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Mary Steenburgen has 37 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
2005
Romance · Comedy
Back to the Future Part III
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Disney+ · Included
The Proposal
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Apple TV+ · Included
Happiest Season
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Hulu · Included
Elf
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
Powder
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Prime Video · Included
Parenthood
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Netflix · Included
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.
Dir. Lasse Hallström · With Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Dir. Jonathan Demme · With Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
Dir. Anne Fletcher · With Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Malin Åkerman
A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.
Dir. Clea DuVall · With Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Mary Steenburgen
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.
Dir. Jon Favreau · With Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Dir. Irwin Winkler · With Kevin Kline, Hayden Christensen, Kristin Scott Thomas
Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.
Dir. Nicholas Meyer · With Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This phenomenon changes the lives of all those around him in ways they never could have imagined.
Dir. Victor Salva · With Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest
After an unusual event, Zoey Clarke, a whip-smart computer coder forging her way in San Francisco, suddenly starts to hear the innermost wants, thoughts and desires of the people around her through popular songs.
Dir. Austin Winsberg · With Jane Levy, Skylar Astin, Alex Newell
Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.
Dir. Adam McKay · With Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins
A retired professor with a knack for snooping gets a new lease on life when a private investigator recruits him to go undercover and crack a case.
Dir. Michael Schur · With Ted Danson, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Lilah Richcreek Estrada
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe
Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four friends go to Las Vegas to celebrate the end of Billy's longtime bachelorhood and relive their glory days. However, the four quickly realize that the intervening decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they had not imagined.
Dir. Jon Turteltaub · With Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas
A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey of self-discovery.
Dir. Will Geiger · With Blake Lively, Max Minghella, Joe Mantegna
A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.
Dir. Jake Szymanski · With Andy Samberg, Kit Harington, Jon Hamm
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
Dir. Bill Holderman · With Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man whose murder he witnessed 35 years earlier.
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Dir. Arthur Penn · With Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubeš
Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley's illegitimate half-brother. Motivated not so much by money as revenge, Thaddeus tries to convince Barkley to help him carry out a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against their patriarch.
Dir. Randall Miller · With Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the vessel and subsequently rebuild their lives.
Dir. Bill Purple · With Jason Sudeikis, Maisie Williams, Jessica Biel
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a dizzying variety of pills get him through the day, but don't quite solve his problem. His writing partner tries everything to get him back to normal, but it's not until Hudson meets Sara that he finds a real motivation to get better and to actually start feeling again. From the writer of Deuce Bigalow, comes NUMB, a romantic comedy following an unusual man looking for strange love.
Dir. Harris Goldberg · With Matthew Perry, Lynn Collins, Kevin Pollak
Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspiration on how to handle sexual pleasure at an elderly age.
Dir. Bill Holderman · With Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
Dir. Jack Nicholson · With Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
Dir. Phillip Borsos · With Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Elisabeth Harnois
A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams.
Dir. Terry Hughes · With Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, George Dzundza
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