JULIA (1977)
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
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The story of a friendship between two women and their anti-Nazi efforts during WWII. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards. Adapted from "Pentimento," the memoirs of late playwright Lillian Hellman, Julia covers the 1930s, when Lillian attained fame with the production of her first play "The Little Foxes" on Broadway. While Julia attends the University in Vienna (studying with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein), Lillian suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometimes lover Dashiel Hammett at a New England beach house. After becoming a celebrated playwright, Lillian is invited to a writer's conference in Russia. Julia, having taken up the battle against fascism, enlists Lillian en route to smuggle money through Nazi Germany to assist the Anti-Fascist cause. It is a dangerous mission, and during a brief meeting with Julia on this trip, Lillian learns Julia had a child. Shortly after returning to the States, Lillian is informed of Julia's murder, the details of her death are shrouded in secrecy. Lillian then travels to England to search for her namesake . . .
THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
Directed by Michael Cimino
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This critically acclaimed, extraordinarily powerful film tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace. . . to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies . . . to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. A searing drama of friendship and courage. It is a shattering, emotional drama you will never forget.
THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN (1979)
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
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Based on Alan Alda’s screenplay about a young senator who must face the moral consequences of climbing the political bandwagon.
MANHATTAN (1979)
Directed by Woody Allen
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A successful TV writer (whose wife leaves him for another woman) writes a bestseller about their failed marriage. . .
KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979)
Directed by Robert Benton
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Dustin Hoffman (winner, Academy Award for Best Actor) plays a selfish, New York advertising executive left to take care of his young son (Justin Henry), when his wife Joanna (Meryl) leaves him in this poignant adaptation of Avery Corman's novel.
STILL OF THE NIGHT (1982)
Directed by Robert Benton
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A New York psychiatrist who becomes unwittingly involved in a murder investigation after his client is found dead. Filled with startling Hitchcock-style nuances, this is an eerily staged and cleverly crafted mystery, a contemporary thriller of the highest order.
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN (1982)
Directed by Karel Reisz
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The skillful intertwining of two love stories – one period, one contemporary – yields a fascinating insight into the passion and mystery that can pull two people together, and just as easily tear them apart. Embraced by audiences and critics alike, and garnering five 1981 Academy Award nominations, including Best Actress for Meryl Streep, The French Lieutenant’s Woman will forever remain one of the most literate, imaginative and visually stunning love stories ever to grace the screen. The French Lieutenant’s Woman screenplay was written by Harold Pinter and was based on the novel by John Fowles.
SOPHIE'S CHOICE (1982)
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
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Meryl’s performance as Sophie is critically regarded as one of the finest roles ever brought to the screen --- she received the 1983 Academy Award for Best Actress for her stunning portrayal of Sophie Zawistowska in this penetrating drama set in 1947 post-World War II Brooklyn. Kevin Kline is brilliant as her all-consuming lover Nathan, and the lovers’ drama unfolds through the observations of a friend and aspiring writer, Stingo (played by Peter MacNichol). As the trio grows closer, Stingo discovers the hidden truths that they each harbor, resulting in a captivating and moving narrative. Alan J. Pakula’s screenplay was based on William Styron’s novel.
SILKWOOD (1983)
Directed by Mike Nichols
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Meryl received another Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Karen Silkwood, based on the true story of an employee of an Oklahoma plutonium plant who died in a mysterious car accident while en route to a scheduled meeting with a New York Times reporter about dangerous plant conditions.
FALLING IN LOVE (1984)
Directed by Ulu Grosbard
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Frank and Molly are two everyday people who first meet by chance, and later by choice. There’s just one thing standing between them, they are both already married. Meryl was awarded the David Di Donatello Award for Best Actress (the Italian equivalent of the Academy Award).
PLENTY (1985)
Directed by Fred Schepisi
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Meryl gives another command performance as a courageous and impulsive fighter in the French Resistance during World War II who finds it difficult to adjust to life in post-war Britain.
