Sentences with phrase «age comedy about»

Fat Girls (R for drug and alcohol use, profanity, and graphic sexual content) Coming - of - age comedy about a couple of ostracized Texas teenage friends, one, just chubby (Ashley Fink), the other, gay (Ash Christian), and dreaming of unleashing his inner diva on Broadway.

Julia Roberts was virtually unknown when she played second fiddle in this cosy coming - of - age comedy about three waitresses at the pizza parlour in Mystic, Connecticut.

Terri (Unrated) Coming - of - age comedy about an empathetic principal (John C. Reilly) who decides to befriend an ostracized, 15 year - old student (Jacob Wysocki) at his high school.

Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming - of - age comedy about three teenage friends — Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias)-- who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.

Bart Got a Room (PG - 13 for sexuality, mature themes and brief profanity) Coming - of - age comedy about a nerdy high school senior (Steven Kaplan) whose search for a prom date becomes increasingly desperate as the big night draws nearer.

While the script got them other work, including on Alexander Payne «s «The Descendants,» for which they shared the Oscar with Payne, «The Way Way Back» — a coming - of - age comedy about a young man working at a waterpark to avoid his dysfunctional family — languished in development hell.

The Kings of Summer (R for profanity and underage alcohol consumption) Coming - of - age comedy about three teenagers (Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso and Moises Arias) who decide to demonstrate their independence by spending the summer living off the land while building a home in woods.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 0s & 1s (Unrated) Digital Age comedy about a yuppie (Morgan Krantz) who's so dependent on his computer that his life starts to come apart at the seams when he discovers after a night of partying that someone has stolen his laptop.

(Unrated) Coming - of - age comedy about the sexual awakenings of a 15 year - old girl (Helene Bergsholm) with raging hormones who fantasizes not only about the classmate (Matias Myren) she has a crush on but about practically every guy she encounters.

«The Way Way Back»: Coming - of - age comedy about a teen boy (Liam James) forced to vacation with his mother (Toni Collette) and her boyfriend (Steve Carell).

Superbad (R for profanity, sexuality, alcohol and drug use, a violent image, and pervasive crude content) Raunchy, coming - of - age comedy about a couple of inseparable, nerdy high school seniors (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera) who plan the perfect party in order to end their interminable losing streak and finally get the girls of their dreams before they set off in the Fall to different colleges.

Tiny Furniture (Unrated) Coming - of - age comedy about a rudderless, recent college grad (Lena Dunham) with a worthless degree in film appreciation who moves back into her mother's (Laurie Simmons) loft in Soho where she has to settle for an unfulfilling job as a restaurant hostess.

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Amazon description: «A coming - of - age comedy set in the «go - go» 80s about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end — and the future begins.»

What it's about: Before pesky production codes changed what movies were allowed to show onscreen, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable made a romantic comedy for the ages, about a socialite who runs off on an escapade with a reporter.

A reader of the Comedy unversed in medieval debates and unaware of Dante's idiosyncratic notions about them is easily persuaded that this work indeed represents the late middle ages in nuce.

Director: Fred Cavayé Cast: Dany Boon, Lawrence Arné, Noémie Schmidt In this comedy about taking obsession too far, France's maestro of laughter, Dany Boon returns to the screen as François, a middle - aged violinist and compulsive «penny pincher», whose parsimonious ways are upended by the surprise arrival of two new women in his life.

Dating My TV: A new comedy web series about two unlikely best friends looking for love in the age of The

A romantic comedy about lazy rich people on holiday in Italy in the 1930s, it stars Helen Hunt as a gold - digging woman «of a certain age» who's stalking a young married couple — for third - act catharsis reasons you can see coming — and causing snippy, gossipy society people to make snippy, gossipy comments.

The Puffy Chair is the funniest, saddest and most emotionally honest «romantic comedy» to come along in years, even if I've yet to encounter many over the age of about 35 who like the film, or even get it.

The over-hyped, pretentious modern art scene in London is satirized in this dark ensemble comedy about the double dealings and calculated relationships encircling the effort to get an aging collector to part with a valuable painting.

One of the most controversial standup comics since Lenny Bruce, Andrew «Dice» Clay has brought the vulgar comedy of hatred, obscenity, and misogyny to new lows or new highs, depending on one's age and feelings about such subjects.

Brian Cox gets the role of a lifetime in this warm comedy about living life to the full regardless of your age.

Indie legend Tamara Jenkins returns with an unusually compassionate comedy about a middle - age couple's struggle to conceive.

