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Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) more movies like this

directed by Jon Avnet
featuring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson, Nick Searcy

A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) barely acknowledges her existence, and while he ...

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Titanic

Titanic (1997) more movies like this

directed by James Cameron
featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher

This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912. Running over three hours and made with the combined contributions of two major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more than $200 million, Titanic ranked as the most ...

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About Schmidt

About Schmidt (2002) more movies like this

directed by Alexander Payne
featuring Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates

Jack Nicholson plays retiring insurance actuary Warren Schmidt in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt. Schmidt has settled into a dormant life. He has an unfulfilling marriage to Helen (June Squibb), and conspires to spend as much time away from her as possible. Schmidt's daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) is engaged to Randall Hertzel (Dermot Mulroney), a ...

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Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne (1995) more movies like this

directed by Taylor Hackford
featuring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn

A daughter who has come to imagine the worst about her mother learns the facts are quite different -- and more shocking than she ever imagined -- in this adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel. Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) has spent nearly a quarter of a century looking after a mean-spirited woman named Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt) on a ...

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Dragonfly

Dragonfly (2002) more movies like this

directed by Tom Shadyac
featuring Linda Hunt, Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates

In this supernatural thriller, Kevin Costner plays Joe Darrow, a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily (Susannah Thompson) in a bus accident in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe works extra shifts at the hospital to take his mind off the tragedy, but the intense workload triggers his short ...

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Misery

Misery (1990) more movies like this

directed by Rob Reiner
featuring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Frances Sternhagen, Richard Farnsworth, Lauren Bacall

Adapted from a Stephen King novel, Rob Reiner's Misery cast James Caan as a writer at a career crossroads. The film opens with Paul Sheldon (Caan) completing work on his latest novel, a break from his popular series of novels featuring the character Misery Chastain. He gets into a severe car accident and is saved by Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), a ...

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The Waterboy

The Waterboy (1998) more movies like this

directed by Frank Coraci
featuring Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler, Fairuza Balk, Jerry Reed

As with his previous films, comedian Adam Sandler and writing partner Tim Herlihy have conceived a simple premise, character, and title, and peppered their creation with visual sight gags. The story concerns Bobby Boucher, a Louisiana-born-and-bred kid living in the swamps with his overbearing, alligator-eating mom (Kathy Bates). Bobby is a water ...

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Swept From The Sea

Swept From The Sea (1997) more movies like this

directed by Beeban Kidron
featuring Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Kathy Bates

Swept From the Sea was inspired by a short story by Joseph Conrad. Set in late 19th-century Cornwall England in a small farming community, the story is told via flashback in a conversation between Dr. James Kennedy (Ian McKellen) and his patient Miss Swaffer (Kathy Bates). Dr. Kennedy despises indentured servant Amy Foster (Rachel Weisz). Miss ...

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Annie

Annie (1999) more movies like this

directed by Rob Marshall
featuring Alicia Morton, Victor Garber, Kathy Bates, Alan Cumming

This made-for-TV adaptation of the hit Broadway musical (which was, in turn, based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray) stars Alicia Morton as Annie, who lives in an orphanage run by the ill-tempered Miss Hannigan (Kathy Bates). Like the rest of the children, Annie doesn't like the orphanage and hates Miss Hannigan, so she's excited when ...

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Prelude to a Kiss

Prelude to a Kiss (1992) more movies like this

directed by Norman Rene
featuring Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates, Ned Beatty, Patty Duke

In this quirky romantic comedy about soul transference, Alec Baldwin plays Peter Hoskins, the straight-laced head of the microfiche department at a company that publishes scientific journals. When he meets a free-spirited, sleep-deprived bartender named Rita (Meg Ryan), the opposites attract and launch into a round-the-clock romance characterized ...

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A Civil Action (1998) more movies like this

directed by Steven Zaillian
featuring Kathy Bates, John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, Zeljko Ivanek

Directed by Schindler's List screenwriter Steve Zaillian, this courtroom drama is based on a true story and non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr. The case revolves around an incident in 1979 in East Woburn, MA, where two drinking wells supplying water to the town were found to be contaminated with industrial solvents. When toxic waste was discovered ...

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Unconditional Love (2002) more movies like this

directed by P.J. Hogan
featuring Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, Meredith Eaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave

What's a middle-aged woman to do when her husband walks out on her and her favorite pop star is murdered by a serial killer? Writer/director P.J. Hogan explores this and many other pressing questions in Unconditional Love, a comic murder-mystery he devised with his wife and co-screenwriter, Jocelyn Moorhouse. Their heroine, Grace Beasly (Kathy ...