OUT OF AFRICA (1985)
Directed by Sydney Pollack
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The most critically-acclaimed motion picture of 1985 stars Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in what Roger Ebert called 'one of the screen's great epic romances'. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa is the fascinating true story of Karen Blixen (the real Isak Dinesen), and is based on her memoirs of her incredible journey to and time she spent in Africa. Meryl received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination, a Golden Globe nomination, and won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Actress. Out of Africa received 11 Academy Award Nominations and won 7, including, Best Picture, Best Director and Best (Adapted) Screenplay.
HEARTBURN (1986)
Directed by Mike Nichols
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Nora Ephron’s lighthearted look at modern romance headed for failure, based on her best-selling, semi-autographical novel. Meryl plays a magazine writer who gives up her career for marriage and family. . . Jack plays her husband: a playboy newspaper columnist who can’t quite give up his penchant for socks. Heartburn features Carly Simon’s smash “Coming Around Again” and an absolutely brilliant cast, including Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing, Richard Masur, Milos Forman, Catherine O'Hara, Steven Hill, and a very young Kevin Spacey.
IRONWEED (1987)
Directed by Hector Babenco
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Soup kitchens and flophouses are overflowing with homeless street people seeking food and refuge from the unforgiving cold. Francis Phelan wanders the streets, back in his hometown after 22 years, an aimless vagabond ready to confront the family he abandoned long ago. While sharing his whiskey with longtime "pal" Helen, Francis reveals the dark secrets of his past, the painful memories from which he once tried to escape. . . but now must reconcile. Meryl and Jack were nominated for Academy Awards for their heart-wrenching performances.
A CRY IN THE DARK (Evil Angels) (1988)
Directed by Fred Schepisi
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Based on a true story, Meryl received another Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of a woman who claimed her baby daughter was killed by a dingo (a wild Australian dog) in the Australian countryside and was put on trial for murder - both by the courts and by the media.
SHE DEVIL (1989)
Directed by Susan Seidelman
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Poised at her pink word processor in her pink mansion by the sea, romance novelist Mary Fisher pounds out another steamy best-seller. She turns for inspiration to her new accountant (and love) - Bob Patchett. Meanwhile, Bob's wife, Ruth (Roseanne), is plotting revenge. . .
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (1990)
Directed by Mike Nichols
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Meryl was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Suzanne Vale; a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Based on Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel. Meryl's performance of "I'm Checkin' Out" (lyrics by Shel Silverstein) was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.
DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (1991)
Directed by Albert Brooks
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Meryl Streep joins writer/director Albert Brooks for a witty, highly acclaimed peek at a laughterlife. Comforts, including eating all you want and not gaining an ounce are just one of the features of Judgment City – where you must Defend Your Life. If you can’t make a case for having lived a full and meaningful (and fearless) one, you must go back to Earth and try again.
DEATH BECOMES HER (1992)
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
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A magical potion that grants eternal youth is just the tonic for rib-tickling hilarity in this scathingly funny black comedy. The story of two rivals vying for the affections of one absent-minded plastic surgeon, Death Becomes Her will leave you dying of laughter.
THE RIVER WILD (1994)
Directed by Curtis Hanson
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Gail is a woman who has lost faith in her marriage and lost touch with what's important to her.
So she wants to take her family back to her roots in the west and regain the sense of what's important in her life. She regains her trust and eschews all of the other wild follies of being attracted to danger. We all felt primed, challenged and thrilled to be working on this movie. I couldn't wait to see it and show it to my kids and say, 'That's really me, you guys, Mommy really did that.' 
- meryl streep
THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (1995)
Directed by Bille August
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A hauntingly romantic epic tale spanning three generations of the Trueba family. At its core is the stormy yet passionate relationship between Clara (played by Meryl Streep) and her husband Esteban (Jeremy Irons), who resists change both politically and personally. It is a timeless story about secrets and seduction, revenge and forgiveness and the ultimate power of love to conquer any obstacle. Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas and Vanessa Redgrave also star in this compelling adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-selling novel, which Janet Maslin called “A handsome, ravishing film filled with understated miracles.”
BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (1995)
Directed by Clint Eastwood
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Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood bring blazing starpower and powerful conviction to the beloved characters of Robert James Waller’s best-selling novel of love, choice and consequence. For some a love like that happens sooner or later. For Robert and Francesca, it was later. And it was glorious.
