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The Incredibles

The Incredibles (2004) more movies like this

directed by Brad Bird
featuring Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Wallace Shawn

Directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles revolves around former high-profile superhero Bob Parr (aka Mr. Incredible), who has not-so-successfully settled into suburban life along with his wife and kids under the watchful eye of the Superhero Protection Program. A far cry from the "glory days" during which "supers" were a welcome addition to society ...

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Always

Always (1989) more movies like this

directed by Steven Spielberg
featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn

For all its state-of-the-art special effects, Always is essentially a remake of the 1943 Spencer Tracy-Irene Dunne fantasy vehicle A Guy Named Joe--minus the wartime context. Richard Dreyfuss stars as a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Dreyfuss is introduced to businesslike ...

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Raising Arizona

Raising Arizona (1987) more movies like this

directed by Joel Coen
featuring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe

Combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons to Sam Raimi horror movies to 1940s B-movies, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen followed up the stylish film noir of their debut, Blood Simple (1984), with this frantic screwball comedy. H.I. "Hi" McDonnough (Nicholas Cage) is a philosophical but slightly dim career criminal who has been arrested so often that ...

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The Piano

The Piano (1993) more movies like this

directed by Jane Campion
featuring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker

Writer/director Jane Campion's third feature unearthed emotional undercurrents and churning intensity in the story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times. Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), a mute who has willed herself not to speak, and her strong-willed young daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) find ...

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Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays (1995) more movies like this

directed by Jodie Foster
featuring Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Geraldine Chaplin

It's been said that while most people love their families, they don't always like them very much, and that emotional dividing line is the heart of this comedy directed by Jodie Foster. Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) usually approaches family reunions with a certain trepidation, but as she prepares to fly from her home in Chicago to her parent's ...

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Once Around

Once Around (1991) more movies like this

directed by Lasse Hallström
featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands

Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom made his American movie debut with this romantic comedy, starring Holly Hunter as Renata Bella, an aimless Bostonian thirtysomething who attends a seminar for aspiring condo salespersons. Here she meets hotshot salesman Sam Sharpe (Richard Dreyfuss), who immediately falls in love with her. After the marriage, Sam's ...

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Broadcast News

Broadcast News (1987) more movies like this

directed by James L. Brooks
featuring William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, Jack Nicholson

Writer/director/producer James L. Brooks scores on all counts with this clear-eyed look at the television news business and the dysfunctional types who work in it. Brooks' intelligent script introduces us to Jane Craig (Holly Hunter), an ambitious producer at the network news division's Washington D.C. branch, who is calm under fire yet has a good ...

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Crash

Crash (1996) more movies like this

directed by David Cronenberg
featuring James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette

After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people who have transformed automobile accidents into erotic events. Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of man's relationship to technology was a magnet for ...

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Copycat

Copycat (1995) more movies like this

directed by Jon Amiel
featuring Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Will Patton

A serial killer stalks the streets of San Francisco; unlike his many predecessors does not choose a distinctive, identifying pattern. No, this killer prides himself on his unoriginality: he is a copycat, recreating the violent murders of some of the country's most notorious serial killers, his heroes. On the case, is criminal psychologist Helen ...

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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) more movies like this

directed by Rodrigo García
featuring Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Valeria Golino, Holly Hunter

Although Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her does bear some similarities to Short Cuts and Magnolia in its setting (Southern California) and mood (modern malaise), and its multiple story format, its focus is exclusively on female characters, and it's possible to view each story on its own. The film begins with a prologue: Police detectives ...

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A Life Less Ordinary (1997) more movies like this

directed by Danny Boyle
featuring Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, Ian Holm

The acclaimed Trainspotting trio (director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, scripter John Hodge) reunited for this update of '30s screwball comedies and '40s fantasies, such as Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941), Angel on My Shoulder(1946), Down to Earth(1947), and the 1946 Stairway to Heaven (co-directed by Macdonald's grandfather, Emeric ...

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Little Black Book (2004) more movies like this

directed by Nick Hurran
featuring Brittany Murphy, Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates, Ron Livingston, Julianne Nicholson

Directed by Nick Hurran, Little Black Book follows Stacy (Brittany Murphy), an associate producer of a popular daytime talk show starring Kippie Kann (Kathy Bates), as she tries to figure out the root of her boyfriend's (Ron Livingston) commitment-phobic nature. Rather than continue to fruitlessly question Derek (Livingston) regarding his slew of ...

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Moonlight Mile (2002) more movies like this

directed by Brad Silberling
featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Ellen Pompeo, Holly Hunter

Frequent television director Brad Silberling directs the romantic drama Moonlight Mile. Set in a Massachusetts town in the early '70s, Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) is distraught after the death of his fiancée. He moves in with her parents, Ben (Dustin Hoffman) and JoJo (Susan Sarandon), while trying to sort out all of the legal troubles and painful ...

