Same Kind of Different Me is a 2017 American
Christian drama film directed by Michael Carney starring Greg Kinnear, Renee Zellweger, and Djimon Hounsou.
Not exact matches
It is an explicitly
Christian drama which proclaims Christ as Lord and Savior, affirms the power of prayer, and emphasizes the reality and danger of Satan — not the usual ingredients for a successful Hollywood
film.
Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner collaborating with David O. Russell («Silver Linings Playbook») pretty much made this comedy
drama a lock once it was announced, but the finished product was a lot of fun thanks to the spirited performances and Russell's active
film - making style.
Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form
drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (
Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the
films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.
Is this intended to be a devoutly
Christian film a la God's Not Dead, or is it more of a historical
drama using Biblical figures?
A heavy
drama boasting an all - star ensemble (including Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling,
Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, and more) playing men who watch the world burn to ashes around them from a credit and housing disaster only they saw coming, the
film operates in a dark world of complex real estate jargon and impending Wall Street doom.
We've got new posters to share for these upcoming
films: Out of the Furnace — The new revenge
drama from Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) starring
Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Zoe Saldana, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, and Woody Harrelson...
Also in the prestige category of
films we haven't seen yet but have Oscar bait written all over them: Boy Erased, the
drama about a young
Christian man who goes through gay conversion therapy.
There is virtually no precedent for this
film, with past
Christian movies looking to inspire, move, or awaken with sentimental family
drama, Biblical stories, and apocalyptic tales of the Rapture.
A mere 24 hours before this
film gets quietly released in limited theaters, Wrekin Hill has finally released an official US poster (via IMDb) for The Flowers of War, the Zhang Yimou - directed WWII
drama starring
Christian Bale that was China's Best Foreign
Film Oscar entry.
This
drama is more polished and less saccharine than more overtly
Christian films like God's Not Dead and War Room.
The evening's first winner was
Christian Bale (whose shaggy mug underscored his given name), who won a best supporting actor
drama award for his work in the
film.
Like O'Hehir, I've come to this conclusion after two weeks of preparation for the 50th New York Film Festival — a time in which I've seen a great many
films, from Antonio Mendez Esparza's quietly powerful Here and There to Cristian Mungiu's riveting yet low - key Beyond the Hills to
Christian Petzold's modest character
drama Barbara.
Likely to be Germany's submission to the foreign
film awards competition, the
drama takes an interesting point of view and the leading performance by
Christian Friedel is engrossing.