BEFORE AND AFTER (1996)
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
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What would you do if your son disappeared and his girlfriend was found brutally slain? Based on Rosellen Brown's 1992 novel, Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson deliver spellbinding performances in this riveting, suspense-filled thriller. A small, close-knit community is rocked by a shocking murder, and the only suspect is the teenage son of a respected local family. Suddenly, Dr. Carolyn Ryan (Meryl Streep) and her husband Ben (Liam Neeson) are faced with a gut-wrenching dilemma: whether to risk everything on their son’s innocence or protect him from his possible guilt.
MARVIN'S ROOM (1997)
Directed by Jerry Zaks
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It's a celebration of a kind of quiet and simple heroism. It's about finding out what you have in life, and realizing how much you have. Bessie teaches Lee how much there actually is in her life. It's not always about what's out there, what better life you might find tomorrow. Sometimes, things are right in your lap, right at that moment, in the people you're lucky enough to have surrounding you. - meryl streep
ONE TRUE THING (1998)
Directed by Carl Franklin
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A perceptive, humorous and moving drama, "One True Thing" examines the confusing, painful and ultimately healing circumstances that occur when an ambitious young Manhattan journalist is forced to move back home to help her middle-aged parents through a crisis. It's not long before Ellen (Renee Zellweger) realizes that her father (William Hurt), a respected college professor she has always idolized, is both physically and emotionally unable to deal with the fact that her mother (Meryl Streep), the ultimate homemaker and nurturer, is seriously ill. Connection and loss, revelation and mystery unfold in this unforgettable season of changes for the Guldens. And in the middle of it all, the savvy investigative journalist probes to the core of what she has spent her life avoiding: the meaning of love, that one. true. thing., within and beyond her family. “Meryl Streep is brilliant.” -Newsweek
DANCING AT LUGHNASA (1998)
Directed by Pat O'Connor
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It's a very tiny story written in epic proportion. It just really feels like these people are important, and their little story. And I fell in love with their little story because I never see films that are about people that nobody cares about really. There's nothing gigantic happening to them - it's a small journey, and such an interior one.
- meryl streep
MUSIC OF THE HEART (1999)
Directed by Wes Craven
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Based on the documentary "Small Wonders," the true story of Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras, the violin teacher who began an inner-city violin program that became world-renowned -- and culminated in a 1993 Carnegie Hall concert in which her students bowed and plucked alongside some of the great violin legends, including Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Arnold Steinhardt, Karen Briggs, Jonathan Feldman, Diane Monroe, Mark O'Connor, Sandra Park (who also taught Meryl to play), Michael Tree and Charles Veal Jr. (all of whom appear in the film). "Music," Guaspari says, "teaches discipline, poise, self-respect, and the payoff of hard work -- all valuable life lessons, and nowhere more so than in the ghetto."
{THE} HOURS (2002)
Directed by Stephen Daldry
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The stories of Virginia Woolf in 1920's England and Laura Brown in 1949 suburban Los Angeles culminate in the contemporary urban tale of Clarissa Vaughan in 1990s Greenwich Village, New York. Meryl Streep plays Clarissa, a literary editor who is followed for one climactic day, during which she plans a party for her long-time friend and one-time lover, a prominent writer who is dying of AIDS. In the midst of her preparations, Clarissa finds herself facing issues of time, freedom, love and letting go of the past.
