Hayden Panettiere passed away this week at just 36, leaving behind a career filled with memorable performances. From her voice work in animated favorites like A BUG’S LIFE to dramatic performances in movies like REMEMBER THE TITANS, she brought warmth, strength, and heart to every role. Here’s a look back at ten films that showcase her talent and lasting impact.
10 Movies That Showcase Hayden Panettiere’s Heart and Talent
REMEMBER THE TITANS
Denzel Washington stars as Herman Boone in REMEMBER THE TITANS. Boone’s a black coach given the head coaching position at a formerly all-white school due to forced integration. Met with disdain, anger and a divided football team of racial foes, Coach Boone…
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A BUG’S LIFE
Like the movie ANTZ, Pixar Studios and Walt Disney’s A BUG’S LIFE tells the story of a persistent ant who saves his colony from a menacing villain. This time, the villain is a grasshopper named Hopper who leads a band of other…
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DINOSAUR
DINOSAUR tells the story of a family of lemur monkeys, accompanied by their adopted veggie dinosaur son and brother, Aladar, who meet a herd of veggie dinosaurs. The herd is looking for a green “nesting” valley that they periodically migrated to before…
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RAISING HELEN
In the pleasant RAISING HELEN, Kate Hudson’s character works at a fashion modeling agency, which affords her a nice apartment and a fast-paced life. When one of her sisters dies in a car accident, Helen is given custody of her sister’s three…
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ALPHA AND OMEGA 3D
ALPHA AND OMEGA, in “pawsome” 3D, is an animated children’s romance. Kate is an alpha wolf. Her best friend, Humphrey, is an omega wolf. Two wolf packs are fighting over the valley for the remaining caribou food source. To bring peace, Kate’s…
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ICE PRINCESS
ICE PRINCESS transforms a shy teenager with a politically correct mother into a lovely Cinderella. Casey Carlyle is a brainy bookworm who secretly dreams of becoming an Olympic ice skating champion, but pursues her mother’s goal of getting into Harvard. To land…
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HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL
HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL is an animated comedy that follows the misadventures of the Happily Ever After Agency, who fight to stop evil. The comical crew includes the director, a talking frog named Nick Flippers, and Granny, Red, Wolf, and Twitchy…
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THE DUST FACTORY
THE DUST FACTORY is a lightly redemptive allegory about a mute boy, Ryan, his grandfather and a little girl who fall through the railroad bridge trestle and finds themselves in a beautiful netherworld with no growth, no progress, and apparently no hope.…
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JOE SOMEBODY
Comic Tim Allen stars in JOE SOMEBODY as a video specialist in Minneapolis who feels like a nobody. While taking his daughter Natalie to “bring your daughter to work day,” Mark, the office bully, humiliates Joe in front of his daughter. When…
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RACING STRIPES
RACING STRIPES follows Stripes the zebra as he is taken in by a Kentucky family and grows up in a barn full of talking horses, goats and chickens. Stripes doesn’t know that he is a zebra and not a horse, so his…
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