"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.

Nebraska

2013

English

♡ 55

90%

Alexander Payne Director

Stacy Keach as Ed Pegram

June Squibb as Kate Grant

Bob Odenkirk as Ross Grant

Bruce Dern as Woody Grant

An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.

The Descendants

2011

English

7.3

♡ 71

88%

Alexander Payne Director

Matthew Lillard as Brian Speer

Morgan Freeman as Himself - Narrator

Rob Huebel as Mark Mitchell

George Clooney as Matt King

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

The Passion of Martin

1991

English

6.5

♡ 3

40%

Comedy

Alexander Payne Director

Joe Marinelli as Father

Charley Hayward as Martin

Holgie Forrester as Neighbor

Lisa Zane as Rebecca

A lonely photographer gradually develops a rather unhealthy obsession with a young woman he once met by sheer chance.

The Holdovers

2023

English

7.9

♡ 120

97%

boston, massachusetts

Alexander Payne Director

Kelly AuCoin as Hugh Cavanaugh

Michael Provost as Jason Smith

Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb

Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

Election

1999

English

7.2

♡ 79

92%

Alexander Payne Director

Mark Harelik as Dave Novotny

Colleen Camp as Judith R. Flick

Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick

Matt Malloy as Vice-Principal Ron Bell

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well.

Sideways

2004

English

7.5

♡ 54

97%

79%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Alexander Payne Director

M.C. Gainey as Cammi's Husband

Patrick Gallagher as Gary the Bartender

Peter Dennis as Leslie Brough

Paul Giamatti as Miles

Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.

Downsizing

2017

English

5.8

♡ 127

56%

Alexander Payne Director

Jason Sudeikis as Dave Johnson

Patrick Gallagher as Drunk Guy at Bar

Christoph Waltz as Dusan Mirkovic

Matt Damon as Paul Safranek

A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.