Movies starring Maura Tierney
It has become a time-honored tradition that stars of Saturday Night Live, upon graduating from the no-longer-funny late night show, elect to spread their wings and strive for cinematic greatness. With a few notable exceptions, most have crashed an...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-04-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Michael McCullers
Cast: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, ...
There can be a lot of power in stories about addiction: the power to dishearten, the power to frustrate, and (on rare occasions) the power to uplift. Regardless of the substance at the core of the disease, movies about addiction follow a famil...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-10-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Felix Van Groeningen
Cast: Steve Carell, Timothee Chalamet, Maura Tierney, ...
Spoiler Alert: The review discusses things that are part of the established historical record but which may be unknown to anyone not familiar with the subject matter. One could be forgiven believing that a movie about the most successful f...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, ...
While watching Liar Liar, it occurred to me that the chief problem with this film is that it has a script. If Jim Carrey had been unleashed without such silly, incidental constraints as plot and dialogue, who knows where things might have gone? A...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-03-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper, ...
It would be possible to write pages and pages comparing and contrasting the reality of Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign with the fictional one of Jack Stanton, the candidate in Primary Colors. Likewise, it would be equally possible to dev...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-03-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester, ...
In high school, teachers spend a great deal of time guiding students through the rigors of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories, but what about the comedies? Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth... Yes, ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Billy Morrissette
Cast: James LeGros, Maura Tierney, Christopher Walken, ...
When it comes to comedy, Will Ferrell is a Jeckyl & Hyde. When he's "on," he can be hilarious, but when he's off, he's like a drunk at a bar yelling loud, unfunny jokes at his equally inebriated buddies. And, while those guys might laugh at him, ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-02-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Kent Alterman
Cast: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Andre Benjamin, ...
From the outside looking in, I was dubious about how the filmmakers behind Twisters were going to handle a sequel-not-sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, Twister. With Bill Paxton dead and Helen Hunt not participating, there seemed to be no real p...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-07-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Intense Action, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, ...
What might have been… Those four words tell the sad story of too many films, and Welcome to Mooseport is one of them. It starts out with a terrific premise, ripe with the potential for the kind of political satire we haven't seen on the big scr...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-02-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Donald Petrie
Cast: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden, ...