Luca (2021)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
On the Italian Riviera, an unlikely but strong friendship grows between a human being and a sea monster disguised as a human.
Starring: Maya Rudolph, Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Giacomo Gianniotti, Jim Gaffigan
Director: Enrico Casarosa
Tesla (2020)
Biography | Drama
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Kyle MacLachlan, Josh Hamilton, Jim Gaffigan, Lucy Walters
Director: Michael Almereyda
Target Number One / Most Wanted (2020)
Biography | Crime | Thriller
In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Stephen McHattie, Jim Gaffigan, J.C. MacKenzie, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Don McKellar, Amanda Crew
Director: Daniel Roby
Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist (2020)
Comedy
In The Pale Tourist, Gaffigan boldly goes where no stand-up comedian has gone before: everywhere. The two hour-long specials were filmed as part of Gaffigan's The Pale Tourist worldwide tour, in which he traveled the world–in each country meeting people, eating the food, and learning a bit about the history. He would then transform those experiences into a stand-up set of all-new material and perform it for locals and expatriates, before heading on to another destination and doing it all over again.
Starring: Jim Gaffigan
Director: Jim Gaffigan
Above the Shadows (2019)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sport
A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.
Starring: Alan Ritchson, Jim Gaffigan, Maria Dizzia, Tito Ortiz, David Johansen, Megan Fox
Director: Claudia Myers
Playmobil: The Movie (2019)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Animated feature film inspired by the Playmobil brand toys.
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Daniel Radcliffe, Gabriel Bateman, Adam Lambert, Jim Gaffigan, Kenan Thompson
Director: Lino DiSalvo
The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards 2020 (TV 2020)
Awards | Music
The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on January 26, 2020, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, running from October 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019. Nominations were announced in all 84 categories by Gayle King, Alicia Keys and Bebe Rexha on the set of CBS This Morning on November 20, 2019. Keys hosted the ceremony, having hosted the previous year's ceremony as well. Lizzo received the most nominations of any artist with eight, followed by Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X with six each. Eilish and her brother Finneas received the most awards, with five wins each. Upon this, she became the first artist to win Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist in the same year since Christopher Cross in 1981. Aerosmith was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two nights prior to the telecast. This was set to be the first edition of the Grammy Awards that the new Recording Academy President Deborah Dugan would have presided over; however, she was relieved of her duties as President and CEO and placed on administrative leave from the organization on January 16, 2020. Recording Academy Chairman Harvey Mason Jr. took over as interim President and Chief Executive Officer. Mason presided over the ceremony instead of Dugan. The ceremony was held at the Staples Center on the same day as the death of basketball player Kobe Bryant, who played for the Los Angeles Lakers – the arena is the team's home venue. Several tributes to Bryant were included in the ceremony, including a performance of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" by host Alicia Keys and Boyz II Men, while Lil Nas X, Lizzo and DJ Khaled all incorporated tributes to Bryant into their performances.
Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Jim Gaffigan, Demi Lovato, Billy Porter, Ariana Grande, Alicia Keys, Ben Platt, Billie Eilish, Common, DJ Khaled, Ava DuVernay, Gwen Stefani, LL Cool J, Lizzo, Camila Cabello
Troop Zero (2019)
Comedy | Drama | Family
In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a competition offers her a chance to be recorded on NASA's Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troop of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime.
Starring: Viola Davis, Mckenna Grace, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Epps, Allison Janney
Director: Bert & Bertie
Them That Follow (2019)
Thriller
Set deep in the wilds of Appalachia, where believers handle death-dealing snakes to prove themselves before God, a pastor's daughter holds a secret that threatens to tear her community apart.
Starring: Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever, Alice Englert, Jim Gaffigan, Walton Goggins, Thomas Mann, Lewis Pullman
Director: Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage
Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It) (2008)
Action | Adventure | Western
Tale of vengeance — outlaw style — as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father.
