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Best Blythe Danner movies

Today we present the best Blythe Danner movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Blythe Danner:

TOP 25: Hello I Must Be Going

Blythe Danner as: Ruth Minsky
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2012
Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem.


TOP 24: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Blythe Danner as: Grace Barron
Genre: Drama
Release: 1990
Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

TOP 23: The Last Kiss

Blythe Danner as: Anna
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2006
Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.


TOP 22: Mad City

Blythe Danner as: Mrs. Banks
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1997
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.


TOP 21: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Blythe Danner as: Greta
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 2008
Four young women continue the journey toward adulthood that began with "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Now three years later, these lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences with each other.

TOP 20: Meet the Fockers

Blythe Danner as: Dina Byrnes
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2004
Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man, Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker's parents. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of opposites that definitely do not attract.


TOP 19: I'll See You in My Dreams

Blythe Danner as: Carol Petersen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2015
A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions about what it means to grow old.


TOP 18: Alice

Blythe Danner as: Dorothy
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1990
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of well-established rut.

TOP 17: What They Had

Blythe Danner as: Ruth
Genre: Drama
Release: 2018
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.


TOP 16: Tumbledown

Blythe Danner as: Ellen Jespersen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Release: 2015
A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.


TOP 15: What's Your Number?

Blythe Danner as: Ava Darling
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2011
Ally Darling is realizing she's a little lost in life. Her latest romance has just fizzled out, and she's just been fired from her marketing job. Then she reads an eye-opening magazine article that warns that 96 percent of women who've been with 20 or more lovers are unlikely to find a husband. Determined to turn her life around and prove the article wrong, Ally embarks on a mission to find the perfect mate from among her numerous ex-boyfriends.

TOP 14: Paul

Blythe Danner as: Tara Walton
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Release: 2011
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.


TOP 13: The Prince of Tides

Blythe Danner as: Sally Wingo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1991
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.


TOP 12: Meet the Parents

Blythe Danner as: Dina Byrnes
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2000
Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.


TOP 11: Brighton Beach Memoirs

Blythe Danner as: Kate
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1986
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.

TOP 10: The X Files

Blythe Danner as: Cassidy
Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 1998
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.


TOP 9: 1776

Blythe Danner as: Martha Jefferson
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Family
Release: 1972
The film focuses on the representatives of the Thirteen original colonies who participated in the Second Continental Congress. 1776 depicts the three months of deliberation (and, oftentimes, acrimonious debate) that led up to the signing of one of the most important documents in the History of the United States, the Declaration of Independence.


TOP 8: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Blythe Danner as: Beatrice
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1995
Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows the local homophobic rednecks that appearing different doesn't mean they don't have humanity in common.


TOP 7: The Lucky One

Blythe Danner as: Nana
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2012
U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be much more than his good luck charm.


TOP 6: Another Woman

Blythe Danner as: Lydia
Genre: Drama
Release: 1988
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.

TOP 5: The Great Santini

Blythe Danner as: Lillian Meechum
Genre: Drama
Release: 1979
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.


TOP 4: Husbands and Wives

Blythe Danner as: Rain's mother
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Release: 1992
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.


TOP 3: Hearts Beat Loud

Blythe Danner as: Marianne Fisher
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Family
Release: 2018
In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam off to college while being forced to close his vintage shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared musical passions, Frank urges Sam to turn their weekly jam sessions into a father-daughter live act. After their first song becomes an internet breakout, the two embark on a journey of love, growing up and musical discovery.


TOP 2: Detachment

Blythe Danner as: Ms. Perkins
Genre: Drama
Release: 2011
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.


TOP 1: Howl's Moving Castle

Original Title: ハウルの動く城
Blythe Danner as: Madame Suliman (English Dub)
Genre: Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
Release: 2004
When Sophie, a shy young woman, is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

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