Catherine Keener
Actor
- Switch (1991)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams…
- Sultry Ellen Barkin suceeds in a comic role as a womanizing 'man' who is reincarnated in her body and gets a taste of his own sexist medicine.
- Living in Oblivion (1996)
- Dir. Tom DiCillo
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney
- Another low–budget gem from the director of JOHNNY SUEDE, this time a deliriously cheeky backhander aimed at various icons of the indie film…
- Walking and Talking (1996)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Liev Schreiber
- A sort of femme flipside to 'Swingers', two women – one single, one about to be married – work out their romantic hangups in original and…
- Box of Moonlight (1996)
- Dir. Tom DiCillo
Feat. John Turturro, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney
- The ungainly John Turturro contorts through another whacked–out odyssey of crisis, mid–life in this instance, as an anally retentive…
- Real Blonde, The (1997)
- Dir. Tom DiCillo
Feat. Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Maxwell Caulfield…
- Light yet insightful lampoon of the acting/modelling industry from the director of LIVING IN OBLIVION nicely captures (and skewers) the hollowness of…
- 8mm (1998)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini…
- First Hollywood effort at generating thrills from the dubious (and probably mythical) subculture of 'snuff movies', where actors are deliberately…
- Your Friends and Neighbours (1998)
- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Jason Patric, Amy Brenneman, Nastassja Kinski…
- Both elegant and caustic, this dark, dark comedy from Neil LaBute mingles with a pack of handsome, sexually carnivorous and frustrated urbanites…
- 200 Cigarettes (1998)
- Dir. Risa Bramon Garcia
Feat. Ben Affleck, Martha Plimpton, Jay Mohr…
- An all–youth ensemble sample some Big Apple nightlife in the last remaining hours of 1981 before mingling at a precarious loft party.…
- Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Dir. Spike Jonze
Feat. John Cusack, John Malkovich, Cameron Diaz…
- Surrealist comic marvel distinguished by the most bizarre of plots – washed–up puppeteer John Cusack's new position as a filing clerk…
- Lovely and Amazing (2001)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Jake Gyllenhaal…
- Rewarding indie drama – seasoned with touches of painful comedy – that observes the troubles between three sisters waiting for their…
- Death to Smoochy (2002)
- Dir. Danny DeVito
Feat. Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener…
- An exuberantly mean–spirited send–up of kids’ television, where lewd, foulmouthed clown Robin Williams declares "death to Smoochy", a…
- Full Frontal (2002)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Julia Roberts, Catherine Keener, David Duchovny…
- Director Stephen Soderbergh calls on the favours of famous friends for a makeshift, semi–improvised poke at the film industry that only a…
- S1m0ne (Simone) (2002)
- Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Pruitt Taylor Vince…
- Another ‘future shock’ escapade from the creator of THE TRUMAN SHOW and GATTACA that this time taps a comic vein to convey the effect that a…
- Interpreter, The (2005)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener…
- A topical thriller embroiled in the thorny issues of African politics (with obvious allusions to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe), this is a slick,…
- 40 Year Old Virgin, The (2005)
- Dir. Judd Apatow
Feat. Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd
- A 40–year–old electronics salesman (Carrell) is discovered by his pals to still be a virgin, living in a world of plastic superhero…
- Capote (2005)
- Dir. Bennett Miller
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr.…
- Polished and sophisticated dramatisation of how writer Truman Capote came to research and create his seminal 'true–crime' masterpiece IN COLD…
- Ballad of Jack and Rose, The (2005)
- Dir. Rebecca Miller
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener…
- Affecting coming–of–age melodrama from the dir. of PERSONAL VELOCITY about father Daniel Day–Lewis and daughter Camille Belle who…
- Friends with Money (2006)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener…
- Diverting relationship–drama skips through dir. Holofcener's (LOVELY AND AMAZING) perennial wry life lessons, presenting the tribulations of…
- Into the Wild (2007)
- Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt…
- With his trademark earnestness, Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book about a 22–year–old who dropped out of society in the…
- Hamlet 2 (2008)
- Dir. Andrew Fleming
Feat. Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler…
- Steve Coogan goes American for this comedy as a failed actor turned high school drama teacher as he tries to stage a musical sequel to the most…
- Synecdoche, New York (2008)
- Dir. Charlie Kaufman
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener…
- Screenwriting extraordinaire Charlie Kaufman turns his hand to directing for the first time with another amusing existential conundrum, here enjoying…
- What Just Happened (2008)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Catherine Keener, Bruce Willis…
- Robert De Niro is in late–career–best form in this amiable showbiz satire that captures two weeks in the life of a frustrated film…
- Genova (Summer in Genoa) (2008)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis
- After the death of his wife, a man (Firth) moves his two daughters to Genova, Italy, in order to overcome his loss and revitalize their lives.
