Jennifer Jason Leigh

 Born February 5, 1962
 I love this woman because she's talented, cute and has always gone out of her way to take the most over-the-top roles available. It's as if Meryl Streep had a career in exploitation films.
 Looking at her filmography you wonder if her father Vic Morrow's 1982 death on the set of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOTION PICTURE had an effect on her odd taste in parts. She had just finished her breakthrough work in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and had the whole world in front of her, yet she immediately began playing the most harrowing roles available—drug addicts, alcoholics, rape victims, prostitutes, psychos... anything that allowed for excess. Of course, for a real actress those roles are more fun than playing a Barbie doll.

There is an Jennifer Jason Leigh gallery in The Museum

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (DVD)    1982
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Directed by Amy Heckerling (CLUELESS) Cameron Crowe (JERRY MAGUIRE, ALMOST FAMOUS) was once a very young looking reporter for Rolling Stone who wrote an amusing book (and this amusing screenplay) about his real-life experiences posing as a ... (see full description)
 
There is nothing like FLESH+BLOOD. It's a big-budget, gorgeous looking historical epic with major stars, but made with the lurid sensibilities of a sleazy Italian exploitation movie. Paul Verhoeven has never been shy about sexual nudity (SH... (see full description)
 
Hitcher, The (DVD)    1986
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Directed by Robert Harmon. Effective horror thriller. A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. Rutger Hauer... (see full description)
 
King Is Alive, The (DVD)    2000
PAL DVD / Region 2 (Europe)
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Italian disc wih available English (original) soundtrack. The only Dogma movie at the 2000 Cannes film festival, The King is Alive is, like all Dogmas, pumped with negative energy and pessimism, yet remains strangely humorous and always ent... (see full description)
 
Rush (DVD)     
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Wrenching story of an ambitious young police cadet (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tapped for deep under-cover narcotics duty in a small Texas town-a role that ultimately consumes her. Experienced undercover narc Jason Patric needs a new partner to ... (see full description)