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Best Mary Steenburgen movies

Today we present the best Mary Steenburgen 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 Mary Steenburgen:

TOP 25: The Dead Girl

Mary Steenburgen as: Beverley, Leah's Mother
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2006
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.


TOP 24: Last Vegas

Mary Steenburgen as: Diana
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2013
Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal.

TOP 23: Nobel Son

Mary Steenburgen as: Sarah Michaelson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2007
Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley's illegitimate half-brother. Motivated not so much by money as revenge, Thaddeus tries to convince Barkley to help him carry out a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against their patriarch.


TOP 22: Step Brothers

Mary Steenburgen as: Nancy Huff
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2008
Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.


TOP 21: 7 Days in Hell

Mary Steenburgen as: Louisa Poole
Genre: Comedy, TV Movie
Release: 2015
A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.

TOP 20: The Book of Love

Mary Steenburgen as: Julia Mureaux
Genre: Drama
Release: 2017
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the vessel and subsequently rebuild their lives.


TOP 19: The Brave One

Mary Steenburgen as: Carol
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2007
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.


TOP 18: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Mary Steenburgen as: Adrian
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1982
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.

TOP 17: Melvin and Howard

Mary Steenburgen as: Lynda Dummar
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1980
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.


TOP 16: Elf

Mary Steenburgen as: Emily Hobbs
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2003
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic publisher.


TOP 15: Parenthood

Mary Steenburgen as: Karen Buckman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 1989
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.

TOP 14: Time After Time

Mary Steenburgen as: Amy Robbins
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 1979
The Wildest Chase Of The Century! London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write The Time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper escaped capture fleeing his own time to take refuge in ours - with Wells himself in pursuit?


TOP 13: The One I Love

Mary Steenburgen as: Mom (voice)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2014
On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.


TOP 12: Nixon

Mary Steenburgen as: Hannah Nixon
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 1995
An epic look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.


TOP 11: Elvis and Anabelle

Mary Steenburgen as: Geneva Leigh
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2007
A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey of self-discovery.

TOP 10: The Proposal

Mary Steenburgen as: Grace Paxton
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Release: 2009
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.


TOP 9: Inland Empire

Mary Steenburgen as: Visitor #2
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2006
An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.


TOP 8: Ragtime

Mary Steenburgen as: Mother
Genre: Drama
Release: 1981
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.


TOP 7: Life as a House

Mary Steenburgen as: Colleen Beck
Genre: Drama
Release: 2001
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.


TOP 6: The Whales of August

Mary Steenburgen as: Young Sarah
Genre: Drama
Release: 1987
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

TOP 5: Back to the Future Part III

Mary Steenburgen as: Clara Clayton
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Release: 1990
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.


TOP 4: I Am Sam

Mary Steenburgen as: Dr. Blake
Genre: Drama
Release: 2001
Although Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old, he has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam shames high-priced lawyer, Rita into taking his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.


TOP 3: What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Mary Steenburgen as: Betty Carver
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1993
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.


TOP 2: Philadelphia

Mary Steenburgen as: Belinda Conine
Genre: Drama
Release: 1993
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.


TOP 1: The Help

Mary Steenburgen as: Elain Stein
Genre: Drama
Release: 2011
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

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