What's your favorite Jodie Foster movie?

Contact.

‘Inside Man’, coincidentally one has not been inside her.

Her comic masterpiece, Nell.

Taxi Driver - but only because I love the movie and my choice having nothing to do with her.

The Silence of the Lambs, obviously. It's such a perfect film each time I watch it I find something else completely brilliant about it.

I love Candleshoe too and she is superb in it. One of the few live-action Disney movies of that or any other time not to bore the shit out of me.

Panic Room. Bearer Bonds are sexy

Hotel New Hampshire is more than a little too zany, but it's a fun digression. Good for late-night watching parties.

But Jodie will always and forever be Clarice for me., It was the role of her lifetime.

Maverick. Surprisingly, she and Mel Gibson had great chemistry, and it's the closest she got to being good at comedy.

Panic Room. Who knew a film about two dykes locked in a tiny room could be so entertaining.

That one is followed closely by Casotto on my list, a bizarre but fun little movie she did in Italy.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Surprised but gratified to see the love for Candleshoe. It's a guilty pleasure, as is The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.

While I think Silence of the Lambs is indeed her best role and she brought incredible depth to it, it is not my favorite movie because, despite being well-made and superbly acted, the tone is so relentlessly grim. The bloated, violated corpses; the gruesome cast of characters; the ugly sexual undercurrent that every single male character brought to the table; the enormous buildings that look as if they've been drilled down into hell; the nasty homophobic subtext (whether intentional or not) - I love over-the-top horror films, but this one made me feel sleazy for watching it.

R10, I’ve never even heard of Casotto. Does Jodie speak Italian in it?

R14 She spoke her lines in English on the set but was later dubbed by some other actress into Italian.

Stealing Home and Bugsy Malone are good ones. Oh and "Foxes".

The Brave One. She was so hot in it.

I love Candleshoe! David Niven giving his best in every way! This is how I spend my time on Disney+. Has anyone seen Tonka?

Mac and Me

Inside Man. Something about her in Silence of the Lambs just seems off to me. And Contact is just horrible. I think those are the only Jodie Foster movies I've seen.

Agree with R5. It doesn't get old and a big part of that is her performance. Taxi Driver will always reverberate, but it is DeNiro and Scorsese's show. Contact is great fun.

I loved Candleshoe and Little Girl ! But except for Nell (WTF was that???) I like her in pretty much everything. I agree Silence was her role of a lifetime,but she was pretty awesome in the Accused .

I cried during the ending of Candleshoe. Of course, I was 7 when I saw it.

Freaky Friday

I'm not even joking.

another vote for "Contact". And despite the Matthew M. role being so unimportant that he is almost invisible, the film and Jody survive quite nicely.

R24 yes, and the actress who plays the mother is hilarious (actually way better than Jodie), cant remember her name though

[quote]The Brave One. She was so hot in it.

I couldn't get past her hairdo in that movie.

I thought she was great in The Brave One. A nice change to see a woman in the Death Wish role.

Taxi Driver.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

Anna and the King

No favorites. Nothing.

Sommersby.

Silence of the Lambs

"The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" needs a remake. Foster was really wrong for that part; the girl in the novel was a proper English girl with "pretty hair." Foster was too tomboyish, not attractive enough and her hair (was it a wig?) looked like straw.

Her mom on freaky Friday was the fabulous Barbara Harris who was genius and had a patchy career as she didn’t like the Hollywood game. She was also in Peggy Sue Got Married, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Nashville.

She has another comedy role. She directed and starred in The Beaver. This time her and Mel had absolutely no chemistry.

Foxes - captured late 70s childhood perfectly.

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, directed by Foster, is excellent and should be a classic. I mean, c'mon ... Anne Bancroft in a crooked wig? and Charles Durning in anything?

R26, yes, Barbara Harris is hysterical (love it when she calls her husband “daddy”. The only thing that gets me is that neither her nor Jodie acted ANYTHING like each other when they made the switch. Barbara acted like a “kid” and Jodie acted like an “adult” but not like Annabelle and Mrs. Andrew’s.

Still love the movie, though.

R39 Love that film. RDJ is so trashed through out.

