Starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Mandy Patinkin, Daveed Diggs. Writers: Jack Thorne, Steven Conrad, Stephen Chbosky. These aren’t films that are exactly designed to make room for brilliant performances - they’re made for fun, and Roberts, for one, looks like she’s having a blast.ĭirector: Stephen Chbosky. ![]() (She skipped the final film, “Ocean’s Thirteen” in 2007.) Basically, she is playing the Shirley MacLaine part from the Rat Pack years - she’s the gal who’s one of the guys, although here she is the ex-wife of robbery mastermind Danny Ocean (George Clooney). Roberts appears in the first two “Ocean’s” films of the trilogy, “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001) and “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004). Like the 1960 Rat Pack original, Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s” series of films is simply a lark, a chance for movie stars who are friends to kick back and have a good time together. Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts. ![]() Image Credit: Moviestore Collection/REX/Shutterstockĭirector: Steven Soderbergh. Audiences showed up to see the Clooney/Roberts chemistry, and, despite the film’s mixed reviews, the two stars delivered. That is, until disgruntled viewer Kyle Budwell (Jack O’Connell) suddenly bursts into the studio during a live telecast and holds Lee hostage, because Kyle put his life savings in a recommended stock by Lee that tanked. Gate’s longtime director is Patty Fenn (Roberts), with whom he may have once had a romantic relationship but whose day-to-day interactions are now routine and strictly business. Clooney plays Lee Gates, the flashy star of a cable business channel - sort of a Jim Cramer type on steroids. Roberts reunited with her “Oceans” co-star George Clooney in this thriller which marked the fourth feature film of director Jodie Foster. Starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell, Dominic West. Writers: Alan DiFiore, Jim Kouf, Jamie Linden. Image Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Tristar/Lstar Capital/Kobal/Shutterstockĭirector: Jodie Foster. In addition to the titles listed above, our gallery also includes “Notting Hill,” “Mystic Pizza,” “Stepmom” and “Ben Is Back.” ![]() Tour our photo gallery above ranking her 16 greatest movie performances from worst to best. This decision was also partly to accommodate filming her first TV series, “Homecoming,” still streaming on Amazon Prime. ![]() After her Oscar-nominated turn in “August: Osage County,” Roberts slowed down her film career, often appearing in only one major film a year. She has been nominated for four Oscars, with a win for 2000’s “Erin Brockovich” nominated for eight Golden Globes with three wins (“Steel Magnolias,” “Pretty Woman,” “Brockovich”) and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning for “Brockovich.”Īlthough her output slowed a bit in the mid-2000s so that she could care for her twins, when she did return to work, she broadened her horizons a bit with turns on Broadway (2006’s “Three Days of Rain”) and television (her Emmy-nominated performance in “The Normal Heart”). That face! That smile! That laugh! In the late 1980s and 1990s, Roberts made hit after hit (“Steel Magnolias,” “Pretty Woman,” “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” “Erin Brockovich”) among them, earning her a mantel of industry awards. For over three decades, Julia Roberts has been the most iconic American movie actress around the world.
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