From The Deer Hunter to Sophie's Choice to Silkwood, this is Collider's ranking of Meryl Streep's greatest movies.
Meryl Streep. That could well serve as the introduction, because she's one of the few actors or actresses out there that arguably doesn't need one. It's a widely held belief that she has been - and remains - one of the great movie stars of all time, and watching her act shows that she does indeed live up to the hype. Though not every movie she's been in has been great, she herself has never turned in a disappointing or uncommitted performance.
9 'The Bridges of Madison County' A Clint Eastwood-directed movie that certainly stands out from his more expected crime movies, thrillers, and Westerns, The Bridges of Madison County is an unashamedly emotional romance movie. It's about the love affair that blossoms between a frustrated housewife and a photographer , with the two meeting and instantly falling for each other in the 1960s.
Streep and Goldie Hawn play the rivals, with Bruce Willis and Isabella Rossellini also turning in solid performances. It's fairly dark as far as broad comedies go, but its willingness to be unsettling and mean-spirited ends up being one key reason why it remains memorable . It follows a difficult process of divorce between a couple, with conflicts arising over their child, whom the workaholic father finds himself needing to look after more. It's not an easy watch, but the lead performances on offer are impressive, and the film's honesty about what can happen when a marriage breaks down ensures it's still an emotionally hard-hitting viewing experience to this day.
4 'Adaptation' The premise of Adaptation is a little hard to summarize, but here goes nothing: It's a film where Nicolas Cage plays twins. One shares the name of the film's writer, Charlie Kaufman, but Kaufman himself doesn't have a twin in real life. Still, the fictional twin is credited with writing Adaptation, too. This means a fictitious person got nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar.
2 'The Deer Hunter' Though Kramer vs. Kramer was an early role of Meryl Streep's, it was not the first Best Picture Oscar winner she appeared in. That distinction would go to The Deer Hunter, which came out the previous year and was simply too soul-shattering a movie for Academy Award voters to overlook, feeling extra radical by 1978 standards for tackling the Vietnam War in a distinctly bleak, realistic, and completely anti-war manner.
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