Jeffrey’s Movie Roles
2008 Changeling
Character: Capt. J.J. Jones
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Synopsis: Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in a provocative thriller based on actual events: Changeling. In the film, Christine Collins’ (Jolie) prayers are met when her kidnapped son is returned. But amidst the frenzy of the photo-op reunion, she realizes this child is not hers. Facing corrupt police and a skeptical public, she desperately hunts for answers, only to be confronted by a truth that will change her forever.
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2008 Hindsight
Character: Paul
Release Date: Unknown
Synopsis: Unexpectedly pregnant with no means to raise a child, Dina and Ronnie decide to sell their unborn baby over the Internet. Their plan begins to unravel when the couple they’ve chosen, Paul and Maria, turn out to have an agenda of their own.
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2006 Come Early Morning
Character: Cal Percell
Release Date: 2006
Synopsis: The sins of the fathers. In a town near Little Rock, Lucy Fowler works hard for a construction firm; on weekends she drinks, goes home with someone, and come early morning, wakes and leaves as fast as she can. She cares a lot about her father, newly back in town, a painfully shy man who has nothing to say to her. She does go to a Holy Roller church with him about the same time that she starts, fitfully, a relationship with Cal Percell, new in town and a good guy. She kisses him sober, but still has demons to confront. What’s the source of her careless ways; can she turn coal into a diamond?
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2006 Believe in Me
Character: Lee Driscoll
Release Date: 2006
Synopsis: Set in the mid-60’s, Believe in Me is the true story of a young man whose coaching dreams seem dashed when he’s assigned to the girls’ basketball team at a rural high-school, a dead-end at that time, pre “Title IX”. Through the course of the movie, the girls and the coach find ways to earn each other’s trust, and despite the opposition of the conservative town fathers, learn how to play to win.
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2005 Hitch
Character: Vance
Release Date: 2005
Synopsis: In the sophisticated romantic comedy “Hitch,” Will Smith stars as Alex “Hitch” Hitchens. Most men have difficulty finding love because it’s hard to be yourself when your “self” thinks you should be someone else. That’s where Hitch comes in. As a tactical adviser who specializes in first impressions – he customizes and orchestrates a client’s first three dates – Hitch has been secretly responsible for hundreds of New York City weddings. Eva Mendes co-stars as Sara, a gossip reporter for a daily tabloid who, after a chance meeting with Hitch, finds her professional life and personal life on a collision course. She makes Hitch re-evaluate his game and teaches him that love is not a feeling, it’s an action.
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2003 Final Draft
Character: Pascal
Release Date: 2003
Synopsis: The first feature from writing/directing team Oren Goldman and Yariv Ozdoba, Final Draft is an insider-comedy about a pair of guys who have been friends since childhood and now, as adults, dream of making it as Hollywood screenwriters. Marty was born in Israel and maintains a somewhat cynical view of the world. Harry, on the other hand, grew up in New York and is slightly more wide-eyed. To bide their time before hitting the big time, the two have resigned themselves to editing home videos of bar mitzvahs and weddings. In addition, Harry works nights teaching Jewish folk dancing classes. But everything takes a positive turn when the guys discover they have a drug dealer in common with a bigwig at Misney studios. When they suddenly find themselves with a meeting scheduled with an actual Hollywood executive and no script to pitch, Harry and Marty scramble to come up with the perfect idea. Also starring Emily Bergl and Laura Jordan as the guys’ love interests, Final Draft was shot digitally and premiered at the 2003 Victoria Film Festival in Victoria, British Columbia.
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2003 Sam & Joe
Character: Eric
Release Date: 2003
Synopsis: A heart-wrenching story of an abusive relationship. It’s a familiar theme, but one of the unique qualities that sets this film apart, is that the couple in question share barely a moment of screen time. Instead, this tragedy is revealed through parallel action, voice-over and their relationships with others. This is a performance piece in the purest sense. The camera, which is almost entirely hand-held, will often linger on the close-up for more than a minute. This approach provides the kind of intimacy reminiscent of John Cassevettes, or Ingmar Bergman.
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2002 Purpose (aka “PURPO$E”)
Character: Robert Jennings
Release Date: 2002
Synopsis: Deep in the heart of the dot.com revolution where fortunes and lives are made with the click of a mouse, internet visionary John Elias dream of creating the internet application that will change the way mankind communicates. No borders, no boundaries . . . one world. With a little old-fashioned good luck, the help of an expert deal-closer, and a wealthy financier, John finds the necessary funding to launch Digital Dreams. Just as quickly as their first million is made, their good intention is replaced by the intoxicating success of fame and fortune, fast cars, and faster women. Caught in a spiral of deceit, John soon loses sight of his original vision and betrays his girlfriend. Now, John finds himself forced to betray everything he once held dear or risk losing it all. Will blind ambition topple his dot.com empire? Or will his one last shot at redemption bring him back to what’s really important in life?
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2000 Bait
Character: Eric
Release Date: 2000
Synopsis: When petty thief and hustler Alvin Sanders (Jamie Foxx from Any Given Sunday and The Wood) gets arrested for stealing shrimp, the worst of his problems would seem to be going to jail. Unfortunately, he ends up sharing a cell with a guy who, while stealing $42 million in gold from the Federal Reserve, double-crossed his partner–a partner with a knack for computers and a long memory. While being interrogated by a hardball Treasury agent (David Morse from The Green Mile), the double-crosser dies from heart failure. All the feds have are an incomprehensible message that was left with Alvin, so they decide to release him and use him as bait to catch the partner by secretly implanting a combination tracking device and electronic bug into Alvin’s jaw. From that moment on, a surveillance team can follow Alvin’s every move and hear his every word. Unfortunately, Alvin has a talent for getting into trouble–which means that the feds have to become his guardian angels so that he can serve his purpose. Bait certainly has its problems (there’s a lot of fancy editing for no good reason, a few plot holes you could drive a truck through, and the actor playing the bad guy really wishes he was John Malkovich)–but even though it’s nonsense, it’s not predictable. The clever story moves along with surprising efficiency and has some successful comic bits. The characters can’t be called well developed, but they aren’t clichés; the movie doesn’t require any great acting, but the cast is consistently engaging. In fact, Bait is one of the more enjoyable action movies of the past few years.
