Annette BeningFilmography

Mother and Child

Actors: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Jimmy Smits, Samuel L. Jackson

Synopsis: Writer/director Rodrigo Garcia (Nine Lives) teams with executive producer Alejandro González Iñárritu to craft this drama highlighting the powerful bond between a mother and her son. It's been years since Karen (Annette Benning) gave her daughter Elizabeth up for adoption, and the decision to Read More

The Women

Actors: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Veteran producer/director Diane English (The Lathe of Heaven, Murphy Brown) helms this contemporized remake of George Cukor's beloved proto-feminist comedy drama The Women (1939), an adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's play. The English version follows the gossip, bitchy wisecracking, and overall Read More

14 Women

Actors: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Joe Biden, Maria Cantwell, Susan M. Collins

Synopsis: Between 1789 and 2006, only 35 of the 1,875 people who were elected to serve in the United States Senate were women, so 2006 became a banner year when 14 women held seats in the Senate (and two more were elected in the mid-term elections held that year). Director Mary Lambert and producers Nicole Boxer Read More

Running With Scissors

Actors: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Screen newcomer Joseph Cross portrays Augusten Burroughs in director Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of author Burroughs' best-selling personal memoir of the same name. A child of the 1970s whose alcoholic father Norman (Alec Baldwin) and delusional, unpublished poet mother Deidre (Annette Benning) Read More

Saturday Night Live: Annette Bening

Actors: Annette Bening, Gwen Stefani, Akon

Synopsis: This 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Annette Bening, and features musical guests Gwen Stefani and Akon. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Mrs. Harris

Actors: Frances Fisher, Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: The sensationalistic murder of diet guru Dr. Herman Tarnower is explored in this stylized take on the tabloid cover story from first-time director Phyllis Nagy. As the inventor of the popular "Scarsdale Diet," Dr. Herman Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) became an overnight success during the peak of the Read More

Being Julia

Actors: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson

Synopsis: A woman scorned unleashes her fury in this droll comedy based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is a famous and well-respected actress, but though her life in the limelight seems glamorous, things are not going well for her off-stage. Julia's husband is unfaithful Read More

Open Range

Actors: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Kevin Costner stars in and directs the Western Open Range. Robert Duvall stars as Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer who free-grazes cattle. He and Charley Waite (Costner) have been partners for ten years. As the film opens in the 1880s, the pair and their employees -- the beefy, rugged, likable Read More

Liberty's Kids [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Reo Jones, Christine Lundquist, Kathleen Barr, D. Kevin Williams, Annette Bening

Synopsis: Coproduced by the DiC animation firm and PBS, Liberty's Kids was a half-hour historical cartoon series set during the American Revolution. The principal characters were Sarah Phillips and James Hiller, apprentices both to the multifaceted Benjamin Franklin. The fact that Sarah was loyal to the Read More

What Planet Are You From?

Actors: Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley, Linda Fiorentino, John Goodman, Richard Jenkins, Caroline Aaron, Judy Greer

Synopsis: Garry Shandling makes his big-screen debut as a leading man in this sci-fi romantic comedy. Harold (Shandling) is an alien from another galaxy sent to Earth on a vital mission: in order to ensure that his civilization will prevail, Harold must impregnate an Earth woman. But he discovers that this Read More

The Directors: Barry Levinson

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's most acclaimed directors, Barry Levinson has brought such hits as Diner, Good Morning Vietnam, and Liberty Heights to screens everywhere. This video profile highlights his career, featuring interviews with Annette Bening, Dustin Hoffman, and Kevin Pollak. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Read More

The Directors: Milos Forman

Synopsis: An acclaimed art house filmmaker in his native Czechoslovakia who found a second act in America, Milos Forman has brought such noted Hollywood fare as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, and Man on the Moon to the silver screen. This video profile highlights his long and winding career Read More

American Beauty

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper

Synopsis: Noted theater director Sam Mendes, who was responsible for the acclaimed 1998 revival of Cabaret and Nicole Kidman's turn in The Blue Room, made his motion picture debut with this film about the dark side of an American family, and about the nature and price of beauty in a culture obsessed with Read More

In Dreams

Actors: Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Robert Downey, Jr., Paul Guilfoyle, Dennis Boutsikaris, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Claire Cooper (Annette Bening), has been having psychic visions all of her life, though she's never been clear of what they mean. Now an adult, she lives an idyllic, small-town life in a Massachusetts farmhouse with her airline-pilot husband Paul (Aidan Quinn) and her young daughter Rebecca (Katie Sagona Read More