ADAPTATION
(2002)
Directed by Spike Jonze
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I played Susan Orlean, who is a celebrated writer for the New Yorker, she's still working there, and she has
written a number of wonderful books, one of them, The Orchid Thief. And Charlie Kaufman, who wrote "Being John Malkovich," was contracted to adapt that into a film. And this is the story of him adapting her book. There's a big conflict at the bottom of this film -- about how you make the choices you make, how you decide about things, from what you write, to who you sleep with, to, you know, everything. I've spent my entire career avoiding "the three" -- and all of the movies of its ilk -- and here I am, in it, this is pretty funny. But that's also what drew me to the material, because it's sort of about that. Can you make a movie about a flower, or are you doomed to making a movie about sex, drugs, and violence? They leap out at you, the ones that are really ambitious. That's what I loved about it. It's dense visually, but also in terms of its ideas and its emotions. It wasn't like anything I'd been asked to do before. Maybe the closest thing that I've done is The French Lieutenant's Woman, where Harold Pinter adapted John Fowles's novel and employed this conceit of an actress having a dilemma similar to the one in the book. So that there was kind of a distance on what I was doing. - meryl streep
STUCK ON YOU (2003)
Directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly
with Special Guest Appearances by Meryl Streep and Cher
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Stuck on You is a Farrelly Brothers comedy about a pair of Siamese twins who have their own everything but are joined at the hip because they share a liver. They use their unique gift in a means to gain acceptance and live as normally as possible within everyday life. Everything is going great until Walt (Greg Kinnear) follows his dreams of making it as a Hollywood actor and persuades his hesitant brother Bob (Matt Damon) to go along for the ride. Hollywood may never be the same as Bob and Walt find fame, love and a new outlook on their unusual but inseparable bond.
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004)
Directed by Jonathan Demme
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Jonathan Demme updates the original 1962 John Frankenheimer classic with plenty of new paranoid twists: This time a sinister Halliburton-style corporation is behind the brainwashing of a Gulf War hero turned vice presidential nominee, Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber). Shaw's old unit commander Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) recommended him for the National Medal of Honor, though he can't remember exactly why, and his recurring nightmares drive him to uncover a massive conspiracy. Sinister forces at work include shifty-eyed bodyguards, a love interest with questionable motives (Kimberly Elise), and Raymond's domineering senator mother. As with the original (which focused on communist instead of terrorist fear-mongering), the events depicted here are doubly unsettling considering their uncanny resemblance to real-life politics at the time of this film's theatrical release.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Directed by Brad Silberling
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Meryl Streep plays Aunt Josephine in the Paramount/DreamWorks adaptation of the Daniel Handler children's book series. Liam Aiken and Emily Browning play Klaus and Violet Baudelaire, two of the three orphans who are the central protagonists of the series. Meryl's character, Aunt Josephine, is one of a succession of relatives who takes in the Baudelaires, who were orphaned after their parents died in a fire. Josephine appeared in the third Snicket book "The Wide Window," she lives in a house perched atop a cliff above Lake Lachrymose, which is filled with leeches, and Josephine is terrified of every modern convenience. She's an easy mark for Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), a sinister relative who, with a group of odd henchmen, is trying to kill the kids to cash in their family fortune.
PRIME(2005)
Directed by Ben Younger
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Prime is a sophisticated, character comedy set in New York City about Rafi (Thurman), a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan, and what happens when Dave (Greenberg), a talented 23-year-old painter from Brooklyn, falls in love with her. Prime looks at love from everyone’s point of view—friends, relatives and in this case, Rafi’s therapist (Streep)—and follows all who come apart, and some who pull it together, when two people fall in love.
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (2006)
Directed by Robert Altman
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Director Robert Altman and writer Garrison Keillor join forces with an all-star cast to create a comic backstage fable, A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, about a fictitious radio variety show that has managed to survive in the age of television. Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin star as the Johnson Sisters, Yolanda and Rhonda, a country duet act that has survived the county-fair circuit, and Lindsay Lohan plays Meryl’s daughter, Lola, who gets her big chance to sing on the show and then forgets the words. Kevin Kline is Guy Noir, a private eye down on his luck who works as a backstage doorkeeper, and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are Dusty and Lefty, the Old Trailhands, a singing cowboy act. Add Virginia Madsen as an angel and Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman and Maya Rudolph as a pregnant stagehand and Keillor in the role of hangdog emcee, and you have a playful story set on a rainy Saturday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, where fans file into the Fitzgerald Theater to see “A Prairie Home Companion,” a staple of radio station WLT, not knowing that WLT has been sold to a Texas conglomerate and that tonight’s show will be the last. Shot entirely in the Fitzgerald, except for the opening and closing scenes which take place in a nearby diner, the picture combines Altman's cinematic style and intelligence and love of improvisation and Keillor's songs and storytelling to create a fictional counterpart to the "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show. The film uses the musicians and crew and stage setting of the actual radio show, heard on public radio stations coast to coast for the past quarter-century (and which, in real life, continues to broadcast). The result is a compact tale with a series of extraordinary acting turns, especially Kevin Kline’s elegant Keaton-esque detective and Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep’s singing (“Goodbye to My Mama”).
