Dianne Wiest
25 titles
Filmography
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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
(1999)A 91-year-old woodworker finds an unexpected ally in his fight to keep his Georgia land from being taken by a scheming mall developer.

Little Man Tate
(1991)The director of a school for exceptional children takes the 7-year-old multi-gifted child of a single, working-class mother under her wing.

September
(1987)Six people vent their angst during a weekend in the Vermont country- side. What transpires are subtle yet intense love-hate relationships.

Apartment 7A
(2024)When a struggling, young dancer suffers a devastating injury, she finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected, older couple promises her a shot at fame.

Edward Scissorhands
(1990)When a mad scientist meets an early death his creation is left to fend with scissors for hands.

I Am Sam
(2001)When the legal system declares him unfit to be a parent, a father with an intellectual disability fights to regain custody of his young daughter.

Hannah and Her Sisters
(1986)The loyal supporter of her two aimless sisters realizes she’ll have to choose between her own needs and those of the family she can’t live without.

The Lost Boys
(1987)Strange events threaten an entire family when two brothers move with their divorced mother to a California town where the local teenage gang turns out to be a pack of vampires.

Parenthood
(1989)HD. The Buckman family wrestles with their comedic and complex relationships with their parents and children in this Ron Howard comedy.

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
(1982)Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon desperately tries to break her Valium addiction and get her life back.

The Scout
(1994)In this hilarious fantasy for baseball lovers, albert brooks stars as a desperate yankee scout who'll do anything to sign a new prospect. Banished to mexico to search for talent, he discovers the greatest young ball player (brendan fraser) he's ever seen. But once he gets him back home, he finds his new recruit has a few unexpected problems that just may jeopardize both their jobs.

The Birdcage
(1996)A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing, conservative parents.

Footloose
(1984)When teenager Ren (Kevin Bacon) and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.

Dedication
(2007)After the death of his longtime collaborator, a cynical children’s book author is paired with a down-on-her-luck illustrator to pen the next big hit.

My Father's Dragon
(2022)A young boy leaves the city of Nevergreen and journeys to the mysterious Wild Island, where he finds ferocious beasts — and the friendship of a lifetime.

I Care a Lot
(2021)Rosamund Pike plays a con artist who steals from the elderly by deceiving judges into appointing her as their "legal guardian". She lands into hot water when her latest victim turns out to have ties to a powerful gangster (Peter Dinklage).

Practical Magic
(1998)Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy, dies unexpectedly, they must use all of their powers to fight a curse and a swarm of supernatural forces.

Sisters
(2015)Tina Fey and Amy Poehler star as sisters who return to their family home and throw one final high-school-style party that turns into a cathartic rager that they really need.

Passengers
(2008)A grief counselor (Anne Hathaway) begins to suspect foul play when the six airplane crash survivors she is tending to mysteriously begin to disappear and the truth behind the tragedy grows ever more clouded.

The Mule
(2018)In dire financial straits and estranged from his family, an ornery 90-year-old horticulturalist becomes a delivery driver for a Mexican drug cartel.