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Catherine Anne O'Hara, a Canadian-American actress and comedienne, began her career at Second City Theatre in Toronto. She gained fame on SCTV alongside comedy icons like Rick Moranis and John Candy. Known for roles in films like "After Hours," "Beetlejuice," "Home Alone," and "The Nightmare Before Christmas," she's also renowned for her work in... more

Catherine Anne O'Hara, a Canadian-American actress and comedienne, began her career at Second City Theatre in Toronto. She gained fame on SCTV alongside comedy icons like Rick Moranis and John Candy. Known for roles in films like "After Hours," "Beetlejuice," "Home Alone," and "The Nightmare Before Christmas," she's also renowned for her work in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries. Her versatility extends to voicing Grandma Frump in "The Addams Family." O'Hara received a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award at the Governor General's Performance Arts Awards in 2020 and won a Golden Globe in 2021 for her role in "Schitt's Creek."

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The Nightmare Before Christmas
(1993)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided pl...
Runtime:
76 min
Director:
Henry Selick
Cast:
Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page
8.0
95%
82
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Home Alone
(1990)
Comedy, Family
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stand...
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Chris Columbus
Cast:
Macaulay Culkin, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard
7.6
68%
63
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Beetlejuice
(1988)
Comedy, Fantasy
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he's got a diabolical agenda of h...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Tim Burton
Cast:
Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page
7.5
85%
70
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After Hours
(1985)
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
7.7
89%
90
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
(1992)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas eve.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Chris Columbus
Cast:
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Joe Pesci, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Stern
6.8
35%
46
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Best in Show
(2000)
Comedy
The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as t...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Christopher Guest
Cast:
Jay Brazeau, Jay Brazeau, Parker Posey, Michael Hitchcock, Catherine O'Hara
7.5
93%
78
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
(2004)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Brad Silberling
Cast:
Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Liam Aiken, Jude Law, Jim Carrey
6.8
72%
62
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Over the Hedge
(2006)
Animation, Comedy, Family
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
Karey Kirkpatrick, Tim Johnson
Cast:
Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner
6.7
75%
67
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Frankenweenie
(2012)
Animation, Comedy, Family
When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them that Sparky's still the good, loyal friend he was.
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Tim Burton
Cast:
Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau
7.0
87%
74
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Where the Wild Things Are
(2009)
Drama, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Spike Jonze
Cast:
Max Records, Catherine Keener, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Spike Jonze
6.7
73%
71
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Monster House
(2006)
Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Gil Kenan
Cast:
Ryan Whitney Newman, Steve Buscemi, Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke
6.6
75%
68
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Temple Grandin
(2010)
Drama
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Mick Jackson
Cast:
Claire Danes, Catherine O'Hara, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn, Melissa Farman
8.3
100%
N/A
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Away We Go
(2009)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Veronica expecting their first child, Burt's parents decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, s...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Sam Mendes
Cast:
John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Carmen Ejogo, Catherine O'Hara, Jeff Daniels
7.0
67%
58
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Penelope
(2006)
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company. This untraditional fairy tale about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Mark Palansky, Sean Guest
Cast:
Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant
6.7
53%
48
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Waiting for Guffman
(1996)
Comedy, Music
Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Christopher Guest
Cast:
Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Michael Hitchcock
7.5
91%
71
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Wyatt Earp
(1994)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Covering the life and times of one of the West's most iconic heroes Wyatt Earp weaves an intricate tale of Earp and his friends and family. With a star studded cast, sweeping cinematography and authentic costumes Wyatt Earp led the way during the Western revival in the 90's.
Runtime:
191 min
Director:
Lawrence Kasdan
Cast:
Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Linden Ashby
6.7
32%
47
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A Mighty Wind
(2003)
Comedy, Music
In "A Mighty Wind", director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell tell the story of 60's-era folk musicians, who inspired by the death of their former manager, get back on the stage for one concert in New York City's Town Hall.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Christopher Guest
Cast:
Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch
7.2
88%
81
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Dick Tracy
(1990)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Warren Beatty
Cast:
Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Madonna, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly
6.1
63%
68
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Orange County
(2002)
Comedy, Drama
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Jake Kasdan
Cast:
Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, Bret Harrison, Kyle Howard
6.2
47%
48
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Chicken Little
(2005)
Animation, Comedy, Family
When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Mark Dindal
Cast:
Zach Braff, Zach Braff, Amy Sedaris, Garry Marshall, Steve Zahn
5.7
36%
48
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Killers
(2010)
Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
When an elite assassin marries a beautiful computer whiz after a whirlwind romance, he gives up the gun and settles down with his new bride. That is, until he learns that someone from his past has put a contract out on his life.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Robert Luketic
Cast:
Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Tom Selleck, Alex Borstein, Catherine O'Hara
5.4
10%
21
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The Paper
(1994)
Comedy, Drama
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Ron Howard
Cast:
Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid
6.7
88%
70
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For Your Consideration
(2006)
Comedy, Drama
Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Christopher Guest
Cast:
Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Rannazzisi, Ed Begley Jr., Eugene Levy, Christopher Moynihan
6.3
52%
68
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Brother Bear 2
(2006)
Adventure, Animation, Family
Kenai finds his childhood human friend Nita and the two embark on a journey to burn the amulet he gave to her before he was a bear, much to Koda's dismay.
