Greta Gerwig
Biography: Greta Gerwig is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and director based in NY. She has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and Mistress America (2015). Gerwig made her solo directorial debut with the critically acclaimed comedy-drama film Lady Bird (2017), which she also wrote, and has also had starring roles in the films Damsels in Distress (2011), Jackie (2016), and 20th Century Women (2016). Greta Celeste Gerwig was born in Sacramento, California, to Christine Gerwig (née Sauer), a nurse, and Gordon Gerwig, a financial consultant and computer programmer. She has German, Irish, and English ancestry. Gerwig was raised as a Unitarian Universalist, but also attended an all-girls Catholic school. She has described herself as "an intense child". With an early interest in dance, she intended to get a degree in musical theatre in New York. She graduated from Barnard College in NY, where she studied English and philosophy, instead. Originally intending to become a playwright, after meeting young film director Joe Swanberg, she became the star of a series of intellectual low budget movies made by first-time filmmakers, a trend dubbed "mumblecore". Gerwig was cast in a minor role in Swanberg's LOL (2006) in 2006, while still studying at Barnard. She then appeared in many of Swanberg's films, and personally co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced one entitled Nights and Weekends (2008). She has worked with good quality directors such as Ti West (The House of the Devil (2009)), Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress (2011)), or Woody Allen (To Rome with Love (2012)) but success and (international) recognition did not come until Frances Ha (2012), directed by Noah Baumbach, a film she also co-wrote. Both tall and immature, awkward and graceful, blundering and candid, annoying and engaging, Greta has won all hearts in the title role of Frances Ha(liday). In 2017, she wrote and directed the highly acclaimed, semi-autobiographical teen movie Lady Bird (2017), set in 2002-2003, and starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and Timothée Chalamet. In 2011, Gerwig received an award for Acting from the Athena Film Festival for her artistry as one of Hollywood's definitive screen actresses of her generation.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 04, 1983
Deathday: N/A
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Baghead
2008-01-21
Baghead
Overview: Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-21
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Hannah Takes the Stairs
2007-08-22
Hannah Takes the Stairs
Overview: Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of their friendship?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-22
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The House of the Devil
2009-10-30
The House of the Devil
Overview: A young college student who’s struggling financially takes a strange babysitting job which coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-30
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Greenberg
2010-03-26
Greenberg
Overview: A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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No Strings Attached
2011-01-21
No Strings Attached
Overview: Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-21
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LOL
2006-03-13
LOL
Overview: The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-13
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Arthur
2011-04-08
Arthur
Overview: A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman that his family doesn't like.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-08
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Nights and Weekends
2008-10-10
Nights and Weekends
Overview: A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-10
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To Rome with Love
2012-04-20
To Rome with Love
Overview: Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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The Dish & the Spoon
2011-03-12
The Dish & the Spoon
Overview: Two wounded souls commiserate through drinking and aimless wandering while acting out the roles of the happy relationships that elude them in reality. Greta Gerwig and Olly Alexander deliver beautifully-tuned comic performances in their portrayal of young adults learning to cope with the unavoidable perils of emotional dependency.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-12
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Damsels in Distress
2012-04-06
Damsels in Distress
Overview: A trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university: the dynamic leader Violet Wister, principled Rose and sexy Heather. They welcome transfer student Lily into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-06
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Lola Versus
2012-04-24
Lola Versus
Overview: Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater) for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-24
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Yeast
2008-03-10
Yeast
Overview: A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-10
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Frances Ha
2013-05-17
Frances Ha
Overview: An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-17
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Side by Side
2012-08-19
Side by Side
Overview: Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-19
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Family Tree
2009-10-13
Family Tree
Overview: Siblings Tim and Lena squabble after he detects her disinterest in his long-term family genealogy project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-13
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A NY Thing
2009-09-19
A NY Thing
Overview: Masquerading as another man, Antoine flies to New York for a three-day stay and promptly falls in love with Alice, who's dating someone else. When that doesn't work out for him, Antoine turns to the city itself for inspiration.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-19
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The Humbling
2014-12-31
The Humbling
Overview: Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-31
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Wanna Come With?
2016-05-17
Wanna Come With?
Overview: A young man embarks a journey. He searches for someone, anyone, to come with.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-17
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Eden
2014-11-19
Eden
Overview: Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-19
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Art House
2010-04-16
Art House
Overview: A communal house left in trust many years ago to provide art students support in the way of free housing, ART HOUSE has accumulated its share of legends, lore, art, art junk and a reputation for hard partying. When a university dean and an influential descendant of the original benefactor decide to turn the place into housing for varsity golf, the residents only chance of blocking the move is to prove their value and vitality as an artistic community. The burden is on art student Nora Ohr (Greta Gerwig), who is energetic, compassionate, but by no means perfect. Can the residents of ART HOUSE get their act together and make a name for themselves as artists before they're kicked out?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-16
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Maggie's Plan
2016-04-27
Maggie's Plan
Overview: Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with John, an older married professor, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But three years later, married to John with one daughter, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex-wife are actually perfect for each other?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-27
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Mistress America
2015-08-14
Mistress America
Overview: Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-14
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Wiener-Dog
2016-06-24
Wiener-Dog
Overview: A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-24
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Making a Scene
2013-11-25
Making a Scene
Overview: For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsible for some of the best scripts of 2013. We asked them each to write a single line for us — not a scene, a script or a scenario, but simply an intriguing, amusing or captivating line of dialogue. Then we gave these lines to one of the great movie artists of our time: the cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, a two-time Oscar winner. Kaminski used these lines as inspiration to create 11 original (very) short films. Each short evokes a style or genre of the cinematic past and stars an actor who gave an especially memorable performance in 2013.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-25
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20th Century Women
2016-12-28
20th Century Women
Overview: In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-28
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Jay Kelly
Jay Kelly
Overview: Described as a funny and emotional coming-of-age story about adults.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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You Wont Miss Me
2009-01-16
You Wont Miss Me
Overview: A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-16
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Northern Comfort
2010-05-28
Northern Comfort
Overview: Two strangers' paths crisscross as they make their way toward Canada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-28
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Jackie
2016-12-02
Jackie
Overview: An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-02
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Isle of Dogs
2018-03-23
Isle of Dogs
Overview: In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-23
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Jagoo
2015-01-16
Jagoo
Overview: After a bad break up, Elodie meets a enigmatic stranger at a Brooklyn bar. When she goes back to his apartment with him, the night takes an unsettling turn.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-16
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017-10-13
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Overview: An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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The Making of 'Making a Scene'
2013-11-25
The Making of 'Making a Scene'
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the year's [2013] best performers starring in 11 original (very) short films directed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-25
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Thanks for the Add!
2006-05-01
Thanks for the Add!
Overview: A woman borrows a man's cell phone and makes a call.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-01
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White Noise
2022-11-25
White Noise
Overview: Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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Quick Feet, Soft Hands
2008-04-18
Quick Feet, Soft Hands
Overview: A young woman's hopes of moving up are tied to a minor league baseball player. As he falls deeper into a batting slump, the couple must cope with the day-to-day realities of being young and poor, and they must confront the prospect that they may never make it to the big leagues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-18
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Carole & Grey
2024-11-21
Carole & Grey
Overview: Best friends Carole and Grey go on an odyssey from Brooklyn to the Upper West Side to get Grey's Dog.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-21
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