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At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) more movies like this

directed by Hector Babenco
featuring Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah

In a remote branch of the Brazilian Amazon, Americans Lewis (Tom Berenger) and Wolf (Tom Waits) are stranded when their plane runs out of gas. They are kept company by an evangelist missionary (John Lithgow) and his wife (Darryl Hannah). The preacher and his followers want to preach to the primitive Niaruna Indians, while others are interested in ...

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Used People (1992) more movies like this

directed by Beeban Kidron
featuring Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcello Mastroianni, Marcia Gay Harden

Todd Graff wrote the screenplay for this eccentric romantic comedy in the spirit of Moonstruck that exchanges pasta for matzo balls. The film takes place in Queens in 1969, where Pearl Berman (Shirley MacLaine) has just arrived back from the funeral of her husband. As her dysfunctional family kvetches in the living room, the dapper Joe Meledandri ...

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White Palace (1990) more movies like this

directed by Luis Mandoki
featuring Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, Eileen Brennan

Screenwriters Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent adapted the novel by Glenn Savan into this intelligent comedy-drama about a May-December romance where the woman is the senior partner. James Spader is Max Baron, a 27-year-old St. Louis advertising executive who has completely shut himself off from the world in the two years since the auto accident death ...

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Primary Colors (1998) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester

Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996 bestseller by "Anonymous" (Joe Klein), who fictionalized Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. In the New Hampshire primary, Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta) convinces Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), grandson of a respected civil rights pioneer, to become his deputy ...

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Men Don't Leave (1990) more movies like this

directed by Paul Brickman
featuring Jessica Lange, Chris O'Donnell, Arliss Howard, Kathy Bates, Joan Cusack, Charlie Korsmo

Weighed down by her late husband's debts, widow Beth Macauley (Jessica Lange) is compelled to sell her home and move to a less costly locale. She relocates in Baltimore with her resentful sons Chris (Chris O'Donnell) and Matt (Charlie Korsmo) and takes a job at a ramshackle gourmet food store managed by Lisa Coleman (Kathy Bates). Men Don't Leave ...

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Angus (1995) more movies like this

directed by Patrick Read Johnson
featuring Charlie Talbert, George C. Scott, Kathy Bates, Ariana Richards, Chris Owen

High schooler Angus (Charlie Talbert), a jumbo-sized lad, seems underappreciated in all aspects of his life: he is a standout offensive lineman on the football team, but golden-boy quarterback Rick (James Van der Beek) gets all the accolades for his blood, sweat, and pass-blocking; he is also an outstanding student, but his classmates still regard ...

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American Outlaws (2001) more movies like this

directed by Les Mayfield
featuring Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht, Gregory Smith, Harris Yulin, Will McCormack, Kathy Bates, Timothy Dalton

This loosely fact-based oater attempts to mimic the youthful heartthrobs in Western garb formula of Young Guns (1988), as well as the cheeky humor and some plot elements of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Colin Farrell stars as Jesse James, who returns home from the Civil War to his small hometown to find that a crooked railroad baron ...

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The War at Home (1996) more movies like this

directed by Emilio Estevez
featuring Kathy Bates, Martin Sheen, Kimberly Payne Williams, Emilio Estevez, Carla Gugino

Jeremy Collier (Emilio Estevez) is the army veteran who returns home after his harrowing experiences in battle. His father Bob (Martin Sheen) is the emotionally detached parent who insists Jeremy put his unpleasant memories behind him and get on with his life. His mother (Kathy Bates) is the unusually cheerful woman who pretends nothing is wrong. ...

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Diabolique (1996) more movies like this

directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik
featuring Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates, Spalding Gray

Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic French thriller gets a Hollywood makeover in this glossy remake. Guy Baran (Chazz Palminteri) is the dull, loutish headmaster of a private school that has seen better days. While Guy oversees the day to day operations, the school is actually owned by his wife Mia (Isabelle Adjani), whose spirit has been crushed by ...

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Relative Strangers (2006) more movies like this

directed by Greg Glienna
featuring Ron Livingston, Neve Campbell, Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates

A successful psychologist with a picture-perfect family and a best-selling self-help book that's fast racking up sales hires a dogged detective to investigate his brother's claim that he was actually adopted, only to watch as his life falls to pieces in the aftermath in a dark comedy about success and family starring Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates, Ron ...

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Shadows and Fog (1992) more movies like this

directed by Woody Allen
featuring Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates, Madonna, Donald Pleasence, Lily Tomlin

Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death), who is awakened in the middle of the night by ...

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My Sister's Keeper (2002) more movies like this

directed by Ron Lagomarsino
featuring Kathy Bates, Elizabeth Perkins, Lynn Redgrave

Based on a true story, My Sister's Keeper stars Kathy Bates as Christine, who since childhood has suffered from a debilitating mental illness. Spending most of her life in and out of various institutions, Christine has long yearned for independence, but is unable to wrest free of her controlling mother, Helen (Lynn Redgrave). Upon Helen's death, ...

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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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