Catherine Keener Movies, Books and DVDs

Movies

Capote
In 1959 the celebrated literary figure Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), stunned by the brutal slayings of the Clutter family, sets out for Holcomb, Kansas accompanied by his friend Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) author of ³To Kill a Mockingbird,² to do investigative stories for The New Yorker.   Capote delves into ...more
US Release: 2005-09-30
UK Release: 2006-02-24
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lighting Thief
Adaptation of Rick Riordan's novel. The story follows Percy Jackson a 12-year-old who is a good kid but cannot seem to focus on school or keep his temper in check. After some strange events at school his mum tells him the truth. She sends him off to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp ...more
US Release: 2010-02-12
UK Release: 2010-02-12
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
1986.  Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world, but now his fatal illness and Rose’s emerging womanhood pose troubling questions ...more
US Release: 2005-03-25
UK Release: 2006-03-31
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
40 year-old Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) has done quite a few things in his life.  He’s got a cushy job stamping invoices at an electronics superstore, a nice apartment with a proud collection of action figures and comic books, good friends, a nice attitude.  But there’s just one little thing ...more
US Release: 2005-08-19
UK Release: 2005-09-02
Where the Wild Things Are
Based on the classic children's book “Where the Wild Things Are", this is the story of a boy named Max whose imagination transforms his room into wild forests and sweeping oceans. Max sails to a land of “wild things” fierce looking and sounding creatures which he masters with a single glance. ...more
US Release: 2009-10-16
UK Release: 2009-12-11
Synecdoche, New York
The story concerns Caden, a theater director who thinks he's dying, and how that shapes his interactions with the world, his art and the women in his life. But it is really a wrenching, searching, metaphysical epic that somehow manages to be universal in an extremely personal way. ...more
US Release: 2008-10-24
UK Release: 2009-05-15
The Soloist
Based on the true story of musical prodigy Nathaniel Ayers, who developed schizophrenia in his second year at Juilliard and ended up homeless on the streets of downtown L.A. where he performs the violin and cello. The drama is based on the relationship the musician developed with Steve Lopez, a Los Angeles ...more
US Release: 2009-04-24
UK Release: 2009-09-25
Hamlet 2
A failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama teacher (Coogan) rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. ...more
US Release: 2008-08-22
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Trust
The parents of a 14-year-old girl discover she has been victimized by an adult posing as a teenager on a chat room. ...more
US Release: 2011-04-01
UK Release: 2011-07-08
Please Give
Kate (Catherine Keener) has a lot on her mind. There’s the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store (and how much markup can she get away with?). There’s the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter ...more
US Release: 2010-04-30
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The Oranges
The film centers on an older man who has an affair with the young daughter of a family friend. The lives of their respective families are thrown into chaos. ...more
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Cyrus
With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcee finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, the iconoclastic ...more
US Release: 2010-06-18
UK Release: 2010-09-17
Peace, Love and Misunderstanding
After her husband leaves her, a lawyer takes her son and daughter to the home of their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock, New York. ...more
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Captain Phillips
Based on the real-life story of Capt. Richard Phillips, whose Maersk Alabama ship was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009. Phillips, in order to save his crew, offered himself as a hostage to the pirates. He was eventually rescued by the U.S. Navy. ...more
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Frank or Francis
A satirical look at Hollywood centering on a film director named Frank who battles with an online blogger named Francis. ...more
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DVD

The Interpreter
From Academy Award® winner SYDNEY POLLACK, the director behind some of the most compelling and provocative thrillers of the last two decades (Three Days of the Condor, Absence of Malice, The Firm), comes a fresh take on contemporary suspense: an intricate, knife’s-edge drama that unfolds against our 21st Century world ...more
US Release: 2005-10-04
UK Release: 2005-08-15
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Better late than never...   Some may say 40 year-old Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) has it all: a great job working at an electronics store; an awesome collection of superhero figures and comic books; friendly elderly neighbours who he watches TV with; and a few cool friends. However, there's just one small ...more
US Release: 2005-12-13
UK Release: 2005-12-05
Capote
In 1959 the celebrated literary figure Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), stunned by the brutal slayings of the Clutter family, sets out for Holcomb, Kansas accompanied by his friend Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) author of ³To Kill a Mockingbird,² to do investigative stories for The New Yorker.   Capote delves into ...more
US Release: 2006-03-21
UK Release: TBA
Friends with Money
A poignant snapshot of the way we live today, Friends With Money examines the shifting relationships between four women who have been friends all of their adult lives.  The three “friends with money,” Frannie (Cusack), Jane (McDormand), and Christine (Keener), share a concern for Olivia (Aniston) who seems unable to ...more
US Release: 2006-08-29
UK Release: 2006-09-25
Into the Wild (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
"Into The Wild" is inspired by a true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a young man who abandons his life of comfort to pursue the freedom of life on the road, a quest that leads him to the Alaskan wilderness and the ultimate challenge of his life. Screenplay and ...more
US Release: 2008-03-04
UK Release: 2008-03-10
Into the Wild [Blu-ray]
This is the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch). Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol ...more
US Release: 2008-12-16
UK Release: -
Capote/In Cold Blood [Blu-ray]
Capote Famed author Truman Capote befriends two murderers while researching his celebrated book "In Cold Blood" - and finds himself changed to the core. In Cold Blood The powerful true story of a callous murder from the minds of the criminals who performed it. Based on Truman Capote's best-selling novel. ...more
US Release: 2009-02-24
UK Release: -
The Soloist [Blu-ray]
Academy Award(R) nominee Robert Downey Jr. and Academy Award(R) winner Jamie Foxx star in an extraordinary and inspiring true story of how a chance meeting can change a life. "The Soloist" tells the poignant and ultimately soaring tale of a Los Angeles newspaper reporter who discovers a brilliant and distracted ...more
US Release: 2009-08-04
UK Release: -
Where the Wild Things Are [Blu-ray]
"Let the wild rumpus start!" Nine-year-old Max runs away from home and sails across the sea to become king of the land Where the Wild Things Are. King Max rules a wondrous realm of gigantic fuzzy monsters--but being king may not be as carefree as it looks! Filmmaker Spike Jonze ...more
US Release: 2010-03-02
UK Release: -
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Modern and mythical worlds collide in this thunderous fantasy-adventure starring Pierce Brosnan, Kevin McKidd and Uma Thurman as you’ve never seen them before! Percy Jackson is no ordinary teenager...he’s just learned he’s the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus’ ­lightning bolt – the most powerful weapon ever ...more
US Release: 2010-06-29
UK Release: -

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