Kathy Bates
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Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director.
After several small roles in film and television, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery (1990), for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe. She followed this with major roles in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Dolores Claiborne (1995), before playing a featured role as Margaret "Molly" Brown in Titanic (1997). During this time she began her directing career, primarily in television.
Bates received a Tony Award nomination for her 1983 performance in the Broadway play 'night, Mother. She won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in Primary Colors (1998), for which she also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for About Schmidt (2002). Her television work has resulted in eight Emmy Award nominations.
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Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director.
After several small roles in film and television, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery (1990), for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe. She followed this with major roles in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Dolores Claiborne (1995), before playing a featured role as Margaret "Molly" Brown in Titanic (1997). During this time she began her directing career, primarily in television.
Bates received a Tony Award nomination for her 1983 performance in the Broadway play 'night, Mother. She won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in Primary Colors (1998), for which she also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for About Schmidt (2002). Her television work has resulted in eight Emmy Award nominations.
Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003, Bates has stated that she has made a full recovery.
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On the Basis of Sex (2018)
As: Dorothy Kenyon
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg works with her husband to bring a groundbreaking case of gender discrimination before the Supreme Court.
Directed by: Mimi Leder
Stars: Felicity Jones | Armie Hammer | Justin Theroux | Jack Reynor | Kathy Bates
Bad Santa 2 (2016)
As: Sunny Soke
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie's sliver of humanity. Issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, who raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Mark Waters
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton | Kathy Bates | Brett Kelly | Tony Cox | Christina Hendricks
Michelle Darnell (2016)
As: Ida Marquette
A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Ben Falcone
Stars: Melissa McCarthy | Peter Dinklage | Kristen Bell | Kathy Bates | Kristen Schaal
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2016)
As: Maime Trotter
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Stephen Herek
Stars: Sophie Nélisse | Kathy Bates | Glenn Close | Bill Cobbs | Octavia Spencer
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2016)
As: Barbara Haggermaker
An American movie star finds his correspondence with an 11-year-old actor exposed, prompting assumptions that begin to destroy his life and career.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Kit Harington | Natalie Portman | Susan Sarandon | Kathy Bates | Jacob Tremblay
Tammy (2014)
As: Lenore
After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Ben Falcone
Stars: Melissa McCarthy | Susan Sarandon | Kathy Bates | Allison Janney | Dan Aykroyd
Cadaver (2012)
As: Beth
A cadaver wakes up to say a last goodbye to his wife, but discovers a truth in death that he didn't know in life.
Runtime: 8 min.
Directed by: Jonah D. Ansell
Stars: Christopher Lloyd | Kathy Bates | Tavi Gevinson | Ashley Ann Hale
Keep Coming Back (2011)
As: Vera
A young man living a sheltered life develops a crush on a stripper and joins her Alcoholics Anonymous group just so he can be in the same room with her.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: William H. Macy
Stars: Rosario Dawson | Nick Robinson | T.I. | Grant Gustin | Felicity Huffman
Midnight in Paris (2011)
As: Gertrude Stein
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Owen Wilson | Rachel McAdams | Kurt Fuller | Mimi Kennedy | Michael Sheen
You May Not Kiss the Bride (2011)
As: Bryan's Mother
An unassuming pet photographer is thrown into serious action, adventure and romance when he's forced to marry a Croatian bride and spend his honeymoon at a remote tropical resort where she is kidnapped.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Rob Hedden
Stars: Dave Annable | Katharine McPhee | Rob Schneider | Mena Suvari | Tia Carrere
A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)
As: Beverly Corbett
It's a comedy about a guarded woman who finds out she's dying of cancer, but when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Nicole Kassell
Stars: Kate Hudson | Gael García Bernal | Romany Malco | Kathy Bates | Lucy Punch
Valentine's Day (2010)
As: Susan Milton
More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter; are any worth saving? A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love; two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon; a TV sports reporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA; a star quarterback contemplates his future; two strangers meet on a plane; ...
