|
Name: Annette Bening
Birth Name: Annette Carol Bening
Gender: Female
Born: 29 May 1958
Star Sign: Gemini
Famous as: Actress
More Details:
|
Annette Benning is an American actress. She has won Gloden Globe, BAFTA
and Screen Actors Guild Awards, and has also been nominated three
times for Academy Awards. Her film roles include appearances in
Postcards from the Edge (1990),
The Grifters (1990),
Regarding Henry (1991),
Bugsy (1991),
Richard III (1995),
The American President (1995),
Mars Attacks! (1996),
The Siege (1998),
American Beauty (1999),
Being Julia (2004),
Mrs. Harris (2005),
and Running with Scissors (2006).
|
|
Directed by Glenn Gordon Caron
Featuring Warren Beatty, Katharine Hepburn & Chloe Webb
Warner Brothers
Released: 2002-01-08
DVD
 | List Price: $19.98
Lowest New Price: $4.47
Lowest Used Price: $8.19
Usually ships in 24 hours
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
A romance about two people who meet on a cruise ship and find themselves falling in love although they are involved with someone else. They promise to meet in six months only if they both still feel the same way about each other. What happens next surprises...Running Time: 108 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 085391316725 |
|
Directed by Mike Nichols
Featuring Harrison Ford, Michael Haley & Julie Follansbhee
Paramount
Released: 2003-09-09
DVD
 | List Price: $9.98
Lowest New Price: $4.40
Lowest Used Price: $5.09
Usually ships in 24 hours
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here | Amazon.com:
Get shot in the head and become a better person. This 1991 Mike Nichols (Wolf) film stars Harrison Ford as a big-shot cold-hearted lawyer who gets a bullet in his brain during a holdup. The film de-emphasizes the traumas of recovery to focus on the title character's personality change after the fact. The canny Ford gets to work from his full, familiar palette of arrogance to boyishness, and even builds Henry from top to bottom after the wounded fellow awakens with no memory. But this is a slow and unremarkable film from Nichols, its sentimentality eclipsing all else, most of all profound insight. --Tom Keogh |
|
Directed by István Szabó
Featuring Michael Gambon, Leigh Lawson & Mari Kiss
Sony
Released: 2005-03-22
DVD
 | List Price: $14.94
Lowest New Price: $0.99
Lowest Used Price: $0.66
Usually ships in 24 hours
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
In the role that brought her amazing critical acclaim as well as the National Board of Review's Best Actress Award Annette Bening plays a beautiful and beguiling actress who finds herself bored with her role as the toast of the town in BEING JULIA.Julia Lambert (Bening) is a true diva: beautiful talented wealthy and famous. She has it all -- including a devoted husband (Oscar® winner Jeremy Irons 1990 Best Actor Reversal of Fortune) who has masterminded her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortunately for her this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life -- BEING JULIA.Features:The Making of BEING JULIACommentary by Annette Bening Jeremy Irons and Director Istvan SzaboBehind the scenes of BEING JULIADeleted scenesSystem Requirements:Run Time: 104 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396091740 Manufacturer No: 09174 |
|
Directed by Stephen Frears
Featuring Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening & Robert Weems
CUSACK,JOHN
Released: 2002-09-24
DVD
 | List Price: $9.99
Lowest New Price: $4.85
Lowest Used Price: $3.99
Usually ships in 24 hours
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
A con man, his mother, and his girlfriend all become involved in a game of deception, in which they prey on each other.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 10-JAN-2006
Media Type: DVD |
|
Directed by Irwin Winkler
Featuring Robert De Niro, George Wendt & Sam Wanamaker
Warner Home Video
Released: 2004-06-01
DVD
 | List Price: $9.98
Lowest New Price: $2.90
Lowest Used Price: $0.60
Usually ships in 24 hours
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here | Amazon.com:
A fictional dramatization of the anti-Communist witch-hunts that plagued the U.S. during the late 1940s and early '50s, Guilty by Suspicion examines one of the most shameful periods of American history. After producing such prominent films as Rocky and Raging Bull, Irwin Winkler made his directorial debut with this 1991 drama, basing his screenplay on the harsh reality of the blacklisting era. Set during 1951, when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) held hearings to target alleged Communist affiliations within the Hollywood filmmaking community, the film stars Robert De Niro as a prominent director who is urged to "name names" to appease the committee. Rather than betray one of his closest friends, he refuses to "cooperate" with the committee and is quickly blacklisted, his entire career in jeopardy. Costarring Annette Bening as the director's sympathetic ex-wife, the film doesn't pack the emotional punch of The Front (another blacklisting-era film, starring Woody Allen), but Winkler captures the paranoid anxiety of the period with a wealth of authentic detail. Because the De Niro character underestimates the power of the HUAC, we share his shock and dismay when he must finally face the committee. Without seeming like a dry history lesson, Guilty by Suspicion illuminates the unconstitutional evil of the blacklist era while offering a glimpse behind the scenes of Hollywood's past. Adding to the realism, director Martin Scorsese makes a rare cameo as another filmmaker under fire. Although Winkler's script and direction are perhaps too melodramatic, Guilty by Suspicion was clearly made with noble purpose and intention. For anyone interested in the blacklisting era and Hollywood history, this movie's a must-see. --Jeff Shannon |
