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  • Goodman and Cusack join Confessions crew - 5 March 2008
    The Big Lebowski star John Goodman and Grosse Point Blank's Joan Cusack are to team up as the parents of Wedding Crashers actress Isla Fisher for a new comedy, according to reports in Hollywood.-Industry paper Variety says Goodman and Cusack, who also appeared in Hig

Joan Cusack - what members say


  • Grosse Pointe Blank
  • Grosse Pointe Blank review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars If I was a girl I'd marry John Cusack (if he'd have me) 14 October 2003
    ...John Cusack is the epitome of cool; Minnie Driver, Joan Cusack, Alan Arkin and Dan Akroyd have NEVER been better. If you like your movies twisted and unusual - you know, a...   Read customer review
  • Arlington Road
  • Arlington Road review by from scotland
    Rated - 5.0 stars ONE OF THE BEST ENDINGS I HAVE EVER SEEN 24 March 2004
    ...er, Michael starts having misgivings about Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack), and begins investigating them. He soon realises that the Langs are definitely...   Read customer review
  • Say Anything
  • Say Anything review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars Say Anything 14 March 2007
    ...roves he is as good at drama as his is at comedy (he plays Martin on Frasier). Joan Cusack, John's sister, in a stroke of (now endlessly repeated) casting genius plays Ll...   Read customer review

