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  • Moore emailed Bening for Kids role - 26 November 2010
    -Julianne Moore was so determined to cast Annette Bening as her onscreen lover in The Kids Are All Right, she emailed the actress directly to personally offer her the role.- -The actresses come together in the film about a lesbian couple and their kids' search for their


  • Bening lands Santa Barbara Film Festival honour - 3 November 2010
    -Annette Bening is to become one of the few women to receive the prestigious American Riviera Award at the upcoming Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California.- -The actress, who is enjoying critical success with new movie The Kids Are All Right, will be pr

Annette Bening - what members say


  • Mars Attacks!
  • Mars Attacks! review by Baz from
    Rated - 5.0 stars “…Ack Ack! Don’t Run! We Are Your Friends! Ack Ack!” 25 August 2011
    ...ress Secretary Jerry Ross (Lisa Marie does a great turn as a alien prostitute), Annette Bening as a dizzy hippy-chick saving her glass pyramid in her handbag as the Aliens wr...   Read customer review
  • The American President
  • The American President review by A customer from gwaenysgor, rhyl, flintshire
    Rated - 5.0 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, ...   Read customer review
  • Richard III
  • Richard III review by A customer from Canterbury
    Rated - 5.0 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...   Read customer review

Annette Bening - filmography


  • The Women - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  Meg Ryan,  Eva Mendes
    Director: Diane English
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Packed with an all-star cast, Diane English's (MURPHY BROWN) contemporary version of THE WOMEN showcases the talents of Annette Bening, Meg Ryan, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, and Debra Messing. Like the 1939 original, the film deals with the relationships among a close-knit group of female ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 398 members
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  • 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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 23,757 members
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  • Running with Scissors on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  Brian Cox,  Joseph Fiennes
    Director: Ryan Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Young Augusten Burroughs (Cross) absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father (Baldwin) and an unstable mother (Bening), he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch (Cox), and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 6,286 members
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  • Open Range (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 15,934 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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 256 members
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  • American Beauty - Blu-ray (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 »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 736 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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 985 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 »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 72,064 members
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  • The Siege on DVD (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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 12,425 members
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  • The Siege - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Annette Bening,  Bruce Willis
    Director: Edward Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 548 members
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  • Mars Attacks! - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Glenn Close,  Annette Bening
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s science-fiction ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 594 members
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  • Mars Attacks! on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Glenn Close,  Annette Bening
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s science-fiction ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 11,912 members
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  • Richard III (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,169 members
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  • The American President on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Annette Bening,  Martin Sheen
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) is a handsome, youthful widower raising a teenage daughter. He also just happens to be the president of the United States of America, and a very popular one at that. Unfortunately, he's also quite lonely, and the life of a president leaves little time for dating. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 5,728 members
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 17 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,682 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,022 member
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  • The Grifters on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  John Cusack,  Anjelica Huston
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,301 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 673 members
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  • Valmont on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Annette Bening,  Meg Tilly
    Director: Milos Forman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 919 members
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  • The Great Outdoors on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Dan Aykroyd,  Stephanie Faracy,  John Candy
    Director: Howard Deutch
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Chet is a father and husband who believes in spending quality time with his loved ones. When vacation roles around, he gathers his clan together and they head for the hills. But as soon as the crew gets comfortable in their cabin, Chet's annoyingly bad-mannered brother-in-law Roman shows up with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,094 members
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Annette Bening facts

5 most recent films

The Kids Are All Right - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Kids Are All Right - 3.5 stars
Mother and Child - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Mother and Child - 3.5 stars
The Women - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

American Beauty - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
American Beauty - 4.0 stars
The Great Outdoors - 3.5 stars
The Kids Are All Right - 3.5 stars
The American President - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Mother and Child - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Love Affair - 3.0 stars
Mother and Child - 3.5 stars
In Dreams - 2.5 stars
What Planet Are You From? - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Glenn Close - 3 times - show films
Christina Applegate - 3 times - show films
Natalie Portman - 3 times - show films
Martin Short - 3 times - show films
Tom Jones - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tim Burton - 3 times - show films
Rodrigo Garcia - 2 times - show films
Lisa Cholodenko - 2 times - show films
Sam Mendes - 2 times - show films
Edward Zwick - 2 times - show films