Allison Janney films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 53 films and 3 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for The West Wing, American Beauty and Finding Nemo.

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Starring Allison Janney

The West Wing
1999 · TV
8.4/10 · TMDB
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the...
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The Help
2011 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's...
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American Beauty
1999 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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Finding Nemo
2003 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting...
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10 Things I Hate About You
1999 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In...
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I, Tonya
2017 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
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Minions & Monsters
2026 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem...
Another Simple Favor
2025 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Stephanie and Emily reunite on the beautiful island of Capri, Italy for Emily’s extravagant wedding to a rich Italian businessman. Along with the glamorous guests, expect murder and betrayal to RSVP for a wedding with more twists and turns...
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The Hours
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a...
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Mom
2013 · TV
7.2/10 · TMDB
Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now...
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To Leslie
2022 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.
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Finding Dory
2016 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
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The Creator
2023 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of...
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The Way Way Back
2013 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.
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Juno
2007 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
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Bombshell
2019 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
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The Ice Storm
1997 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
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Spy
2015 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
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The DUFF
2015 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Bianca's universe turns upside down when she learns that her high school refers to her as a ‘DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend). Hoping to erase that label, she enlists the help of a charming jock and her favorite teacher. Together they'll...
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The Roses
2025 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take...
Bad Education
2020 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.
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Hairspray
2007 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial...
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-machine is stolen and moments in history begin to be changed.
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Away We Go
2009 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Veronica expecting their first child, Burt's parents decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place...
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Miracle on 34th Street
1994 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing...
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Get on Up
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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The Addams Family
2019 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.
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Private Parts
1997 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star.
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Lou
2022 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A young girl is kidnapped during a powerful storm. Her mother joins forces with her mysterious neighbour to set off in pursuit of the kidnapper. Their journey will test their limits and expose the dark secrets of their past.
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The Dog Stars
2026 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBIn cinemas
After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while...
Over the Hedge
2006 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the...
The Chumscrubber
2005 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care...
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Minions
2015 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
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The Girl on the Train
2016 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and...
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Bad Words
2013 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A misanthropic man sets out to exact revenge on his estranged father, by finding a loophole and attempting to win the National Spelling Bee as an adult. Figuring it would destroy his father, and everything he's worked so hard for as head...
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Liberal Arts
2012 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to...
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The Associate
1996 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm...
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Primary Colors
1998 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the...
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Struck by Lightning
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
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Palm Royale
2024 · TV
6.2/10 · TMDB
In 1969, an ambitious woman aspires to cross the line between the haves and have-nots to secure her seat at America's most exclusive, fashionable, and treacherous table: Palm Beach high society.
Margaret
2011 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
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Wolf
1994 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.
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A Thousand Words
2012 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a...
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The People We Hate at the Wedding
2022 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
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Everything's Going to Be Great
2025 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
When they are unexpectedly forced to move in with an estranged relative, the Smart Family must navigate oversized dreams, identity struggles and regional theater in this warmly observant family comedy.
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Six Days Seven Nights
1998 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. The pair avoid each other at...
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Nurse Betty
2000 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he...
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Celebrity
1998 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he...
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The Rewrite
2014 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.
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Breaking News in Yuba County
2021 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing...
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Ma
2019 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends...
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The Oranges
2011 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A man's affair with his friend's much-younger daughter throws two neighboring families into turmoil.
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How to Deal
2003 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Halley is convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand. Her crazed sister is planning a wedding but has second thoughts...
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Tammy
2014 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.
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