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Marcia Gay Harden has 33 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 Mystic River.
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About Schmidt
2002
Drama · Comedy

The Weather Man
2005
Comedy · Drama

Riding in Cars with Boys
2001
Drama · Comedy

The Upside of Anger
2005
Comedy · Drama

Rocket Science
2007
Comedy · Drama

Funny People
2009
Comedy · Drama

The Banger Sisters
2002
Comedy · Drama

Caterina in the Big City
2003
Comedy · Drama

The Mist
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Prime Video · Included

Detachment
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Knox Goes Away
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Max · Included

Code Black
2015 · Series · Actor
Top 34%Prime Video · Free w/ ads

The Daytrippers
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Max · Included

Magic in the Moonlight
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Hulu · Included

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Dir. Sean Penn · With Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones

Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan?
Dir. Martin Brest · With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
Dir. Tony Kaye · With Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, James Caan

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Dir. Joel Coen · With Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
Dir. Nick Hamm · With Charlie Rowe, Marcia Gay Harden, Jim Belushi

A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son. But to do so, he must race against the police closing in on him as well as the ticking clock of his own rapidly deteriorating mind.
Dir. Michael Keaton · With Michael Keaton, Al Pacino, Marcia Gay Harden
Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.
Dir. Alex Kalymnios · With Marcia Gay Harden, Emily Skeggs, Tate Donovan

Inspired by the award-winning documentary, this medical drama is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation where the extraordinary staff confront a challenged system in order to protect their ideals and the patients who need them the most.
Dir. Michael Seitzman · With Marcia Gay Harden, Luis Guzmán, Benjamin Hollingsworth

Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo, and Jo's boyfriend all pile into the station wagon and go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way, the five explore their relations with each other and meet many interesting people.
Dir. Greg Mottola · With Hope Davis, Pat McNamara, Anne Meara

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.
Dir. Mike Newell · With Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles

Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Hamish Linklater

Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland

Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.
Dir. Paul Weitz · With Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
Dir. Lasse Hallström · With Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden

After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
Dir. David S. Goyer · With Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Marcia Gay Harden

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Dir. Ed Harris · With Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower

In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.
Dir. Drew Barrymore · With Elliot Page, Alia Shawkat, Marcia Gay Harden

The roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit - from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch’s Italian girlfriend. Crime, in fact, has never been this disorganized.
Dir. Greg Mottola · With Jon Hamm, Lorenza Izzo, Kyle MacLachlan

San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most: freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.
Dir. Barbet Schroeder · With Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox

A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
Dir. Joe Lynch · With Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Marcia Gay Harden

Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
Dir. Richard Linklater · With Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden

The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.
Dir. Karen Moncrieff · With Brittany Murphy, Rose Byrne, Toni Collette

November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.
Dir. Peter Landesman · With Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden, Paul Giamatti

A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.
Dir. Peter Hewitt · With Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H. Macy
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.
Dir. Les Mayfield · With Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald
The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Steele, also known as Agent WD-40. Rancor needs to obtain a computer circuit for the missile that he is planning to fire, so Steele teams up with Veronique Ukrinsky, a KGB agent whose father designed the chip. Together they try to locate the evil mastermind's headquarters, where Veronique's father and several other hostages are being held.
Dir. Rick Friedberg · With Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Charles Durning
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate.
Dir. Donald Petrie · With Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden

as Marjorie Dunfour
Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents nor his older memoir-writing sister, he decides to reject the beliefs adults try to push on him, starting with the college career that is looming over his last summer in New York, and embarks instead on a search for wisdom through nontraditional means...
Dir. Roberto Faenza · With Toby Regbo, Marcia Gay Harden, Peter Gallagher
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