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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Allison Janney, ranked
Nemo is a young clownfish who lives with his father Marlin in an anemone in the Great Barrier Reef. On Nemo’s first day of school, Marlin unintentionally embarrasses him, and while Marlin is distracted with the teacher, Mr. Ray, Nemo defiantly sneaks away from the reef toward a speedboat, where he is captured by a pair of scuba divers.
In 1963, Aibileen Clark is an African-American maid in Jackson, Mississippi. Aibileen’s best friend and fellow maid Minny Jackson works for Mrs. Walters, whose daughter Hilly Holbrook leads the women’s socialite group and is president of the city’s Junior League chapter.
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 surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Following his appearance at the MTV Music Video Awards as his superhero character Fartman, radio personality Howard Stern boards his flight home and is seated next to Gloria who is visibly repelled by him. One of their antics, in which Howard assists a female caller to reach orgasm, almost gets him fired until a ratings boost forces Dee Dee to keep him and hire Fred to the team.
Abe Portman has told stories to his grandson Jake about battling monsters and spending his childhood at Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children at Cairnholm, Wales. Abe tells Jake to go to #the loop of September 3, 1943. Miss Peregrine greets him and explains that she belongs to a class of female Peculiars named Ymbrynes, who can transform into birds and manipulate time.
RJ the raccoon fails to get a stuck bag of Doritos to fall from a vending machine. He decides to raid the food stash of Vincent, a hibernating bear. However, Vincent awakens and the food is accidentally destroyed during the ensuing chase. RJ promises, on pain of death, to replace it in a week’s time. The bag of chips falls moments later, to RJ’s intense frustration.
Young political idealist, and grandson of civil rights leader, Henry Burton, is recruited to join the campaign of Jack Stanton, a charismatic Southern governor who is trying to win the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. The campaign is then rocked by a fresh allegation when Jack’s old friend, Fat Willie McCollister approaches Henry to tell him that his 17-year-old daughter Loretta, who worked for the Stantons as a babysitter, is pregnant and that Jack is the father.
Rachel Watson is an on-off recovering alcoholic who aimlessly rides a train into New York City every day after losing her job and her marriage. Now, while drunk, she often harasses Tom and Anna, calling them multiple times throughout the day, though she has little memory of this once she sobers up.
Bianca is enjoying her senior year of high school in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, with her two best friends, Jess and Casey, both of whom are significantly more popular than she is. The party turns out to be a disaster for her, as it’s there that Wesley unthinkingly reveals to her that she is the DUFF of her friend group; the Designated Ugly Fat Friend.
Gomez and Morticia are chased away with the rest of the Addams clan during their wedding ceremony by an angry mob that disapproves of their macabre nature. Morticia struggles to keep their daughter, Wednesday, from wanting to experience the world outside the mansion after a balloon and confetti appear on their property, and as the fog surrounding it begins to lift.
In this brilliantly bawdy comedy, dysfunctional American siblings Alice and Paul, together with their perpetually upbeat mother, are invited to their estranged half-sister Eloise’s wedding in Britain as a chance to reunite as – more or less – adults and rediscover their old love for one another.
Halley Martin is a 17-year-old high school student who is disillusioned with love after seeing many dysfunctional relationships around her. When Halley walks in on her best friend Scarlett having sex with her boyfriend, the high school soccer champ, Michael Sherwood, Halley tries to warn her of the complications that lie ahead.