Steve Zahn’s Typical Vibe
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Steve Zahn has 49 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Dallas Buyers Club.
Recurring themes

The Night Before the Exams
2006
Comedy · Drama

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2008
Comedy · Drama

Roll Bounce
2005
Comedy · Drama

Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
Comedy · Romance

My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2002
Comedy · Drama

Welcome to the Sticks
2008
Comedy · Drama

Rabbit Without Ears
2007
Drama · Comedy

Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
2008
Drama · Comedy

War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Max · Included

Rescue Dawn
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%MGM+ · Included

Uncle Frank
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

The Good Dinosaur
2015 · Movie · Voice
Top 30%Disney+ · Included

Speak
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Paramount+ · Included

Sunshine Cleaning
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Max · Included

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée · With Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
Dir. Matt Reeves · With Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Karin Konoval

A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. But behind the scenes, the group’s sudden fame tests their strength, their maturity and responsibility, and their ability to resist the temptations that money and notoriety always make possible.
Dir. Tom Hanks · With Tom Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
Dir. Alan Ball · With Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi

An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
Dir. Peter Sohn · With Frances McDormand, Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright

Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
Dir. Nora Ephron · With Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Greg Kinnear

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.
Dir. Jessica Sharzer · With Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Zahn

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.
Dir. Christine Jeffs · With Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn

Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.
Dir. Billy Ray · With Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny

Wimpy Greg Heffley, now in seventh grade, thinks he has it all together. He has mastered middle school and gotten rid of the Cheese Touch. However, Greg's older brother, Rodrick, is itching to cut him down to size. He gets the perfect opportunity when their mother tries to force the boys to bond. Rodrick may be Greg's chief tormentor, but he feels his constant pranks are just what his little brother needs to prepare him for life's hard knocks.
Dir. David Bowers · With Zachary Gordon, Devon Bostick, Robert Capron

Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.
Dir. Shane Atkinson · With John Magaro, Steve Zahn, Galadriel Stineman

For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but well-meaning spirits who help guide them through the lush jungles. The picturesque waterfalls and scenic mountainsides quickly give way to terror when Cliff and Cydney learn of a grisly murder that occurred nearby and realize that they're being followed by chance acquaintances that suspiciously fit the description of the killers.
Dir. David Twohy · With Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich, Timothy Olyphant

A former teenage getaway driver gets dragged back into her unsavory past when a former employer offers her a chance to save the life of her chronically unreliable ex-boyfriend.
Dir. Shawn Simmons · With Samara Weaving, Karl Glusman, Andy Garcia

It's summertime, and Greg Heffley is looking forward to playing video games and spending time with his friends. However, Greg's dad has other plans: He's decided that some father-son bonding time is in order. Desperate to prevent his dad from ruining summer vacation, Greg pretends he has a job at a ritzy country club. But Greg's plan backfires, leaving him in the middle of embarrassing mishaps and a camping trip gone wrong.
Dir. David Bowers · With Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Devon Bostick

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
Dir. Penny Marshall · With Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Adam Garcia

Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Dir. John Dahl · With Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski

Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!
Dir. Thor Freudenthal · With Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Steve Zahn
Jodi, the tallest girl in her high school, has always felt uncomfortable in her own skin. But after years of slouching, being made fun of, and avoiding attention at all costs, Jodi finally decides to find the confidence to stand tall.
Dir. Nzingha Stewart · With Ava Michelle, Sabrina Carpenter, Steve Zahn

as Jedediah (voice) · Voice
Nick Daley is following in his father's footsteps as night watchman at the American Museum of Natural History, so he knows what happens when the sun goes down. But when the maniacal ruler Kahmunrah escapes, it is up to Nick to save the museum once and for all.
Dir. Matt Danner · With Joshua Bassett, Thomas Lennon, Joseph Kamal
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Dir. Richard Linklater · With Giovanni Ribisi, Steve Zahn, Amie Carey

In suburban Chicago during the late 1980s, ten-year-old Jake Doyle embarks on a herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas.
Dir. Michael Dowse · With Neil Patrick Harris, Winslow Fegley, Steve Zahn

When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.
Dir. Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg · With Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek Pinault, Steve Zahn

A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Dir. Ben Stiller · With Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo

When best friends and total opposites Debbie and Peter swap homes for a week, they get a peek into each other's lives that could open the door to love.
Dir. Aline Brosh McKenna · With Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher, Zoë Chao

When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of a lifetime.
Dir. Sean McGinly · With John Malkovich, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn
Earl Montgomery, a bombastic police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a disgraced, mild-mannered cop, can't seem to escape each other. They met on opposite sides of the law during a routine traffic stop that escalated out of control; now as lowly security guards they're thrown together to bust a smuggling operation.
Dir. Dennis Dugan · With Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.
Dir. Breck Eisner · With Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz, Steve Zahn

"Employee of the Month" is about a guy whose day spirals from bad to worse when he gets fired from his dream job at the bank and is dumped by his fiancée Sara. David's best friend Jack tries to convince him it's for the best, but the opposite occurs when bank robberies and millions of dollars become part of his day from hell.
Dir. Mitch Rouse · With Matt Dillon, Steve Zahn, Christina Applegate
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