Annette Bening

Lester Burnham (Spacey) despises his superiors and feels his office job has few prospects for advancement. His wife, Carolyn (Bening), is an ambitious real-estate broker ; their 16-year-old daughter, Jane (Birch), abhors her parents, has low self-esteem and is saving money for a breast augmentation operation. The Burnhams' new neighbors are retired United States Marine Corps Colonel Frank Fitts (Cooper), his dissociative wife, Barbara (Janney), and their teenage son, Ricky (Bentley). After watching a high school basketball game at which Jane is a cheerleader, Lester develops an infatuation with Jane's sexually precocious friend and classmate, Angela Hayes (Suvari). His fantasies entail a sexually aggressive ... Read Full Story

Lilly Dillon is an experienced con artist who begins to rethink her life when her son Roy, a small-time grifter, suffers an almost-fatal injury from a punch he receives after a failed scam. Lilly works for a bookmaker, Bobo Justus, handling playback at the tracks -- that is, betting money to lower the odds of longshots. On her way to La Jolla for the horse races, she stops in Los Angeles to visit Roy, whom she hasn't seen in eight years. She finds him in pain and bleeding internally. When medical assistance finally comes, Lilly confronts the doctor, threatening to have him killed if ... Read Full Story

Set in London in 1938, the film focuses on highly successful and extremely popular theatre actress Julia Lambert, whose gradual disillusionment with her career as she approaches middle age has prompted her to ask her husband, stage director Michael Gosselyn, and his financial backer, Dolly de Vries, to close her current production to allow her time to travel abroad. They convince her to remain with the play throughout the summer, and Michael introduces her to Tom Fennel, an enterprising American who confesses his deep appreciation of her work. Seeking the passion missing from her marriage, and anxious to fill the void left when her ... Read Full Story

Film News: Duo to costar with Andy Garcia in film -- Andy Garcia has landed Anthony Hopkins and Annette Bening to star with him in "Hemingway and Fuentes," which Garcia will direct from a script he wrote with Hilary Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway. Read Full Story

AP Photo - Vahid Salemi: US actresses Annette Bening, left, and Alfre Woodard, right, pose for photographers along with Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed Arya, prior to start of a seminar "Acting for Film" given by Bening and Woodard, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2009. Reaching out to Iran, a hard-line Islamic country which we have not had diplomatic ties since 1979, by the far-left leads me to conclude they are clueless about Islamism: Iran angered over films 'The Wrestler' and '300' "An adviser to Iran's president on Sunday demanded an apology from a team of visiting Hollywood actors and movie industry officials, including ... Read Full Story