Enough Said (2013) RT 96% / Audience 75%
DVD release: Jan 2014
Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Nicole Holofcener
CAST: Julia Louis-Dreyfus • Catherine Keener • James Gandolfini • Toni Collette
The Sixth Sense (1999) RT 85% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Mar 2000
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: M. Night Shyamalan
CAST: Bruce Willis • Haley Joel Osment • Toni Collette • Olivia Williams
The Way, Way Back (2013)
Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Nat Faxon • Jim Rash
CAST: Steve Carell • Toni Collette • Allison Janney • Sam Rockwell
About a Boy (2002) RT 94% / Audience 54%
DVD release: Jan 2003
Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Paul Weitz • Chris Weitz
CAST: Hugh Grant • Nicholas Hoult • Toni Collette • Rachel Weisz
Changing Lanes (2002) RT 77% / Audience 53%
DVD release: Sep 2002
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: Roger Michell
CAST: Ben Affleck • Samuel L. Jackson • Kim Staunton • Toni Collette
Connie and Carla (2004) RT 44% / Audience 71%
DVD release: Aug 2004
After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Crime • Music
DIRECTION: Michael Lembeck
CAST: Nia Vardalos • Toni Collette • David Duchovny • Stephen Spinella
Dirty Deeds (2002) RT 8% / Audience 44%
DVD release: Dec 2005
Set in 1960's Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: David Caesar
CAST: Bryan Brown • Toni Collette • John Goodman • Sam Neill
Emma (1996) RT 83% / Audience 77%
DVD release: Jan 2002
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Douglas McGrath
CAST: Gwyneth Paltrow • Ewan McGregor • Toni Collette • Denys Hawthorne
Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger (2008)
This film is a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in; and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Cathy Randall
CAST: Danielle Catanzariti • Cassandra Jinman • Talia Monaghan • Yen Yen Stender
In Her Shoes (2005) RT 75% / Audience 66%
DVD release: Jan 2006
Irresponsible party girl Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is kicked out of her father's (Ken Howard) and stepmother's (Candice Azzara) home, where she lives for free, and is taken in by ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Curtis Hanson
CAST: Cameron Diaz • Toni Collette • Richard Burgi • Candice Azzara
Japanese Story (2003) RT 68% / Audience 69%
DVD release: May 2004
Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Sue Brooks
CAST: Toni Collette • Gotaro Tsunashima • Matthew Dyktynski • Lynette Curran
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) RT 91% / Audience 91%
DVD release: Dec 2006
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Jonathan Dayton • Valerie Faris
CAST: Abigail Breslin • Toni Collette • Greg Kinnear • Paul Dano
Muriel's Wedding (1994) RT 78% / Audience 84%
DVD release: May 1999
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: P. J. Hogan
CAST: Toni Collette • Bill Hunter • Rachel Griffiths • Sophie Lee
Shaft (2000) RT 68% / Audience 41%
DVD release: Dec 2000
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: John Singleton
CAST: Samuel L. Jackson • Jeffrey Wright • Christian Bale • Busta Rhymes
Spotswood (1992)
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy
DIRECTION: Mark Joffe
CAST: Anthony Hopkins • Ben Mendelsohn • Alwyn Kurts • John Walton
The Boys (1998) RT Audience 82%
DVD release: Jul 2000
Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Rowan Woods
CAST: David Wenham • Toni Collette • Lynette Curran • John Polson
The Hours (2002) RT 81% / Audience 84%
DVD release: Jun 2003
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Stephen Daldry
CAST: Nicole Kidman • Julianne Moore • Meryl Streep • Stephen Dillane
The Night Listener (2006) RT 40% / Audience 35%
DVD release: Jan 2007
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan—a young boy—via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Patrick Stettner
CAST: Toni Collette • Robin Williams • Joe Morton • Bobby Cannavale
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Richard Williams
CAST: Matthew Broderick • Anthony Quayle • Jennifer Beals • Sean Connery
Velvet Goldmine (1998) RT 56% / Audience 80%
DVD release: May 1999
Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowiesque glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on ... (more)