What is the best Steve Carell movie?

Broad studio comedies meet dramas where he barely cracks a smile, and one animated voice role nearly steals the show.

1. 1
   The 40-Year-Old Virgin

   Judd Apatow's 2005 comedy, co-written by Carell, who stars as electronics-store worker Andy Stitzer.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Date Night

   2010 action comedy pairing Carell and Tina Fey as a New Jersey couple mistaken for thieves in Manhattan.
   939pts
3. 3
   Bruce Almighty

   2003 comedy starring Jim Carrey, with Carell as rival news anchor Evan Baxter.
   586pts
4. 4
   The Way, Way Back

   2013 coming-of-age comedy, with Carell as a teenage boy's overbearing would-be stepfather.
   469pts
5. 5
   Little Miss Sunshine

   2006 road comedy-drama, with Carell as Frank, a suicidal Proust scholar riding along in the family's VW bus.
   469pts
6. 6
   The Big Short

   Adam McKay's 2015 film about the 2008 financial crisis, with Carell as hedge-fund manager Mark Baum.
   397pts
7. 7
   Foxcatcher

   Bennett Miller's 2014 drama that earned Carell a Best Actor Oscar nomination as millionaire John du Pont.
   397pts
8. 8
   Despicable Me

   2010 Illumination animated film featuring Carell as the voice of the supervillain Gru.
   397pts
9. 9
   Battle of the Sexes

   2017 sports drama, with Carell as Bobby Riggs opposite Emma Stone's Billie Jean King.
   313pts
10. 10
    Beautiful Boy

    2018 drama based on David Sheff's memoir, with Carell as a father whose son, played by Timothée Chalamet, battles addiction.
    313pts
11. 11
    Vice

    Adam McKay's 2018 Dick Cheney biopic, with Carell as Donald Rumsfeld.
    313pts
12. 12
    Crazy, Stupid, Love

    2011 romantic comedy starring Carell as a newly separated husband coached by Ryan Gosling's character.
    313pts
13. 13
    Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

    2004 Will Ferrell comedy, with Carell as dim-witted weatherman Brick Tamland.
    313pts
14. 14
    Last Flag Flying

    Richard Linklater's 2017 drama, with Carell as a Navy veteran burying his son, alongside Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne.
    313pts
15. 15
    Dan in Real Life

    2007 romantic comedy-drama starring Carell as a widowed advice columnist who falls for his brother's girlfriend.
    213pts
16. 16
    Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

    2012 apocalyptic comedy-drama, with Carell and Keira Knightley as neighbours on a road trip before an asteroid strike.
    213pts
17. 17
    Get Smart

    2008 spy comedy based on the 1960s TV series, with Carell as Agent Maxwell Smart opposite Anne Hathaway.
    0pts

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