Biography: Catherine Keener |

Catherine Keener ranks with Parker Posey as one of the queens of 1990s American independent cinema. A muse for director Tom Di Cillo (Johnny Suede, Living in Oblivion, Box of Moonlight, The Real Blonde), she is married to one of her peers, the... more
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Cast: Forest Whitaker Spike Jonze Benicio Del Toro Tom Hanks   
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fantasy Adventure Adventure Fantasy 
Length: 104min
Visionary director Spike Jonze brings Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book to the big screen with the help of hipster icon Dave Eggers, who teamed with Jonze to pen the adapted screenplay. A mixture of real actors, computer animation, and live...

Untitled Nicole Holofcener Comedy (2009)
Cast: Amanda Peet   
Tags: Comedy 
Length: min
Lovely & Amazing director Nicole Holofcener writes and directs this comedy drama dealing with death, family, and real estate, and starring Amanda Peet, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, and Rebecca Hall. A woman and her husband live directly next door...

Tags: Comedy Romantic Comedy 
Length: min
David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees) directs this politically minded omantic comedy starring Jessica Biel as a small-town waitress who heads to Washington, D.C., to lobby for health care after getting a nail shot in her head. Jake Gyllenhaal co-stars...

Cast: Jamie Foxx Robert Downey, Jr.   
Tags: Docudrama Drama 
Length: 109min
Academy Award-nominated Atonement director Joe Wright teams with screenwriter Susannah Grant to tell the true-life story of Nathaniel Ayers, a former cello prodigy whose bouts with schizophrenia landed him on the streets after two years of schooling...

Tags: Comedy 
Length: 94min
Steve Coogan stars in the comedy Hamlet 2, which follows a drama teacher who tries to put together a production of "Hamlet 2" to rescue his high-school theater department. Catherine Keener co-stars in the Andrew Fleming-helmed production. ~ Jeremy...

Maurice at the World's Fair (2009)
Tags: Comedy 
Length: 4min

Cast: Michael Winterbottom   
Tags: Drama Family Drama 
Length: 93min
In the wake of a family tragedy, an English ex-patriot living in the United States decides to relocate himself and his daughters to Italy, only to discover that tragedy may have followed them overseas when the youngest girl proves unable to move past...

Cast: Bruce Willis Sean Penn Robert De Niro Barry Levinson John Turturro   
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Workplace Comedy Film a Clef Comedy Satire 
Length: 113min
Inspired by the personal memoirs of Hollywood producer Art Linson, Barry Levinson's fictional showbiz comedy stars Robert De Niro as a struggling movie producer who has just suffered through his second divorce, and slowly finds his soul being ground...

Cast: William Hurt   
Tags: Drama Docudrama 
Length: 147min
Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn's adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family, and possessions in search of a...

Cast: Charlie Kaufman Emily Watson Samantha Morton Catherine Keener   
Tags: Drama Showbiz Drama Psychological Drama 
Length: 124min
Synecdoche, New York marked the directorial debut of iconoclastic, cerebral screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Caden Cotard, an eccentric playwright who lives with artist Adele Lack (Catherine Keener) and their daughter...


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