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

Hitcher, The (DVD)    1986
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
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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)
 
Short Cuts (Criterion 2 DVD Set)    1993
DVD / All Regions
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At 187 minutes there's a lot to see - Altman applies the sprawling splintered narrative technique of NASHVILLE to alienated southern Californians, this time weaving together elements of various stories by Raymond Carver into a panorama of L... (see full description)