Movies by Allison Janney
As part of the cast:
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A Thousand Words (2012)
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Cliff Curtis …
Directed by: Brian Robbins
When he learns that his karma will permit him to speak just a thousand more words before he dies, fast-talking agent Jack must make every syllable count to make peace with his wife and his…
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Liberal Arts (2012)
Cast: Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins …
Directed by: Josh Radnor
A speaking engagement brings 35-year-old Jesse back to his college alma mater, where he's blindsided by nostalgia and a plucky sophomore named Zibby. Newly single and unfulfilled by his…
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Struck by Lightning (2012)
Cast: Chris Colfer, Allison Janney, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Brian Dannelly
Ambitious high school senior Carson Philips is bent on escaping his narrow-minded hometown for college. His last few weeks of school unwind in flashback -- until the fateful day when…
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Margaret (2011)
Cast: Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Matthew Broderick …
Directed by: Kenneth Lonergan
After witnessing a fatal bus crash, a young woman believes she inadvertently played a part in the tragedy. As she tries to deal with her feelings, she becomes emotionally abusive to those…
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The Oranges (2011)
Cast: Hugh Laurie, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt …
Directed by: Julian Farino
When newly unattached Nina Ostroff (Leighton Meester) comes home for Thanksgiving dinner, her parents make plans to pair her up with their neighbors' successful son, Toby (Adam Brody).…
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The Help (2011)
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard …
Directed by: Tate Taylor
In 1960s Jackson, Miss., aspiring writer Eugenia Phelan crosses taboo racial lines by conversing with Aibileen Clark about her life as a housekeeper, and their ensuing friendship upsets the…
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Mr. Sunshine (2011)
Cast: Matthew Perry, Andrea Anders, James Lesure …
Ben Donovan can't be blamed for hating his job. As manager of San Diego's foundering Sunshine Center, he must work with his ex, cope with a politically incorrect boss and her goofy,…
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Mr. Sunshine: Season 1 (2010)
Cast: Matthew Perry, Nate Torrence, Portia Doubleday …
Directed by: Thomas Schlamme
Matthew Perry ("Friends") anchors this sharp-tongued ABC comedy series as Ben Donovan, the manager of a shoddy sports venue who's determined to restart his life after he reaches the…
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Love & Distrust (2010)
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Talulah Riley, James Cameron …
Directed by: Eric Kmetz
This collection of five short films artfully portrays desire's ability to both empower and destroy those who encounter it. In "The Summer House," sultry teen Jane (Talulah Riley) is…
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Jennifer's Body (2009)
Cast: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons …
Directed by: Karyn Kusama
After a supernatural romp with a satanic emo band, hot cheerleader Jennifer (Megan Fox) is transformed into a demon with an insatiable appetite for high school boys. Now, it's up to…
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Away We Go (2009)
Cast: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney …
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Buoyed by the news that they are expecting their first baby, Burt and Verona embark on a journey to locate the perfect place on the planet to raise their child. But their quest inevitably…
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Pretty Ugly People (2009)
Cast: Missi Pyle, Melissa McCarthy, Josh Hopkins …
Directed by: Tate Taylor
When chronically overweight Lucy (Missi Pyle) invites a group of her old college pals to Montana for a weekend reunion because "time is running out," the friends assume that Lucy is at…
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Life During Wartime (2009)
Cast: Shirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Allison Janney …
Directed by: Todd Solondz
Filmmaker Todd Solondz revisits his characters from 1998's Happiness in this pointed tale about three unhappy sisters who face fateful challenges while grappling with the past and…
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Glick Doesn't Do Red Carpet: Jiminy Glick at the Independent Spirit Awards (2008)
Cast: Martin Short, Rainn Wilson, Dennis Hopper …
Directed by: Chris Bradley
Martin Short reprises his role as Jiminy Glick -- the overweight celebrity interviewer who asks only irreverent and irrelevant questions -- at the Netflix Home Suite Home stop on the red…
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Hairspray (2007)
Cast: John Travolta, Amanda Bynes, Christopher Walken …
Directed by: Adam Shankman
Set in 1962, this colorful adaptation of the Tony-winning musical follows ambitious plus-size teen Tracy Turnblad, who tries to integrate a racially divided Baltimore one Watusi at a time.
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Juno (2007)
Cast: Ellen Page, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner …
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Facing an unplanned pregnancy while she's still in high school, quirky teen Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) devises a plan to locate her unborn baby's perfect adoptive parents. But the…
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Over the Hedge (2006)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell …
Directed by: Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick
Awakening from a long winter nap to find a subdivision in their backyard, a colony of critters led by a cautious turtle is forced to face its worst fear -- humans -- with help from a clever raccoon.