Starring: John Doman, Jim Gaffigan, Jeff Hephner, Tamara Hope, Richard Tyson, Clay Wilcox
Director: Lance Doty
Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time (2019)
Comedy
Comedian Jim Gaffigan performs live at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, MN.
Starring: Jim Gaffigan
Director: Jeannie Gaffigan
Drunk Parents (2019)
Comedy
Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Salma Hayek, Jim Gaffigan, Joe Manganiello, Ben Platt, Treat Williams
Director: Fred Wolf
Duck Duck Goose (2018)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
A bachelor goose must form a bond with two lost ducklings as they journey south.
Starring: Jim Gaffigan, Zendaya, Lance Lim, Greg Proops, Stephen Fry, Craig Ferguson, Carl Reiner
Director: Christopher Jenkins
Chappaquiddick (2017)
Drama | History | Thriller
Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
Starring: Kate Mara, Jason Clarke, Ed Helms, Bruce Dern, Jim Gaffigan, Taylor Nichols
Director: John Curran
The 60th Annual Grammy Awards 2018 (TV 2018)
Awards | Music
The 60th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on January 28, 2018. The CBS network broadcast the show live from Madison Square Garden in New York City. It was the first time since 2003 that the ceremony was held outside Los Angeles (where the Staples Center had been the home of the Grammys since 2004). James Corden returned as host. The ceremony recognizes the best recordings, compositions and artists of the eligibility year, which ran from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. The nominations were announced on November 28, 2017. The "pre-telecast" ceremony (officially named The Premiere Ceremony) was be held on the same day prior to the main ceremony. The show was moved to January to avoid competing with the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, as was the case in 2010 and 2014.
Starring: James Corden, Cardi B, Bono, Dave Chappelle, Maurice Clark, Miley Cyrus, Jim Gaffigan, Lady Gaga, Donald Glover, Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars, Trevor Noah, Pink, Rihanna, Jerry Seinfeld
Chuck / The Bleeder (2016)
Biography | Drama | Sport
A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner.
Starring: Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Elisabeth Moss, Ron Perlman, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Rapaport
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Experimenter (2015)
Biography | Drama | History
In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram begins a series of innovative behavior experiments designed to explore the psychology of obedience. The outcome is shocking, and Milgram becomes a controversial figure.
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Kellan Lutz, Taryn Manning, John Leguizamo
Director: Michael Almereyda
The Living Wake (2007)
Comedy
Director Sol Tryon's critically acclaimed debut feature is a timeless fairytale with a biting sense of humor. When self-proclaimed genius K. Roth Binew (Mike O'Connell, Funny People) learns his life will be cut short by a grave but unnamed illness, he decides to go out in style-with a living wake. Accompanied by his faithful assistant Mills (Jesse Eisenberg, Zombieland), K Roth spends his scheduled final day on earth revisiting all the people who touched his life – from the village prostitute, to his estranged mother – in order to invite them to his grand finale.
Starring: Mike O'Connell, Jim Gaffigan, Jill Larson, Jesse Eisenberg, Eddie Pepitone
Director: Sol Tryon
Walter (2015)
Comedy | Drama
A ticket-taker at the local cinema believes he is the son of God. He has agreed to decide the eternal fate of everyone he comes in to contact with.
Starring: Andrew J. West, Justin Kirk, Neve Campbell, Leven Rambin, Milo Ventimiglia, Jim Gaffigan
Director: Anna Mastro
Final (2001)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Bill wakes up from a coma in a hospital ward, raving about tissue regeneration experiments, final injections, organ transplants and having been cryogenically frozen. Battling flashbacks of his father's death and a car crash, occasional hallucinations and fits of rage he tries to piece together his own history with the help of Ann, a lonely medical psychologist sent in to evaluate whether he should be released. In their confrontational, sexually-charged sessions, Bill flip-flops between pitch-perfect self-diagnoses and his paranoid bio-tech fantasies, but slowly begins to heal. But things are not what they seem.
Starring: Denis Leary, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie, Jim Gaffigan, Jim Hornyak, Maureen Anderman, Marin Hinkle
Director: Campbell Scott
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