
Jess Weixler
Actor · b. 1981 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Jessica "Jess" Weixler (born June 8, 1981) is an American actress, best known to date as the lead in the comedy-horror film Teeth and the comedy The Big Bad Swim. She graduated in 1999 from Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also attended the Walden Theatre Conservatory Program and was in The River City Players acting group and in the Chamber Singers choral group and was voted "most talented", and then attended Juilliard. She was nominated for a Breakthrough Award at the Gotham Awards in 2007 and won the Special Jury Prize in Dramatic category For a juicy and jaw-dropping performance at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 both for her role in Teeth. She also appeared in the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In January 2009, she was named by New York Magazine as the "New Indie Queen" of the year and one of the fourteen "New Yorkers you need to know." She currently lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, New York. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jess Weixler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies24
Movie6.8HorrorThriller27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
It Chapter Two
2019 · 9.9K votes
Movie5.8ActionThrillerA black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
Ava
2020 · 2.8K votes
Movie7.2ComedyRomanceTen-year-old Gabe Burton is just an average kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walks into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she reveals that she won't be going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life, love, and girls.
Little Manhattan
2005 · 783 votes
Movie6.4DramaHistoryFrom the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021 · 702 votes
Movie5.4ComedyHorrorDawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.
Teeth
2008 · 832 votes
Movie6.2DramaA New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014 · 318 votes
Movie6.6DramaRomanceTold from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014 · 250 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceA widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
The Face of Love
2013 · 148 votes
Movie6.4DramaTV MovieBased on the internationally-acclaimed play by Colette Freedman, the story of 4 estranged sisters who reunite for their mother’s alleged suicide.
Sister Cities
2016 · 44 votes
Movie5.6ComedyA Stanford law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and on the day of her college boyfriend's birthday, she finds herself stuck running an ice cream truck fending off locals and oddball friends alike. This one day spent in a truck on the streets of Los Angeles will wake Jillian from her aimless daze and make her see that life doesn't stop just because you want it to.
Free Samples
2013 · 43 votes
Movie6.6ComedyDramaA newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.
Best Man Down
2012 · 208 votes
Movie5.4CrimeThrillerTwo wealthy businessmen are about to get away with $5 million in ill-gotten money until their plans are revealed by an uninvited house guest.
Money
2016 · 118 votes
Movie5.7DramaRecently released from prison, Beth is working with her public defender to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated for ten years. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess, an idealistic young protégé of the public defense team, who decides to take on Beth's cause whether she likes it or not.
Who We Are Now
2018 · 47 votes
Movie5.0DramaComedyTwo codependent roommates, on the verge of eviction, flee New York for the promise of sunshine in Los Angeles where their friendship is tested by a chance at fame, a fortune teller and an amorous wealthy aunt.
Apartment Troubles
2014 · 18 votes
Movie6.1ComedyCrimeDick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama.
The Death of Dick Long
2019 · 189 votes
Movie6.0With a debt collector hot on his trail, Harvard graduate Billy Schine enrolls in a clinical drug trial to make a quick buck. Carted out of New York City in a shuttle full of oddball characters, Billy and the rest of the guinea pigs, affectionately referred to as "Normals," camp out at hidden research facility. When not popping pills, being tagged, drained of blood, prodded, poked and color-coded, they are telling horror stories of previous tests or generally getting on each other's nerves. As the test drags on, just being there starts to take its toll, and tensions build until the dam finally bursts. Billy realizes that there is no such thing as "normal."
The Normals
2012 · 4 votes
Movie6.5RomanceComedyWhen a director, actor, screenwriter and actress reunite for the 10th Anniversary of their one-hit wonder film for a convention that suddenly gets cancelled, they must improvise and come up with ideas for a sequel while in rural Wales.
Let's Love
2026 · 2 votes
- Movie1.0Drama
The lives of a group of young doctors, nurses, and administrators working at an underfunded Los Angeles county hospital.
County
2012 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ThrillerIn a mysterious parking garage, a business woman is haunted by the ticking of the biological clock in her head.
Clock
2020 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ComedyDramaAn adult swim class sets the stage for this sexually charged comedy-drama about love, loss, and second chances. Three strangers -- inextricably connected through personal heartbreak -- find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in -- it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile.
The Big Bad Swim
2006 · 25 votes
- MovieComedyDrama
A loving couple make a deadly mistake when they invite their closest friends and family to a birthday celebration — honoring the strange, feral girl they discovered in their basement.
Movie5.0A gripping coming-of-age thriller. 11-year-old Cleo (Chloe Ghloe Guidry) forms a dangerous bond with a kidnapper (Jessica Sula), blurring the lines between kidnapping and running away.
Wayward
2023 · 1 votes
Movie4.6DramaRomanceAn ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Alexander the Last
2009 · 24 votes
Movie6.1DramaIn the wake of a collapsed marriage and his father's death, David Lamb hopes to regain his own sense of goodness by focusing his attention on Tommie, an awkward and unpopular 11-year-old girl. Convinced he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness, David takes her on a road trip from Chicago to the Rockies to initiate her into the beauty of the mountain wilderness. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.
Lamb
2015 · 69 votes
Series8
TV7.3CrimeDramaIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
Law & Order
1990 · 727 votes
TV7.6DramaThe third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · 389 votes
TV7.6DramaAlicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
The Good Wife
2009 · 706 votes
TV7.5CrimeDramaAllison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
Medium
2005 · 590 votes
TV7.6DramaFamilyAfter the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram and his 9-year-old daughter Delia.
Everwood
2002 · 241 votes
TV7.7CrimeDramaWhen corruption charges strip him of his job, his family and his pride, former cop Mike Olshansky forges a new identity as a Philadelphia cab driver, patrolling the city as a roving vigilante who works with local police.
Hack
2002 · 13 votes
TV7.7DramaCrimeCameron Black is the world's greatest illusionist. At least, that's what people used to call him—before his greatest secret was exposed and his career destroyed. Even worse, Cameron has good reason to believe this was no accident.
Deception
2018 · 255 votes
TV6.7DramaThe multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain his family’s cattle empire during the turbulent Bandit Wars of South Texas. Based on Philipp Meyer’s acclaimed novel.
The Son
2017 · 148 votes