Best Stephen Root movies
We present our ranking of the best Stephen Root 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 Stephen Root.
TOP 25: Big Miracle
Character: Governor Haskell
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Release: 2012
Based on an inspiring true story, a small-town news reporter (Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Barrymore) enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle. ‘Big Miracle’ is adapted from the nonfiction book ‘Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World’s Greatest Non-Event’ by Tom Rose.
TOP 24: Rango
Character: Doc / Merrimack / Mr. Snuggles (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Western, Adventure
Release: 2011
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.
TOP 23: Ice Age: The Meltdown
Character: Aardvark Dad (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2006
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation.
TOP 22: The Soloist
Character: Curt Reynolds
Genre: Drama, Music
Release: 2009
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
TOP 21: Unthinkable
Character: Charles Thompson
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2010
A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant", known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?
TOP 20: Bombshell
Character: Neil Mullen
Genre: Drama
Release: 2019
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
TOP 19: Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
Character: Cowboy Gambler (voice)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, TV Movie
Release: 2005
Dr. Drakken has an evil new plot for world domination, but his ultimate success depends upon finding out KP's weakness which may involve a new hottie at Middleton High School named Eric, who suddenly sparks feelings in Ron about Kim that resemble much more than friendship. To make matters worse, Bueno Nacho, Ron's favorite fast food chain has turned sour on him by bombarding him with little Devils
TOP 18: I Know That Voice
Character: Himself
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2014
Filmmaker Lawrence Shapiro discusses voice-over acting with the talented people behind the characters.
TOP 17: Finding Dory
Character: Bubbles (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2016
Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
TOP 16: Ghost
Character: Police Sgt.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, Romance
Release: 1990
Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. When he learns of Carl's betrayal, Sam must seek the help of psychic Oda Mae Brown to set things right and protect Molly from Carl and his goons.
TOP 15: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Character: Teller (segment "Near Algodones")
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Release: 2018
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
TOP 14: Trumbo
Character: Hymie King
Genre: Drama
Release: 2015
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
TOP 13: Bicentennial Man
Character: Dennis Mansky - Head of NorthAm Robotics
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
Release: 1999
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.
TOP 12: Batman: Year One
Character: Brendon (voice)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Crime, Mystery
Release: 2011
Two men come to Gotham City: Bruce Wayne after years abroad feeding his lifelong obsession for justice and Jim Gordon after being too honest a cop with the wrong people elsewhere. After learning painful lessons about the city's corruption on its streets and police department respectively, this pair learn how to fight back their own way. With that, Gotham's evildoers from top to bottom are terrorized by the mysterious Batman and the equally heroic Gordon is assigned to catch him by comrades who both hate and fear him themselves. In the ensuing manhunt, both find much in common as the seeds of an unexpected friendship are laid with additional friends and rivals helping to start the legend.
TOP 11: Ice Age
Character: Rhino / Start (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Adventure
Release: 2002
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends but, when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims.
TOP 10: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Character: Mr. Lund
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 2000
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's 'Odyssey'.
TOP 9: Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
Character: Burt
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2010
Scooby and the gang experience outdoor fun as they go back to Fred's old summer camp.
TOP 8: On the Basis of Sex
Character: Professor Brown
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2018
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
TOP 7: Office Space
Character: Milton Waddams
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1999
Three office workers strike back at their evil employers by hatching a hapless attempt to embezzle money.
TOP 6: Get Out
Character: Jim Hudson
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2017
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
TOP 5: Selma
Character: Col. Al Lingo
Genre: History, Drama
Release: 2014
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
TOP 4: Have Dreams, Will Travel
Character: Sheriff Brock
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2007
West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally unsatisfying family life.
TOP 3: Finding Nemo
Character: Bubbles (voice)
Genre: Animation, Family
Release: 2003
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
TOP 2: No Country for Old Men
Character: Man who hires Wells
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2007
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
TOP 1: Adventure Time: Islands
Character: Martin Mertens (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, TV Movie, Comedy
Release: 2017
Told in eight parts, Islands tells the story of Finn, Jake, BMO and Susan Strong leaving Ooo and traveling across the ocean to solve the mystery of Finn's past. During their trip, they unlock secrets, encounter various creatures, make new friends, and explore a variety of mysterious islands.