THESPIAN OF THE WEEK: Jennifer Connelly

Name:  Jennifer Lynn Connelly

AKA:  Jennifer Connelly

Date of birth:  December 12, 1970

From:  New York

Specialty:  Actress

Inside the Actor's Studio with Jennifer Connelly

Must Watch Jennifer Connelly Films

Requiem For a Dream
Drama

Dark Water
Drama Horror Mystery

House of Sand and Fog
Drama

A Beautiful Mind
Drama

POLLOCK

GENRE:  Biographical/ Drama
MADE:  2000
CAST:  Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeffrey Tambor
DIRECTOR:  Ed Harris
WRITER:  Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith, Barbara Turner, Susan Emshwiller

PLOT:  A biographical film on famous American abstract artist Jackson Pollack.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  A Beautiful Mind, Frida, Seraphine

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DARK WATER

GENRE:  Drama/ Horror/ Thriller
MADE:  2005
CAST:  Jennifer Connelly, Ariel Gade, John C. Reilly
DIRECTOR:  Walter Salles
WRITER:  Koji Suzuki, Hideo Nakata, Takashige Ichise, Rafael Yglesias

PLOT:  An American remake of the Japanese mystery horror film "Dark Water", Dark Water is about a mother and daughter who move into an apartment and notice an unusual leak from the ceiling, when they find that no one has lived in the above apartment for quite some time it becomes a mystery.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Grudge, The Ring, One Missed Call, Pulse

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LABYRINTH

GENRE:  Adventure/ Family/ Fantasy
MADE:  1986
CAST:  David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly
DIRECTOR:  Jim Henson
WRITER:  Dennis Lee, Jim Henson, Terry Jones

PLOT:  Young Sarah comes of age when she must get her brother back from the Goblin King by figuring out the labyrinth that leads to the castle.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Pan's Labyrinth, Hook, The Neverending Story, The Wizard Of Oz, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

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HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU

GENRE:  Comedy/ Romance/ Drama
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Ginnifer Goodwin,
DIRECTOR:  Ken Kwapis
WRITER:  Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein, Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo

PLOT:  Set in Baltimore, a film about love and relationships and how to read the signs.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Sidewalks Of New York, Love Actually, The Women

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DARK CITY

GENRE:  Mystery/ Science fiction
MADE:  1998
CAST:  Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly
DIRECTOR:  Alex Proyas
WRITER:  Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs, David S. Goyer

PLOT:  When a man wakes up in a bathtub and cannot remember his name and his life he begins to search for answers only to find that no one really remembers, the sun never seems to come up and no one seems to remember how to get to Shell Beach.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Twelve Monkeys, Children Of Men, Mulholland Drive

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REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  2000
CAST:  Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
DIRECTOR:  Darren Aronofsky
WRITER:  Hubert Selby Jr., Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky

PLOT:  A story about drugs, the reasons some turn to them, how far it could go and how far some are willing to go.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Trainspotting, Traffic, Basketball Diaries

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NOTE:  If you don't like watching scenes of people being high or getting high (and yes, that includes using needles) then do not watch this film.  It is a great film, one of the best  drug-subject films I have ever seen but I would never watch it again- yes, it is that hard to watch.  If you've watched "Trainspotting" and you felt Trainspotting was uncomfortable to watch then this will be undeniably more so.  An awesome film however with great acting, great story and great soundtrack.

BLOOD DIAMOND

GENRE:  Drama/Thriller/Adventure
MADE:  2006
CAST:  Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly
DIRECTOR:  Edward Zwick
WRITER:  Charles Leavitt, C. Gaby Mitchell

PLOT:  The story about a blood diamond.  A journalist writing an article on Blood Diamonds travels to the source and makes a deal with an Australian native for the details of the story.  Both get tangled up with a man native to the land from a small fishing village seeking his taken family who happens to know where a very rare Blood Diamond is hidden.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Children Of Men, Shawshank Redemption, Inception

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