As the great romcom
Queen turns 60, we select her best roles from the low-budget indies to the Tom Hanks big-hitters
![Meg Ryan films – ranked!](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cedcc3a1ce6535e16941d050b21a0b1eafb56abb/142_187_1736_1041/master/1736.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=86c386549cdcb2d42feacded700d6d49)
By 2007, Meg Ryan was already well into a wilderness period that still hasn’t ended. Indeed, it has been more than five years since she was in a film at all (Ithaca, her harmless but forgettable directorial debut). If highlights of this era have been few, her restrained, affecting turn as an unhappily married, cancer-stricken housewife in this uneven indie soap opera was a reminder that the industry did her dirty. At the very least, more little films like this could use her wattage.