In recent years, Madigan's most high profile credits featured her as somewhat disgruntled but basically tolerant and supportive wives and girlfriends in "Field of Dreams", "Uncle Buck" (both 1989), and "The Dark Half" (1993). Meatier parts were to be found on stage (e.g. "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Broadway with Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange; Sam Shepard's "A Lie of the Mind"; and David Rabe's "In the Boom Boom Room") and in high-minded TV movies including "Victims" (1982), Nicholas Meyer's "The Day After" (1983) and "Roe vs. Wade" (1989).