Movies starring Maggie Gyllenhaal

The Terror Inside (1996)

90 mins     Drama, Thriller, TV Movie      

The Terror Inside (1996) Heather Locklear stars as Suzy who following the shock of her father's death starts to exhibit multiple personalities...

Homegrown (1998)

108 mins     Comedy, Crime, Drama      

The synopsis I read for "Homegrown" made it sound like 3 stoners trying to do big business when their boss dies and they try to carry on his drug business. And in fairness that is what it is about but this isn't a stoner come...

Donnie Darko (2001)

113 mins     Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi      

Donnie Darko (2001): Any movie which you need to go looking for a freaking explanation on the internet for is not good...

Secretary (2002)

104 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

If you think of James Spader movies you may think of such pleasant 80s fluff as "Pretty in Pink", you may even think of those erotic thrillers from the early 90s such as "White Palace" but you may not think of "Secretary" a m...

Adaptation (2002)

114 mins     Comedy, Crime, Drama      

As I sat watching "Adaptation." various words came to mind such as fascinating, self indulgent, interpretation and quirky but then so did these short words "clever, maybe too clever". And that is the thing about "Adaptation."...

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

114 mins     Drama      

When I got "Mona Lisa Smile", it was purely because it starred Julia Roberts and Julia Stiles, 2 of my favourite actresses, and then I read the synopsis I thought huge mistake as an uplifting story about an art history teache...

Trust the Man (2005)

103 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

I have a problem with "Trust the Man" and that problem is that it is blah. What do I mean well here we have a comedy drama about two couples whose relationships are in crisis and we watch as problems from commitment issues to...

Sherrybaby (2006)

96 mins     Drama      

For those who know about "Sherrybaby" because it features Maggie Gyllenhaal naked, having sex and giving a blow job should know something else, this is a movie more than just titillation. "Sherrybaby" is a powerful and for th...

World Trade Center (2006)

129 mins     Drama      

Taking on making a movie about any part of 9/11 would never be an easy task and for braving the emotional subject director Oliver Stone deserves much applause. But for some reason the finished movie "World Trade Center" doesn...

The Dark Knight (2008)

152 mins     Action , Crime, Thriller      

I liked "Batman Begins", it breathed new life into a franchise which had lost it's way and I was looking forward to the follow up "The Dark Knight" especially as there was a lot of positive press about the movie and in partic...

Crazy Heart (2009)

112 mins     Drama, Musical, Romance      

"Crazy Heart" is like the country & western version of "The Wrestler", it has a storyline about an old singer, a former star whose career has long gone down the pan and along with that has his health as he spends his days on ...

Away We Go (2009)

98 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

"Away We Go" is a clever movie because it breaches the gap between off-beat and mainstream and does so brilliantly. It is off-beat because we have this soul searching road trip of a couple expecting their first child and lear...

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)

109 mins     Comedy, Family, Fantasy      

Whilst the first "Nanny McPhee" movie worked I always felt it worked for a very specific target audience of young girls rather than for all the family. Thankfully that issue has been sorted when it comes to the sequel "Nanny ...

White House Down (2013)

131 mins     Action , Drama, Thriller      

A few things struck me as I watched "White House Down" one of which was James Woods who seemed to have morphed in to George C. Scott not only beginning to look like him but also having some of the great actors style. And that...

Frank (2014)

95 mins     Comedy, Drama      

I believe "Frank" was an experiment to prove that if you get the right people and enough of them to say a movie is good then the majority will follow because they want to sound like they are hip and get it. I have long stoppe...