In "Freaky Friday" the daughter and mom switch bodies not personalities.

Jodie Foster is supposed to be acting like Barbara Harris, and vice versa, after the switch, because Jodie Foster plays first the kid, and then the mother trapped in the kid's body. he's saying Foster doesn't act like Harris.

Jodie is such a romantic.

Tay in da win chkopee

agreed R40 but I love Barbara Harris' whole shtick anyway

Kid JF: Freaky Friday; Candleshoe (thank you Disney!)

Teenaged JF: Foxes

Adult JF: Silence of the Lambs; Inside Man; Siesta (I’m the only one on the planet who likes Siesta)

Old Lady JF: Hotel Artemis - She is a hoot playing a drunken doctor in an Escape from NY-type LA

LOVE BARBARA HARRIS!

The one where she plays a dyke.

Adored her in Freaky Friday.

How much do you think Jodie is worth? I heard she is among the richest Hollywood actors in the small town in Mass. where she lives.

r50, Jodie doesn't live in Mass. Are you thinking of Rachael Maddow?

R50, I heard she and her wife Alexandria lived in a small cottage on the rocky coast of Northern Mass. Is that not true?

[quote]R21 Taxi Driver will always reverberate, but it is DeNiro and Scorsese's show

Excuse me??

Actually Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster almost steal the movie away from De Niro, which is no small feat because De Niro was amazing.

But I really liked the relationship they created. It felt so authentic, despite the fact that it was also disturbing.

Foxes, the brave one, inside man (she's stunning, visually, in this), and, believe it or not, Anna and the king (it just moved me).

r52, it's possible, I have not heard that though.

I bet she is worth quite a bit of money. She doesn't seem to spend money freely and she has worked a long time.

This link talks about where Rachel lives.

Buggy Malone

Silence of the lambs

According to Celebrity net Worth, Jodie is worth 47 kazillion squillion dollars,

Not particularly my favourite Foster film, yet I really enjoyed her character in [italic] Elysium [/italic] 2013. She very much reminded me of Christine LaGarde. [italic] Carnage [/italic] 2011, is a close second.

Paper Moon

I like the one where she seems really dykey even though no reference is made in the entire music to her sexuality in any way shape or form.

Do you know which one I mean?

""movie," not "music"

Silence of the Lambs.

Honorable mention to Little Man Tate.

Little Man Tate because she threatens to kill Dianne Wiest.

Anna And The King was such a touching film. It’s stuck with me all these years. It was one of the last movies I watched with my mother before she passed.

I love Anna and the King. It has a great score, too. I wish it would be released on Blu-Ray.

I remember being glued to the TV in a way I never had been before when The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane aired. I was probably 14 or 15 and had never identified with any young female actresses before, so that one is my favorite. However, Silence of the Lambs was truly a great movie. Didn't care for her in Catchfire/Backtrack and not just because she showed her pancake boobs.

Lol at no one liking Panic Room.

1. LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVED DOWN THE ROAD

2. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

3. ELYSIUM

My favourite film starring Jodie Foster is Un long dimanche de fiançailles. She has a small role which has nowhere near of the same impact as Marion Cotillard, but it's the best film she's appeared in.

Honourable mentions to The Silence Of The Lambs, The Inside Man (she really was a magnificent cunt), Bugsy Malone and Contact.

I couldn't understand why she was playing Tilda Swinton in Elysium. She was literally doing an impression of Tilda Swinton. Literally.

[quote]R68 I remember being glued to the TV in a way I never had been before when The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane aired.

You know, the novel is actually quite good. It’s classier and more mysterious than the movie, somehow.

You might like it. (...... though OMG, the original is $800 on Amazon!!! Well, you can find it for cheaper, elsewhere, I’m sure. And the library should have it?)

Compare/Contrast of book vs. film:

‘Jodie’ and ‘Favorite’ do not belong in the same sentence.

Panic Room

[R70] THE LANE!!!GODDAMNIT. THE LITLLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE FUCKING LANE!!!!!!! Not the fucking road. Shitgoddamnit to hell!. FUCK!!

There, kinda fixed it for you.

