What is the best Jeff Daniels movie?

From gut-busting comedy to weighty prestige drama and everything in between, his range is on full display here, with a few surprises tucked beside the obvious picks. Cast your vote!

1

Dumb and Dumber

The 1994 Farrelly Brothers slapstick comedy in which Daniels plays dim-witted Harry Dunne.

1000pts

2

Steve Jobs

The 2015 Aaron Sorkin biopic in which Daniels plays Apple CEO John Sculley.

631pts

3

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Woody Allen's 1985 fantasy where Daniels plays a film character who steps off the screen.

609pts

4

Arachnophobia

The 1990 horror-comedy in which Daniels plays a small-town doctor battling deadly spiders.

546pts

5

Good Night, and Good Luck

George Clooney's 2005 drama about broadcast journalism, with Daniels as a CBS executive.

473pts

6

Speed

The 1994 action blockbuster where Daniels plays LAPD officer Harry Temple alongside Keanu Reeves.

473pts

7

Terms of Endearment

The 1983 Best Picture winner featuring Daniels in an early breakout dramatic role.

387pts

8

Fly Away Home

The 1996 family film in which Daniels helps his daughter guide orphaned geese south by aircraft.

387pts

9

The Squid and the Whale

Noah Baumbach's 2005 dramedy featuring Daniels as a self-absorbed novelist and father.

387pts

10

Looper

Rian Johnson's 2012 time-travel thriller featuring Daniels as a mob boss from the future.

387pts

11

Gettysburg

The 1993 Civil War epic in which Daniels plays Union hero Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

284pts

12

Pleasantville

The 1998 fantasy in which Daniels runs a soda shop in a black-and-white sitcom town coming to color.

284pts

13

The Martian

Ridley Scott's 2015 sci-fi hit where Daniels plays NASA director Teddy Sanders.

284pts

14

The Lookout

Scott Frank's 2007 crime thriller with Daniels as a blind mentor to a brain-injured young man.

284pts

15

The Hours

The 2002 Oscar-winning drama in which Daniels appears in an interwoven story of three women.

158pts