Runtime:
73 min
Director:
Ben Gluck
Cast:
Mandy Moore, Patrick Dempsey, Mandy Moore, Jeremy Suarez, Jeremy Suarez
6.2
50%
N/A
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Surviving Christmas
(2004)
Comedy, Romance
Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in which he was raised is no longer the home in which he grew up.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Mike Mitchell
Cast:
Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara, Catherine O'Hara
5.5
8%
19
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Heartburn
(1986)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling aro...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Mike Nichols
Cast:
Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing
6.1
45%
49
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The Right Kind of Wrong
(2013)
Comedy, Romance
A stubborn idealist spies a bride on her way to her wedding and immediately falls in love with her.
Runtime:
97 min
6.2
12%
30
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A.C.O.D.
(2013)
Comedy
A grown man is still caught in the crossfire of his parents' 15 year divorce. He discovers he was unknowingly part of a study on divorced children and is enlisted in a follow-up years later, which wreaks new havoc on his family.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Stu Zicherman
Cast:
Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O'Hara, Amy Poehler, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
5.7
50%
50
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Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses
(2006)
Animation, Family
King Randolph sends for his cousin Duchess Rowena to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her 11 sisters, into better ladies. But the Duchess takes away all the sisters fun, including the sisters favorite pastime: dancing.Thinking all hope is lost they find a secret passageway to a magical land were they can dance the night ...
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
Greg Richardson
Cast:
Nicole Oliver, Kelly Sheridan, Catherine O'Hara, Jennifer Copping, Christopher Gaze
6.8
N/A
N/A
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A Simple Twist of Fate
(1994)
Comedy, Family
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, a...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Gillies MacKinnon
Cast:
Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Baldwin
6.3
43%
N/A
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Rock & Rule
(1983)
Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
A malevolent rock star kidnaps a female singer to force her to participate in the summoning of a demon and her band must help her stop him.
Runtime:
77 min
Director:
Clive A. Smith
Cast:
Don Francks, Lou Reed, Susan Roman, Paul Le Mat, Debbie Harry
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Home Fries
(1998)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother want...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Dean Parisot
Cast:
Drew Barrymore, Catherine O'Hara, Luke Wilson, Jake Busey, Shelley Duvall
5.1
31%
45
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Betsy's Wedding
(1990)
Comedy
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wi...
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Alan Alda
Cast:
Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Madeline Kahn, Joe Pesci, Catherine O'Hara
5.6
50%
52
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Bartok the Magnificent
(1999)
Animation, Comedy, Family
Russia is being terrorized by an evil witch known as Baba Yaga; the only one who is not afraid of her is Bartok the Magnificent. Bartok, an albino bat, has just arrived in Moscow and is impressing everyone with his performances, including Prince Ivan Romanov. However, one person is not impressed; Ludmilla finds Bartok annoying and naiv...
Runtime:
67 min
Director:
Gary Goldman, Don Bluth
Cast:
Hank Azaria, Kelsey Grammer, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Tim Curry
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Speaking of Sex
(2001)
Comedy, Romance
A counselor, an expert on depression, and two attorneys try to help a couple who have marital problems.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
John McNaughton
Cast:
James Spader, Lara Flynn Boyle, Bill Murray, Melora Walters, Megan Mullally
5.7
N/A
N/A
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The Last of the High Kings
(1996)
Comedy, Drama
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organising a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainab...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
David Keating
Cast:
Catherine O'Hara, Jared Leto, Christina Ricci, Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Rea
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Pippi Longstocking
(1997)
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Pippi is a little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father is sailing the seas. With Pippi we meet her horse, her monkey and her two friends Tommy and Anika. Together they go on many journeys through the neighborhood.
Runtime:
76 min
Director:
Michael Schaack, Clive A. Smith
Cast:
Catherine O'Hara, Carole Pope, Dave Thomas, Gordon Pinsent
5.3
43%
N/A
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Being Canadian
(2015)
Comedy, Documentary
What does it actually mean to be Canadian? This humorous documentary, featuring interviews with a who's-who of famous Canadians, hopes to find the answer.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Robert Cohen
Cast:
Robert Cohen, Cobie Smulders, William Shatner, Nathan Fillion, Ben Stiller
6.2
33%
N/A
Hope
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Hope
(1997)
Drama, TV Movie
The story of a town's secret, a family's crisis, and a young girl's struggle to reveal the truth.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Goldie Hawn
Cast:
Christine Lahti, Jena Malone, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey D. Sams
6.6
N/A
N/A
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The Life Before This
(1999)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Jerry Ciccoritti
Cast:
Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pantoliano, Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Alison Pill
6.4
80%
N/A