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. 1
   Dumb and Dumber

   The 1994 Farrelly Brothers slapstick comedy in which Daniels plays dim-witted Harry Dunne.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Steve Jobs

   The 2015 Aaron Sorkin biopic in which Daniels plays Apple CEO John Sculley.
   631pts
3. 3
   The Purple Rose of Cairo

   Woody Allen's 1985 fantasy where Daniels plays a film character who steps off the screen.
   609pts
4. 4
   Arachnophobia

   The 1990 horror-comedy in which Daniels plays a small-town doctor battling deadly spiders.
   546pts
5. 5
   Good Night, and Good Luck

   George Clooney's 2005 drama about broadcast journalism, with Daniels as a CBS executive.
   473pts
6. 6
   Speed

   The 1994 action blockbuster where Daniels plays LAPD officer Harry Temple alongside Keanu Reeves.
   473pts
7. 7
   Terms of Endearment

   The 1983 Best Picture winner featuring Daniels in an early breakout dramatic role.
   387pts
8. 8
   Fly Away Home

   The 1996 family film in which Daniels helps his daughter guide orphaned geese south by aircraft.
   387pts
9. 9
   The Squid and the Whale

   Noah Baumbach's 2005 dramedy featuring Daniels as a self-absorbed novelist and father.
   387pts
10. 10
    Looper

    Rian Johnson's 2012 time-travel thriller featuring Daniels as a mob boss from the future.
    387pts
11. 11
    Gettysburg

    The 1993 Civil War epic in which Daniels plays Union hero Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
    284pts
12. 12
    Pleasantville

    The 1998 fantasy in which Daniels runs a soda shop in a black-and-white sitcom town coming to color.
    284pts
13. 13
    The Martian

    Ridley Scott's 2015 sci-fi hit where Daniels plays NASA director Teddy Sanders.
    284pts
14. 14
    The Lookout

    Scott Frank's 2007 crime thriller with Daniels as a blind mentor to a brain-injured young man.
    284pts
15. 15
    The Hours

    The 2002 Oscar-winning drama in which Daniels appears in an interwoven story of three women.
    0pts

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