Joan Cusack - filmography


  • Mars Needs Moms - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Seth Green,  Joan Cusack,  Elisabeth Harnois
    Director: Simon Wells
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    His mother (voice of Joan Cusack) abducted by Martians intent on harvesting her maternal instincts to nurture their young, nine-year-old Milo (voice of Seth Green) stows away in an alien spacecraft bound for Mars in a bid to bring her safely back to Earth. Later, on the Red Planet, Milo befriends a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 20 members
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  • Toy Story 3 on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Toy Story 3" welcomes Woody, Buzz and the whole gang back to the big screen as Andy prepares to depart for college and his loyal toys find themselves in daycare! These untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice, so it's all for one and one for all as plans for the great escape ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 46,573 members
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  • Toy Story 3 - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Toy Story 3" welcomes Woody, Buzz and the whole gang back to the big screen as Andy prepares to depart for college and his loyal toys find themselves in daycare! These untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice, so it's all for one and one for all as plans for the great escape ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 11,533 members
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  • Toy Story 3 - 3D Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Toy Story 3" welcomes Woody, Buzz and the whole gang back to the big screen as Andy prepares to depart for college and his loyal toys find themselves in daycare! These untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice, so it's all for one and one for all as plans for the great escape ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 391 members
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  • Toy Story - 3D Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Originally released by Walt Disney Pictures in 1995, "Toy Story" was the first feature film from Pixar Animation Studios and director John Lasseter. The film went on to receive Oscar® nominations for Best Original Score, Best Original Song, and Best Original Screenplay, and earned Lasseter a ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 179 members
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  • My Sister's Keeper on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Cameron Diaz,  Alec Baldwin,  Abigail Breslin
    Director: Nick Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the best-selling novel, Nick Cassavetes My Sister's Keeper stars Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric as a married couple whose life is altered forever when they discover their two year old daughter Kate has leukemia. Their only hope to save Kate is to conceive another child, Anna. Throughout ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 22,253 members
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  • Toy Story in 3-D (2009)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Originally released by Walt Disney Pictures in 1995, "Toy Story" was the first feature film from Pixar Animation Studios and director John Lasseter. The film went on to receive Oscar® nominations for Best Original Score, Best Original Song, and Best Original Screenplay, and earned Lasseter a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 509 members
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  • Confessions of a Shopaholic on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Isla Fisher,  Hugh Dancy,  Joan Cusack
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping--a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door--until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 39,324 members
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  • Confessions of a Shopaholic - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Isla Fisher,  Hugh Dancy,  Joan Cusack
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping--a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door--until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,813 members
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  • War Inc. on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Dan Aykroyd,  John Cusack,  Hilary Duff
    Director: Joshua Seftel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Joshua Seftel's fierce political satire features an all-star cast headed by John Cusack. Set in a fictionalized Middle East, the film takes United States foreign affairs to comic extremes in a world where corporations rule and wars are completely outsourced. At the start of the film, Turaqistan is ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 3,330 members
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  • Martian Child on DVD (2007)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Joan Cusack,  Amanda Peet
    Director: Menno Meyjes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on an award-winning short story by sci-fi luminary David Gerrold, Martian Child sees John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) and a young boy he adopts who claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignore some sage ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 9,272 members
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  • Friends with Money on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jennifer Aniston,  Joan Cusack,  Catherine Keener
    Director: Nicole Holofcener
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    FRIENDS WITH MONEY examines the the shifting relationships between four women who have been friends for many years. As they settle into early middle age, their friendship is challenged by the ever-growing disparity in their individual degrees of financial comfort.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 14,696 members
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  • Ice Princess on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Kim Cattrall,  Michelle Trachtenberg
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A shy scientifically-minded teenage girl decides to find study the scientific theories behind ice skating. She soon finds out she has a natural talent for the sport and will stop at nothing to compete...
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 11,543 members
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  • Chicken Little - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Zach Braff,  Joan Cusack,  Dara McGarry
    Director: Mark Dindal
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Disney's first venture into the realm of CGI animation (without Pixar) tells the tale of all-animal town Oakey Oaks's most infamous resident, Chicken Little (voiced by Zach Braff), who causes town-wide panic when he claims the sky is falling. A year later he's still shunned by everyone, including ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,105 member
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  • Chicken Little on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Zach Braff,  Joan Cusack,  Dara McGarry
    Director: Mark Dindal
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Disney's first venture into the realm of CGI animation (without Pixar) tells the tale of all-animal town Oakey Oaks's most infamous resident, Chicken Little (voiced by Zach Braff), who causes town-wide panic when he claims the sky is falling. A year later he's still shunned by everyone, including ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 23,478 members
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  • Raising Helen on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Kate Hudson,  John Corbett,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Helen Harris (Kate Hudson) is a rising star in the New York City fashion world, just on the brink of being promoted to agent at a premiere modeling agency. The sudden death of her older sister (Felicity Huffman) and her brother-in-law shocks Helen from her exciting life of photo shoots, nightclubs, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 20,521 members
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  • School of Rock on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jack Black,  Joan Cusack,  Mike White
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    SCHOOL OF ROCK is a hilarious romp that parents will enjoy as much as their children. Jack Black stars as Dewey Finn, a wannabe rock star who doesn't seem to be rocking much of anything these days. Kicked out of the band that he started and about to be kicked out of his apartment, Dewey pretends ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 56,203 members
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  • Looney Tunes - Back in Action on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Brendan Fraser,  Jenna Elfman,  Steve Martin
    Director: Joe Dante
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Joe Dante directs this fast-paced, inventive combination of animation and live action with irreverent, comic flair. In Hollywood, Daffy Duck is jealous of Bugs Bunny's success and demands a pay increase. Instead of giving him a rise, Kate (Jenna Elfman) a fed-up studio executive, fires Daffy and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 5,702 members
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  • High Fidelity on DVD (2000)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Jack Black,  Lisa Bonet
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Transplanted from England to the not-so-mean streets of Chicago, the screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's cult-classic novel High Fidelity emerges unscathed from its Americanisation, idiosyncrasies intact, thanks to John Cusack's inimitable charm and a nimble, nifty screenplay (co-written by Cusack). ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 21,454 members
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  • Toy Story 2 - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: John Lasseter,  Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this dazzling sequel to the 1995 blockbuster, Andy heads off to summer camp, leaving the toys behind to fend for themselves. In much the same way Buzz discovered he is a mass-produced product in the first instalment, Woody discovers that he is a valuable collectible spawned by a popular 1950s ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 2,384 members
