Co-founder of Muck Media, an LA-based production company. Showrunner on Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller. EP of Science Fair the Series, Menudo: Forever Young, and Mucho Mucho Amor. Previously, Jeff campaign-hopped as a producer/director for Showtime's The Circus, directed The Opposition for ESPN about the collision of soccer and politics in Pinochet's Chile, and co-directed Borderland for Al Jazeera. For previous films, he embedded with the English Defense League to explore Europe's growing Islamophobia, posed as a soccer agent to investigate the trafficking of young African players, and was thrown out of a tobacco industry conference in Jakarta while documenting Big Tobacco's push into the developing world. Proud Berkeley j-school grad. Former captain of the Princeton soccer team.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Producer, writer and director
- 5 on MovieCove
What are Jeff Plunkett's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 2 · Serious 1 · Dark 0
Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 2 · Charged 1 · Intense 0
Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 3 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 0
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Jeff Plunkett's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Jeff Plunkett's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
5 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page.
Menudo: Forever Young(2022)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Roots of Fire(2022)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Science Fair(2018)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Career shape
Across their 5 MovieCove titles from 2018 to 2022.
How do Jeff Plunkett's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 89th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 91st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 5 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved3
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Jeff Plunkett work with?
People who share at least 2 of Jeff Plunkett's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Cristina Costantini shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Cristina CostantiniShared titles: Menudo: Forever Young (2022), Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (2020), Science Fair (2018)See all 3 shared titles with Cristina Costantini
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Alejandro Valdes-RochinShared titles: Menudo: Forever Young (2022), Science Fair (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Alejandro Valdes-Rochin
- Jeff MorrowShared titles: Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (2020), Science Fair (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Jeff Morrow
- Peter AltonShared titles: Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (2020), Science Fair (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Peter Alton
- Tom MaroneyShared titles: Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (2020), Science Fair (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Tom Maroney
Producers
- Enrique RiveraShared titles: Menudo: Forever Young (2022), Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (2020), Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller (2020)See all 3 shared titles with Enrique Rivera
- Darren FosterShared titles: Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (2020), Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller (2020), Science Fair (2018)See all 3 shared titles with Darren Foster
- Jennifer WoodShared titles: Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (2020), Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller (2020), Science Fair (2018)See all 3 shared titles with Jennifer Wood
- Alex FumeroShared titles: Menudo: Forever Young (2022), Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Alex Fumero
