Best Mary-Louise Parker movies
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TOP 24: Behaving Badly
Mary-Louise Parker as: Lucy Stevens / Saint Lola
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2014
Teenager Rick Stevens is willing to do whatever it takes to win the heart of Nina Pennington. He'll have to deal with his best friend's horny mom, a drug abusing boss and even the mob if he ever hopes to land the girl of his dreams. Love is never easy!
TOP 23: Chronically Metropolitan
Mary-Louise Parker as: Annabel
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 2016
A cynical and clever coming of age film about first time novelist Fenton Dillane, who, unannounced returns to New York City to confront his family, his ex-girlfriend and a few lingering childhood fears.
TOP 22: R.I.P.D.
Mary-Louise Parker as: Proctor
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Crime
Release: 2013
A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov.
TOP 21: Goodbye Lover
Mary-Louise Parker as: Peggy Blane
Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Release: 1998
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
TOP 20: Solitary Man
Mary-Louise Parker as: Jordan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2009
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
TOP 19: Romance & Cigarettes
Mary-Louise Parker as: Constance
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Release: 2005
Down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty, a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula. Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges.
TOP 18: The Portrait of a Lady
Mary-Louise Parker as: Henrietta Stackpole
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1996
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent to which her money colors her relationships.
TOP 17: Golden Exits
Mary-Louise Parker as: Gwendolyn
Genre: Drama
Release: 2018
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
TOP 16: Boys on the Side
Mary-Louise Parker as: Robin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1995
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Robin's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.
TOP 15: Jamesy Boy
Mary-Louise Parker as: Tracy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Release: 2014
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
TOP 14: Red Sparrow
Mary-Louise Parker as: Stephanie Boucher
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2018
Prima ballerina, Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.
TOP 13: RED 2
Mary-Louise Parker as: Sarah Ross
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2013
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
TOP 12: Saved!
Mary-Louise Parker as: Lillian
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2004
Teenage Mary Cummings, who has "been Born Again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore with her Fundamentalist Christian friends Hilary Faye and Veronica, the three of whom have formed a girl group called the Christian Jewels. Everything seems perfect—until Mary’s "perfect Christian boyfriend" Dean tells her, as they’re swimming underwater, that he thinks he's gay.
TOP 11: The Spiderwick Chronicles
Mary-Louise Parker as: Helen Grace
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Drama
Release: 2008
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
TOP 10: The Client
Mary-Louise Parker as: Dianne Sway
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Release: 1994
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
TOP 9: Grand Canyon
Mary-Louise Parker as: Dee
Genre: Drama
Release: 1991
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.
TOP 8: RED
Mary-Louise Parker as: Sarah
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2010
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
TOP 7: Howl
Mary-Louise Parker as: Gail Potter
Genre: Drama
Release: 2010
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
TOP 6: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Mary-Louise Parker as: Zee James
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Release: 2007
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.
TOP 5: Red Dragon
Mary-Louise Parker as: Molly Graham
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Release: 2002
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
TOP 4: Bullets Over Broadway
Mary-Louise Parker as: Ellen
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Release: 1994
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.
TOP 3: Longtime Companion
Mary-Louise Parker as: Lisa
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1989
During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterious "gay cancer" soon turns into a major crisis as, one by one, some of the friends begin to fall ill, leaving the others to panic about who will be next. As death takes its toll, the lives of these friends are forever redefined by an unconditional display of love, hope and courage.
TOP 2: Miracle Run
Mary-Louise Parker as: Corrine Morgan-Thomas
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Release: 2004
Single mom Corrine discovers that her twins are autistic. She refuses to give up on their potential, even though it seems that the rest of the world has turned its back on them. Thanks to this incredible mother's support, her boys accomplish the unimaginable.
TOP 1: Fried Green Tomatoes
Mary-Louise Parker as: Ruth Jamison
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 1991
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.