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JoBeth Williams

JoBeth Williams


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JoBeth Williams - what members say


  • Jungle 2 Jungle
  • Jungle 2 Jungle review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb...................... 12 April 2008
    ...Disney re-make of 'Little Indian, Big City.' It stars Tim Allen & Martin Short, JoBeth Williams along with Sam Huntington. In this version Tim Allen portrays workaholic Mich...   Read customer review
  • Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot
  • Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4.0 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 28 January 2006
    ...f his relationship with his girlfriend (and fellow police officer) Gwen Harper (JoBeth Williams), so Joe's mother Tutti (Estelle Getty) decides it's time to pay him a visit. T...   Read customer review
  • Poltergeist
  • Poltergeist review by danieljparsons from Ashford
    Rated - 5.0 stars "They're here..." 2 January 2010
    ... Rubinstein has a great deal of presence in a small part. Beatrice Straight and JoBeth Williams are also impressive and special mention should also be given to the late Heathe...   Read customer review

JoBeth Williams - filmography


  • The Big Year (2011)
    Starring: Owen Wilson,  Jack Black,  Jim Parsons
    Director: David Frankel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Three fanatical bird watchers (Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Jack Black) compete to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 9 members
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  • The Big Year - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Owen Wilson,  Jack Black,  Jim Parsons
    Director: David Frankel
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Three fanatical bird watchers (Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Jack Black) compete to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 2 members
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  • TiMER on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Emma Caulfield,  Michelle Borth,  John Patrick Amedori
    Director: Jac Schaeffer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Finding true love is easier than ever thanks to a bio-technological implant called the TiMER, which counts down to the exact time people meet their soul mates. Love-starved Oona is pushing 30, but her TiMER hasn't even started counting down yet. What's worse, she's falling for a guy who is set to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 103 members
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  • Trapped In A Purple Haze on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jonathan Jackson,  JoBeth Williams,  Carly Pope
    Director: Eric Laneuville
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    All Max wants to do is play ice hockey. However his mother, a failed artist, wants Max to use his artistic potential to become the succesful artist she never was. Max turns to drugs to escape the pressure from his mother and his life starts to spiral out of control.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 72 members
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  • Justice on DVD (1999)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Charles Durning,  JoBeth Williams
    Director: Joakim Ersgard
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A mole who has lived undercover for years is anxious to smash an organised crime syndicate even if it means going to jail. When he eventually earns the respect of the Chicago crime lord he thinks it's only a matter of time....
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 45 members
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  • A Chance Of Snow on DVD (1998)
    Starring: JoBeth Williams,  Michael Ontkean,  Barbara Barrie
    Director: Tony Bill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Maddie and her daughters are on their way to visit her mother for the Christmas holidays. They run into her soon-to-be-ex-husband and are soon all stranded at the airport due to snow. The two soon realise that they have nothing to do but fall in love again...
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 127 members
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  • Jungle 2 Jungle on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Tim Allen,  Martin Short,  Lolita Davidovich
    Director: John Pasquin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a stuffy New York executive pursues his archaeologist wife through sweltering South American jungles with pen and divorce p apers in hand, he discovers the son he never knew he had--swinging from vines with his giant pet spider. Turns out the boy's been raised as part of a jungle tribe, so ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 840 members
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  • Just Write on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Sherilyn Fenn,  Jeremy Piven,  JoBeth Williams
    Director: Andrew Gallerani
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In JUST WRITE, Harold (Jeremy Piven), a Hollywood tour bus driver, finds himself embroiled in a charade, as he tries to maintain the false identity of a screenwriter while wooing starlet Amanda Clark (Sherilyn Fenn). This romantic comedy also stars Wallace Shawn, JoBeth Williams, and Alex Rocco.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 104 members
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  • Wyatt Earp on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Dennis Quaid,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,726 members
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  • Wyatt Earp - HD (1994)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Dennis Quaid,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 107 members
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  • Wyatt Earp - Blu-ray (1994)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Dennis Quaid,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 933 members
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  • Victim Of Love on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  JoBeth Williams,  Virginia Madsen
    Director: Jerry London
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A psychologist becomes involved with an English professor who has only recently lost his wife, but her instincts tell her that there is more to him than meets the eye. Her fears are realised when one of her patients claims to have been driven to the brink of suicide by him.....