Forever Hollywood

Actors: Sharon Stone, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges, André De Toth

Synopsis: Chief film critic of Variety and director of the acclaimed Visions of Light (1993), Todd McCarthy spins this love letter to tinseltown. Funded in part by the city of Los Angeles, the film charts Hollywood's rapid evolution from a sleepy town to a gleaming center of glamour in the 1950s to its Read More

The Siege

Actors: Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub

Synopsis: Edward Zwick directed this action thriller about Islamic militants unleashing terrorism in New York City. As FBI Terrorism Task Force-chief Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) investigates, a false-alarm bomb threat is followed by a legit bomb, with many killed when a Brooklyn bus explodes. Agents Read More

The Directors: Rob Reiner

Synopsis: From playing Meathead in All in the Family to directing such cult classics as This is Spinal Tap and Misery, Rob Reiner is one of Hollywood's most popular directors. This video profile highlights his life and career. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Mars Attacks!

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Jim Brown

Synopsis: This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s Read More

Richard III

Actors: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey, Jr., Nigel Hawthorne

Synopsis: Richard Loncraine takes Shakespeare's classic tale of treachery, Richard III, and transplants it to the 1930s. Ian McKellen is Richard who, as the film opens, begins plotting against his brother Edward, who has just ascended to the throne after a bloody civil war. Richard begins by seducing and Read More

The American President

Actors: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, David Paymer, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: This earnest, intelligent, and well-written romantic comedy is enjoyable and optimistic in classic Hollywood style, even if its idealism doesn't seem quite so credible against the cynical political backdrop of the Nineties. President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas), an unabashedly liberal Read More

Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites

Actors: Annette Bening

Synopsis: He's big, blue, furry, and always hungry -- he's Cookie Monster. In this video for kids, Cookie Monster remembers his favorite cookie moments while baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies. With his unique, choppy voice, Cookie performs "C Is for Cookie," "C Drives Me Crazy," "If the Moon Were Read More

Love Affair

Actors: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn, Garry Shandling, Chloe Webb

Synopsis: The 1939 Irene Dunne-Charles Boyer romance Love Affair, remade with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in 1957 as An Affair to Remember, became a vehicle for real-life couple Warren Beatty and Annette Bening in this 1994 rendition. The well-worn story remains the same, as a man and a woman, both engaged Read More

Bugsy

Actors: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Bugsy is a character study of mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel wrapped up in a gangster movie. Siegel (Warren Beatty in a flashy performance) arrives in California in the Forties, assigned to oversee the L.A. rackets. He is quickly seduced by both the glamour of Hollywood and actress Virginia Hill (Annette Bening Read More

Regarding Henry

Actors: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn, Mikki Allen, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: Combining elements of A Christmas Carol and Rain Man (1988), this modern-day parable of greed and redemption was crafted with generous helpings of sentimentality by director Mike Nicholas. Harrison Ford stars as Henry Turner, a slick, ruthless corporate attorney willing to spin any falsehood to Read More

Guilty by Suspicion

Actors: Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker

Synopsis: The directorial debut of producer Irwin Winkler, Guilty by Suspicion is a sobering account of one movie executive's woes in dealing with the political fallout from the McCarthy Era Hollywood blacklist. Robert De Niro stars as David Merrill, a film director in the 1950s whose obsession with his Read More

The Grifters

Actors: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John Cusack Read More

Postcards From the Edge

Actors: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point Read More

Valmont

Actors: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Sian Phillips

Synopsis: The third adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic novel Les Liasons Dangereuses, Milos Forman's Valmont was released one year after Stephen Frears' more famous version of the de Laclos original, Dangerous Liaisons. The plot remains the same: two debauched, depraved 18th century French Read More

The Great Outdoors

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening, Chris Young

Synopsis: In the John Hughes-scripted The Great Outdoors, John Candy stars as Chet Ripley, an oafish paterfamilias who takes his family on a vacation at a lakeside resort. Their enjoyment is seriously compromised when brother-in-law Roman Craig (Dan Aykroyd) shows up with his wife and kiddies. The rest of Read More

Hostage

Manhunt for Claude Dallas

Actors: Matt Salinger

Synopsis: On March 30, 1986, Claude Dallas, an Ohio-born trapper serving a 30-year sentence for a double murder, escaped from prison. He was still at large at the time the made-for-TV Manhunt for Claude Dallas first aired on October 28, 1986. Matt Salinger stars as Dallas in this gritty, Colorado-filmed Read More