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Annette Bening
Annette Francine Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress.
Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley, a church singer and soloist, and Grant Bening, a sales training consultant and insurance salesman. Her parents, natives of Iowa, were practicing Episcopalians and...
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American Beauty
American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey plays Lester Burnham, a middle-aged office worker who has a midlife crisis after becoming infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend...
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Being Julia
Being Julia is a 2004 Canadian/American/Hungarian/British drama film with comic undertones directed by István Szabó. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on the 1937 novel Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham.
Set in London in 1938, the film focuses...
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Bugsy
Bugsy is a 1991 film which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel. It stars Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth and Bill Graham.
The movie was written by James Toback from research...
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Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks! is a 1996 comic science fiction film directed by Tim Burton and based on the cult trading card series of the same name. The film uses elements of black comedy, surreal humour and political satire, and is also a parody of multiple...
Open Range
Open Range is a 2003 Western movie based on the novel The Open Range Men by Lauran Paine. The film is directed and co-produced by Kevin Costner, who stars with Robert Duvall and Annette Bening.
The movie properly belongs to the Western genre and has...
Regarding Henry
Regarding Henry is a 1991 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by J. J. Abrams focuses on a New York City lawyer who struggles to regain his memory and recover his speech and mobility after he survives a shooting.
Ambitious,...
Richard III
Richard III is a 1995 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dame Maggie Smith, John Wood and Dominic West.
The...
The American President
The American President is a 1995 romantic comedy film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin. It stars Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Richard Dreyfuss and Michael J. Fox. In the film, President Andrew Shepherd (Douglas)...
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors is a 1988 comedy film starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. Annette Bening and Stephanie Faracy co-star. Robert Prosky and Lewis Arquette have supporting roles. The film was directed by Howard Deutch and was written by John Hughes....
The Grifters
The Grifters is a 1990 neo-noir film directed by Stephen Frears and produced by Martin Scorsese. It stars John Cusack, Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening and is based upon The Grifters, a pulp novel by Jim Thompson.
Lilly Dillon is an experienced...
The Siege
The Siege is a 1998 Action-thriller-drama film about a fictional situation where terrorist cells have made several attacks on New York City. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, and Bruce Willis...
Valmont
Valmont is a 1989 drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) by Choderlos de Laclos. It was adapted for the screen with a screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière. The film stars Colin Firth, Annette...
Running with Scissors
Running With Scissors is a 2006 Golden Globe-nominated comedy-drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Augusten Burroughs directed by Ryan Murphy starring Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood and Alec...
Guilty by Suspicion
Guilty by Suspicion is a 1991 film about the Hollywood blacklist and associated activities stemming from McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee. It starred Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, and George Wendt. The film was entered...
In Dreams
In Dreams is a psychological thriller directed by Neil Jordan, released in 1999. The film has a running time of 1 hour and 40 minutes.
In Dreams has the distinction of being the last film Robert Downey, Jr. completed before being sent to Corcoran...
What Planet Are You From?
What Planet Are You From? is a 2000 comedy film starring Garry Shandling and Annette Bening. It was directed by Mike Nichols.
A denizen (Garry Shandling) of a faraway planet occupied only by highly evolved males is ordered to find a female human,...
Love Affair
Love Affair is a 1994 romantic drama film made by Mulholland Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and produced by Warren Beatty from a screenplay by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, based on the...
Dirty Tricks
Dirty Tricks is a 2010 drama film that details the Watergate scandal starring Brad Pitt, and Sharon Stone that features key people such as Richard Nixon, and Helen Thomas.
The wife of Richard Nixon's attorney general comes to her husband's defense...
Mrs. Harris
Mrs. Harris is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Phyllis Nagy. The teleplay, based on the book Very Much a Lady by Shana Alexander, focuses on the tempestuous relationship between Herman Tarnower, noted cardiologist and author of...
The Women
The Women is a 2008 American comedy film written and directed by Diane English. The screenplay is an updated version of the George Cukor-directed 1939 film of the same name, which was based on a 1936 play by Clare Boothe Luce.
In the original film,...
Mother and Child
Mother and Child is an upcoming drama film directed and written by Rodrigo García. The film stars Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington and Shareeka Epps. No official release dates have been announced.
The film tells two overlapping stories...
