10 More Actors Who Gave Their Best Performances In Movies Nobody Saw

Jennifer Aniston will of course forever be best remembered for playing Rachel Green on Friends, but she's also given many acclaimed performances on the big screen, whether in comedies like Office Space, Horrible Bosses, and We're the Millers or dramas such as The Good Girl, Friends with Money, and Dumplin'.

Yet Aniston's finest effort to date flew totally under the radar back in 2014, when she starred in Cake, playing Claire Bennett, a woman addicted to both alcohol and pain meds following a car accident which claimed the life of her son.

Though general critical response to the film was mixed, Aniston's performance received rave reviews from many outlets and even Best Actress nominations from both the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild.

For many, it was so hugely refreshing to see Aniston commit this hard to such an unvarnished, unflattering role, of a woman hobbled by guilt, anger, and the throes of addiction.

It's a performance like nothing Aniston has done prior or since, yet despite a ton of Oscar buzz for her work - which ultimately didn't pan out - Cake bombed at the box office, grossing less than $3 million worldwide against a $10 million budget.

People are still talking about her against-type work in Horrible Bosses over a decade on, but Cake? Not so much, sadly.