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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


  • 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 53,661 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 1,248 member
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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 13,641 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 40,992 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 24,912 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 5,123 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 572 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 491 members
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  • War Inc. on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Ben Kingsley,  Marisa Tomei
    Director: Joshua Seftel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Darkly comic political satire co-written by and starring John Cusack. Riots are breaking out in the fictional desert country of Turaqistan after an American corporation owned by the former US Vice President (Dan Aykroyd) assumes power over the entire country. Hoping to take maximum advantage of the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 3,530 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 9,699 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 15,193 members
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  • Chicken Little on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Zach Braff,  Joan Cusack,  Dara McGarry
    Director: Mark Dindal
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    As you may recall the classic fable, Chicken Little caused widespread panic when he mistook a falling acorn for a piece of the sky. And now, the young chicken is determined to restore his reputation, but just as things are starting to go his way, a real piece of the sky lands on his head! Suspense,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 23,854 members
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  • Chicken Little - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Zach Braff,  Zach Braff,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Mark Dindal
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Animated comedy featuring the voices of Patrick Stewart, Zach Braff and Joan Cusack. After Chicken Little (Braff) causes widespread panic when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky, the young chicken is determined to restore his reputation. But just as things are starting to go his way,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,196 member
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  • Ice Princess on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Michelle Trachtenberg,  Hayden Panettiere
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Brainy Casey Carlyle has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother, who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen -- three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 11,761 members
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  • Raising Helen on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Helen Mirren,  Hayden Panettiere
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson as Helen Harris, a 20-something Manhattan socialite with a successful fashion career. However, her dream lifestyle is brought to a shuddering halt when she gets a phone call to inform her that not only are her sister and brother-in-law dead, but she must now ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 20,980 members
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  • Looney Tunes - Back in Action on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Timothy Dalton,  Steve Martin
    Director: Joe Dante
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Director Joe Dante merges live-action film with animation for this action-packed Looney Tunes adventure. Daffy Duck (voiced by Joe Alaskey), tired of being upstaged by his rival character Bugs Bunny (also voiced by Alaskey), quits Hollywood in the company of fired studio stuntman D.J. Drake (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 6,569 members
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  • School of Rock on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Jack Black,  Veronica Afflerbach
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Richard Linklater's film about a teacher (?) inspiring his pupils. To Dewey Finn (Jack Black) music is his life and that includes playing lead guitar in a bar band, who manage to get gigs here and there and aim to win a regional battle-of-the-bands competition. The only thing standing in their way ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 57,102 members
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  • High Fidelity on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Jack Black,  Sara Gilbert
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    John Cusack stars in and co-scripts this adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel about failed romance and pop music obsession, relocated from North London to Chicago. DJ-turned-record shop owner Rob Gordon (Cusack) undergoes a major crisis when his long-term girlfriend Laura (Iben Hjejle) walks out on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 22,967 members
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  • Arlington Road on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Mason Gamble,  Tim Robbins
    Director: Mark Pellington
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    History professor Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) lives with his ten-year-old son Grant (Spencer Clark) and is trying to come to terms with the death of his wife two years earlier. Life seems to be improving when they befriend the Langs, a family new to the neighbourhood. But the father of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,355 members
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  • Toy Story 2 - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Wallace Shaw,  ,  
    Director: Lee Unkrich,  John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This sequel to 'Toy Story' sees pull-string cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) kidnapped by toy collector Al, who plans to sell him to a Japanese toy museum. Assisted by Mr Potato Head, Slinky Dog and Rex the Dinosaur, action figure Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) sets off to the rescue, but when they ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 2,860 members
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  • Toy Story 2 on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Wallace Shawn,  Joan Cusack,  Kelsey Grammer
    Director: Lee Unkrich,  John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Toy Story 2" is the exciting, all-new sequel to the landmark 1995 computer-animated blockbuster from Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios. This time around, the fun and adventure continue when Andy goes off to summer camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 57,227 members
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  • Cradle Will Rock on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Ruben Blades,  Emily Watson
    Director: Tim Robbins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The true story of how Orson Welles and the Federal Theatre Project tried to stage Marc Blitzstein's socialist musical 'The Cradle Will Rock', only to have the theatre closed down by their political opponents shortly before the opening night - an act of censorship which left Welles and his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 532 members
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  • Runaway Bride on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Hector Elizondo,  Paul Dooley
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    This romantic comedy reunites the director and lead actors of the hugely successful 'Pretty Woman'. Ike Graham (Richard Gere) is a successful, flippant and misogynstic New York journalist, who writes an accusing piece on the antics of Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts), a Maryland woman who has left ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 13,935 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