- Soloist, The (2009)
- Dir. Joe Wright
Feat. Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jnr., Catherine Keener
- Downbeat drama sees Robert Downey Jnr. play a journalist who discovers a homeless, mentally ill musician (Fox) on the streets of Los Angeles, and…
- Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
- Dir. Spike Jonze
Feat. Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini…
- Expanding on the simple text of Maurice Sendak's modern children's classic, this glorious, visionary adaptation from director Spike Jonze and writer…
- Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (2010)
- Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario…
- Striking fantasy that follows a gangly teenager who discovers that he's the son of Poseidon and has inherited some of Dad's powers. Percy soon finds…
- Please Give (2010)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet…
- Writer–director Nicole Holofcener secures her informal reputation as a "female Woody Allen" with this bittersweet New York story that again…
- Cyrus (2010)
- Dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Feat. John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei…
- This placid yet sophisticated comedy of male rivalry sees a middle–aged divorcee (Reilly) stumble upon the woman of his dreams (Tomei), only to…
- Trust (2010)
- Dir. David Schwimmer
Feat. Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato…
- Pungent social drama with Keener and Owen as parents dealing with the aftermath of their teenage daughter's rape at the hands of an online…
- Oranges, The (2011)
- Dir. Julian Farino
Feat. Leighton Meester, Hugh Laurie, Catherine Keener…
- Two upper–middle class New Jersey families are split apart when the father of one (Laurie) falls in love with the daughter of the other…
- Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen…
- Light comedy about an uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.
- Performance (A Late Quartet) (2012)
- Dir. Yaron Zilberman
Feat. Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- A celebrated string quartet in New York struggle to stay together through a combination of illness and relationship woes in this nuanced ensemble…
- Croods, The (2013)
- Dir. Kirk De Micco
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone…
- Dreamworks animate the life and times of a Stone Age family as they come to terms with evolution in the prehistoric era.
Though predicable in…
- Captain Phillips (2013)
- Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener
- Paul Greengrass directs with exhilarating dramatic realism this gripping true account of the hijacking of a U.S. container ship by Somali pirates.
- Enough Said (2013)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener…
- Writer/director Nicole Holofcener moves into the first division with her fifth feature film, a savvy divorcee rom–com in perfect accord with…
- Begin Again (2013)
- Dir. John Carney
Feat. Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, James Corden…
- Keira Knightley plays a struggling indie songstress who finds levity and love in a down–on–his–luck music executive (Ruffalo) in…
- War Story (2014)
- Dir. Mark Jackson
Feat. Catherine Keener, Hafsia Herzi, Ben Kingsley…
- A war photographer who recently endured a brutal detainment in Libya holes up in Sicily to come to terms with her ordeal.
- Elephant Song (2014)
- Dir. Charles Biname
Feat. Bruce Greenwood, Xavier Dolan, Catherine Keener…
- Canadian cinema's "enfant terrible" Xaviar Dolan takes the lead in this dark psychodrama in which a psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game…
- Accidental Love (Nailed) (2015)
- Dir. David O. Russell
Feat. Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Catherine Keener…
- Political satire written by Kristin Gore (Al's daughter) about a small town waitress who gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing…
- Show Me a Hero (TV Mini-Series) (2015)
- Dir. Paul Haggis
Feat. Oscar Isaac, Peter Riegert, Alfred Molina…
- Extraordinary true story of the political fight to build public housing in white middle–class neighbourhoods in 1980's New York. From the…
- Get Out (2017)
- Dir. Jordan Peele
Feat. Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener…
- A deliciously fresh and contemporary paranoid thriller that puts an ingenious and spirited African–American spin on the conspiracy template set…
- Kidding (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Michel Gondry, Jake Schreier
Feat. Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Judy Greer…
- An ironically titled, poignant examination of life and grief for a beloved children's television presenter known as Mr. Pickles who anchors a…