth impetuosity of the black man which ultimately leads the couple into greater problems.
Inside/Out
David Sheppard
Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. We meet the artist Jean and his lover Monica, patients of the facility, and several characters circling its periphery: a guard, an Episcopalian priest, and a church organist. Minimalizing dialogue and plot intricacy, Tregenza concedes only kernels of information, demanding that the viewer breathe dimensionality into his archetypes. Acting out primal instincts of lust, envy, fear, and love, subjects teeter vulnerably on the brink of sanity and insanity, freedom and repression in their attempts to navigate their existence.
Ratchet
Elliot Callahan
Having missed several deadlines, and with the studio's attorneys hassling him, screenwriter Elliot Callahan (Tom Gilroy) takes the advice of his agent and rents a beachside house on the island Nantucket to find the peace and quiet he needs to get the creative juices flowing. There he meets the seriously intense Henry Carver (Matthew Dixon), who's written a screenplay he wants Callahan to read. Before long, Callahan suspects that Henry might be a serial killer writing about himself and that his screenplay is worth plagiarizing.
Girls Town
Richard Helms
The death of a friend galvanizes three high school young women to reassess their friendship and their lives.
Terra e Liberdade
Lawrence
Primavera de 1936, um jovem comunista desempregado, David, deixa sua cidade natal Liverpool para se juntar à luta contra o fascismo na Espanha. Ele se junta a um grupo internacional de milícia, homens e mulheres, o POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). Depois de ser ferido, ele vai para Barcelona, ​​onde decide se juntar a outro grupo de milícia. Eles permanecem em Barcelona e acabam brigando outros grupos antifascistas. David está decepcionado e decide voltar para sua antiga milícia.
Postcards from America
Adult David's Friend
Inspired by the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz, "Postcards From America" chronicles the abuse the artist suffered as a child at the hands of his father and his subsequent running away to New York to become a street hustler.
Touch Base
Director
A woman, concerned about her own job, and stuck in her office cubicle with little but a phone and a computer, and a presentation to do, gets increasingly distraught over the fate of her co-workers: one that she can't contact, and one that just got laid off.
Touch Base
Writer
A woman, concerned about her own job, and stuck in her office cubicle with little but a phone and a computer, and a presentation to do, gets increasingly distraught over the fate of her co-workers: one that she can't contact, and one that just got laid off.
A Matter of Degrees
The Scuzz
Max can't face his yuppie future. Graduation's only weeks away and he's having second thoughts. Inspired by the campus radio station, he decides to get a little crazy.
Arena Brains
Artist
A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s New York City, satirizing the neuroses and eccentricities of this milieu.