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 131 members
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  • Welcome Home on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Kris Kristofferson,  JoBeth Williams,  Sam Waterston
    Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In 1970, Air Force Pilot Robbins was shot down over Cambodia. The U.S. Military identified the body and sent it home for burial. Ever since his family have struggled to rebuild their lives. Now seventeen years later Pilot Robbins is back to discover the wife he left behind and the son he never knew ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 67 members
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  • Memories Of Me on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Billy Crystal,  Billy Crystal,  Alan King
    Director: Henry Winkler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a New York heart surgeon has a mild heart-attack, he is encouraged by his girlfriend to visit Los Angeles to reconcile his relationship with his father. Once there, he discovers his father Abe, known in Hollywood as "King of the Extras," is terminally ill and so begins their adventure to do ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 50 members
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  • Teachers (1984)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  JoBeth Williams,  Judd Hirsch
    Director: Arthur Hiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A teacher overcomes his frustration in a high-school full of flunkies. As he attempts to educate his students, his attempts to help them gets him into trouble with the school board, which only adds to his problems. With the support of his students he beats the school board and his frustration.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • American Dreamer on DVD (1984)
    Starring: JoBeth Williams,  Tom Conti,  Giancarlo Giannini
    Director: Rick Rosenthal
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Cathy Palmer wins a writing contest and is offered the chance of travelling to Paris to meet her favourite romance author. After protestations from her husband, she finally goes, only to be run down by a car on her arrival. When she wakes up in hospital, all memories of her past life have been ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 55% from 89 members
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  • The Day After on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Jason Robards,  JoBeth Williams,  Steve Guttenberg
    Director: Nicholas Meyer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Steve Guttenberg and Jason Robards star in this Emmy Award winning made-for-TV movie about the aftermath of a total global thermonuclear war. Taking place in Lawrence, Kansas, THE DAY AFTER is a bleak look at the effects such a war would have on humanity by using the inhabitants of this small town ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,094 member
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  • The Big Chill on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Tom Berenger,  Jeff Goldblum,  William Hurt
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Seven members of a close-knit college group of friends are reunited fifteen years later after the eighth commits suicide. The funeral and reception lead to an extended weekend for all as they decide to spend time together pondering the recent events. Amidst a barrage of Motown classics, the members ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 2,169 members
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  • Poltergeist - Blu-ray (1982)
    Starring: JoBeth Williams,  Craig T. Nelson,  Beatrice Straight
    Director: Tobe Hooper,  Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A peaceful suburban home suddenly becomes a gateway for enraged ghosts who kidnap a little girl and take her to their twilight world. Hiring paranormal experts, the girl's family attempts to discover why she was taken and how to get her back. Great performances by all in this superlative ghost story.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,318 member
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  • Poltergeist on DVD (1982)
    Starring: JoBeth Williams,  Craig T. Nelson,  Beatrice Straight
    Director: Tobe Hooper,  Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Life is very pleasant for the close-knit Freeling family until a host of otherworldly forces invades their peaceful suburban home. It starts with just an odd occurrence or two, but soon their house is transformed into a swirling supernatural sideshow. The forces at work are anything but friendly, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 5,318 members
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  • Stir Crazy on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Gene Wilder,  Richard Pryor,  JoBeth Williams
    Director: Sidney Poitier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,311 members
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  • My Name Is Bill W.
    Starring: James Woods,  JoBeth Williams,  James Garner
    Director: Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support group that would eventually become Alcoholics Anonymous.
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 2 members
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JoBeth Williams facts

5 most recent films

The Big Year - 2.5 stars
The Big Year - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
TiMER - 3.0 stars
Dexter - Series 2 - 4.5 stars
14 Hours - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dexter - Series 2 - 4.5 stars
Poltergeist - 3.5 stars
Poltergeist - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Stir Crazy - 3.5 stars
Wyatt Earp - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Justice - 2.0 stars
Little City - 2.5 stars
The Big Year - 2.5 stars
Teachers - 3.0 stars
The Big Year - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

David Zayas - 6 times - show films
Keith Carradine - 6 times - show films
Lauren Velez - 6 times - show films
James Remar - 6 times - show films
Erik King - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Marcos Siega - 6 times - show films
Nick Gomez - 6 times - show films
Tony Goldwyn - 6 times - show films
Lawrence Kasdan - 5 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 3 times - show films