In his review, Turan compares the film to the classic - age comedies of Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch in noting that «making an anarchic, absurdist comedy about 2008's housing market collapse and the global financial crisis that followed is as unlikely as the collapse itself.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

Even as he amounts acting gigs — like a major role in Noah Baumbach's latest comedy about aging, art and losing one's edge, «While We're Young» as a 40 - something father who's the opposite of cool — Horovitz is proud to stick to this label of a Beastie Boy (read our review).

The director of Trading Places and The Blues Brothers talks to Jason Solomons about comedy, gaining an air of respectability with age and the making of his horror classic, An American Werewolf in London

«Fading Gigolo «has been described by Turturro as a tender, sweet comedy about an aging gigilo (Turturro) and his -LSB-...]

This sharply amusing comedy of ageing manners from Noah Baumbach, doyen of elite east coast anxiety, begins and ends with quotable observations about the terror of youth.

Red Oaks is a coming - of - age comedy set in the «go - go» 80s about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end — and the future begins.

Marco Ferreri's 1973 black comedy about four middle - aged men who decide to eat themselves to death.

But what lifts this studio comedy, Stiller's fifth feature as director, is its sincere ambivalence about fulfillment in the age of iPhones and image saturation.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining film about a middle - aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.

Ade stews her broad comedy premise into profound drama; Toni Edrmann is a movie about aging and identity, finances and workplace inequality, goofy pranks and poignant stillness.

Life of the Party (out May 10) is a comedy about a middle - aged mum (Melissa McCarthy) who heads back to college after a 20 + year absence to complete her degree.

Based on the 1968 comedy of the same name (which itself was based on an autobiographical book by Helen Beardsley), this remake is about nothing more than 2 middle - aged newlyweds, their ten kids, and a whole lot of chaos.

This largely comes from the unconventional pairing of Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway in the leading roles, an unusual duo who bring a surprisingly wonderful chemistry to the table in this light comedy about working in the modern age, seen from two unique viewpoints — the modern working woman who is looked down on by misogynistic men, and the older male seen by many as past his usefulness simply due to his age.

ENLIGHTENMENT GUARANTEED (Grade: B --RRB-: The new comedy from German filmmaker Doris Dörrie is a vaguely amusing, vaguely uplifting parable about two middle - age bothers who embark on an off - beat spiritual odyssey to Japan.

Why is it that comedies about middle - aged men regressing to their childhood so rarely, if ever, work?

At age 87, director Resnais creates a playful and often infuriating comedy about the impulsive things people do in reaction to something unexpected.

The Salt of Life (Unrated) Midlife crisis comedy about an aging guy (Gianni Di Gregorio) neglected by his wife (Elisabetta Piccolomini) who decides to find out whether he's still attractive by flirting with neighborhood ladies.

I was expecting the intricately - designed, always - paying - off - and - paying - back screenplay, and the astonishingly good fight sequences, but I wasn't expecting a final product that was so profoundly sad, a raucous, but melancholy sci - fi action - comedy about addiction, friendship, aging, the way that You Can't Go Home Again, and humanity's inalienable right to be fucking awful.

Daniel Scheinert: — a coming - of - age teen comedy about ninth - graders crashing a party that the 12th - graders are throwing, but it has a bit of a Scott Pilgrim videogame aesthetic, where we would try to take that manic energy teenagers have and try to explore it with interactivity, where they're like, «What do I do?

«The DUFF,» a pleasantly predictable cross between «Revenge of the Nerds» and «Clueless» — in the social media age — is a teen comedy about a high school girl who has a life crisis when she discovers that she's the «Designated Ugly Fat Friend.»

A Thousand Words (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and drug - related humor) Revenge comedy about a lying literary agent (Eddie Murphy) forced to stop talking when a New Age guru (Cliff Curtis) puts a curse on him.

In the U.S., Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema are betting on reliable star McCarthy to launch their latest comedy «Life of the Party,» about a middle - age mom who returns to college after her husband dumps her.

In movies, coming - of - age has become convenient shorthand for the crush of stories about the high school crowd — sci - fi, drama, comedy, horror, take your pick.

The show, which is an adaptation of a British series, is ostensibly a comedy — about aging, about the dysfunctional health - care system, about the everyday indignities of being alive — and it is often very funny.

Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Woody Harrelson star in this coming - of - age comedy - drama about an endearing but self - absorbed teen whose life goes into a tailspin after her older brother starts dating her best friend....