Catherine O'Hara’s Typical Vibe
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Catherine O'Hara has 38 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Recurring themes

Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Comedy · Drama

Tokyo Godfathers
2003
Animation · Drama

Juno
2007
Comedy · Drama

Toy Story 2
1999
Animation · Comedy

Rumor Has It...
2005
Comedy · Romance

Ratatouille
2007
Animation · Comedy

Drop Dead Fred
1991
Comedy · Fantasy

Hum Tum
2004
Romance · Family

The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

The Wild Robot
2024 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Peacock · Included

Home Alone
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Disney+ · Included

Schitt's Creek
2015 · Series · Actor
Top 16%Max · Included

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Max · Included

Elemental
2023 · Movie · Voice
Top 20%Disney+ · Included

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.
Dir. Henry Selick · With Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
Dir. Chris Sanders · With Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom

Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.
Dir. Eugene Levy, Dan Levy · With Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara

In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.
Dir. Peter Sohn · With Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen

Desperate for celebrity approval, the newly appointed head of a movie studio and his executive team at Continental Studios must juggle corporate demands with creative ambitions as they try to keep movies alive and relevant.
Dir. Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Seth Rogen, Frida Perez, Evan Goldberg · With Seth Rogen, Catherine O'Hara, Ike Barinholtz

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern

as Duchess Rowena (voice) · Voice
King Randolph sends for his cousin, Duchess Rowena, to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her eleven sisters, into royal material. But the Duchess strips the sisters of their fun, including their favorite pastime: dancing. When all hope may be lost, the sisters discover a secret passageway to a magical land where they can dance the night away.
Dir. Greg Richardson · With Kelly Sheridan, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Gaze

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.
Dir. Christopher Guest · With Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.
Dir. Christopher Guest · With Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest

Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soulmate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company? This untraditional fairy tale is about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.
Dir. Mark Palansky · With Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.
Dir. Christopher Guest · With Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins

Kenai finds his childhood human friend Nita and the two embark on a journey to burn the amulet he gave to her before he was a bear, much to Koda's dismay.
Dir. Ben Gluck · With Patrick Dempsey, Mandy Moore, Jeremy Suarez

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.
Dir. Lawrence Kasdan · With Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.
Dir. Karey Kirkpatrick, Tim Johnson · With Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell

Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Dir. Spike Jonze · With Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini

The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.
Dir. Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan · With Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz

Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.
Dir. Sam Mendes · With John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Carmen Ejogo

After losing her job, a single mom falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling prescription drugs.
Dir. David Yates · With Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Catherine O'Hara

as Mrs. Frankenstein / Weird Girl / Gym Teacher (voice) · Voice
Disney+ · Included
When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them that Sparky's still the good, loyal friend he was.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.
Dir. Jake Kasdan · With Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk

When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.
Dir. Gillies MacKinnon · With Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney

When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past. Accompanied by her cat Alfie and Aidan, a cat-allergic spy, Elly races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Conway's fictional world and her real one begins to blur.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell

When an elite assassin marries a beautiful computer whiz after a whirlwind romance, he gives up the gun and settles down with his new bride. That is, until he learns that someone from his past has put a contract out on his life.
Dir. Robert Luketic · With Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck

The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star generates awards buzz.
Dir. Christopher Guest · With Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey
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