In 2000, Kidder played Eileen Canboro in "Apocalypse III: Tribulation", a Christian film dealing with Christian eschatology and the rapture. Kidder stated afterwards that she did not realize until she was on the set that the movie was serious. Also that year she appeared in three episodes of Peter Benchley's "Amazon", playing a striking role as an insane Canadian woman bent on domination of all the local tribes. In 2001, she played the abusive mother of a serial killer in "", an episode of "". In 2002, she appeared alongside Crispin Glover and Vanessa Redgrave in the film adaptation of "Crime and Punishment".