cedar rapids

When Miguel Arteta’s broadly, sweetly funny Cedar Rapids opens Friday, Anne Heche, who stars as the sole woman in a group of misbehaving insurance agents, might finally get her nationwide due as the gifted comedian she’s technically been for the last fifteen years. Heche is best known for TV now, but her very different roles include a political aide to Robert De Niro, a superficial journalist stuck on an island with a smitten Harrison Ford, a frantic lawyer trying to save Joaquin Phoenix from death, and a young shrink with cold feet in Nicole Holofcener’s debut Walking and Talking. Offscreen she’s also a writer, director and mother of two.