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Stockard Channing has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Grease.
1997
Drama · Romance

Grease
1978 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Paramount+ · Included

Six Degrees of Separation
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 62%Prime Video · Included

Heartburn
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 66%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Hitler: The Rise of Evil
2003 · Mini · Actor
Top 72%Prime Video · Included

Life or Something Like It
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 83%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Anything Else
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 85%Paramount+ · Included

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Dir. Randal Kleiser · With Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta, Stockard Channing

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

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
Dir. Wayne Wang · With Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Channing

Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
Dir. Matt Williams · With Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing
Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartment with no recollection of how she got there. Nor does she remember that she rejected his visa the day before, which he desperately needs for his daughter. Romance unexpectedly blossoms between the two, but either sparks or fists will fly after she finds out his secret.
Dir. Pedro Pablo Ibarra · With Jaime Camil, Omar Chaparro, Laura Ramsey

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
Dir. Griffin Dunne · With Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing

After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
Dir. Hugh Wilson · With Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
Dir. Robert Moore · With Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan

The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
Dir. Fred Schepisi · With Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland

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
This comedic retrospective mixes archival footage and scripted sketches as it revisits all the dread — and occasional delight — that 2021 had to offer.
Dir. Jack Clough, Josh Ruben · With Hugh Grant, Joe Keery, William Jackson Harper

This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.
Dir. Peter Sussman, John Ryan, Ed Gernon · With Robert Carlyle, Zoe Telford, Justin Salinger

Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Dir. Jon Avnet · With Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing

A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Dir. Robert Benton · With Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman

Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.
Dir. Gary David Goldberg · With Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins

A reporter Lanie Kerrigan interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead he tells her that her life has no meaning and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...
Dir. Stephen Herek · With Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub

Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Woody Allen
A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
Dir. James Frawley · With Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Dir. James Ivory · With Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close