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What is the best Glenn Close movie?

By YPB Team3 votes

Glenn Close has delivered some of cinema's most electrifying performances—from the obsessive Alex in Fatal Attraction to the imperious Marquise de Merteuil. Which of her films is your absolute favorite?

  1. Air Force One (1997) — ranked #11
    Air Force One (1997)
    Close plays Vice President Kathryn Bennett, navigating a harrowing hijacking crisis with steely resolve in this blockbuster political action thriller.
    1000pts
    DI
  2. The Big Chill (1983) — ranked #22
    The Big Chill (1983)
    Close plays Sara, the heart of a college friend group reuniting after a suicide, in this Oscar-nominated ensemble drama about idealism fading into adulthood.
    944pts
    US
  3. 101 Dalmatians (1996) — ranked #33
    101 Dalmatians (1996)
    Close brings Disney's iconic villain Cruella de Vil to live-action life with gleeful menace in this box-office hit that earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
    877pts
    AG
  4. Mars Attacks! (1996) — ranked #44
    Mars Attacks! (1996)
    Close plays the glamorous and ultimately unlucky First Lady Marsha Dale in Tim Burton's anarchic sci-fi comedy about a full-scale alien invasion.
    693pts
  5. The World According to Garp (1982) — ranked #55
    The World According to Garp (1982)
    Her acclaimed film debut as Jenny Fields, an eccentric feminist icon and fiercely unconventional mother, earned Close her first Academy Award nomination.
    692pts
  6. The Wife (2018) — ranked #66
    The Wife (2018)
    Close gives a masterful performance as Joan Castleman, a woman who finally confronts decades of sacrificing her literary genius for her husband's Nobel Prize-winning career.
    600pts
  7. Dangerous Liaisons (1988) — ranked #77
    Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
    Close plays the coolly calculating Marquise de Merteuil, orchestrating aristocratic seduction games in 18th-century France in this Oscar-nominated role.
    491pts
  8. Reversal of Fortune (1990) — ranked #88
    Reversal of Fortune (1990)
    Close portrays Sunny von Bülow, the comatose heiress at the center of her husband's notorious attempted murder trial, in this unsettling true-crime drama.
    466pts
  9. Fatal Attraction (1987) — ranked #99
    Fatal Attraction (1987)
    Close delivers a career-defining, Oscar-nominated performance as Alex Forrest, a scorned woman whose obsessive pursuit of a married man turns dangerously violent.
    360pts
  10. The Natural (1984) — ranked #1010
    The Natural (1984)
    Close plays the mysterious and luminous Iris Lemon, the woman whose belief in Roy Hobbs inspires one of cinema's most iconic baseball moments.
    360pts
  11. Albert Nobbs (2011) — ranked #1111
    Albert Nobbs (2011)
    Close gives a brave and intimate performance as a cross-dressing Irish hotel butler secretly living as a man for decades and dreaming of independence.
    360pts
  12. Jagged Edge (1985) — ranked #1212
    Jagged Edge (1985)
    Close plays defense attorney Teddy Barnes who becomes dangerously entangled with her client, a charming newspaper publisher accused of murdering his wife.
    200pts
  13. Hillbilly Elegy (2020) — ranked #1313
    Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
    Close transforms as Mamaw, a fiercely loving but rough-edged Appalachian grandmother, earning an Oscar nomination for this Netflix drama about family and poverty.
    200pts

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