Kathy Bates

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Misery (1990): Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. James Caan, Kathy Bates; You'll have a far from miserable experience watching novelist James Caan nursed back to health by his psychotic number one fan (Kathy Bates in an…
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991): Dir. Hector Babenco
Feat. Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah…; Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Darryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates and Tom Waits endured the two–year location shoot of Peter Matthiessen's…
Fried Green Tomatoes (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe) (1991): Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker…; Kathy Bates strikes up a friendship with Jessica Tandy who waxes nostalgic about a pair of Southern belles who triumphed over adversity in the '30s.…
Shadows and Fog (1991): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates…; Woody, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Jodie Foster and Madonna cast their prominent shadows for his droll tale of mystery stranglers,…
Used People (1992): Dir. Beeban Kidron
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Marcello Mastroianni, Kathy Bates…; Feathers fly in the hen–house of recently widowed Shirley Maclaine when courted by debonair Marcello Mastroianni.
Curse of the Starving Class (1994): Dir. J. Michael McClary
Feat. James Woods, Kathy Bates; Black comedy depicting a hellish family of white–trash farmers, incl. an alcoholic James Woods and wife Kathy Bates. Based on a Sam Shepard…
Dolores Claiborne (1995): Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt…; After MISERY, this non–supernatural Stephen King adaptation displays yet another facet of Kathy Bates multiple screen personas – here she…
Angus (1995): Dir. Patrick Johnson
Feat. Charlie Talbert, Kathy Bates, Rita Moreno…; Angus, the uncoolest geek in school, gets his big chance at popularity and girlfriends. Unsentimental and geniunely funny boyhood tale, with Kathy…
Late Shift, The (1995): Dir. Betty Thomas
Feat. Kathy Bates, John Michael Higgins, Bob Balaban…; Searing, insightful fact–based drama that charts the jostle for late–night supremacy between David Letterman and Jay Leno after the…
West Side Waltz (1995): Dir. Ernest Thompson
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Liza Minnelli, Jennifer Grey…; Cold widow Shirley Maclaine lives for playing the piano and isolates all except her violin accompanist, Liza Minnelli. A prelude to change comes in…
Swept from the Sea (Amy Foster) (1997): Dir. Beeban Kidron
Feat. Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen…; Shipwrecked Ukrainian emigree Vincent Perez washes ashore in rugged Cornwall, to the bafflement of the folk, especially after he receives scandalous…
Primary Colors (1998): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton…; In charting the rise of a controversial Southern Governor through the US Democratic primary campaign, John Travolta rises admirably to his most…
Waterboy, The (1999): Dir. Frank Coraci
Feat. Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler…; Soggy vehicle for Adam Sandler trades in the above–par comic strokes of HAPPY GILMORE for clunky, witless padding of Gridiron. Sandler's…
Annie (2000): Dir. Rob Marshall
Feat. Kathy Bates, Alan Cumming, Alicia Morton; Remake of the love–it–or–hate–it original, again finds the feisty carrot–top fleeing her orphan home (and a mean Kathy…
Rat Race (2002): Dir. Jerry Zucker
Feat. John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Rowan Atkinson…; A contemporary re–race of IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, wealthy John Cleese devising a money–scramble for $2 million among…
Unconditional Love (2002): Dir. P.J. Hogan
Feat. Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, Lynn Redgrave…; A neatly amusing comedy concerning the fan of a recently deceased pop crooner, who teams up with the singer's gay lover to investigate the death (or…
About Schmidt (2002): Dir. Alexander Payne
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney…; Age becomes Jack Nicholson in a beautifully modulated comedy of late life lament that doubles as an affectionate satire of middle…
Love Liza (2002): Dir. Todd Louiso
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates; Freshly widowed after his wife’s suicide, Phillip Seymour Hoffman staggers through and downward in an endearingly wacky yet affecting portrait of…
Little Black Book (2004): Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Brittany Murphy, Kathy Bates, Holly Hunter…; Brittany Murphy plays a television researcher whose curiosity gets the better of her when she gets her hands on her boyfriend's pocket…
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (2004): Dir. Mary McGuckian
