Best Glenn Close movie performance?

I wish I could have added more choices:

The Big Chill

The World According to Garp

Mars Attacks!

Hamlet

Hook

Hoodwinked!

5 to 7

Crooked House

Guardians of the Galaxy

Hard to say . . .

The Big Chill

Teddy Barnes was truly unforgettable.

I would add "In the Gloaming" and "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story" (TV Movies). She wasn't bad in the TV movie of "South Pacific," either, but definitely too old to play Nellie Forbush.

I liked her in Meeting Venus.

Big Chill or Garp.

Garp.

Fatal Attraction is what will keep her legacy alive.

But her last scene in Dangerous makes that her best performance for me.

She is such a better actress than Meryl Streep

She made a superb debut in "Garp" playing Robin Williams' Mom, and she was only a few years older than him; she got her first Oscar nomination for it, too.

For someone that butch she also seems to play a lot of characters with male names.

She was great in The West Wing.

She’s a marvellous actress. Her role in Dangerous Liaisons will always be the one that genuinely gives me chills. She has given amazing performance after amazing performance, many in films which are far more interesting than the usual Hollywood fare.

Her lack of at least one Oscar makes me a little sad for her. She deserves better treatment from the Academy, but the fact that she remains unrecognised by it says more about them than it does about her.

Very interesting and really scene stealing in Reversal of Fortune. Surprised she wasn't nominated for at least Supporting Actress.

"I'm thinking of redecorating this whole fucking house."

Definitely "Fatal Attraction" for me, but she was terrific in "Garp" too. I wish I had seen "The Real Thing" or "Benefactors" on Broadway...

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^^She was great as the old lady in Mrs. Doubtfire.

Maxie.

It's not a well-remembered movie, but she was good in Ron Howard's The Paper, and she should have been nominated for Supporting Actress that year.

Wonderful man with a long career.

I love the scene in Reversal of Fortune where she’s wearing sunglasses, eating an ice cream sundae and smoking a cigarette.

She was great in RoF but I can’t go fast Fatal Attraction.

I would have to say that all of the mentioned performances are equal in quality.

The Stepford Wives

"I love the scene in Reversal of Fortune where she’s wearing sunglasses, eating an ice cream sundae and smoking a cigarette."

If I was a woman it would be my Halloween costume every year.

[quote] "I love the scene in Reversal of Fortune where she’s wearing sunglasses, eating an ice cream sundae and smoking a cigarette."

And the way she says "I'm thinking of redecorating this whole...fucking...house"

Even though she wasn’t as beautiful as Sarah Michelle Gellar, she gave a much more subtle, layered, calculating performance as Merteuil. She could have played that role like Joan Collins, it would have been so easy to play the role like Alexis Colby, and she didn’t.

Does anyone else think she is better than Meryl?

Nope.

I’m not sure if she is better than Meryl, but I think she picks more interesting parts. Meryl has stuck to crowd-pleasers over the past couple of decades.

R31 Yeah. I think since after 1990, Meryl has always been playing a variation of Meryl. Her early roles were better- The Deer Hunter, Kramer vs. Kramer, The French Lieutenant's Wife, Out of Africa, A Cry in the Dark/Evil Angels, Plenty, and Sophie's Choice, of course.

Glenn seems to disappear in her characters. Glenn is also in more international films, whereas Meryl likes good ole American flicks.

Dangerous Liaisons has so many great moments, like one poster wrote the finale. Also the scene where she's reading the letter and smiling and you see her grinning getting off the coach and all of a sudden changing into sympathy always makes me laugh.

For a period piece, especially a period piece based on a stage play, Dangerous Liaisons still feels alive and engrossing in a way that other adaptations just don't, i.e. Stephen Frears and Christopher Hampton's subsequent collaborations "Mary Reilly" and "Chéri."

[quote] Does anyone else think she is better than Meryl?

I don’t think Meryl or Glenn are all that good. There’s no truth to their performance.

Give me Anne Bancroft, Ruth Gordon or Patricia Neal. Now *they* were actresses!

R35 What about Betty Bacall?

I don't understand the question.

[quote] What about Betty Bacall?

Not a fan, myself. Like Bette Davis, there was too much affectation. Plus, I never thought she was beautiful.

The one which got her an Oscar.

I can't recall the name.