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Harlan County War (2000) more movies like this

directed by Tony Bill
featuring Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård, Ted Levine, Wayne Robson

The true story of one of the most contentious labor disputes of the 1970s is the basis for this made-for-cable drama. In 1973, many of the men of Harlan County, Kentucky, were employed by Brookside Mining, who operated a number of coal mines. Brookside paid its employees meager wages for dangerous, backbreaking work, and also controlled housing ...

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Living Out Loud (1998) more movies like this

directed by Richard LaGravenese
featuring Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah, Martin Donovan, Richard Schiff

Noted screenwriter Richard LaGravenese made his directorial debut with this dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan), has been having an affair with a younger woman. ...

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Levity (2003) more movies like this

directed by Ed Solomon
featuring Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Kirsten Dunst, Dorian Harewood

Action comedy screenwriter Ed Solomon switches gears to psychological drama for his feature film directing debut, Levity. Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Thornton) gets released after doing 23 years in prison for accidentally killing a kid during an attempted robbery. Not having any place to go as a free man, he returns to the town where he committed the ...

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Miss Firecracker (1989) more movies like this

directed by Thomas Schlamme
featuring Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, Scott Glenn

A hot tamale tries to throw off a different sort of heat in this comedy of small-town manners. Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) is best-known in her hometown of Yazoo City, MS, for her unrepentant promiscuity. An orphan taken in by her genteel relatives, she idolizes her older cousin, Elain Rutledge (Mary Streenburgen), a former Fourth of July "Miss ...

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The Big White (2005) more movies like this

directed by Mark Mylod
featuring Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson

A travel agent in deep debt attempts to swindle a by-the-books insurance agent by claiming the corpse of a gangland hit as his long-missing brother in director Mark Mylod's dark crime comedy. Paul Barnell (Robin Williams) is in trouble. Saddled with a cantankerous wife (Holly Hunter) and unable to convince ambitious insurance company agent Ted ...

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Timecode (2000) more movies like this

directed by Mike Figgis
featuring Xander R. Berkeley, Golden Brooks, Saffron Burrows, Richard Edson, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Mann, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Director Mike Figgis helmed this ground-breaking experimental feature, filmed with four synchronized digital video cameras in four separate locations. The story, outlined in advance but otherwise improvised, was enacted in a single continuous take, like a stage play, with the unedited images from all four locations presented on the screen at once. ...

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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993) more movies like this

directed by Michael Ritchie
featuring Holly Hunter, Beau Bridges, Swoosie Kurtz

A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad in this made-for-cable satire based on a true story. Holly Hunter stars as Wanda Holloway, a twice-married Baptist mother of two who becomes obsessed when her daughter, Shanna (Frankie Ingrassia), gets disqualified from the ...

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A Gathering of Old Men (1987) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Holly Hunter, Richard Widmark

Gathering of Old Men was based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines, who'd previously written The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Like Pittman, Gathering builds its narrative upon a tapestry of deep-bred racial intolerance in the South. When a bigoted white Louisiana tenant farmer is killed, black sharecropper Louis Gossett Jr. is the most likely ...

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When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) more movies like this

directed by Jane Anderson
featuring Holly Hunter, Ron Silver

This 2001 TV docudrama relates the story of tennis' 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" between Wimbledon champions Billie Jean King (Holly Hunter) and Bobby Riggs (Ron Silver), an event considered by many to be an early victory for feminism. Riggs, 20 years past his prime, lives to wager on anything and everything. Seeing the rise of feminism, he decides ...

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Animal Behavior (1989) more movies like this

directed by H. Anne Riley, Jenny Bowen, Kjehl Rasmussen
featuring Karen Allen, Armand Assante, Holly Hunter, Richard Libertini, Josh Mostel

In this enjoyable, lighthearted "he's fallen for her" situational, a music professor finds a science department faculty member too deeply engrossed in her inter-species communication studies (she talks to chimps) to even notice him. Since he can't get her mind off her studies, he decides to work part-time for her in the university laboratory. In ...

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Roe vs. Wade (1989) more movies like this

directed by Gregory Hoblit
featuring Amy Madigan, Holly Hunter

Based on the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a woman's right to have an abortion, the made-for-television film Roe Vs. Wade follows an unmarried Texas woman (Holly Hunter) and her lawyer (Amy Madigan), as they take her case to the Supreme Court. Abortion is always a controversial issue, yet the filmmakers admirably manage to ...

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Thirteen (2003) more movies like this

directed by Catherine Hardwicke
featuring Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Jeremy Sisto, Brady Corbet

Prolific production designer and art director Catherine Hardwicke makes her directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama Thirteen. Los Angeles teenager and overachiever Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) is an excellent student in her seventh grade class and gets along well with her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter). She fears that she's not cool enough to ...

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