Movies starring Meryl Streep
While it might be a stretch to claim that Fantastic Mr. Fox is "fantastic," it's easily among the year's best animated features. If there's an argument against the film (and, admittedly, it's not much of an argument), it's that the movie may not b...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-11-13
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: (voices) George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, ...
Since Jeff Bridges optioned the rights to Lois Lowry's The Giver shortly after its 1993 publication, the tale has been on a slow track to production. Bridges, however, didn't give up and, although his original choice for the title character passed ...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-08-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, ...
Hope Springs has the unusual distinction of providing a sample of what an Ingmar Bergman movie might be like if made for mass American consumption. The production leavens the painful psychological introspection that defined the Swedish director's b...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-08-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: David Frankel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carrell
Into the Woods left me out in the cold. The long-gestating cinematic adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's fairy tale-infused Broadway musical, Into the Woods can claim a clever screenplay and a few enjoyable performances but little else. The generic ...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, ...
If one was to judge the career of Margaret Thatcher, the U.K.'s Prime Minister from 1979 through 1990, based solely on this bio-pic, one might conclude that her tenure was unworthy of a cinematic account. Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady presents Tha...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-01-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, ...
For Nancy Meyers, whose Hollywood career began with screenplay and producer credits for Private Benjamin and whose first stint behind the director's chair occurred in 1998 with the Lindsay Lohan remake of The Parent Trap (back when Lohan was still ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Nancy Meyers
Cast: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, ...
When I was three years old and my playmates were happily watching Sesame Street and cartoons, I would sit in front of the television and gaze at the force of nature that was Julia Child (I also liked Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet). Her larger...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-08-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Nora Ephron
Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, ...
Although the subject matter of divorce no longer carries the whiff of controversy and scandal it once did, Kramer vs. Kramer has lost none of its power in the forty years since its release. That’s because, although divorce has been normalize...
U.S. Release Date: 1979-12-19
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nudity, Sexual Content, Adult Themes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Benton
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, ...
If you were paying attention to the news in 2015, the phrase “Panama Papers” will mean something. The Laundromat is Steven Soderbergh’s expose about the release of those documents, which provided details of more than 200,000 offshore acc...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-10-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, ...
There's a little Roald Dahl in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and that leads one to wonder what a twisted director like Danny DeVito (Dahl's Matilda) or Tim Burton (Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) could have made out of ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-12-17
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Brad Silberling
Cast: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Jude Law, ...