Sentences with phrase «american drama film»

She reached her greatest success with the faith - based American drama film Miracles from Heaven starring Jennifer Garner.

Black Snake Moan is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Craig Brewer, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Timberlake.

Magic Mike is a 2012 American drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew The 45 - year - old actress looked absolutely fantastic while leaving a party with husband Joe Manganiello in Los Angeles on Saturday night.

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Since then, White has brought her genius to an incomparable variety of dramas and comedies, in both television and film, published books, and received eight Emmy Awards, three American Comedy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy.

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy - drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends The Rules is a way of dating that really works!

The Switch is a 2010 American comedy - drama film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck.

Gayby is a 2012 American romantic comedy - drama film based on the 2010 short film of the same name.

Last Chance Harvey is a 2008 British - American romantic drama film written and directed by Joel Hopkins.

Frequency is a 2000 American science fiction thriller drama film.

Lucky Them is a 2013 American comedy - drama film directed by Megan Griffiths.

Browse our personals now it's Single Ladies is an American comedy - drama television series that debuted on May 30, 2011, as a two - hour television film on VH1 Created by Stacy A

Biography: Nichole Hiltz is an American film and television actress probably most known for her role as Brandi Shannon on USA Network's drama In Plain Sight.

Her more popular films include Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) with MikeNichole Hiltz is an American film and television actress probably most known for her role as Brandi Shannon on USA Network's drama In Plain Sight.

The tough, satisfying French film Le Petit Lieutenant is an austere drama of the sort that rarely makes it to American screens except on cable television.

She deferred entry to university to work on TV projects in the UK and in the summer of 2007, filmed a role in the American ensemble drama RADIO CAPE COD.

Her first American film was Island in the Sun (1956) for Fox, and then Owens was loaned out to Warner Bros. to play opposite Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara (1957), one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year.

Unoriginal but entertaining minor Euro crime drama that mixes American film noir and Italian neorealism.

Dorsey's movie career ranges from heavy drama (WALK THE LINE), to lighthearted family comedy (JUST LIKE HEAVEN, Disney's GIRL VS. MONSTER, and the American Girl series MCKENNA SHOOTS FOR THE STARS), but her appearance in the Golden Globe ® and Academy Award ® nominated film MONEYBALL established her as a bona - fide star.

Danes» other film credits include Matthew Vaughn's STARDUST opposite Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer; Lajos Koltai's EVENING, opposite Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Natasha Richardson, and Vanessa Redgrave; Thomas Bezucha's THE FAMILY STONE, opposite Diane Keaton and Sarah Jessica Parker; Jonathan Mostow's TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Nick Stahl; Stephen Daldry's Academy Award ® winning drama THE HOURS, opposite Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Allison Janney, Ed Harris, and Toni Collette; Jonathan Kaplan's BROKEDOWN PALACE, opposite Kate Beckinsale; Bille August's LES MISERABLES; Theresa Connelly's POLISH WEDDING; Francis Ford Coppola's THE RAINMAKER, opposite Danny DeVito and Matt Damon; Oliver Stone's U TURN, opposite Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, and Joaquin Phoenix; Michael Pressman's TO GILLIAN ON HER 37th BIRTHDAY, opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter Gallagher; Jocelyn Moorhouse's HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT, opposite Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, and Ellen Burstyn; Billy Hopkins» I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT, opposite Jude Law; Jodie Foster's HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, opposite Robert Downey Jr., Holly Hunter, and Anne Bancroft; and Gillian Armstrong's LITTLE WOMEN, opposite Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, and Kirsten Dunst.

He returned to the Oscar race in 2014 playing the title role in Clint Eastwood's 21st century war drama American Sniper, for which he also was nominated for Best Picture, having served as a producer on the film.

In 1999, Saldana received what seemed to be the ideal first film role when she was cast as a talented but snippy dancer vying for a spot at the fictional American Ballet Company in the dance drama Center Stage.

Ramin Bahrani has enjoyed the praise of critics for each of his first three films (Man Push Cart 71, Chop Shop 83, Goodbye Solo 89), so expectations were high for his latest, an Iowa farm - set drama about a family's struggles with each other and the American Dream.

Asian actress Lisa Lu made an auspicious American film debut as Mme Sue - Mei Hung in the 1960 war drama The Mountain Road.

The kind of film that gives GLBT cinema a bad name, 200 American is an amateurish, dreadfully scripted and laughably acted «comedy - drama» that is neither intentionally funny nor dramatically impacting.

As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known trans person, Focus Features — the company distributing the film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).

Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.

