STEVE ZAHN

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He's done probably more garbage movies than good ones, but Steve Zahn is never not memorable. The real choice comes down to drama Zahn or comedy Zahn, and then picking out his best role. He's so astoundingly great in Riding in Cars with Boys I might have a hard time picking anything else.

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Out of Sight (1998) — Glenn Michaels	12
That Thing You Do! (1996) — Lenny Haise	6
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) — Ray Hasek	3
Rescue Dawn (2007) — Duane	3
Saving Silverman (2001) — Wayne Lefessier	2
Joy Ride (2001) — Fuller Thomas	2
Safe Men (1998) — Eddie	1
subUrbia (1996) — Buff	1
Chicken Little (2005) — Runt (voice)	0
Sahara (2005) — Al Giordino	0
Bandidas (2006) — Quentin Cooke	0
Employee of the Month (2004) — Jack	0
Comanche Moon (2008) — Augustus "Gus" McCrae	0
Strange Wilderness (2008) — Peter Gaulke	0
Sunshine Cleaning (2008) — Mac	0
The Great Buck Howard (2008) — Role TBD	0
Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby (2008) — Sandy Pig (voice)	0
Management (2008) — Lead Role	0
Monk (2009) (TV series) — Jack Monk, Jr.	0
Night Train (2009) — Pete	0
A Perfect Getaway (2009) — Cliff	0
Speak (2004) — Mr. Freeman	0
Shattered Glass (2003) — Adam Penenberg	0
Daddy Day Care (2003) — Marvin	0
Crimson Tide (1995) — William Barnes	0
From the Earth to the Moon (1998) TV miniseries — Astronaut Elliot See	0
The Object of My Affection (1998) — Frank Hanson	0
You've Got Mail (1998) — George Pappas	0
Freak Talks About Sex (1999) — "Freak"	0
Happy, Texas (1999) — Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr., aka David	0
Stuart Little (1999) (voice) — Monty the Mouth	0
Forces of Nature (1999) — Alan	0
Hamlet (2000) — Rosencrantz	0
Chain of Fools (2000) — Thomas Kresk	0
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) (voice) — Archie	0
Chelsea Walls (2001) — Ross	0
Reality Bites (1994) — Sammy Grayn	0
National Security (2003) — Hank Rafferty	0
Calvin Marshall (2009) — Coach Little	0

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:02 (sixteen years ago)

(list taken from Wikipedia, and it obvs hasn't been maintained since last year sometime)

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

Either That Thing You Do! or Joy Ride.

― Eazy, Sunday, 22 March 2009 03:08 (sixteen years ago)

I'm voting That Thing You Do, but overlook Out Of Sight at your peril, as he steals every scene that he doesn't have to share with Don Cheadle.

― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, 22 March 2009 03:27 (sixteen years ago)

im the 1 who voted saving silverman fyi

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 March 2009 06:43 (sixteen years ago)

I too voted Saving Silverman!

― Morley Timmons, Sunday, 22 March 2009 07:52 (sixteen years ago)

He's so astoundingly great in Riding in Cars with Boys I might have a hard time picking anything else.

OTM on this.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 22 March 2009 09:39 (sixteen years ago)

He's in the new David Simon HBO series Treme about post-Katrina New Orleans!!!

― Oh Why, Sports Coat? (Dr. Superman), Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

out of sight

― s1ocki, Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

especially the way his character goes from funny stoner to traumatized murderer

― s1ocki, Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

I confess, I haven't seen Out of Sight. Must rectify.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

i was just wonderin recently where zahn went... for a minute there it seemed like he was gonna take over tha world, and then the 2000's happened

― GROLIOUS NIPPON ;_; (cankles), Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:32 (sixteen years ago)

Also great in Shattered Glass. Hopefully will make "comeback" in this:

Anticipating "Tremé" - David Simon and his buddies do post-Katrina N.O.

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:46 (sixteen years ago)

Great in subUrbia too, but I think I'm going to vote Out of Sight.

― Alex in SF, Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:48 (sixteen years ago)

Out of Sight!

― dan selzer, Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

voted rescue dawn, he and the guy from lost totally stole it from dumb ol' christian bale

― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:00 (sixteen years ago)

^^^ still need to see this too.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)

overlook Out Of Sight at your peril, as he steals every scene that he doesn't have to share with Don Cheadle

Very much otm.

― James Morrison, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)

totally forgot he was in Out of Sight.

first saw him in stage version of Bogosian's Suburbia.

was easily the best thing in that Herzog Vietnam film.

― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 March 2009 01:42 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 27 March 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

man i forgot to see that herzog film when it came out. reality bites is lolawful but i bet someone votes for it

― eman, Friday, 27 March 2009 00:10 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 28 March 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

Anyone going to see The Great Buck Howard tonight? Limited release, so of course it's not playing near me. But it looks good.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 March 2009 00:03 (sixteen years ago)

wouldve voted for freak talks about sex

― the soft boy of karate (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:30 (sixteen years ago)

Totally great in Rescue Dawn. Everyone OTM re: his performance, put Bale to shame.

― well-respected battle rapper (circa1916), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:58 (sixteen years ago)

only one with nostalgic luv for suburbia i guess

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Saturday, 28 March 2009 02:01 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/86012/the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien-steve-zahn#s-p2-sr-i1

― max, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

audible laughter every time steve tries to say something to heidi

― max, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:39 (sixteen years ago)

I was watching that last night and thinking "I wonder if there's anyone who doesn't like Steve Zahn who's met him in person, because he seems like the kind of guy doesn't care if he meets you or not but if he does he will go out of his way to be nice to you."

And then I thought "Jeezus! How many babies is Heidi Klum going to have anyway?!"

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...