Jay Russell
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jay Russell (born January 10, 1960 in North Little Rock, Arkansas), is a film director and also executive producer and director of the film My Dog Skip. His other directing credits include Tuck Everlasting, Ladder 49 and The Water Horse. He has also written and directed End of the Line. Russell graduated from Columbia University in 1984 with a MFA in screenwriting and directing, having studied with producer Michael Hausman and director Milos Forman. His first film, End of the Line (1988), was a Sundance Institute project and was released by Orion Classics. He has since written projects for Imagine Entertainment and TriStar Pictures and has directed numerous documentaries for PBS, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, CBS, Fox, USA Network and NBC. He is currently working on film projects such as Duncan, Whole Lotta Sole and Wake the Dead. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay Russell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater freedom and adventure.
Tuck Everlasting
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
The Water Horse
Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids.
Ladder 49
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood.
My Dog Skip
When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
End of the Line
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colourful characters, including a man who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.
Whole Lotta Sole
A series of mishaps threaten a recently divorced mom's attempts to make her two kids' first Christmas "without dad" perfect.
One Christmas Eve
Based on true events and the the 2025 short film, Armed Only with a Camera, Brent and Craig Renaud, documentary filmmakers from Arkansas, embark on a perilous journey to document the stories of innocent lives caught in the midst of deadly conflicts worldwide.