Kathy Bates
Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…