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Their first collaboration, Recount, about the contested 2000 presidential election, featured Laura Dern as Katherine Harris, whose gauche gaudiness dropped into the middle of the film's strategic maneuvering came across as the antics of some kind of grotesque buffoon played for dissonant laughs.

And the deep bench of supporting actors includes Laura Dern as Madeline's bitter rival Renata, Alexander Skarsgard as Celeste's protective husband Perry and Adam Scott as Madeline's «Mr. Sensitive» husband Ed.

Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, debuts in theaters December 15 and stars Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, Anthony Daniels as C - 3PO, Lupita Nyong» o as Maz Kanata, Benicio Del Toro as «DJ», Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, and the late Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa.

Official Premise: Adapted from the picaresque novel by Barry Gifford, writer - director David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) is a scarifying road movie starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as Sailor and Lula, a pair of star - crossed lovers pursued across the American landscape by all manner of horrors.

Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens December 15 and stars Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, Anthony Daniels as C - 3PO, Lupita Nyong» o as Maz Kanata, Benicio Del Toro as «DJ», Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, and the late Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa.

The film opens with Laura Dern as Laura, a lawyer whose client (Jared Harris, Mad Men) is upset that his personal injury lawsuit has fallen apart.

STARRING Billy Bob Thornton as CHARLES FARMER Virginia Madsen as AUDREY FARMER Max Thieriot as SHEPARD FARMER Jasper Polish as STANLEY FARMER Logan Polish as SUNSHINE FARMER Bruce Dern as HAL FARMER

Lead actor went to Bruce Dern as an elderly man who believes he's won $ 1 million in a magazine sweepstakes in «Nebraska.»

Starring: Molly Shannon as Peggy, Laura Dern as Bret, Regina King as Layla, John C. Reilly as Al, Thomas McCarthy as Pier, Peter Sarsgaard as Newt, Josh Pais as Robin, Liza Weil as Trishelle

The rest of the cast is a stellar spread which includes Jim Gaffigan as Kennedy confidant and U.S. attorney Paul Markham, Bruce Dern as stern family patriarch Joseph Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne, loyal to the Kennedy dream but doomed by one fateful decision.

Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi hits theaters December 15 and stars Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, Anthony Daniels as C - 3PO, Lupita Nyong» o as Maz Kanata, Benicio Del Toro as «DJ», Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, and the late Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa.

Although Payne described Dern as a talkative man off - screen, he said the actor «understood the laconic nature of Woody, [who] can be an ornery [curmudgeon], but with a real sweetness underneath.

Newcomers to the Star Wars universe include Benicio del Toro as DJ, Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, and Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico.

(In a clever subversion of an old trope, this film offers a small - town diner where a table full of gossipy old men — with Bruce Dern as their ringleader — pass judgment on everyone's comings and goings.)

Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi stars Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo and the late Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa.

Yes, Payne had Jack Nicholson in «About Schmidt,» and George Clooney in «The Descendants» — but you can't help but feel his sympathies are with the Paul Giamattis of this world (who thrilled in «Sideways») And «Nebraska» has a breakout performance by June Squibb as the raunchy Kate, and a thrilling one by Dern as Woody.

STARRING Joaquin Phoenix as FREDDIE QUELL Phillip Seymour Hoffman as LANCASTER DODD Amy Adams as PEGGY DODD Jesse Plemons as VAL DODD Rami Malek as CLARK Laura Dern as HELEN SULLIVAN

Some plot developments are more convincing than others, but it's still a compelling drama with an impressive turn from Garfield as well as Shannon and Dern as Garfield's concerned mother.

Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo - her character also died in The Last Jedi and she isn't a Jedi so that's that for her.

Right after «Girls,» HBO launches the second season of «Enlightened,» an affecting comedy starring Laura Dern as a confused New Age - y activist who's bent on changing the world.

The Twin Peaks revival series on Showtime might have just added two to the cast - a returning Sherilyn Fenn and Laura Dern as a possible Diane.Read More»

Now, Vallee's follow - up, «Wild», has placed Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern as Lead and Supporting Actress frontrunners for their raw and brave performances in one of 2014's most engrossing dramas.

The Twin Peaks revival series on Showtime might have just added two to the cast — a returning Sherilyn Fenn and Laura Dern as a possible Diane.

The realist ying to Woody's eternally confused and tragically hopefully yang, June Squibb «s Kate is the foundation for both Woody as a character and Dern as a performer.

I haven't seen the 1949 version, featuring Alan Ladd as Gatsby, but I recently watched the 1974 version, directed by Jack Clayton, which starred a miscast Robert Redford as Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Daisy, Bruce Dern as Tom, Sam Waterston as Nick, Lois Chiles as Jordan, Karen Black as Myrtle, Scott Wilson as George, and Howard Da Silva as Meyer.

Nobody understood that better than Emmy and Golden Globe winner Dern as the indomitable Renata Klein.

Election is Alexander Payne's follow - up to his startlingly mature 1996 feature debut, Citizen Ruth, an equal - opportunity abortion satire that starred Laura Dern as an unhappily pregnant, paint - huffing loser who becomes a pawn of both the pro-choice and pro-life movements.