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Stars: Jessica Alba | Jessica Biel | Bradley Cooper | Eric Dane | Patrick Dempsey
The Blind Side (2009)
As: Miss Sue
Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: John Lee Hancock
Stars: Sandra Bullock | Tim McGraw | Quinton Aaron | Lily Collins | Jae Head
Cheri (2009)
As: Madame Peloux
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer | Kathy Bates | Rupert Friend | Felicity Jones | Iben Hjejle
Personal Effects (2009)
As: Gloria
Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeance on the man who is accused of the crime. A chance meeting with a beautiful mature woman gives him solace to the situation. Will this unlikely pairing bloom into a romance and heal a wound the world cannot see or will the loss of his sister push him ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: David Hollander
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer | Ashton Kutcher | Kathy Bates | Spencer Hudson | John Mann
Revolutionary Road (2008)
As: Mrs. Helen Givings
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Kate Winslet | Michael Shannon | Kathryn Hahn | David Harbour
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
As: Regina Jackson
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Scott Derrickson
Stars: Keanu Reeves | Jennifer Connelly | Kathy Bates | Jaden Smith | John Cleese
The Family That Preys (2008)
As: Charlotte Cartwright
Alice Pratt, a hard working Christian woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple diner of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter Andrea graduated in Economic Science and works in a construction corporation while her sister Pam stayed with Alice and worked in the diner. Andrea is married to construction worker Chris, who works in the same corporation as his wife but dreams of starting up his own business. ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Stars: Kathy Bates | Alfre Woodard | Tyler Perry | Sanaa Lathan | Rockmond Dunbar
P.S. I Love You (2007)
As: Patricia
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Richard LaGravenese
Stars: Hilary Swank | Gerard Butler | Lisa Kudrow | Harry Connick Jr. | Gina Gershon
The Golden Compass (2007)
As: Hester (voice)
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Chris Weitz
Stars: Dakota Blue Richards | Nicole Kidman | Daniel Craig | Sam Elliott | Eva Green
Fred Claus (2007)
As: Mother Claus
Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an efficiency expert assesses the workings at the North Pole and threatens to shut Santa down, Fred must help his brother to save Christmas.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: David Dobkin
Stars: Vince Vaughn | Paul Giamatti | John Michael Higgins | Miranda Richardson | Rachel Weisz
Bee Movie (2007)
As: Janet Benson (voice)
Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Simon J. Smith | Steve Hickner
Stars: Jerry Seinfeld | Renée Zellweger | Jim Cummings | Matthew Broderick | Patrick Warburton
Christmas Is Here Again (2007)
As: Miss Dowdy
When the evil Krad steals Santa's toy bag, he crushes the holiday spirit- and over time, the world's children forget all about Christmas. Now, a wide-eyed orphan and her band of friends will embark on the polar adventure of a lifetime, as they try to stop Krad from destroying Christmas once and for all!
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: Robert Zappia
Stars: Jay Leno | Ed Asner | Kathy Bates | Madison Davenport | Colin Ford
Charlotte's Web (2006)
As: Bitsy the Cow (voice)
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Gary Winick
Stars: Julia Roberts | Steve Buscemi | John Cleese | Oprah Winfrey | Cedric the Entertainer
Bonneville (2006)
As: Margene
Three women take a road trip to Santa Barbara in order to deliver the ashes of one of their dead husbands to his resentful daughter. Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage '66 Bonneville convertible.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Christopher N. Rowley
Stars: Kathy Bates | Evan May | Erin May | Joan Allen | Tom Skerritt
Relative Strangers (2006)
As: Agnes Menure
An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Greg Glienna
Stars: Kathy Bates | Danny DeVito | Ron Livingston | Neve Campbell
Failure to Launch (2006)
As: Sue
Tripp, an attractive man in his thirties, is still living with his parents Al and Sue. Tripp's best friends Demo and Ace are also still living in their parents' homes and seem proud of it. Al and Sue are not happy, however, and are fascinated when friends whose adult son has recently moved away from home reveal they hired an expert to arrange the matter and couldn't be happier with the result.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Tom Dey
Stars: Matthew McConaughey | Sarah Jessica Parker | Zooey Deschanel | Justin Bartha | Bradley Cooper
Guilty Hearts (2006)
As: The Judge
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter future.
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: George Augusto | Savina Dellicour
Stars: Kathy Bates | Julie Delpy | Andrea Di Stefano | Anna Faris | Frank Gallegos
Ambulance Girl (2005)
As: Jane Stern
The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Kathy Bates
Stars: Robin Thomas | Kathy Bates | Gordon Pinsent | Sean McCann
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2005)
As: The Marquesa
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge.[ A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Mary McGuckian
Stars: Gabriel Byrne | F. Murray Abraham | Kathy Bates | Robert De Niro | Harvey Keitel
Little Black Book (2004)
As: Kippie Kann
Determined to learn about her boyfriend's past relationships, Stacy -- who works for a talk show -- becomes a bona fide snoop. With her colleague, Barb, Stacy gets the names of Derek's ex-lovers and interviews them, supposedly for an upcoming show. But what she learns only adds to her confusion, and her plans begin to unravel when she befriends one of the women.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Nick Hurran
Stars: Brittany Murphy | Holly Hunter | Kathy Bates | Ron Livingston | Kevin Sussman
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
As: Queen Victoria
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Frank Coraci
Stars: Jackie Chan | Steve Coogan | Cécile de France | Robert Fyfe | Jim Broadbent
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
As: Narrator (voice)
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Wendy Apple
Stars: Martin Scorsese | Quentin Tarantino | Jodie Foster | Steven Spielberg | James Cameron
Unconditional Love (2003)
As: Grace Beasley
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer. Written by Anonymous
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: P.J. Hogan
Stars: Kathy Bates | Rupert Everett | Meredith Eaton | Peter Sarsgaard | Lynn Redgrave
Love Liza (2002)
As: Mary Ann Bankhead
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Todd Louiso
Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman | Jack Kehler | Sarah Koskoff | Kathy Bates | Stephen Tobolowsky
About Schmidt (2002)
As: Roberta Hertzel
66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys him, and he disapproves of the man his daughter is about to marry. When his wife suddenly dies, he sets out to postpone the imminent marriage of his daughter to a man ...
