‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!

Turner goes full-on drill sergeant in Marley & Me, her forearms covered with scratches, while Marley the irrepressible yellow labrador gives her a more vigorous humping than any co-star since William Hurt in Body Heat. Unrepentant vileness suits her in The Estate, where she plays the cantankerous aunt whose family clambers for her good graces and her will.

In Monster House she says she 'mostly just groan[s] and make[s] all kinds of scary noises', underselling voice work as a woman whose spirit fuses with a house. Naked in New York finds her as an acting legend miscast in an up-and-coming playwright's debut, delivering the line 'Which are you, man or boy?' and interrupting before the young greenhorn can answer.

In The Accidental Tourist Turner turns up in a thankless role as a capricious scold who asks for a divorce in the first ten minutes and later changes her mind.

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