With Catherine Keener, thank heaven, as a fellow agent, and the only person present to see the joke.

NEWYORKER: The Interpreter

This time we are introduced to two couples: Mary (Amy Brenneman) lives with Barry (Aaron Eckhart), while Terri (Catherine Keener) lives with Jerry (Ben Stiller).

NEWYORKER: Your Friends & Neighbors

She's played runaways, a mutant schoolgirl (in X-Men: The Last Stand) and a teenager tortured to death by Catherine Keener (in the yet-to-be released An American Crime).

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Max (Max Records), an angry nine-year-old boy, bites his mother (Catherine Keener), runs out of the house, and joins the creatures snouted, horned, clawed, furry on a mysterious island.

NEWYORKER: Where the Wild Things Are

The independent writer-director Nicole Holofcener had a fresh idea for a movie: how would three well-off married women (Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack), living in Los Angeles, sustain their friendship with a younger woman who is unmarried, broke, working as a housekeeper, and given to meaningless relationships with jerks?

NEWYORKER: Friends With Money

An out-of-work puppeteer (John Cusack), his pet-loving girlfriend (Cameron Diaz), and a cynical office worker (Catherine Keener) take turns entering the head of the actor John Malkovich, where they remain for fifteen minutes at a time, experiencing everything he does, before being deposited with a whoosh beside the New Jersey Turnpike.

NEWYORKER: Being John Malkovich

As the young man (played by Emile Hirsch) travels about, he attracts the interest of a South Dakota wheat farmer (Vince Vaughn, playing it straight), an aging hippie (Catherine Keener), and a retired Army man living on the edge of the California desert (Hal Holbrook), all of whom ask him to put down his backpack and stay.

NEWYORKER: Into the Wild