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Alexander Payne
Stars: Jack Nicholson | Kathy Bates | Hope Davis | Dermot Mulroney | June Squibb
Dragonfly (2002)
As: Mrs. Belmont
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Tom Shadyac
Stars: Kevin Costner | Joe Morton | Ron Rifkin | Susanna Thompson | Kathy Bates
My Sister's Keeper (2002)
As: Christine Chapman
Two sisters take a journey of discovery and reconciliation based on the memoirs of Margaret Moorman. Christine has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and must rely on others for support even though she longs for and independent and ordinary life. When her mother dies, her sister Judy becomes responsible for her care. The two are left to face the struggles of finding common ground.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Ron Lagomarsino
Stars: Kathy Bates | Elizabeth Perkins | Clark Gregg | Kathleen Wilhoite | Kimberly J. Brown
American Outlaws (2001)
As: Ma James
When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. They will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jessie James.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Les Mayfield
Stars: Colin Farrell | Scott Caan | Ali Larter | Gabriel Macht | Gregory Smith
Rat Race (2001)
As: The Squirrel Lady
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Jerry Zucker
Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr. | Seth Green | Whoopi Goldberg | Breckin Meyer | Amy Smart
Bruno (The Dress Code) (2000)
As: Mother Superior
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Shirley MacLaine
Stars: Alex D. Linz | Shirley MacLaine | Gary Sinise | Kathy Bates | Joey Lauren Adams
Annie (1999)
As: Miss Agatha Hannigan
Eleven-year-old Annie has been living in an orphanage her whole life run by cruel Miss Hannigan. After unsuccessful escape attempts, Grace Farrell comes to take the child home to live two weeks with billionaire Oliver Warbucks during Christmas.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Stars: Kathy Bates | Victor Garber | Alan Cumming | Audra McDonald | Kristin Chenoweth
The Waterboy (1998)
As: Mama Boucher
Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Frank Coraci
Stars: Adam Sandler | Kathy Bates | Fairuza Balk | Henry Winkler | Jerry Reed
The Effects of Magic (1998)
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Chuck Martinez
Stars: Robert Carradine | Kathy Bates | Jacobo Morales | Melinda Dillon
Primary Colors (1998)
As: Libby Holden
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
Runtime: 143 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: John Travolta | Emma Thompson | Billy Bob Thornton | Kathy Bates | Adrian Lester
Swept from the Sea (1998)
As: Miss Swaffer
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Beeban Kidron
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Vincent Pérez | Ian McKellen | Kathy Bates | Joss Ackland
Titanic (1997)
As: Molly Brown
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and ...
Runtime: 194 min.
Directed by: James Cameron
Stars: Kate Winslet | Leonardo DiCaprio | Billy Zane | Kathy Bates | Frances Fisher
The War at Home (1996)
As: Maurine Collier
Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving Day, when a bitter secret is revealed
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Emilio Estevez
Stars: Emilio Estevez | Martin Sheen | Kathy Bates | Kimberly Williams-Paisley | Carla Gugino
Diabolique (1996)
As: Det. Shirley Vogel
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The strain starts to tell on the two women as a retired police investigator who is looking into the disappearance on a whim begins to think that they know more than they are telling, and their mental state is not helped ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Stars: Sharon Stone | Isabelle Adjani | Chazz Palminteri | Kathy Bates | Spalding Gray
The Late Shift (1996)
As: Helen Kushnick
David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Betty Thomas
Stars: Kathy Bates | John Michael Higgins | Daniel Roebuck | Bob Balaban | Ed Begley Jr.