The new holiday comedy - drama Almost Christmas gathers an all - star African - American cast let by Gabrielle Union and Omar Epps, plus Danny Glover, Mo'Nique, Romany Malco, Kimberly Elise and J.B. Smoove.Union also produced the film, and was...

Thanks to the vagaries of film distribution and the increasing difficulties of small films and foreign language productions to get theatrical releases, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama, which won the Best Director award at Cannes 2008, this one - week Seattle engagement at the Varsity Theatre is the film's American theatrical debut.

Stewart decision to make a drama about the imprisonment of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari — who fielded questions alongside him, as did the Mexican actor who plays him, Gael Garcia Bernal — was instigated when an appearance Bahari made in a filmed comedy sketch on «The Daily Show» was used against him when the Islamic regime accused him of being a traitor and American secret agent.

Let Me In (2010), a remake of Let the Right One In, the Swedish coming - of - age horror movie cum adolescent survival drama in the wilds of suburban civilization, is as unexpected as can be: an American revision of a celebrated European film that honors the original while translating its anxiety and unease to a distinctly American -LSB-...]

Based on a book with the same title written by Matthew Quick, the movie «Silver Linings Playbook» is a 2012 American rom - com drama that is written and directed by David O. Russell (also the director of the film «The Fighter», an Oscar - winning boxing drama).

«American Sniper» was the highest - grossing film of 2014 in the United States.The biographical drama - which stars Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL Chris...

Golden Exits; the latest film from Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Phillip, Queen of Earth), is an unnerving American ensemble drama shot on 16 mm that boasts a star - studded cast led by Emily Browning, Chloë Sevigny and indie stalwart Jason Schwartzman.

Cutler's other work includes the documentary films The War Room, A Perfect Candidate, Thin, The September Issue, The World According to Dick Cheney and Listen To Me Marlon; the documentary television series American High, Freshman Diaries, The Residents and 30 Days; and the prime time drama series Nashville.

The film succeeds as both a sports drama and as a film that strives to say something more — both about the American dream and about racism.

A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self - help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you can not see.

The talky Romanian drama «Sieranevada» lasts for 2:53, Park Chan - hook's «The Handmaiden» has two hours and 25 minutes of stylish sex and intrigue, and Maren Ade and Andrea Arnold both came up with films that meandered for 2:42 in «Toni Erdmann» and «American Honey,» respectively.

Just the third film from fascinating director J.C. Chandor, it's a look at the merits and moral compromise of the American Dream in a gritty drama set in NYC's crime - ridden 1980.

One of those swoony American dramas that explores life in all its wondrousness, this film will quickly annoy more cynical viewers.

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David Robert Mitchell's first film was The Myth Of The American Sleepover, a sensitive teenage relationships drama, and he has a knack for writing and directing youngsters.

John Huston's 1956 film of Herman Melville's whaling drama turned epic odyssey, a classic of American literature and a staple of high school and college literature courses, remains the most famous screen version of the novel.

Noticeably absent from the list are awards players like «Loving,» the Jeff Nichols film about America's interracial marriage ban, «Hidden Figures,» about African American women in the space program and the multi-generational drama «20th Century Women.»

Fox has released a trailer for a film called Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore (Ted) Melfi, a drama about the many African - American women who worked at NASA.

Fans of the Oscar - winning 2006 Irish film Once (and its more recent stage - musical adaptation) may find this American drama a little derivative, but it's a strong story in its own right.

Filmed in the Czech Republic more than two years ago, the American Depression - era drama «Serena» took a long time to get to the big screen, during which time its stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence...

What makes this disc essential is its very special supplements: the American home video debut of Peckinpah's 1966 made - for - television drama Noon Wine, an intimate 52 - minute production shot on a combination of film and videotape and broadcast on TV once.

It's directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I believe is his best noir role) a as Lt. Candella, an Italian - American police detective who takes the pursuit of small - time gangster Martin Rome (Richard Conte) personally.

Shot by Academy Award - winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, who has worked with Anderson ever since Hard Eight, scored by singer - songwriter Michael Penn, edited by the great Dylan Tichenor, who started as an apprentice on Robert Altman's movies and went on to do great films such as Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic drama went on to garner three Academy Award nominations, did reasonably well at the box office by tripling its initial investment and, more importantly, showcased the surprising talent and determination of one of the few brilliant filmmakers of American contemporary cinema.

The stop - motion animation drama played to a clunky, awkward Q&A when I saw its North American premiere at Telluride, but now that people will have seen the film in droves by Sundance 2016, one can imagine this will be an indeed special event, the first big meeting of the cult following Johnson and Kaufman's film so richly deserves.