D'entre a suya filmografía, se puet destacar as suyas interpretacions en bellas cintas como Smokey and the Bandit (1977, Hal Needham), Norma Rae (1979, Martin Ritt), Absence of Malice (1981, Sydney Pollack), Kiss Me Goodbye (1982, Robert Mulligan), Places in the Heart (1984, Robert Benton), Murphy's Romance (1985, Martin Ritt), Steel Magnolias (1989, Herbert Ross), Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis), u Lincoln (2012, Steven Spielberg).