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Beth Grant has 27 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Donnie Darko.
Thumbsucker
2005
Comedy · Drama

Donnie Darko
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Hulu · Included

Little Miss Sunshine
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Netflix · Included

Words on Bathroom Walls
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Matchstick Men
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Lucky
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Willy's Wonderland
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 48%Prime Video · Included

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Dir. Richard Kelly · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, James Duval
Through unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium, Tova, an elderly widow, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.
Dir. Olivia Newman · With Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, Colm Meaney

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Dir. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton · With Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell
Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.
Dir. Jan de Bont · With Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock

Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Dir. Beeban Kidron · With Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, John Leguizamo

Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.
Dir. Thor Freudenthal · With Charlie Plummer, Molly Parker, Walton Goggins

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius · With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman

A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman

Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
Dir. John Carroll Lynch · With Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston

Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where the chase begins again.
Dir. John Lafia · With Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Christine Elise

In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of this overly privileged society. When Devon, a 10-year-old daughter from one family, forges a friendship with Trent, things suddenly get very complicated.
Dir. John Duigan · With Sam Rockwell, Mischa Barton, Christopher McDonald

When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.
Dir. Scott Cooper · With Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall

Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship.
Dir. Randa Haines · With Vanessa Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson

When his car breaks down, a quiet loner agrees to clean an abandoned family fun center in exchange for repairs. He soon finds himself waging war against possessed animatronic mascots while trapped inside Willy's Wonderland.
Dir. Kevin Lewis · With Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant

Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez

Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole in the rules.
Dir. Jason Bateman · With Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn, Rohan Chand

Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.
Dir. Riley Stearns · With Leland Orser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Ellis

A comedic thriller that re-imagines Mark Twain's iconic literary characters of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" as grown men in current day.
Dir. Aaron Nee, Adam Nee · With Kyle Gallner, Adam Nee, Matthew Gray Gubler

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Dir. Pablo Larraín · With Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig

The owner of a factory that produces flavor extracts, Joel Reynold seems to have it all, but really doesn't. What's missing is sexual attention from his wife, Suzie. Joel hatches a convoluted plan to get Suzie to cheat on him, thereby clearing the way for Joel to have an affair with Cindy, an employee. But what Joel doesn't know is that Cindy is a sociopathic con artist, and a freak workplace accident clears the way for her to ruin Joel forever.
Dir. Mike Judge · With Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig

Following the public's realization that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are one and the same, the former stages a mock funeral, only for a series of gruesome murders to begin occurring as in his books.
Dir. George A. Romero · With Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker

A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.
Dir. Anders Anderson · With Jon Hamm, Josh Lucas, Rhona Mitra

A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Dir. Roger Donaldson · With Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke

Backwoods bounty hunter Hub Halloran comes back from the dead with an unexpected second chance at life, love, and a nearly-forgotten musical career — only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist.
Dir. Grainger David · With Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Nettles, Beth Grant

Obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri tries to balance her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small medical practice in New York City.
Dir. Mindy Kaling · With Mindy Kaling, Ed Weeks, Ike Barinholtz

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Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
Dir. Paul Weiland · With Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz
After one short blind date, Mary Horowitz, a brilliant and eccentric crossword constructor, is convinced that Steve, a CCN cameraman, is her soul mate. Because his job takes him hither and yon, she crisscrosses the country following Steve, with the encouragement of a reporter, turning up at media events he's at to convince him they are perfect for each other. Along the way, she befriends an assortment of misfits who accept her for who she is, leading her to reassess her reasons for this strange journey.
Dir. Phil Traill · With Bradley Cooper, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church