Shadows and Fog (1991)
Comedy
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Starring: Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mia Farrow, Jodie Foster, Fred Gwynne
Director: Woody Allen
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Drama
A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.
Starring: Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell
Director: Jon Avnet
The Late Shift (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Talk-Show
Based on the non-fiction best-seller of the same name, film is a dramatization of the rivalry between Jay Leno and David Letterman to be the successor of Johnny Carson as the host of "The Tonight Show".
Starring: Kathy Bates, John Michael Higgins, Daniel Roebuck, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Peter Jurasik
Director: Betty Thomas
American Outlaws / Jesse James (2001)
Action | Western
When a corrupt baron forces homesteaders off their land to build a rail line, Jesse James and Cole Younger take the law into their own hands and embark on a spree of bank robberies and vandalism aimed at paralyzing the railroad. But they'll have to elude the pursuit of legendary detective Allan Pinkerton, who's been hired by the railroad to bring the boys to justice.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Ali Larter, Scott Caan, Gabriel Macht, Kathy Bates, Gregory Smith
Director: Les Mayfield
Love Liza (2002)
Comedy | Drama
Wilson Joel is a man in trouble. There's a searing pain in his gut that he can't tolerate and a dazed quietness to his struggle as he tries to maintain his equilibrium. Wilson is attempting to move on from the sudden and inexplicable suicide of his wife. His mother-in-law is there for him, but her sympathies turn quickly. He has an employer that seems to want to help him, and a workmate who wants him for herself. But nothing and no one can give Wilson solace; so, he seeks oblivion. It is not the usual alcohol or drugs. Wilson inhales fumes from gasoline cans and model airplane fuel and finds temporary salvation in the company of remote-control model enthusiasts. However, nothing that provides him relief really lasts.
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, J.D. Walsh, Jimmy Raskin, Kathy Bates, Erika Alexander, Sarah Koskoff
Director: Todd Louiso
P.S. I Love You (2007)
Drama | Romance
When the love of Holly Kennedy's life, her husband Gerry, is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. But before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters to guide her, not only through her grief but in rediscovering herself. Each one is signed the same way: P.S. I Love You.
Starring: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, James Marsters, Kathy Bates
Director: Richard LaGravenese
About Schmidt (2002)
Comedy | Drama
Upon retirement, a man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, June Squibb, Howard Hesseman
Director: Alexander Payne
American Horror Story (TV Series 2011- )
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
American Horror Story is a dramatic television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The story focuses on a family that moves to a decrepit mansion in Los Angeles, unaware that the once-noble home is haunted.
Starring: Evan Peters, Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Frances Conroy, Lily Rabe, Emma Roberts, Kathy Bates, Taissa Farmiga, Angela Bassett
Creator: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk
Little Black Book (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Hired to work on a tabloid TV show, Stacy Holt's (Brittany Murphy) life gets turned upside down when she is persuaded to explore one of the show's themes, and snoops through her boyfriend's Palm Pilot. But she's forgetting one thing: in the world of daytime TV, there's always a shocking surprise in store — and she's about to get a big one!
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Holly Hunter, Ron Livingston, Kathy Bates
Director: Nick Hurran
Charlotte's Web (2006)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
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.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kathy Bates
Director: Gary Winick
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
Drama | Romance
In early 19th Century Peru an old Inca rope bridge collapses, plunging five travelers to their deaths in the Andean chasm below. Brother Juniper, who was within minutes of being on the bridge himself, becomes obsessed with discovering how five people of differing class and circumstances came to be on the bridge at that moment. The Catholic friar wants to know if it was mere existential happenstance or part of God's cosmic plan. After researching the lives of the victims for five years and publishing his findings in a book, he is accused of heresy by the worldly Archbishop of Lima and is put on trial for his life by the Inquisition.
Starring: Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Geraldine Chaplin, Émilie Dequenne
Director: Mary McGuckian
Angus (1995)
Comedy | Drama
Angus is fat, dorky and smart, a kid with an uncool pal and a crush on a cheerleader. Angus is funny, rowdy and triumphant, a totally cool movie with a dead-on eye and ear for the hilarious, heartbreaking rite of passage called high school. A great cast (including Academy Award winners George C. Scott and Kathy Bates as Angus’s oddball family) sparks this story about what happens when Angus is named King of the Winter Ball as a prank – and how he turns humiliation into victory. Angus, Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "delivers a rousing 'up yours' to all the snotty high school golden boys [and] a climax that I, for one, found wholly the equal of anything in Rocky."
