Death Becomes Her (1992)
Comedy | Fantasy
When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy, Adam Storke
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Suffragette (2015)
Biography | Drama | History
The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Sarah Gavron
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Ricki and the Flash (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Music
An aging rock star tries to connect with her estranged kids.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer, Ben Platt, Sebastian Stan, Rick Springfield
Director: Jonathan Demme
The Hours (2002)
Drama
In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneously linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Ed Harris, Miranda Richardson, Claire Danes
Director: Stephen Daldry
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Drama | Romance
As Mike and Anna, two film actors involved in a tumultuous affair, and Charles and Sarah, the star-crossed Victorian lovers whom the actors portray, Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons are at their compelling best. Just as his character Charles' reputation is ruined by the enigmatic Sarah, Mike finds he cannot accept the intangible affections of the wily Anna. The skillful interweaving of these two love stories – one period, one contemporary – yields a fascinating insight into the passion and mystery that can pull two people together…and just as easily tear them apart.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Peter Vaughan, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell
Director: Karel Reisz
One True Thing (1998)
Drama
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Nicky Katt
Director: Carl Franklin
Falling in Love (1984)
Drama | Romance
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek, George Martin, David Clennon
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Heartburn (1986)
Comedy | Drama
An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing, Richard Masur
Director: Mike Nichols
2015 MTV Movie Awards (TV 2015)
Awards
The 2015 MTV Movie Awards were held on April 12, 2015 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. This was the 24th installment of the award show and the second time the Nokia Theatre will serve as its venue. The award show is expected to be hosted by comedian, writer, and actress Amy Schumer. The announcement was made on Wednesday, December 10, 2014. On February 25, 2015, the announcement for the new MTV Movie Awards logo created by the Australian husband and wife artists duo Dabs Myla. The artists have also announced they are working on the set design for the award show. Kelly Osbourne, Josh Horowitz Christina Garibaldi and British singer Jessie J hosted the pre-show.
Starring: Amy Schumer, Bradley Cooper, Ansel Elgort, Zac Efron, Dave Franco, Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lopez, Dylan O'Brien, Will Poulter, Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Banks, Jennifer Lawrence, Shailene Woodley, Kevin Hart, Robert Downey Jr.
Music of the Heart (1999)
Drama | Music
A single mother of two young children, whose husband left her for a family friend, leaves the security of her small hometown and moves to East Harlem and begins teaching violin to support her family. She didn't have extensive experience to offer the school; she had her talent, her determination, and her violins. At first, the kids, the parents, and the principal were skeptical. But, Roberta taught with such passion that it was infectious and soon her young violinists were manifesting incredible results. Despite her success, after 10 years of teaching, the Board of Education eliminates her position due to budget cuts, and Roberta fights back. Based on the true story of Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras and her passion for teaching.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett, Gloria Estefan, Cloris Leachman, Michael Angarano
Director: Wes Craven
Into the Woods (2014)
Adventure | Fantasy | Musical
A baker and his wife embark on a quest to break a witch’s curse in order to start a family. Along the way, they encounter several well-known fairy tale characters, and together they learn what happens after "happily ever after".
Starring: Meryl Streep, James Corden, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Huttlestone, Lilla Crawford
Director: Rob Marshall
The 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV 2015)
Awards
The 72nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2014, was broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 11, 2015, by NBC. The ceremony was produced by Dick Clark Productions in association with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were the co-hosts for the third consecutive and final time. The nominations were announced on December 11, 2014 by Kate Beckinsale, Peter Krause, Paula Patton and Jeremy Piven. The Affair, Birdman, Boyhood, Fargo, The Theory of Everything, and Transparent were among the films and television shows that received multiple awards. The Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award went to George Clooney.
Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poheler, Chris Pratt, Jennifer Aniston, Amy Adams, Jamie Dornan, Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Dakota Johnson, Kate Beckinsale, Robert Downey Jr., Anna Faris, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lopez, Jeremy Renner, Katherine Heigl, Bryan Cranston
The Giver (2014)
Drama | Sci-Fi
The story of a perfect world. Everyone here is happy. When Jonas is 12 years old, he's chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. He enters into training with an old man called The Giver. From the Giver, Jonas learns about pain, sadness, war, and all the unhappy truths of the "real" world. He quickly realizes that his community is fake. Confronted with this reality, Jonas faces difficult choices about his own life and his future.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgård, Katie Holmes, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift, Odeya Rush
Director: Phillip Noyce
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Drama | Romance
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley, Jim Haynie, Debra Monk, Phyllis Lyons
Director: Clint Eastwood
Defending Your Life (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Starring: Albert Brooks, James Eckhouse, Rip Torn, Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Lee Grant
Director: Albert Brooks
August: Osage County (2013)
Drama
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard, Misty Upham
Director: John Wells
Girl Rising (2013)
Documentary
The movie tells the stories of nine girls from different parts of the world who face arranged marriages, child slavery, and other heartbreaking injustices. Despite these obstacles, the brave girls offer hope and inspiration. By getting an education, they're able to break barriers and create change.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Priyanka Chopra, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Chloë Grace Moretz, Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep, Kerry Washington
Director: Richard Robbins
A Fierce Green Fire (2012)
Documentary
It is the largest movement the world has ever seen, it may also be the most important – in terms of what's at stake. Yet it's not east being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great social innovations of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a key juncture in history, when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Isabel Allende, Van Jones
Director: Mark Kitchell
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009)
Documentary | Short
From Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze (director, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE) comes a loving look at one of the most cherished and controversial figures in children's literature. In this deeply moving tribute to Maurice Sendak, we meet the seminal talent whose lifelong obsession with death inspired his influential works. Through his own words, personal photos, and illustrations, Sendak offers a rare, intimate, and unexpected look at his exceptional life as an author and illustrator.
Starring: Lance Bangs, Lynn Caponera, James Gandolfini, Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener, Maurice Sendak, Meryl Streep
Director: Lance Bangs, Spike Jonze
Evening (2007)
Drama | Romance
A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the 1950s and never forgets.
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Meryl Streep, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Mamie Gummer, Eileen Atkins, Glenn Close
Director: Lajos Koltai