    This sequel to 'Toy Story' sees pull-string cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) kidnapped by toy collector Al, who plans to sell him to a Japanese toy museum. Assisted by Mr Potato Head, Slinky Dog and Rex the Dinosaur, action figure Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) sets off to the rescue, but when they ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 603 members
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  • Grosse Pointe Blank on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Br,  Ann Cusack
    Director: George Armitage
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hitman Martin Blank's (John Cusack) day goes from bad to worse when he messes up his latest job due to the intervention of his rival, Grocer (Dan Aykroyd). To make amends with his client, Martin has to travel to Grosse Pointe and take out a Federal witness. This trip coincides with his high school ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 19,880 members
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  • In And Out (1997)
    Starring: Bob Newhart,  Debbie Reynolds,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Frank Oz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Indiana backwater teacher Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) is shocked when a former student, now a superstar actor, 'outs' Howard in his big Oscar night speech - Howard wasn't even aware that he was gay! He now attempts to assert his masculinity as he goes ahead with his wedding to Emily (Joan Cusack),..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,871 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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 11 members
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  • Two Much on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Antonio Banderas,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Fernando Trueba
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Art Dodge (Antonio Banderas) is a handsome art dealer who scams widows into buying paintings he alleges that their late partners purchased. Chased off the home of a mob boss, he runs into attractive Betty Kerner (Melanie Griffith). As well as being rich, Betty also has an equally attractive sister, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 154 members
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  • Nine Months on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Tom Arnold,  Robin Williams
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When Sam Faulkner (Hugh Grant) is informed by his girlfriend Taylor (Julianne Moore) that he is to become a father his life is turned upside down, and for the next nine months he is left to undergo the trials and tribulations of impending fatherhood. Things get worse for him when he meets an ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 7,862 members
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  • Addams Family Values on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Jimmy Workman,  David Krumholtz
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The ghoulish cartoon family created by Charles Addams returns for a second big-screen outing darker and nastier than the first. When Morticia Addams (Anjelica Huston) gives birth to new baby boy Pubert, the other Addams children, Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and Wednesday (Christina Ricci), devise any ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,728 members
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  • Toys on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  LL Cool J,  Robin Williams
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a benevolent toymaker dies, he leaves his factory in the care of his army general brother, until his son (Robin Williams) is mature enough to assume control. The General, however, re-structures the factory, and in a break with tradition begins to manufacture war toys, many of which are more ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,189 members
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  • My Blue Heaven on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Steve Martin,  Rick Moranis
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A New York mobster (Steve Martin) begins a new life in suburban San Diego as a member of the US Government's witness protection programme. Despite the watchful eye of an FBI agent (Rick Moranis) determined to get his witness to court alive, the mobster manages to maintain a modest life of crime in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 454 members
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  • Say Anything on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Lois Chiles,  John Cusack
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Diane Court (Ione Skye) is a clever and gifted high school student who is charmed by Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), a lovable but not particularly bright young man. However, Diane's father (John Mahoney) is anxious that nothing should stand in the way of his daughter's success. Directorial debut for ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,997 members
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  • Married To The Mob on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Dean Stockwell,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When her unfaithful gangster husband Frank is murdered, Angela DeMarco (Michelle Pfeiffer) sees it as the perfect opportunity to break free from the tacky world of the mafia wives. But with Frank's old boss Tony the Tiger (Dean Stockwell) trying to make her his mistress and the FBI pressuring her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 773 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 »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 3 members
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  • Working Girl on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  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 70% from 4,879 members
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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 50% from 14 members
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  • Class on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Casey Siemaszko,  Alan Ruck
    Director: Lewis John Carlino
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Fresh-faced country boy Jonathan (Andrew McCarthy) arrives by scholarship to study among the super-elite at a posh preparatory school. His roommate is the devilishly arrogant Skip (Rob Lowe) who, upon learning of Jonathan's inexperience in worldy matters, decides to make it his mission to educate ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,379 member
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  • My Bodyguard on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Matt Dillon,  Chris Makepeace
    Director: Tony Bill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Comedy starring Chris Makepeace as Clifford Peach, an easygoing teenager who is finding it less than easy to fit in at his new high school where a tough-talking bully (Matt Dillon) terrorises his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Refusing to pay up, Clifford enlists the aid of an overgrown ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 156 members
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Joan Cusack facts

5 most recent films

Shameless - Series 1 - US Version - 3.5 stars
Mars Needs Moms - 3.0 stars
Mars Needs Moms - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Toy Story 3 - 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 - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Toy Story 2 - 3D 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 - 2.0 stars
The Allnighter - 2.5 stars
Wrong, Mr. - 2.5 stars
Mars Needs Moms - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Kit Kittredge - An American Girl - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Wallace Shawn - 11 times - show films
Don Rickles - 10 times - show films
Tom Hanks - 10 times - show films
Tim Allen - 10 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
Garry Marshall - 3 times - show films
P.J. Hogan - 3 times - show films