This year has seen her battle shared trauma through the exorcism of shimmering red fabric in Mother Mary. 2026 has also witnessed her navigate corporate threats to save a fashion magazine (The Devil Wears Prada 2) and fight off pesky suitors hungry for her husband's throne (The Odyssey).
Now, Anne Hathaway is striving to survive the suburban anxiety of 1980s America by taking a stotgun to a dinosaur's face in David Robert Mitchell's The End Of Oak Street.
Seriously, what can't this woman do? She's certainly making it clear that while Tom Holland and Zendaya may be the ideal poster couple for two of this summer's box office juggernauts (The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day), 2026 is first and foremost a Hathayear.
She stars in Mitchell's return to the big screen after an eight-year absence, playing Denise Platt, the core of what is seemingly the perfect nuclear family - composed of Greg (Ewan McGregor) and their two children, Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery). And let's not forget their delightful menace of a dog, Starbuck.
However, there's trouble lurking beneath the surface of their middle-class idyll. Denise and Greg aren't communicating properly and are on the verge of a divorce. He's doing stints as a pizza delivery man to cover up the loss of his job; she's growing tired of the provincial mum act and has been secretly writing a novel to process her unspoken desire to pack up and leave her family.