Great cast including Laura Dern as a wonderful mom.

Description: Stars Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell, a nature - loving crewmember aboard the Valley Forge, a gigantic spaceship in a small fleet that carries the last surviving forests of the Earth, which has fallen victim to overpopulation and ecological neglect.

For the most part, the films showcased Dern as a character actor who specialized in psychopaths and misfits, and a guy who knew how to jazz up a scene with an arsenal of quirks that became known as Dernsies.

Opening Dec. 15, Star Wars: The Last Jedi features returning cast members Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Lupita Nyong» o as Maz Kanata, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Anthony Daniels as C - 3PO, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma and Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, joined by franchise newcomers Kelly Marie Tran as Rose, Benicio del Toro as «DJ» and Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo.

Supporting performances too were very good, especially from Laura Dern as a parent looking to find meaning in her daughters illness.

The trailer for the John Curran - directed film stars Jason Clarke as Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne as well as a roster of actors portraying all the WASPy figures involved in the event including Bruce Dern as the senator's domineering father Joseph Kennedy, Ed Helms as Joe Gargan, Jim Gaffigan as DA Paul Markham, and Olivia Thirlby as one of the «boiler room girls,» a group of single women who worked Bobby Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, which ended with his assassination.

Yet even Wright didn't completely know what was in store for his screening of «Wild at Heart,» David Lynch's trippy love story with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as lovers on the lam.

The film stars Bruce Dern as Woody, a man who believes he's won a million dollars in a sweepstakes, and plans to go to Nebraska to get it.

The film stars Bruce Dern as a man who believes he's won a million dollars in a sweepstakes, and plans to go to Nebraska to get it.

The film stars Bruce Dern as a man who believes he's won a million dollars in a sweepstakes, and plans to go to Nebraska to get...

Presented entirely in black and white, Nebraska stars Bruce Dern as Woody, a man who believes he's won a million dollars in...

Along the way, there are some notable guest appearances, such as Benicio del Toro as a stuttering intergalactic thief, Laura Dern as resistance vice admiral Amilyn Holdo and Justin Theroux in a blink - and - you'll - miss - it role as a gambler and code - breaker in this movie's riff on the famous cantina scene.

Only Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband, the implacable Buchanan, with his carbolic smile, bristly moustache, and string of polo ponies from Lake Forest seizes on something of the derisive superciliousness of the rich, and so seems appropriate.

Perennially ignored (though not by The A.V. Club), increasingly forgotten, painfully funny HBO series from creator - costar Mike White follows corporate fuck - up - turned do - gooder Laura Dern as she returns from a mandatory stint in rehab inconveniently obsessed with transforming her heartless employers.

Starring: Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Benicio del Toro as DJ, Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, Anthony Daniels as C - 3PO, Lupita Nyong» o as Maz Kanata, Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, Frank Oz as Yoda (voice), Billie Lourd as Lieutenant Connix, Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, Veronica Ngo as Paige Tico, Mark Lewis Jones as Captain Canady, Justin Theroux as Master Codebreaker, Tim Rose as Admiral Ackbar, Mike Quinn as Nien Nunb, Warwick Davis as Arthur Askey, Jimmy Vee as R2 - D2, Crystal Clarke as Ensign Goode, Liang Yang as Praetorian Guard, Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Slowen Lo (voice), Gareth Edwards as Resistance Fighter, Bern Collaço as Stormtrooper

This image released by Lucasfilm shows Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Holdo in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, in theaters on Dec. 15.

In theaters now, director Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi stars Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa, Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico and Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo.

The flashback sequences — especially the ones featuring an enigmatic Laura Dern as her mother — are a nice break from her hiking adventure, and sport a dream - like quality, with quick flashes and lots of camera movement.

With that, Tarantino brought out the star - studded cast with whom he'd rehearsed the first draft script for three days: Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren, Kurt Russell as the cruel bounty hunter John Ruth, Tim Roth as the English «bit of a fop» Oswaldo Mobray, Amber Tamblyn as Daisy Domergue, Walton Goggins as Chris Mannix, Michael Madsen as John Gage, Bruce Dern as Confederate Gen. Smithers, James Parks as stagecoach driver O.B., Denis Menochet as the Frenchman Bob, Dana Gourrier as Minnie, Zoe Bell as Six Horse Judy and James Remar as Jody.

The Archer School for Girls hosted its seventh annual Archer Film Festival, empowering female filmmakers and featuring award - winning actress Laura Dern as the keynote speaker.

STARRING Shailene Woodley as HAZEL Ansel Elgort as GUS Nat Wolff as ISAAC Laura Dern as FRANNIE Sam Trammell as MICHAEL Willem Dafoe as VAN HOUTEN Lotte Verbeek as LIDEWIJ

Benicio was joined on the panel by returning cast members Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey, John Boyega, who is Finn, and Gwendoline Christie, who plays the formidable Captain Phasma, and newcomers Kellie Marie Tran as Resistance mechanic Rose and Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo.

Set during the contested 2000 presidential election, this HBO film features Dern as the real - life former Florida Secretary of State.