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2000 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Character: Jeffrey Patterson
Release Date: 2000
Synopsis: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 takes place in present-day Burkittsville, after the events chronicled in The Blair Witch Project. Four young people have signed up for a tour of the Black Hills, the latest Blair Witch-inspired moneymaker dreamed up by Jeff Patterson, a black sheep townie with a murky past. They set up camp near the foundation of the house that belonged to Rustin Parr, the old hermit who was hanged for the murders of seven children, a crime that bore the mark of the Blair Witch. In the morning, the campers awake with no memory of having gone to sleep and five hours stolen from their lives. They return to Jeff’s residence, an abandoned 19th Century warehouse at the edge of Burkittsville, to try to piece together what happened. But the strange occurrences haven’t ended with that night, as legend and reality become frighteningly entwined. Bizarre symbols appear on their bodies, children’s plaintive crying is heard, phantasmagoric visions confound their eyes, and fleeting apparitions suggest the villainy of the distant past. In the woods, a grisly discovery at Coffin Rock recalls a deadly chapter in the history of the Blair Witch. No longer sure what is real and what is imagined, the five young people start to unravel psychologically, eyeing one another with suspicion and edging ever closer to mass hysteria. Too late, they realize that when they left the woods, they didn’t leave alone…
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1998 When Trumpets Fade
Character: Bobby
Release Date: 1998
Synopsis: Set during one of the Second World War’s most shocking and unforgettable battles - the battle of Hurtgen Forest in the fall of 1944. American forces are under orders to secure a bridge flanked by enemy tanks. Men already trapped in a hellish minefield face death from all sides as shells rain down from the sky. Hundreds of lives have been lost, and the surviving troops are bloodied and shell-shocked. There are only four renegade soldiers remaining, who all have one thing in common: a desperate will to stay alive.
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1998 Catherine’s Grove
Character: Thomas/Catherine Mason
Release Date: 1998
Synopsis: In Miami’s alternative club scene, undercover cop Jack Doyle (Fahey) is working on a serial killer case that’s left a trail of dead transvestites. Moonlighting as a private eye, Doyle and his girlfriend, Charley (Alonso), are hired by young, rich Tom Mason (Donovan) to find his missing sister, Catherine. This search leads to Catherine’s mysterious uncle (Madsen) and unstable friend (Barnes), and the very real possibility of becoming the killer’s next victim.
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1996 Sleepers
Character: Henry Addison
Release Date: 1996
Synopsis: Tommy, John, Michael, and Shakes are four young teenage punks growing up in the streets of Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen in the mid-1960s. When these four friends pull a prank that that goes awry, they find themselves serving time at the Wilkinson School for Boys, where they are repeatedly and sadistically violated and tortured by four guards–the most menacing being Noles, portrayed by Kevin Bacon. Fifteen years later, the foursome is still dealing with the emotional repercussions of their abuse. Tommy (Billy Crudup) and John (Ron Eldard) have become common criminals, and when they spot Noles in a local watering hole they can’t pass up the chance for revenge. It’s up to Shakes (Jason Patric), a low-profile newspaper employee, and Michael (Brad Pitt), a lawyer with the district attorney’s office, to save their friends while keeping the details of their tortured childhoods secret. Dustin Hoffman appears as Danny Snyder, and Robert De Niro stars as Father Bobby, the local neighborhood priest who is as comfortable on the streets or in a bar as he is behind the pulpit. Based on the allegedly true story by Lorenzo Carcaterra, the film is directed by Barry Levinson (DINER, RAIN MAN).
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1996 Critical Choices
Character: Randy
Release Date: 1996
Synopsis: Dr. Margaret Ludlow (Betty Buckley) runs a women’s health co-op. Together with her strongest ally, activist Diana Johnson (Diana Scarwid), Ludlow provides safe and legal abortions for the community. But the co-op is threatened when its most passionate opponents, the deeply religious Arlene Dickens (Pamela Reed) and her embittered husband (Terry Kinney), fall under the influence of the power-hungry evangelist Bobby Ray Flood (Brian Kerwin). As tension mounts, the battle lines are drawn and violence erupts in a way that will affect all their lives.
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1995 Throwing Down
Character: Pete Gulley
Release Date: 1995
Synopsis: Throwing Down has to rate as the most weirdly entertaining film of this year’s Festival; its darkly comic story of two small-time scam artists who get much more than they bargained for when they seize on the chance to make a huge, unexpected score combines pitch-black humor, an eccentrically convoluted plot, a bizarre cast of characters and razor-sharp dialogue that rings too true to be made up. The story concerns two young con artists, A. J. and Pete, who always seem one step ahead of looming disaster. A.J.’s philosophy involves seizing on the “split second window of opportunity” that life occasionally offers, though this invariable involves something illegal. After ripping off a car full of young Virginians who have come to New York City to score some drugs, A. J. is off to put the finishing touches on a scam he’s been working on for weeks. Pete, meanwhile, is supposed to be watching A. J.’s back, but instead stumbles upon the chance to hijack a large shipment of drugs being sent by a mob functionary through the mail to a waiting customer. This “golden opportunity” will end up involving both young men in a surrealistic nightmare beyond their wildest imaginings.
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