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  • Runaway Bride on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Richard Gere,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A down-and-out big-city reporter (Richard Gere), in a last-ditch effort to save his tarnished career, chases a scoop on a mercurial, small-town girl (Julia Roberts) known as the Runaway Bride, due to her habit of leaving her grooms-to-be on the alter. Director Marshall once again directs the stars ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 13,468 members
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  • Arlington Road on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Tim Robbins,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Mark Pellington
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    George Washington University professor Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) teaches a course in terrorism, but after his wife, an FBI agent, is killed under questionable circumstances, he becomes obsessed with the topic. An all-American family moves in across the street, but Faraday soon suspects that ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 8,920 members
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  • Toy Story 2 on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: John Lasseter,  Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this dazzling sequel to the 1995 blockbuster, Andy heads off to summer camp, leaving the toys behind to fend for themselves. In much the same way Buzz discovered he is a mass-produced product in the first installment, Woody discovers that he is a valuable collectible spawned by a popular 1950s ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 55,480 members
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  • Toy Story 2 - 3D Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: John Lasseter,  Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this dazzling sequel to the 1995 blockbuster, Andy heads off to summer camp, leaving the toys behind to fend for themselves. In much the same way Buzz discovered he is a mass-produced product in the first instalment, Woody discovers that he is a valuable collectible spawned by a popular 1950s ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 186 members
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  • Grosse Pointe Blank on DVD (1997)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Minnie Driver,  Dan Aykroyd
    Director: George Armitage
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A nihilistically philosophical hit man (John Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit, coinciding with his 10-year high school reunion in the ritzy suburb of Grosse Point, Michigan. While in town, he tries to patch things up with the girlfriend (Minnie Driver) he abandoned on prom night,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 19,124 members
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  • In And Out (1997)
    Starring: Kevin Kline,  Tom Selleck,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Frank Oz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After three chaste years of engagement, popular high school teacher Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) is finally getting married, and his upcoming wedding to Miss Emily Montgomery (Joan Cusack) is the talk of their small, friendly town. But when a hometown boy-made-movie star outs Howard as gay during ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,796 members
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  • Wrong, Mr. (1996)
    Starring: Ellen DeGeneres,  Bill Pullman,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Nick Castle
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and worst still, she cannot convince anyone else of his Jekyll/Hyde true nature.
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 6 members
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  • Nine Months on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Julianne Moore,  Tom Arnold
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Samuel Faulkner's (Hugh Grant) fruitful, happy life completely falls apart when long-time girlfriend Rebecca (Julianne Moore) suddenly announces she's pregnant. The thought of fatherhood and responsibility terrifies Samuel--who just happens to be a child psychologist. Although he does try hard to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 7,593 members
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  • Addams Family Values on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Anjelica Huston,  Raul Julia,  Christopher Lloyd
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES, Barry Sonnenfeld has performed the remarkable feat of making a sequel even more entertaining than its predecessor. The charmingly creepy Addams family (based on characters originally created by the morbid Charles Addams) have two new additions, mustachioed baby Pubert and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,374 members
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  • Toys on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Joan Cusack,  Michael Gambon
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Robin Williams stars in this surreal anti-war fantasy directed by Barry Levinson (RAIN MAN, DINER). Williams plays Leslie Zevo, the son of a fun-loving toymaker. Leslie and his sister, Alsatia (Joan Cusack,) grew up surrounded by their father's whimsical creations in the fantastic factory that he ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 2,067 members
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  • My Blue Heaven on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Steve Martin,  Rick Moranis,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Flamboyant mobster Vinnie (Steve Martin) is relocated by the Witness Protection Program from New York City to suburban California until it is time for him to testify against his former associates. But he quickly bores of life in middle-class America and starts up his own little racket. These ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 403 members
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  • Married To The Mob on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Matthew Modine,  Dean Stockwell,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Michelle Pfeiffer established herself as an adept actress with this colorful comedy from director Jonathan Demme (SOMETHING WILD, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). The wife of Mafia hitman Frank "Cucumber" De Marco (Alec Baldwin), the irrepressibly brassy Angela (Pfeiffer) finds herself unhappy with their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 729 members
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  • Say Anything on DVD (1989)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Joan Cusack,  Ione Skye
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Cameron Crowe's directorial debut, John Cusack plays Lloyd Dobler--an average guy with a penchant for kickboxing. There is only one thing that all-around nice guy Lloyd wants for his high school graduation--a date with beautiful valedictorian Diane Court (Ione Skye). Lloyd's dream comes true ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,580 members
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  • Working Girl on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Harrison Ford,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,654 members
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  • Stars and Bars (1988)
    Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,  Harry Dean Stanton,  Kent Broadhurst
    Director: Pat O'Connor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Henderson Dores (Daniel-Day Lewis) is a very proper British art expert sent to rural Georgia by his boss to purchase a painting by Renoir. The present owner, hill-billy Loomis Gage (Harry Dean Stanton), claims he bought the painting for $500 in France in 1946. Dores offers $10 million, but Gage's ..read more »
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  • The Allnighter (1987)
    Starring: Susanna Hoffs,  Dedee Pfeiffer,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Tamar Simon Hoffs
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Bangles vocalist Susanna Hoffs is Molly, the valedictorian at a Pacific college who realizes on the eve of graduation that she didn't get around to a significant college romance for all her schoolwork.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 13 members
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  • Class on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Rob Lowe,  Jacqueline Bisset,  Andrew McCarthy
    Director: Lewis John Carlino
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A delightful comedy about the outrageous sexual exploits of two young prep school students (Lowe and McCarthy) who's friendship is painfully tested when one of them has an affair with the other's seductive mother (Bisset.)
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,285 member
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  • My Bodyguard on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Chris Makepeace,  Adam Baldwin,  Matt Dillon
    Director: Tony Bill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Youth-oriented comedy drama about the adventures of a new student who enrolls in a high school run by a teen-age gang. He hires a bodyguard to protect him. Climax includes an unforgettable fight.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 149 members
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Joan Cusack facts

5 most recent films

Mars Needs Moms - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Mars Needs Moms - 3.0 stars
Toy Story 3 - 4.5 stars
Toy Story 3 - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Toy Story 3 - 3D Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Toy Story - 3D Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Toy Story 2 - 3D Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Toy Story 2 - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Toy Story 3 - 4.5 stars
Toy Story 3 - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Stars and Bars - 3 stars
Wrong, Mr. - 2.0 stars
The Allnighter - 2.5 stars
Kit Kittredge - An American Girl - 3.0 stars
Mars Needs Moms - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Wallace Shawn - 13 times - show films
Don Rickles - 12 times - show films
Tom Hanks - 12 times - show films
Tim Allen - 12 times - show films
John Cusack - 9 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Lee Unkrich - 10 times - show films
John Lasseter - 7 times - show films
Simon Wells - 3 times - show films
P.J. Hogan - 3 times - show films
Garry Marshall - 3 times - show films