Feat. Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne…; This star–studded costume drama of interlinked fates is the third celluloid incarnation of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Thorton Wilder…
Failure to Launch (2006): Dir. Tom Dey
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zooey Deschanel…; Amiable and clever enough to pass muster, this romantic comedy finds a thirty–something slacker, who still lives with his parents…
Bonneville (2006): Dir. Christopher Rowley
Feat. Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen…; Endearing road dramedy featuring a trio of Mormon friends that set out for Santa Barbara in a vintage 66' Bonneville Convertible to deliver the ashes…
Fred Claus (2007): Dir. David Dobkin
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson…; Middling Chrissie comedy centred on Santa's troublemaking big brother (Vaughn) and his misplaced attempts to help spread Christmas cheer at the North…
P.S. I Love You (2007): Dir. Richard LaGravenese
Feat. Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow…; Teary afterlife romance from the dir. of LIVING OUT LOUD, about a series of love notes left for a grieving widow (Swank) by her deceased…
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (2008): Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith…; Rather vague, king–sized remake of the 1951 sci–fi classic, in which an alien visitor brings to earth a warning of imminent…
Revolutionary Road (2008): Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon…; The director of AMERICAN BEAUTY directs his real–life wife, Kate Winslet, in another tale of middle–class suburban neurosis and the…
Personal Effects (2009): Dir. David Hollander
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher, Kathy Bates; Perfunctory dramatic vehicle for Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Pfeiffer who star as two disparate characters unexpectedly united while attending the…
Cheri (2009): Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates…; Gorgeously–appointed period drama set in the "Belle Époque" of 1900s Paris, focused on a love affair between a retired courtesan (Pfeiffer)…
Blind Side, The (2009): Dir. John Lee Hancock
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron…; Sandra Bullock stars in this uplifting, if cliché–ridden football drama, in which she portrays an upper middle–class homemaker who gives…
Alice (TV Mini-Series) (2009): Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Caterina Scorsone, Andrew Lee Potts, Matt Frewer…; Modernist re–imagining of the Lewis Carroll classic with wonderland portrayed as a dystopian netherworld that sucks the emotions from the 'real…
Valentine's Day (2010): Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Jessica Alba, Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Garner…; Star–studded romantic comedy is an ode to that special day with multiple story lines devoted to the search for love. Although cynics might…
Midnight in Paris (2011): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates…; High class whimsy from Woody Allen with Woody–surrogate honours going this time to Owen Wilson as a frustrated hack screenwriter magically…
A Little Bit of Heaven (2011): Dir. Nicole Kassell
Feat. Kate Hudson, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rosemarie DeWitt…; Colon cancer–sufferer Kate Hudson falls in love with her doctor (Mexican heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal) in this hopelessly awkward romantic…
American Horror Story (TV Series) (2011): Feat. Dylan McDermott, Jessica Lange, Lily Rabe…; Stylish and atmospheric anthology series that centers on different characters and locations, including a Hotel, a carnival sideshow and an insane…
Tammy (2014): Dir. Ben Falcone
Feat. Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates…; After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard–drinking grandmother.
Boychoir (2014): Dir. Francois Girard
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Garrett Wareing, Kathy Bates…; A demanding choir master at an elite music academy pushes a gifted but rebellious student to fulfill his true potential.
Boss, The (2016): Dir. Ben Falcone
Feat. Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage…; Middling comedy with Melissa McCarthy starring as wealthy CEO trying to make amends for past transgressions.
On the Basis of Sex (2018): Dir. Mimi Leder
Feat. Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux…; Following on from the recent documentary, RBG, the story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is given the Hollywood biopic treatment here, detailing her…
Richard Jewell (2020): Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm…; A powerful biopic from the dependably compelling American story–teller Clint Eastwood, about Richard Jewell, the man who saved countless lives…

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