JoBeth Williams in "Just Write" with Jeremy Piven. In 2005, she appeared in the Drew Barrymore-Jimmy Fallon baseball comedy "Fever Pitch". In October 2011, she appeared with Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Rashida Jones, and Jack Black in the bird-watching comedy "The Big Year" for Twentieth Century Fox. Williams has also gained critical acclaim for a number of performances in notable television movies, including the nuclear holocaust film "The Day After" (1983), "Murder Ordained" (1987), as Lois Burnham Wilson in "My Name is Bill W." (1989), and the critically acclaimed "Masterpiece Theatre" presentation of "The Ponder Heart" (2003) for director Martha Coolidge. She
Drew Barrymore and good-natured humor to transcend its many cliches". For her venture, Barrymore garnered nominations for a Bronze Horse at the Stockholm Film Festival and for the EDA Female Focus Award at the 2009 Alliance of Women Film Journalists. In "Everybody's Fine", her last 2009 film release, Barrymore played the daughter of a recently widowed retiree (Robert De Niro). The drama flopped at the box office, but Stephen Holden for "The New York Times" considered Barrymore "as ingenuous as ever" in what he described as a "small role". In 2010, Barrymore starred with Justin Long in Nanette Burstein's "Going the Distance".