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Piccadilly Jim (2006)
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Frances O'Connor, Tom Wilkinson …
Directed by: John McKay
In this film adaptation of the P.G. Wodehouse novel, Sam Rockwell plays a dashing and debauched ex-society column writer who makes life difficult for his social-climbing stepmom by falling…
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The Chumscrubber (2005)
Cast: Jamie Bell, Glenn Close, Rita Wilson …
Directed by: Arie Posin
Director Arie Posin transforms his short story into a frightfully honest portrait of suburban dysfunction in this film about Dean (Jamie Bell), a young boy who finds his friend hanging from…
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Strangers with Candy (2005)
Cast: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello …
Directed by: Paul Dinello
At 46, plucky ex-con Jerri Blank brushes the prison dust off her synthetic slacks to brave the halls of Flatpoint High, doing her best to survive "adolescence" with support from an…
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Our Very Own (2005)
Cast: Allison Janney, Keith Carradine, Cheryl Hines …
Directed by: Cameron Watson
Set in 1978, writer-director Cameron Watson's valentine to small-town life and the age of innocence follows a group of teens hoping to catch up with movie star Sondra Locke, who's…
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Winter Solstice (2004)
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Aaron Stanford, Mark Webber …
Directed by: Josh Sternfeld
A previously self-contained widower (Anthony LaPaglia) living in the drab suburbs of New Jersey faces a domestic crisis of sorts when he's forced to confront his younger son's…
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Oscar Wilde: Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde (2004)
Cast: Oscar Wilde, Simon Williams, Liam Neeson …
Directed by: Bill Hughes
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth, 150 leading artists of the stage, screen and music worlds deliver 150 of the Irish scribe's most memorable quotes.…
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Finding Nemo (2003)
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould …
Directed by: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
In this Oscar-winning animated adventure, plucky fish Marlin and Dory search their underwater world for Marlin's missing son, Nemo, who's been scooped up by a scuba diver and dumped…
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How to Deal (2003)
Cast: Mandy Moore, Allison Janney, Trent Ford …
Directed by: Clare Kilner
What is love, anyway, but the fast lane to heartache? At least, that's what teenaged Halley thinks when learning "how to deal" with the complicated relationships in her life, which seem…
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Finding Nemo (Full-screen) (2003)
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould …
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Pixar has created another amazing animated adventure, this time heading underwater as two plucky fish, Marlin and Dory (voiced by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres), search high and low for…
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The Hours (2002)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman …
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
This gripping drama follows the parallel lives of three 20th-century women: incomparable writer Virginia Woolf, an unsatisfied 1950s housewife and a modern-day book editor who's losing…
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A Girl Thing (2001)
Cast: Kate Capshaw, Stockard Channing, Rebecca De Mornay …
Directed by: Lee Rose
New York City psychiatrist Beth Noonan (Stockard Channing) endeavors to keep her life together as she helps several troubled clients through personal crises. But Beth finds herself in crisis…
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Nurse Betty (2000)
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock …
Directed by: Neil LaBute
In Neil LaBute's black comedy, Kansas waitress Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger in a Golden Globe-winning performance) falls hard for soap opera star George McCord (Greg Kinnear) -- and…
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10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles …
Directed by: Gil Junger
After learning that Bianca Stratford is forbidden to date until man-hating older sister Kat finds a beau, Bianca's would-be boyfriend hatches a plan: pay moody school rebel Patrick…
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney …
Directed by: Michael Patrick Jann
When vivacious but vicious former beauty queen Gladys Leeman pushes her charm-challenged daughter to win the Miss Teen Princess America title at all costs, the competition mysteriously begins…
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American Beauty (1999)
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch …
Directed by: Sam Mendes
While struggling to endure his perfection-obsessed wife (Annette Bening), an unfulfilling job and a sullen teenage daughter (Thora Birch), suburbanite Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) falls deep…
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Primary Colors (1998)
Cast: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
This adaptation of Joe Klein's roman à clef, a thinly veiled take on Bill Clinton's campaign for the 1992 Democratic nomination, stars John Travolta as a presidential hopeful…
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The Impostors (1998)
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Lili Taylor …
Directed by: Stanley Tucci
To elude the wrath of overbearing Broadway star Sir Jeremy Burtom (Alfred Molina), two struggling actors (Oliver Platt and director Stanley Tucci) are forced into a madcap succession of…
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Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer …
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
When a grouchy pilot agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. They avoid each other at first, but in…
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The Object of My Affection (1998)
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Alan Alda …
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Nina becomes fast friends with her new roommate, George. When Nina discovers she's pregnant and her arrogant ex-boyfriend is the father, she finds herself falling for George and…
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The Ice Storm (1997)
Cast: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver …
Directed by: Ang Lee
Prep-schooler Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) returns home for Thanksgiving weekend and finds his family about to implode. While his father (Kevin Kline) tries to douse his sorrows with booze and…
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First Do No Harm (1997)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Fred Ward, Seth Adkins …
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Meryl Streep stars as a mother who goes to extraordinary lengths to help find treatment for her epileptic son. When insurance coverage runs out, she immerses herself in medical research in a…
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Julian Po (1997)
Cast: Christian Slater, Robin Tunney, Michael Parks …
Directed by: Alan Wade
When Julian (Christian Slater) is stranded after his car breaks down in a small mountain town, the wary locals soon realize he plans to kill himself -- which happens to be the most exciting…
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The Associate (1996)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Tim Daly …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
When Laurel (Whoopi Goldberg) learns that her less-smart and sexist protégé, Frank (Tim Daly), is promoted, she quits to start her own company -- only to find out that the…
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Big Night (1996)
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Ian Holm …
Directed by: Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott
Despite its superb cuisine, an Italian restaurant run by immigrant brothers Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Stanley Tucci) is on the verge of bankruptcy. But the siblings risk everything…
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Heading Home (1995)
Cast: Mary Alice, Allison Janney, Frankie Faison …
Directed by: Maria Heritier
First-time director Maria Heritier helms this Vietnam War-era drama chronicling the emotional journey of two unlikely friends who form a bond en route to Washington, D.C. As he dutifully…
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Who Shot Pat? (1990)
Cast: Sandra Bullock, David Edwin Knight, Kevin Otto …
Directed by: Robert Brooks
After a random gunshot wounds one of their friends, a group of seniors at a Brooklyn vocational high school bands together, determined to find the shooter in this comic coming-of-age tale set…