Starring: Kathy Bates, Kevin Connolly, Robert Curtis Brown, James Keane, Irvin Kershner, Chris Owen, George C. Scott
Director: Patrick Read Johnson
Primary Colors (1998)
Comedy | Drama
Jack Stanton is running for president. The election is seen through the eyes of young Henry Burton. Along the way Stanton must deal with a sex scandal.
Starring: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman
Director: Mike Nichols
The Blind Side (2009)
Biography | Drama | Sport
An teenager in Memphis, whose father was murdered and whose mother was a crack addict, is shuffled through the public school system, despite his low grade point average and absenteeism. But his tremendous size and quickness attracts the interest of a wealthy couple who take him in and groom him both athletically and academically to become one of the top high-school football prospects in the country.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Kathy Bates
Director: John Lee Hancock
The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards 2012 (TV 2012)
Awards
The 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring the best in primetime television programming from June 1, 2011 until May 31, 2012, were held on September 23, 2012 at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The awards program began at 8 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific. Comedian and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Emmys for the first time. Kimmel and actress Kerry Washington announced the nominees on July 19, 2012. Nick Offerman was scheduled to co-announce the nominations, but had to cancel due to travel delays. ABC will televise the ceremony in the United States. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was held on September 15 and was televised September 22, 2012 on ReelzChannel. This is the first ceremony that none of the four major American broadcasting TV networks were nominated in the categories of Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Starring: Jimmy Kimmel, Aziz Ansari, Kathy Bates, Andre Braugher, Connie Britton, Steve Buscemi, Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Jon Cryer, Claire Danes, Jeremy Davies, Kat Dennings, Zooey Deschanel, Giancarlo Esposito, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Michael J. Fox, Ricky Gervais, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jon Hamm, Ron Howard, Mindy Kaling, Jane Levy, Lucy Liu, Seth MacFarlane, Julianna Margulies, Melissa McCarthy, Julianne Moore, Hayden Panettiere, Jim Parsons, Matthew Perry, Martha Plimpton, Amy Poehler, James Rolfe, Kiefer Sutherland, Emily VanCamp, James Van Der Beek, Kerry Washington, Damon Wayans Jr.
Director: Don Mischer
Titanic (1997)
Drama | Romance
After winning a trip on the RMS Titanic during a dockside card game, American Jack Dawson spots the society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater who is on her way to Philadelphia to marry her rich snob fiance Cal Hockley. Rose feels helplessly trapped by her situation and makes her way to the aft deck and thinks of suicide until she is rescued by Jack. Cal is therefore obliged to invite Jack to dine at their first-class table where he suffers through the slights of his snobbish hosts. In return, he spirits Rose off to third class for an evening of dancing, giving her the time of her life. Deciding to forsake her intended future all together, Rose asks Jack, who has made his living making sketches on the streets of Paris, to draw her in the nude wearing the invaluable blue diamond Cal has given her. Cal finds out and has Jack locked away. Soon afterwards, the ship hits an iceberg and Rose must find Jack while both must run from Cal even as the ship sinks deeper into the freezing water.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart
Director: James Cameron
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Valentine's Day (2010)
Comedy | Romance
Valentine's Day follows the intertwining storylines of a group of Los Angelinos as they find their way through romance over the course of one Valentine's Day. Couples and singles experience the pinnacles and pitfalls of finding, keeping or ending relationships in a day in the life of love.
Starring: Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Kathy Bates, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jamie Foxx, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Topher Grace, Shirley MacLaine, Anne Hathaway, Emma Roberts, Eric Dane, Ashton Kutcher, Julia Roberts, Patrick Dempsey, Queen Latifah, Taylor Swift, Hector Elizondo
Director: Garry Marshall
You May Not Kiss the Bride (2011)
Comedy | Romance
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.
Starring: Dave Annable, Katharine McPhee, Rob Schneider, Mena Suvari, Kathy Bates
Director: Rob Hedden
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu, who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helena's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is "a friend to the Earth". Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving–but it may be too late. The process has begun.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates
Director: Scott Derrickson
The Waterboy (1998)
Comedy | Sport
Bobby Boucher, a socially inept 31-year-old from the swamps of Louisiana, is home schooled and sheltered by his over-protective Mama. His only contact with society is his waterboy job for a college team where the players relentlessly make fun of him, and his coach doesn't let him fight back. This all changes when Bobby gets a new coach who lets him stand up for himself. Bobby finally releases years of pent up rage and is transformed into the most devastating tackler on the team. Now Bobby has to learn how to play football and go to college, all behind his Mama's back. Let's just hope Mama doesn't find out.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler, Fairuza Balk, Jerry Reed
Director: Frank Coraci
