Movies starring Dianne Wiest
Mike Nichols, the director of such well-received films as The Graduate and Working Girl, has taken the outrageous 1978 French farce, La Cage aux Folles, and, by tweaking, updating, and Americanizing it, come up with a huge winner. The Birdcage, as...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-03-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, ...
Sure as the turning of the leaves, this time of the year, fresh with the scent of Oscars to come, brings the release of a new Woody Allen motion picture. Two years ago, his Fall contribution was Husbands and Wives. Last year, it was Manhattan Mur...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-10-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: John Cusack, Rob Reiner, Joe Viterelli, ...
Most romantic comedies follow conventional formulas that, when they work, can result in a frothy, enjoyable end product - admittedly, not something to challenge the intellect but enough to cause the heart to skip a beat or two. When those formulas...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-10-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY
Director: Peter Hedges
Cast: Steve Carrell, Juliette Binoche, Mitch Burns, ...
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints illustrates that it's still possible to do something interesting with a familiar premise. Writer/director Dito Montiel, who has based the film on his memoirs, tells the story of a man who escaped from his "old" n...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-09-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Dito Montiel
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri, ...
Low, gray clouds scud across the sky while the grass of a seemingly-endless plain ripples in response to the prompting of a spring breeze. Thunder rumbles in the distance. On another day, a bright sun gazes down on those same fields while cattl...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-05-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Robert Redford
Cast: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, ...
Never trust a serious drama that uses a line from a Dr. Seuss book as its title. I Am Sam (inspired by a line from "Green Eggs and Ham"), despite boasting interesting character relationships, stumbles and falls because of a storyline that consiste...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-12-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jessie Nelson
Cast: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, ...
How to describe Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk? The second major movie in 25 years set almost entirely aboard an ocean liner making transatlantic crossing? An Agatha Christie mystery without the mystery? An opportunity to remember how...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-12-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, Candice Bergen, ...
A few films from the 1980s have aged like fine wine. More, however, have turned to vinegar. The Lost Boys, despite its nostalgia-soaked reputation, falls into the latter category. A horror comedy that is neither as scary as it should be nor as fun...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-10-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, ...
Numerous movies about grief miss the mark by a wide margin, sliding down a slippery slope of schlocky melodrama with overacting performers failing to convince us that their tears are real. Every once in a while, however, a film gets it right. In ...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, ...
Robots is every bit as visually engaging as the best of the Pixar (or Dreamworks) digitally animated fare. The landscapes are stunning, the characters are intricately formed, there's plenty of break-neck action, and Robin Williams provides a helpi...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-03-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Cast: (voices) Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Coolidge, ...