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006)
Directed by David Frankel
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Based on the best-selling novel by Lauren Weisberger, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA stars two-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep as high-powered fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly. Anne Hathaway also stars, as Miranda’s new assistant, a small-town girl in her first job out of college, trying to navigate a world she’s only glimpsed in print – while surviving her impossibly demanding new boss.
DARK MATTER (2007)
Directed by Chen Shi-Zheng
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The feature film debut of renowned opera director Chen Shi-Zheng, DARK MATTER is the story of a Chinese science student pursuing a Ph.D in the U.S. in the early 1990s. Driven by ambition, yet unable to navigate academic politics and eventually left alone with his shattered dreams, he explodes in a final act of violence. Inspired by a true story.
EVENING (2007)
Directed by Lajos Koltai
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Based on the beloved novel by Susan Minot and adapted for the screen by Ms. Minot and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours). Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the timeless love which binds mother and daughter – seen through the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Two pairs of real-life mothers and daughters – Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson, and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer – portray, respectively, a mother and her daughter -- and the mother’s best friend at different stages in life.
RENDITION (2007)
Directed by Gavin Hood
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Meryl's next starred in RENDITION with Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Alan Arkin, a thriller from director Gavin Hood that askes the question, "What would you do if someone you loved disappeared?" Witherspoon plays as the American wife of an Egyptian-born chemical engineer who disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington. She desperately tries to track her husband down, while a CIA analyst (Gyllenhaal) at a secret detention facility outside the U.S., is forced to question his assignment as he becomes party to the man’s unorthodox interrogation.
LIONS FOR LAMBS (2007)
Directed by Robert Redford
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"In World War I, German soldiers wrote poems about the bravery of British grunts. Admired them. Almost as much as they laughed at the British High Command who wasted those grunts by the hundreds of thousands. A German general wrote, nowhere else have I seen such lions led by such lambs." Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise star in LIONS FOR LAMBS, a powerful and gripping story that digs behind the news, the politics and a nation divided to explore the human consequences of a complicated war. Directed by Academy Award Winner Robert Redford, the story begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian (Derek Luke) and Ernest (Michael Pena), follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley (Redford), and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged by disaffected student (Andrew Garfield) who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington DC, the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV Journalist (Meryl Streep) that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates. As arguments, memories and bullets fly, the three stories are woven ever more tightly together, revealing how each of these Americans has a profound impact on each other -- and the world.
MAMMA MIA! (2008)
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
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Meryl stars in MAMMA MIA! THE MOVIE, leading an all-star cast as an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna (Streep), who is about to let go of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), the spirited daughter she’s raised alone. For Sophie’s wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends—practical and no-nonsense Rosie (Julie Walters) and wealthy, multi-divorcee Tanya (Christine Baranski)—from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna’s past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities. Mamma Mia! is a celebration of mothers and daughters, old friends and new family found.
DOUBT (2008)
Directed by John Patrick Shanley
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DOUBT is based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning play. Meryl plays Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, but when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to one student, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
JULIE AND JULIA (2009)
Directed by Nora Ephron
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Meryl wins the Golden Globe for her portrayal of the legendary Julia Child in Julie & Julia, a screenplay adapted by Nora Ephron from two books: My Life in France (Julia Child's autobiography written with Alex Prud'homme), and a memoir by Julie Powell based on her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking via her blog The Julie/Julia Project.
IT'S COMPLICATED (2009)
Directed by Nancy Meyers
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Written and directed by Nancy Meyers, IT'S COMPLICATED stars Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, a comedy about love, divorce and everything in between. Jane (Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has -- after a decade of divorce -- an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Baldwin). When Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son's college graduation, an innocent meal together turns into an affair (as with Jake remarried, Jane is now, of all things, the other woman). Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam (Steve Martin), an architect hired to remodel Jane's kitchen. Healing from a divorce of his own, Adam starts to fall for Jane, but soon realizes he's become part of a love triangle. Should Jane and Jake move on with their lives, or is love truly lovelier the second time around?
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