It’s time for us to take some time and discuss Penelope Ann Miller

I don’t know her but I love her in everything. Adventures, Carlitos Way, The Artist. You forgot the classic “Year of the Comet”. Anyway thank you for starting this thread. She deserves it.

I don't know how you could forget Big Top Pee Wee.

Also starring Kris Kristofferson and Susan Tyrell.

Must admit that she never impressed me.

And The Freshman! A charming, underrated movie.

I always liked her. I thought for sure back in the early 90s her career would have taken off.

Used to be married to Will Arnett.

You forgot The Relic, a major studio film trying to make PAM and Tom Sizemore happen.

.it didn't.

For anybody who hasn't seen it, The Relic is awesome.

Also featuring the always watchable tiny lesbian Linda Hunt.

Aw, she was so great in “Adventures.” But she’s white. And Hollywood currently hates white people while over-celebrating mediocrities her age like Octavia Spencer.

She was luminous as Emily in Our Town on the stage.

Here I found a clip of her pivotal scene in Our Town, amazing.

She was quite pretty in a accessible kind of way. Like Amy Adams and Naomi Watts.

She was also in the movie about Mary Kay Letourneau. She did a good job in it.

I like her better in smaller parts. I think she does quirk effortlessly.

She was pretty enough, as r11 states, but she was a terrible actress. Really awful. That's probably what sank her career once she aged out of ingenue roles.

She spiked her stepmom's TAB with Drano and is serving time in prison.

My father thinks Clark is an A student.

Yes, he's a very fine student.

An A student. That is what my father said.

I rather wished she could have tapped as well as Ann Miller (or at least had some more presence on screen).

The weird thing with her is that I've always liked (and even loved) her in everything I've ever seen her in, but I never put her on my top ten list of actresses or anything. I can't say a bad word about her or explain why, but she's one I easily forget.

You forgot the gun in Betty Lou's handbag, also starring WHET star, Eric Thal. He had that Hasidic movie with Melanie Griffith and a nude scene in The puppet Masters which I used to jerk It to frantically to as a preteen. Then poof he just disappeared.

Eric Thal did have a nice ass, I jerked to it too.

I think a successful, high-profile Hollywood film career still lasts on average 5yrs, probably even less these days as the industry seems to regurgitate the same people for role after role. It doesn't help that their's always a younger, pretty blonde just around the corner.

I bet she's sitting on some great anecdotes.

A decent actress, works steadily and not a fame whore. I can respect that.

I was under the impression that Penelope Ann Miller was this Betty Draper type, but she is quite charming in the interviews I've watched on YouTube. Her voice is sweet as can be without being cloying.

I think she fell in love with Pacino and wanted him to leave his wife. It would explain those interviews during the press tour. Pacino may have had something to do with her career taking a nosedive after 1997.

Gross.^^

After Kindergarten Cop, I expected to see her in a lot more things. Turns out, not so much. Then, who in their right mind would like to be working Hwood 24/7?

R25, Pacino has never been married. He and Miller did have an affair during the filming of Carlito's Way though, and it was well known at the time that Pacino didn't appreciate her blabbing about it.

I always liked her. She has a genuine warmth that's hard to find. She was perfectly cast in Kindergarten Cop.

I liked her in Awakenings.

I remember movie critic Joe Queenan being particularly mean about an actress when he wrote for Movieline magazine. Not just once but someone he constantly mocked. Was it her?

Probably Sean Young, r31

Joe Queenan mocked everyone!

I love Adventures in Babysitting. The Brenda scenes are still hysterical. Like Brenda trying to pay for a hot dog with a cheque ("It's a perfectly good cheque!"), or when she accidentally sits in the homeless woman's place ("That's my HOUSE!"). I adore Elisabeth Shue in AIB and she's perfect but Miller was a scene-stealer.

She was also very good in the first season of American Crime.

She's still working according to IMDB. She's also apparently turning into Gillian Anderson.

Ew Gillian Anderson is a pretentious asshole with her ever-changing accent. Cannot stand her anymore.

I like her but she was miscast in Carlito's Way--if Nancy Allen was a few youngers, she would have been perfect in that role.

Eric, for you. With much fondness,

ps Eric is 54 and has never been married.

Emily Webb, in Our Town. Peerless stage performance, an actual achievement.

I still remember her from one of her earliest roles on a CBS sitcom (“The Popcorn Kid”), which co-starred Faith Ford.

Didn't she file a Retraining Order against her husband? Yet it wasn't well-publicized and they're still married.

As a blonde.

Those three-names gals were everywhere in the 90s.

Sarah Jessica Parker, Mary Stuart Masterson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mary Louise Parker.

Her marriage to Will Arnett didn't last 6 weeks. What happened? Was it bc Will's a ho?

She got confused with all the other White starlets with three Anglo names who were vying for stardom at the time.

I thought she was unbearable as Emily in "Our Town." Her Emily always seemed on the verge of a nervous breakdown and she finally seems to have one in the finally scenes: "WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER!!!!" The Kennedy production of "Our Town" that she was in was fucked up in other ways, too. It also featured Spalding Gray as a kind of hipster Stage Manager.

Wasn't she in The Shadow as Alec Baldwin's love interest? Girl could rock a white satin bias cut gown.

R28 She had a habit of dating her costars. She was also linked to Robert DeNiro, which surprised me because I thought he only dated black women, but I was wrong about that.

R48 Yes. Underrated movie.

Didn't she play Mary Kay LeTourneau in the tv movie about her? As I recall that movie was sympathetic to the child raping LeTourneau. It made her out to be a sweet, simple woman in a bad marriage who finds solace and passion in the arms of a 12 year old who looks like an 18 year old.

I only remember her as being a favorite target of Movieline,.

Her career baffles me. She was the Jessica Chastain of the 80's and 90's.

The pussy may not show it's age, but the face sure does! Guess she couldn't get parts after the producer dudes lost interest in fuckin' her. There's always someone younger, prettier, and equally mediocre that Hollywood will try to shove down our throats!!!

I always thought she had a weak voice. I did like her in The Freshman.