I thought it was “The Little Girl Who Lives on the Dole”

I can still hear the deep voice of the guy who recorded the ads for shows and movies for ABC in the late 70's early 80's. His "Jodie Foster is... The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" was more terrifying than the movie. (And then he'd switch to "And... Saturday, on Love Boat")

Anyhoo, Stealing Home and Freaky Friday and Foxes are my faves.

I wish Jodie had done a "Love Boat" episode as her "Taxi Driver" character Iris, relaxing in the sun after all that intense NYC blood and drama.

Maybe she’d have a budding romance with Gopher, and confess her fears of being rejected because of her whorish past to Julie?

Elysium might be worse than Nell. Jodie’s accent is so strange, her way of talking . . . Very strange and disruptive in the film.

I remember catching the movie “Carny” on late night TV years ago, and liking it.

Thank you OP. When you mentioned it, I recall having a “good’ feeling about Candleshoe and I just re-watched it on Disney Plus. A kids movie to be sure, but I enjoyed it.

She did a good job in many movies, but my personal favorite will always be Freaky Friday. She was a budding lesbian-to-be (very obviously!) and it is very endearing.

^ Yes I love her tomboy phase. She's so cute!

R11, With an excellent performance from Alexis Smith.

Dorothy Zbornak's son Michael was in "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" (1976).

'Carnage' for me. I love adaptations of great plays. Also, as director, 'Home for the Holidays' is pretty much up there in my classic holiday movies.

Foxes

simply the best

I second Foxes. I know she's had some Oscar nominated roles, but I found her very genuine in Foxes.

I've always found her overrated. She comes of as pretentious and does a terrible job at speaking in dialect, particularly British. Her performances in both "Anna and the King" and "Elysium" were cringeworthy.

Panic Room

Silence of the Lambs

She was great as a kid in tomboy roles, but I never found her convincing as a romantic leading lady. She's lucky her career got far enough for her to make "Silence of the Lambs" and "The Accused"

R94, oh yes Silence and the Accused are such beautiful romance films. They changed my life as romantic dramas. The sensual way in which gangrape and psychopathy are presented is down right brilliant. Buffalo Bill is so fkin sexy and a hopeless romantic. Classics.

What about the movie where her character was raped? A bunch of guys stood by and cheered on the rapist?

R95 I never said those were romantic movies, you fucking cunt. I was referring to the fact that she played quite a few romantic leading lady roles up to that point.

I once saw Jodie's personal email address. It contained neither Jodie nor Foster, but something you'd find in a grocery store. Yes, I'm certain it was her email, not I won't rat her out.

r98, was it kumquat?

Freaky Friday, now and forever.

Bugsy Malone

And yeah, it's my favorite Scott Baio movie. Is it his only movie?

r86 - Dead Phyllis

The one where she got all that hot country dick then complained about having a train ran on her (ungrateful). But for a none funny answer (wasn't that funny at) I'd say "Silence of the Lambs" and not joking, "The Panic Room".

non^

The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane had a big effect on me. Clever Jodie Foster, learning languages, living alone in that great seaside cottage, flirting with Scott Jacoby, fending off bitch Alexis Smith and her pedophile son Martin Sheen. I wanted to be her.

Imagine my surprise at how the movie ended.

R105 just saw that movie and found the premise and plot profoundly disturbing—and who the hell shows a naked kid (Jodie’s older sister was the body double) about to get into bed with her much older boyfriend so he can commit statutory with her? I don’t understand who thought this film was a good idea, regardless of Jodie’s acting talent.

ANYTHING

Home for the Holidays

With the exception of Silence of the Lambs and The Accused, she has made a lot of really awful films. I'm surprised her career has survived as long as it has.

You’re all gonna kill me but I loved Contact. SOTL was excellent but I was partial to the book and it was not her movie.

Little Man Tate was better than Contact but, again, even though she directed it, it was not her movie.

R110 she did a good job in Contact—agreed. I just rewatched parts of it on tv recently after not having seen it in many years and it was a little too slow to get to the interesting parts for me, but the acting was solid.

She's a great actress. I wish she starred in more movies. I will definitely watch.