Best Sally Field movies
We present our ranking of the best Sally Field movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Sally Field.
TOP 25: Little Evil
Sally Field as: Miss Shaylock
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Release: 2017
Gary, who has just married Samantha, the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.
TOP 24: The Way West
Sally Field as: Mercy McBee
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Release: 1967
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.
TOP 23: Stay Hungry
Sally Field as: Mary Tate Farnsworth
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1976
A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.
TOP 22: The End
Sally Field as: Mary Ellen
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1978
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
TOP 21: Eye for an Eye
Sally Field as: Karen McCann
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Release: 1996
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
TOP 20: Soapdish
Sally Field as: Celeste Talbert
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1991
Celeste Talbert is the star of the long-running soap opera "The Sun Also Sets." With the show's ratings down, Celeste's ruthlessly ambitious co-star, Montana Moorehead, and the show's arrogant producer, David Seton Barnes, plot to aggravate her into leaving the show by bringing back her old flame, Jeffrey Anderson, and hiring her beautiful young niece, Lori Craven.
TOP 19: Not Without My Daughter
Sally Field as: Betty Mahmoody
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 1991
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
TOP 18: Hooper
Sally Field as: Gwen Doyle
Genre: Action, Comedy
Release: 1978
Legendary stunt man, Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop pain killers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
TOP 17: Murphy's Romance
Sally Field as: Emma Moriarty
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1985
Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a place to stay. The three of them form an intricate circle, Emma's son liking Murphy, but desperately wanting his father back.
TOP 16: Hello, My Name Is Doris
Sally Field as: Doris Miller
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2015
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.
TOP 15: Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Sally Field as: Sassy
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 1996
When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy navigate the mean streets of San Francisco, trying to find their home across the Golden Gate Bridge. But the road is blocked by a series of hazards, both man and beast.
TOP 14: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Sally Field as: Aunt May
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2014
For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.
TOP 13: The Amazing Spider-Man
Sally Field as: Aunt May
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2012
Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
TOP 12: The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Sally Field as: Marina Del Ray (voice)
Genre: Animation, Family
Release: 2008
Follow Ariel's adventures before she gave up her fins for true love. When Ariel wasn't singing with her sisters, she spent time with her mother, Queen Athena. Ariel is devastated when Athena is kidnapped by pirates, and after King Triton outlaws all singing. Along with pals Flounder and Sebastian, Ariel sets off in hopes of changing her father's decision to ban music from the kingdom.
TOP 11: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Sally Field as: Sassy (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 1993
Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners.
TOP 10: Lincoln
Sally Field as: Mary Todd Lincoln
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2012
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
TOP 9: Absence of Malice
Sally Field as: Megan Carter
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Release: 1981
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his supposed crime was committed but it involves an innocent party. When she tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
TOP 8: Smokey and the Bandit
Sally Field as: Carrie 'Frog'
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 1977
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
TOP 7: Where the Heart Is
Sally Field as: Mama Lil
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2000
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, some eccentric, kindly strangers "adopt" Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
TOP 6: Mrs. Doubtfire
Sally Field as: Miranda Hillard
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 1993
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as an English nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
TOP 5: Norma Rae
Sally Field as: Norma Rae
Genre: Drama
Release: 1979
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
TOP 4: Steel Magnolias
Sally Field as: M'Lynn Eatenton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1989
This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
TOP 3: Places in the Heart
Sally Field as: Edna Spalding
Genre: Drama, Family
Release: 1984
In 1930s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
TOP 2: Spielberg
Sally Field as: Herself
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Release: 2017
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
TOP 1: Forrest Gump
Sally Field as: Mrs. Gump
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1994
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.