Mary Steenburgen films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 35 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, A Dog's Perfect Christmas and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

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Starring Mary Steenburgen

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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Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
2020 · TV
8.0/10 · TMDB
After an unusual event, Zoey Clarke, a whip-smart computer coder forging her way in San Francisco, suddenly starts to hear the innermost wants, thoughts and desires of the people around her through popular songs.
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Philadelphia
1993 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for...
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Nightmare Alley
2021 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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I Am Sam
2001 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Although Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old, he has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a...
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Happiest Season
2020 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.
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Back to the Future Part III
1990 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land...
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Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
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The Proposal
2009 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
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Inland Empire
2006 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
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Ragtime
1981 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
On her first holiday without her father, Zoey attempts to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do.
The One I Love
2014 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery...
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Nixon
1995 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end...
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Powder
1995 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This...
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Time After Time
1979 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
The Wildest Chase Of The Century! London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write The Time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper...
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Parenthood
1989 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the...
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Elf
2003 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't...
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Step Brothers
2008 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's...
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
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The Brave One
2007 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
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7 Days in Hell
2015 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.
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The Book of Love
2017 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to...
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Last Vegas
2013 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal.
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The Discovery
2017 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all...
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Book Club
2018 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspiration on how to handle sexual pleasure at an elderly age.
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Dirty Girl
2010 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a road trip to discover themselves.
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The Dink
2026 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Desperate to save a struggling country club and earn his father's respect, a washed-up tennis pro is compelled to break a sacred vow and do the unthinkable: play pickleball.
In the Electric Mist
2009 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the...
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A Walk in the Woods
2015 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
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Four Christmases
2008 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the...
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Song One
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Estranged from her family, Franny returns home when an accident leaves her brother comatose. Retracing his life as an aspiring musician, she tracks down his favorite musician, James Forester. Against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s music scene...
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The Butcher's Wife
1991 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in...
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Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
In New York City, an estranged couple who witness a murder are relocated to small-town Wyoming as part of a witness-protection program.
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A Dog's Perfect Christmas
2026 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
When a medical emergency pulls the Goss family apart, determined dog Winstead will do all he can to bring his humans back together before Christmas Eve.

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