In 1996, she landed a leading role in the adventure film, Alaska (1996). She played the role of Jessie Barnes, who has moved to Alaska with her father (played by Dirk Benedict) and brother after the death of her mother. Her father is a former airline pilot and upon moving to Alaska, he starts earning a living by delivering supplies to small towns in the Alaskan wilderness in his light aircraft. While making a delivery, his plane crashes into a mountainside. Concluding that not enough was being done to locate him, Jessie and her brother set out on a successful attempt to find him with the help of a baby polar bear.
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Thursday, 11 November 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Personal life
In 2003, Birch started dating singer Fred Durst, but they broke up eventually. She is vegan.[edit]
boy you ain't kidding
― goole, Thursday, 11 November 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
alaska is kindof sucky
― plax (ico), Thursday, 11 November 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Birch has indicated that she aspires to become a director and has recently begun directing short video sketches for a sketch comedy troupe called The Doomed Planet. The sketches can be seen on her official website.
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Thursday, 11 November 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
they had me at baby polar bear, which unfortunately were the last words in the paragraph
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Thursday, 11 November 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
she makes rose mcgowan look like an over-achiever.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 11 November 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
ghost world should have bought her a lot of goodwill w/ a partic demographic
― plax (ico), Thursday, 11 November 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5713383/thora-birch-fired-from-play-because-of-meddling-former-porn-star-dad
so creepy
― tickle me imo (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw this @ Wal-Mart tonight:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/814RhZSXoLL._AA1500_.jpg
Apparantly Birch plays an intrepid blogger. I don't know what to think.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 March 2011 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that a John Waters movie?
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
could be funny if the father of all these babies is just 1 one of those high school boys. well maybe not.
― Ludo, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
That movie (haven't seen it) is based on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_High_School_%28Massachusetts%29#Teen_pregnancy_controversy which happened when I was interning at a MA-based organization that dealt with teen pregnancy/parenting. Fun times.
― ENBB, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
that exact same thing happened in my high school in 1993
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
wonder why they went with that ink splatter in the movie logo
― Darin, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
It represents the shameful stain of unwed motherhood.
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Friday, 18 March 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Or a typo.
that ink splatter is weird, it's not in a third dimension like the black blocks it's connected to are but flat with the rest of the page
― thomp, Friday, 18 March 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
better movie would be thora birch having a baby with camryn manheim
― buzza, Friday, 18 March 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Thora Birch: how Hollywood's darling disappeared
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link
that was an amazingly useless and pointless article.
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
she apparently has one of the more infamously creepy stage dads around, who has insisted on being on set with her well into adulthood, present even for sex scenes
― Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 03:35 (ten years ago) link
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Thursday, November 11, 2010 6:41 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg saw this in class in fourth grade never realized it was thora
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah that Guardian piece seemed designed to make her sympathetic but it can't hide a certain muted nastiness
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 08:37 (ten years ago) link
She shows up for half a minute in The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Took me about 10 seconds, but I recognized her. What a weird film. I was so perplexed by the first 15 minutes that leaving crossed my mind (didn't help that I went in thinking I was seeing a documentary--no idea why), but I eventually got onto its wavelength a bit. Very nice non-ending.
― clemenza, Friday, 23 August 2019 04:12 (four years ago) link