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  • The American President
  • The American President review by A customer from gwaenysgor, rhyl, flintshire
    Rated - 5 stars excellent 24 September 2005
    ...s is a superb heart warming romantic comedy. the casting of michael douglas and Annette Bening is inspired, as there is chemistry between them. i watched this film 3 times, ...  
  • Richard III
  • Richard III review by A customer from Canterbury
    Rated - 5 stars Brilliantly thought out, superbly played and totally gripping 25 October 2005
    ... at the top of their form. McKellen, Scott Thomas, Broadbent, Downey Jnr and Annette Bening are all worth the price of admission individually, but there's hardly a flaw in...  
  • The Siege
  • The Siege review by A customer from Bucks, UK
    Rated - 2 stars Not bad 11 August 2004
    ... interesting political edge that is very topical. Some good acting, especially Annette Bening who is stunning. A surprising end and generally well filmed and edited ...  

Annette Bening - filmography


  • The Women on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  Meg Ryan,  Eva Mendes
    Director: Diane English
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 14,390 members
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  • Open Range on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Robert Duvall,  Annette Bening
    Director: Kevin Costner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Packed with epic action and breathtaking gunfights, Kevin Costner's Open Range is a powerful, gripping Western. Four cowboys, trying to escape their pasts, are driving cattle and living off the land on the open range - free grazing outside of the law. When ruthless, evil rancher Denton Baxtor (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 15,126 members
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  • What Planet Are You From? on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  John Goodman,  Garry Shandling
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The comic story of an alien, H-1449-6 (Shandling - THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW), sent to Earth to impregnate a human woman as part of a fiendish plot to conquer the Universe. Assuming the identity of Harold Anderson, he attempts to blend into human society (Phoenix, AZ to be exact) and begin his search ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 215 members
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  • American Beauty on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Kevin Spacey,  Sam Roberts,  Annette Bening
    Director: Sam Mendes
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    AMERICAN BEAUTY tells the story of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a suburban father who snaps when he becomes disgusted with his stale, repetitive existence. Burnham lets us know in voice-over from the film's opening that this is the day he dies (using the SUNSET BOULEVARD flashback approach), a ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 74% from 62,609 members
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  • In Dreams on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  Aidan Quinn,  Stephen Rea
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This darkly imaginative film from director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME, INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE) follows Claire, a psychic New England housewife (Annette Bening) who loses her grip on reality when her dreams connect with those of a psychotic child murderer (Robert Downey Jr.). Centered around a ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 832 members
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  • Siege, The - BLU-RAY Version (1998)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Annette Bening,  Bruce Willis
    Director: Edward Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When the U.S. military abducts a Muslim leader, New York City becomes the target of several terrorist attacks in this gripping political thriller ripped from newspaper headlines. Denzel Washington stars as Anthony "Hub" Hubbard, the head of the FBI terrorism task force who is charge of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 33 members
    Due for release on 9th November 2009
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  • Mars Attacks on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Glenn Close,  Annette Bening
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Tim Burton unleashes MARS ATTACKS!, a vicious, affectionate, brightly-colored homage to 1950s alien invasion movies. When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the gleaming craft. Although they claim to be peaceful, they promptly "..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 9,971 members
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  • Richard III on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Ian McKellen,  Annette Bening,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This updating of Shakespeare's classic history sets the tale in a stark version of 1930's Europe and features Sir Ian McKellen as the titular ruthless malcontent out to wrest control of the throne of England from any who would oppose him. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Art Direction ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,987 member
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  • Love Affair (1994)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Annette Bening,  Katharine Hepburn
    Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A remake of LOVE AFFAIR (1939) and AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957), this big-budget love story finds two people falling in love just when they have given up looking for it, tragically promising to meet each other atop the Empire State Building when they are free of their loveless relationships. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 10 members
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  • Bugsy on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Annette Bening,  Harvey Keitel
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Directed by Barry Levinson, BUGSY tells the true story of legendary New York mobster Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel. Visiting Hollywood 'on business', the reckless and volatile Bugsy is drawn to Tinseltown and the glamour of the movies. Leaving his wife and kids in Scarsdale indefinitely, the womanizing ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 854 members
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  • Regarding Henry on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Annette Bening,  Bill Nunn
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Henry Turner (Harrison Ford), a wealthy, high-powered, highly successful Manhattan lawyer, seems to have everything -- a perfect wife (Annette Bening), a perfect daughter, a perfect life. In fact, Henry is completely cold, rigid and unable to experience love or joy in his day-to- day existence. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,160 members
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  • Guilty By Suspicion on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Annette Bening,  George Wendt
    Director: Irwin Winkler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hollywood, 1950. When David Merrill (Robert De Niro), one of Hollywood's top directors, returns from a recuperative European hiatus, he finds himself in a tinsel town he no longer recognizes. His friends are ill at ease, good folks won't talk openly anymore and the House Un-American Activities ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 581 members
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  • Valmont on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Annette Bening,  Meg Tilly
    Director: Milos Forman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover look for an easy prey in a a beautiful young woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman,..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 651 members
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Annette Bening facts

5 most recent films

The Women - 2.5 stars
Women, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Running With Scissors - 2.5 stars
Being Julia - 3.0 stars
Open Range - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

American Beauty - 4.0 stars
The Great Outdoors - 3.5 stars
The American President - 3.5 stars
Richard III - 3.5 stars
Regarding Henry - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Love Affair - 2.5 stars
Women, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Siege, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
In Dreams - 2.5 stars
What Planet Are You From? - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Debra Messing - 2 times - show films
John Cusack - 2 times - show films
Lynn Whitfield - 2 times - show films
Eva Mendes - 2 times - show films
Anjelica Huston - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stephen Frears - 2 times - show films
Diane English - 2 times - show films
Mike Nichols - 2 times - show films
Edward Zwick - 2 times - show films
Sam Mendes - 1 times - show films