|
Directed by Neil Jordan
Featuring Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn & Paul Guilfoyle (II)
Dreamworks Video
Released: 1999-06-01
DVD
 | List Price: $9.99
Lowest New Price: $5.31
Lowest Used Price: $3.85
Usually ships in 24 hours
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here | Amazon.com essential video:
Anyone who has seen and loved Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves should feel right at home in his off-beat psychological thriller In Dreams. A sexy, very adult take on "Little Red Riding Hood," Wolves unreeled as a series of surreal "fairy tales" interwoven within the heated dreams of a young girl verging on womanhood. Wolves' patron saints were Freud and Jung (as sifted through Jordan's wickedly fertile imagination), and the duo are very much aboard for In Dreams as well. Here's a movie that takes place entirely in dreamtime, where the dark, violent fantasies of Claire Cooper (Annette Bening)--wife, mother, and illustrator of children's books--play out unpoliced by superego, conscience, or society. On the face of it, Claire's a clairvoyant whose mind becomes more and more possessed by child-killer Vivian Thompson (Robert Downey Jr.). Cops and shrinks refuse to take her seriously until she loses her own daughter and much, much more. Tapping into weird images of her soulmate's childhood, when he was abused by a hateful mother in a house now submerged in a nearby reservoir, Claire comes closer and closer to her gender-shifting bad boy (and his latest victim). From start to finish, In Dreams dwells in hyperreality. Whether leeched of or drenched in color, slipping eerily through an underwater world, rushing madly toward catastrophe--every hallucinatory shot is saturated with menace. It's the kind of potent, unresolved menace that haunts your waking day after a particularly unsettling nightmare. Watch this gorgeous film as therapeutic (?) theater inside Claire's mind, where she and her murderous doppelganger act out a terrible Oedipal drama driven by sex and jealousy. Bening and Downey deliver superb, risky performances, and Darius Khondji's cinematography, with almost every frame punctuated by blood-reds, is sensuously dreamlike. In Dreams is one of those great, flawed films that reaches for more than it ultimately achieves. But what a welcome change from the dullness and shallowness of the formulaic sure things that dominate movie screens as the 20th century draws to a close. --Kathleen Murphy |
|
Directed by Phyllis Nagy
Featuring Annette Bening, Lawrence O'Donnell & Cloris Leachman
Warner Brothers
Released: 2006-08-01
DVD
 | List Price: $14.98
Lowest New Price: $2.10
Lowest Used Price: $0.65
Usually ships in 24 hours
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description:
Drama) The sensationalistic murder of diet guru Dr. Herman Tarnower is explored in this decidedly low-key take on the tabloid cover story from first-time director Phyllis Nagy. As the inventor of the popular "Scarsdale Diet" Dr. Herman Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) became an overnight success during the peak of the early 1980s diet craze. Despite the popularity of the Dr. Tarnower's revolutionary "lose one pound per day" diet the womanizing ways of the Casanova cardiologist would soon come to a brutal end at the hands of his jealous prescription drug-addicted lover Jean Harris (Annette Bening). Driven to despair after their fourteen-year romance failed to result in marriage and enraged by Dr. Tarnower's shameless status as a ladies man Harris confronts her former lover in one violent final act of desperationTagline: Nothing is more dangerous than the truth.Running Time: 92 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 026359331121 Manufacturer No: 93311 |
|
Directed by Stephen Frears
Featuring Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening & Robert Weems
Hbo Home Video
Released: 1998-06-30
DVD
 | List Price: $14.98
Lowest New Price: $4.20
Lowest Used Price: $4.16
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here | Amazon.com essential video:
Annette Bening twists like a mink on a leash through Stephen Frears's adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel. This may be the perfect trope for the moral hysteria that coils around a mother, her son, and his girlfriend in this slender but highly pleasurable neo-noir. Small in effect and local in scope, the film is about small-fry, attractive, bloodless con artists who view the world as neatly split between ropers and suckers, grifters and squares. "Grifter's got an irresistible urge to beat a guy that's wise," an old-timer tells Roy (John Cusack). And yet the three characters here--played by Angelica Huston, Cusack, and Bening--only beat the innocent: Lilly (Huston) gigs at the track for a mobster named Bobo, putting wads of cash on long-shot horses to even out the odds. Roy, her son, swindles citizens by dimes and degrees, flashing twenties at bars then paying for his beer with tens. His girlfriend, Myra (Bening), is hustling herself, her salad days as a long-con roper behind her. Theirs is a world of gut punches and smart lines, and the adrenaline these cheats and chiselers live by is palpable onscreen. But a larger canvas? Maybe it's there as a parallel universe. "What do you sell again?" Myra asks Roy, the matchbook salesman. "Self-confidence," he says, a wry allusion to the confidence game all three of them are playing. The movie boasts dazzling turns by Bening, Cusack, and especially Huston, whose mère fatale breaks new ground for noir. --Lyall Bush |
