Directed by Wes Anderson. With George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Meryl Streep and Owen Wilson. Categories: Adventure, Animation, Comedy. Year: 2009.
Meryl Streep in Fantastic Mr. Fox
Directed by Nancy Meyers. With Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin and Lake Bell. Categories: Comedy, Romance. Year: 2009.
Meryl Streep in It's Complicated
Based on two true stories, one part of the film follows master cookbook writer Julia Child (Meryl Streep) as she overcomes anti-American snobbery and male chauvinism to become an expert in French cooking in Paris in the Fifties. The other half follows Julie Powell (Amy Adams), a mixed-up young woman living in contemporary New York, who decides to make cook every recipe in Julia Child's most famous book and write about it. Directed by Nora Ephron. With Stanley Tucci, Dave Annable, Jane Lynch, Vanessa Ferlito and Casey Wilson. Categories: Biography, Drama. Year: 2009.
Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia
In 1964, Father Brendan Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) brings the winds of change to a Catholic school in the Bronx. Already upset with Father Flynn challenging her strict way of running the school, Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) finds an even greater reason to face off against him when Sister James (Amy Adams) confesses that she suspects that he is abusing Donald Miller (Joseph Foster), the school's first black student. Beginning a crusade to discover the truth and remove Father Flynn from the school, Sister Aloysius moves forward with no proof but her moral certainity and enters a battle of wills that threatens to tear the community apart. Directed by John Patrick Shanley. With Viola Davis and Alice Drummond. Categories: Drama, Mystery. 2008.
Meryl Streep in Doubt
Raised on a Greek island by her doting mother Donna (Meryl Streep), Sophie Sheridan (Amanda Seyfried) sets out to find her father so he can give her away at her upcoming wedding. Based on Donna's diary, Sophie narrows down the field to three men: Sam (Pierce Brosnan), Harry (Colin Firth) and Bill (Stellan Skarsgård). Inviting all three without Donna's knowledge, Sophie creates quite a spectacle, and, as the big day approaches, Sam sets out to make up for lost time. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Rachel McDowall, Ashley Lilley and Dominic Cooper. Categories: Comedy, Musical, Romance. Year: 2008.
Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia!
With two of his former students under fire in Afghanistan, idealistic professor Dr. Malley (Robert Redford) attempts to make an impression on a privileged but disaffected student (Andrew Garfield). Meanwhile, in Washington D.C., TV journalist Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) is close to breaking a huge story provided to her by Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), a charismatic presidential hopeful. Directed by Robert Redford. With Derek Luke, Michael Peña and Peter Berg. Categories: Drama. Year: 2007.
Meryl Streep in Lions for Lambs
After the Egyptian born Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington DC, his American wife, Isabella (Reese Witherspoon), travels to the nation's capital to try to learn the truth. Meanwhile, CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) begins to question his assignment after witnessing El-Ibrahimi's interrogation at a secret military detention center. Directed by Gavin Hood. With Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard and Alan Arkin. Cateogries: Thriller, Drama. Year: 2007.
Meryl Streep in Rendition
Young Lucas Nickle is the new kid in town. Friendless and harassed by a neighborhood bully, Lucas takes out his frustration by flooding an ant hill in his yard. But, when the ants decide to retaliate by using a magic potion, Lucas is shrunk down to the size of an ant and sentence to live in their colony. Directed by John A. Davis. With Nicolas Cage, Julia Roberts, Paul Giamatti and Meryl Streep. Categories: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy. Year: 2006.
Meryl Streep in The Ant Bully
Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a recent journalism graduate, lands a job at America’s premiere fashion magazine. However, she has neither style nor elegance, which is frequently pointed out by her coworker Emily (Emily Blunt) and her evil boss Miranda Priestley (Meryl Streep). Andrea puts up with Miranda as a means to an end: a recommendation from her translates to a job at any publication. To ensure success, Andrea transforms herself into the graceful, Chanel-clad assistant of Miranda’s dreams. But, not everyone is pleased with Andrea’s transformation, particularly her boyfriend, Nate (Adrian Grenier). Directed by David Frankel. With Stanley Tucci, Tracie Thoms, Simon Baker, Rich Sommer and Daniel Sunjata. Categories: Drama, Comedy. Year: 2006.
