Netflix Adds Five Catherine O’Hara Gems to Its Library

Clear your calendar and heat up the jumbo bag of popcorn: Netflix has added five essential films from late actress Catherine O’Hara to its library.

The upload comes just less than a week (January 30th) after O’Hara passed away at the age of 71. These five titles, each of which will be available for two months, join two other recent O’Hara vehicles dropped onto Netflix, Best in Show and The Wild Robot. (As pointed out elsewhere, all five films are from Warner Bros. Pictures, and Netflix recently won a bidding war to purchase the famed studio.)

The five O’Hara films are:

After Hours (1985): In this unsung Martin Scorsese black comedy, O’Hara plays Gail, an ice cream truck who helps hunt down Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) during a “night of misadventures.”

Waiting for Guffman (1996): A standout mockumentary comedy from Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, O’Hara expertly plays Sheila Albertson, one of several small-town amateurs bravely putting on a musical titled Red, White and Blaine.

Home Fries (1998): This oddly charming rom-com (starring Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson, and directed by Dean Parisot) sees O’Hara as a mother named Beatrice Lever with a decidedly dark secret to hide

A Mighty Wind (2003): Perhaps this writer’s favorite of the many Guest-Levy-led mockumentaries, O’Hara’s turn as beloved folk singer Mickey Crabbe (alongside Levy’s Mitch Cohen) is pitch-perfect in every single way.

For Your Consideration (2006): Once more, O’Hara shines in this Guest-Levy flick as the weird and charming character actor Marilyn Hack (who has earned award season buzz for a role in the fictional Jewish family drama Home for Purim).

The films are available right now on both Netflix in the US and Canada. And if you haven’t already, be sure to read our definitive ranking of O’Hara’s 10 best roles.