Angus (1995)
As: Meg Bethune
Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool-kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Patrick Read Johnson
Stars: Perry Anzilotti | Kathy Bates | Robert Curtis Brown | Kevin Connolly | Tony Denman
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
As: Dolores Claiborne
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Stars: Kathy Bates | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Judy Parfitt | Christopher Plummer | David Strathairn
Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
As: Ella Tate
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left of their family life.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: J. Michael McClary
Stars: James Woods | Kathy Bates | Randy Quaid | Henry Thomas | Kristin Fiorella
North (1994)
As: Alaskan Mom
Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus north starts off on an hilarious journey around the world to find the parents that really care about him.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Stars: Elijah Wood | Jason Alexander | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Jon Lovitz | Bruce Willis
A Home of Our Own (1993)
As: Frances Lacey
The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while facing all kinds of difficulties during their journey.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Tony Bill
Stars: Kathy Bates | Edward Furlong | Clarissa Lassig | Sarah Schaub | Miles Feulner
Used People (1992)
As: Bibby Berman
At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Beeban Kidron
Stars: Shirley MacLaine | Marcello Mastroianni | Bob Dishy | Jessica Tandy | Kathy Bates
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
As: Leah Blier
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Norman René
Stars: Meg Ryan | Alec Baldwin | Ned Beatty | Kathy Bates | Patty Duke
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
As: Evelyn Couch
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Jon Avnet
Stars: Kathy Bates | Mary-Louise Parker | Jessica Tandy | Cicely Tyson | Mary Stuart Masterson
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
As: Hazel Quarrier
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel ...
Runtime: 189 min.
Directed by: Hector Babenco
Stars: Tom Berenger | John Lithgow | Daryl Hannah | Aidan Quinn | Tom Waits
Shadows and Fog (1991)
As: Prostitute
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Woody Allen | Kathy Bates | John Cusack | Mia Farrow | Jodie Foster
Misery (1990)
As: Annie Wilkes
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Stars: James Caan | Kathy Bates | Richard Farnsworth | Frances Sternhagen | Lauren Bacall
White Palace (1990)
As: Rosemary
Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Luis Mandoki
Stars: Susan Sarandon | James Spader | Kathy Bates | Jason Alexander | Eileen Brennan
Dick Tracy (1990)
As: Mrs. Green
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Warren Beatty
Stars: Warren Beatty | Madonna | Mandy Patinkin | Al Pacino | Dustin Hoffman
Men Don't Leave (1990)
As: Lisa Coleman
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to do but sell what material possessions she has, such as the family pick-up truck and the house, and move into an apartment in the city, namely Baltimore. Beth just wants to survive ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Paul Brickman
Stars: Jessica Lange | Arliss Howard | Joan Cusack | Chris O'Donnell | Kathy Bates
No Place Like Home (1989)
As: Bonnie Cooper
A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Lee Grant
Stars: Jeff Daniels | Christine Lahti | Kyndra Joy Casper | Lantz Landry | Kathy Bates
High Stakes (1989)
As: Jill
A New York hooker tries to keep her daughter out of the clutches of the mobsters she works for.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Amos Kollek
Stars: Sally Kirkland | Robert LuPone | Richard Lynch | Sarah Michelle Gellar | Kathy Bates
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
As: Mrs. Canby
Arthur (Dudley Moore), that irrepressible drunk, tries to sober up -- and get a job -- in this sequel to the 1981 smash hit. Meanwhile, the father of the girl Arthur stood up at the altar in the first film is conniving to trick the hapless boozer into marrying his daughter so he can gain entrée to Arthur's $750 million fortune.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Bud Yorkin
Stars: Dudley Moore | Liza Minnelli | John Gielgud | Geraldine Fitzgerald | Stephen Elliott
My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988)
As: Helen Blake
Young student finds himself being transformed to a vampire after a night with a quite attractive female vampire. First, he does not quite believe it himself, but with the help of a 300 year old teacher and the handbook "vampirism - a guide to an alternative lifestyle", he finds out that blood does not taste as bad as he expected.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Jimmy Huston
Stars: Robert Sean Leonard | Cecilia Peck | Leeanne Locken | Cheryl Pollak | Fannie Flagg
Summer Heat (1987)
As: Ruth
The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Michie Gleason
Stars: Lori Singer | Anthony Edwards | Bruce Abbott | Kathy Bates | Clu Gulager
The Morning After (1986)
As: Cat-Hating Artist
Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin, for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall, can help her escape her predicament and ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Jane Fonda | Jeff Bridges | Raúl Juliá | Diane Salinger | Richard Foronjy
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
As: Stella Mae
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Robert Altman
Stars: Cher | Sandy Dennis | Karen Black | Sudie Bond | Kathy Bates
Straight Time (1978)
As: Selma Darin
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Ulu Grosbard
Stars: Dustin Hoffman | Theresa Russell | Gary Busey | Harry Dean Stanton | M. Emmet Walsh
Taking Off (1971)
As: Audition Singer
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Miloš Forman
Stars: Georgia Engel | Kathy Bates | Buck Henry | Lynn Carlin | Linnea Heacock