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
Uma Thurman plays an accomplished New York professional who is still single at age 37. When she starts dating a much younger guy (Bryan Greenberg) she is eager to share the news with her therapist (Meryl Streep). But the therapist figures out quickly that the new boyfriend is her own son, although she doesn't share the news with her patient. Prime is a contemporary comedy about what happens when three people who all care about each other are suddenly put in an impossible situation. Directed by Ben Younger. With Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg and Meryl Streep. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Romance. Year: 2005.
Meryl Streep in Prime
Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage), a neurotic screenwriter, is having trouble adapting a book about an orchid thief into a movie. While Charlie agonizes over his writer's block, his less cerebral twin brother Donald (also Cage) decides to become a screenwriter himself, much to Charlie's disdain. When Charlie finally gets his inspiration, he becomes so caught up in his screenplay that the line between reality and fantasy begins to blur, and he sets out to locate the book's author, Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), and the real-life orchid thief, John Laroche (Chris Cooper). Directed by Spike Jonze. With Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, Brian Cox and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Categories: Comedy, Drama. Year: 2002.
Meryl Streep in Adaptation
Two seemingly independent stories, one in the 1950's the other in present times, are linked by the writings of Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman). In 1951, plain and simple housewife Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) plans a party for her husband Dan (John C. Reilly), but she can't stop reading the novel Mrs. Dalloway. In the present, Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) throws a party for her friend Richard (Ed Harris), but she feels the draw of Woolf on her life as well. Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Miranda Richardson, Claire Danes, Toni Collette and Jeff Daniels. Category: Drama. Year: 2002.
Meryl Streep in The Hours
Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep) is a stifled housewife who has watched her life take a turn into uneventful monotony. But, when free-spirited photographer Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood) stumbles into her driveway, her life is suddenly infused with the excitement and passion she’d been missing. Although deeply conflicted, the two spend four precious days together which they both feel has the richness of a whole lifetime. Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Annie Corley, Victor Slezak, Jim Haynie, Debra Monk and Phyllis Lyons. Categories: Drama, Romance. Year: 1995.
Meryl Streep in The Bridges of Madison County
Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) is a Danish woman living in Africa with a man she married simply for the status he offered. As she grows restless with her hectic existence and distant husband, Karen begins a relationship with Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford), a hunter and traveler who shows her a life outside the confines of her coffee plantation. Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen and Malick Bowens. Categories: Biography, Drama, Romance. Year: 1985.
Meryl Streep in Out of Africa
Coming home late from work yet again, Ted Kramer(Dustin Hoffman) is confronted by his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep). Unable to handle Ted's obsession with his career, Joanna has decided to find herself, and leaves him to care for their six-year-old son, Billy (Justin Henry). Faced with the task cooking and cleaning for the first time, Ted discovers the joy of being a full-time parent, until Joanna resurfaces and demands custody of Billy. Directed by Robert Benton. With Jane Alexander. Categories: Drama. Year: 1979.
Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer
Following his divorce, Isaac (Woody Allen) learns that his ex-wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), is living with another woman and writing a book about their failed marriage. While Isaac is dating Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), who is stil in high school, he meets and becomes attracted to Mary (Diane Keaton), his friend Yale's (Michael Murphy) mistress. Torn between his three lovers, Isaac tries to make sense of life and love in New York City. Directed by Woody Allen. With Anne Byrne Hoffman. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Romance. Year: 1979.
Meryl Streep in Manhattan
Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage) and Nick (Christopher Walken) are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who get drafted to fight in Vietnam. There, they are captured by Vietnamese soldiers who force the men to play Russian roulette over and over, shattering their minds. Michael devises an escape plan that saves all three men, but the after-effects of the war prevent any of them from having normal lives. Directed by Michael Cimino. With Meryl Streep, George Dzundza and John Cazale. Categories: Drama, War. Year: 1978.
Meryl Streep in The Deer Hunter