|
Directed by Sam Mendes
Featuring Kevin Spacey, Thora Birch & Mena Suvari
Paramount
Released: 2007-08-07
DVD
 | List Price: $14.99
Lowest New Price: $7.94
Lowest Used Price: $8.41
Usually ships in 24 hours
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here | Description:
AMERICAN BEAUTY: Noted theater director Sam Mendes, who was responsible for the acclaimed 1998 revival of Cabaret and Nicole Kidman's turn in The Blue Room, made his motion picture debut with this film about the dark side of an American family, and about the nature and price of beauty in a culture obsessed with outward appearances. Kevin Spacey plays Lester Burnham, a man in his mid-40s going through an intense midlife crisis; he's grown cynical and is convinced that he has no reason to go on. Lester's relationship with his wife Carolyn (Annette Bening) is not a warm one; while on the surface Carolyn strives to present the image that she's in full control of her life, inside she feels empty and desperate. Their teenage daughter Jane (Thora Birch) is constantly depressed, lacking in self-esteem, and convinced that she's unattractive. Her problems aren't helped by her best friend Angela (Mena Suvari), an aspiring model who is quite beautiful and believes that that alone makes her a worthwhile person. Jane isn't the only one who has noticed that Angela is attractive: Lester has fallen into uncontrollable lust for her, and she becomes part of his drastic plan to change his body and change his life. Meanwhile, next door, Colonel Fitts (Chris Cooper) has spent a lifetime in the Marine Corps and can understand and tolerate no other way of life, which makes life difficult for his son Ricky (Wes Bentley), an aspiring filmmaker and part-time drug dealer who is obsessed with beauty, wherever and whatever it may be. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES: A dark comedy punctuated by moments of drama, The Virgin Suicides explores the emotional underpinnings of a family starting to come apart at the seams in 1970's Midwestern America. The Lisbons seem like an ordinary enough family; Father (James Woods) teaches math at a high school in Michigan, Mother (Kathleen Turner) has a strong religious faith, and they have five teenage daughters, ranging from 13-year-old Cecilia (Hannah Hall) to 17-year-old Therese (Leslie Hayman). However, the Lisbon family's sense of normalcy is shattered when Cecilia falls into a deep depression and attempts suicide. The family is shaken and Mother and Father seek the advice of psychiatrist Dr. Hornicker (Danny DeVito), who suggests the girls should be allowed to socialize more with boys. However, boys soon become a serious problem for Cecilia's sister Lux (Kirsten Dunst). Lux has attracted the eye of a high-school Romeo named Trip (Josh Hartnett), who assures Father of his good intentions. But Cecilia finally makes good on her decision to kill herself, throwing the Lisbons into a panic; and after attending a school dance, Trip seduces and then abandons Lux. The Lisbons pull their daughters out of school, as an emotionally frayed Mother keeps close watch over them. Meanwhile, Lux continues to attract the attentions of the local boys, and she responds with a series of clandestine sexual episodes with random partners as often as she can sneak out of the house. The debut feature from Sofia Coppola (whose father, Francis Ford Coppola, co-produced this film), The Virgin Suicides also features supporting performances from Scott Glenn and Giovanni Ribisi. The film was shown as part of the Directors Fortnight series as the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. |
|
| |
|
Directed by Mike Nichols
Featuring Harrison Ford, Michael Haley & Julie Follansbhee
Paramount
Released: 2008-05-02
Video Download (Drama)
 | Lowest New Price: $2.99
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here |
|
NBC
Video Download
 | |
|
Directed by Mike Nichols
Featuring Harrison Ford, Michael Haley & Julie Follansbhee
Paramount
Released: 2008-05-02
Video Download (Drama)
| Lowest New Price: $7.99
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here |
|
Featuring Jonathan Banks & Jim Byrnes
Cannell Productions
Video Download
 | |
|
Directed by Eric Fogel
Featuring Jason Acuña, Tangie Ambrose & Kristina Anapau
MTV
Video Download
 | |
|
Directed by Mike Nichols
Featuring Garry Shandling, John Goodman & Ben Kingsley
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Released: 2008-02-19
Video Download (Comedy)
 | Lowest New Price: $9.95
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here |
|
Directed by Barry Levinson
Featuring Warren Beatty, Harvey Keitel & Elliott Gould
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Released: 2008-06-23
Video Download (Action)
 | Lowest New Price: $2.99
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here |
|
Directed by Ryan Murphy
Featuring Annette Bening, Joseph Fiennes & Alec Baldwin
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Released: 2008-06-18
Video Download (Comedy)
 | Lowest New Price: $9.99
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here |
|
Directed by Howard Deutsch
Featuring Dan Aykroyd, Stephanie Faracy & Chris Young
Universal Studios
Released: 2008-06-18
Video Download (Comedy)
 | Lowest New Price: $2.99
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here |
|
Directed by Howard Deutsch
Featuring Dan Aykroyd, Stephanie Faracy & Chris Young
Universal Studios
Released: 2008-06-18
Video Download (Comedy)
| Lowest New Price: $8.99
(As of 01:06 Pacific 25 Jul 2008 More Info)
Click Here |
|
| |
|
Premier Celebrities
|
