Kenneth Branaghâs all-star revival of the classic Agatha Christie murder mystery gives us a traditional exotic cross-section of high society (with picturesque servants and bits of rough) on board the snowed-in Orient Express, on which someone has been whacked. The film has Pfeiffer in one of her late-career grande dame roles: the manhunting American widow Mrs Hubbard, which she plays a little softer than Lauren Bacall, who had had the role in the 1974 version. Pfeiffer sang the melancholy Never Forget over the end credits, with lyrics by Branagh.
19. William Shakespeareâs A Midsummer Nightâs Dream (1999)
The sole Shakespeare on the Pfeiffer CV (it is a shame that she hasnât done more, maybe Gertrude or Volumnia). At any rate, she is a gentle and serenely charming Titania in Michael Hoffmanâs version of A Midsummer Nightâs Dream, which updates the action to 19th-century Tuscany. She is queenly and self-possessed, with a British accent that puts the brak