Sentences with phrase «dern playing»

He also directed Dern and Jack Nicholson in the movie, «The King of Marvin Gardens» which also famously switched types — Nicholson playing the meeker character and Dern playing the more boisterous one.

Northern Borders is a coming - of - age movie like no other, with Academy Award - nominee Bruce Dern playing a grandfather who...

Laura Dern plays a teenager anxious to experience the pleasures of sexual contact.

Like Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt (another Payne peepshow into disappointed and disappointing middle Americans), Dern plays a deer caught in the headlights of his own insignificance.

Bruce Dern plays the lead, Will Forte is supporting and Bob Odenkirk's name appears in the credits.

In «Nebraska,» Bruce Dern plays a man with dementia - that's a plus.

Laura Dern plays mom to Tony and Mary, but she is so disoriented by grief, that she often thinks her oldest son is still returning home someday.

Dern plays Keaton's wife Ethel Kroc.

Dern plays Lynn Nash, Dennis's widowed mother who raised him and his nine - year - old son Connor.

Bruce Dern plays an old man suffering from dementia who believes he has won a million dollars in one of those magazine subscription scams.

During the Los Angeles premiere of Downsizing, Laura Dern played coy when asked by Entertainment Tonight if she'd be making a cameo as Dr. Ellie Sattler.

HBO also nabbed distribution for her latest drama, «The Tale,» where Dern plays a woman forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship.

Laura Dern plays Fox as an adult, as she investigates what happened to her as a young teen.

Bruce Dern plays the sleazy, blackmailing detective to whom The Driver is the ultimate catch, going so far as to blackmail a local crime outfit to hire The Driver in order to sting him.

Bruce Dern plays Woody Grant, a man who's just won a million dollars - or so he thinks.

A wild - eyed Bruce Dern plays the war - wounded drunk Woody.

Dern plays a lawyer for a man (Jared Harris) fighting his employer for worker's compensation.

Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern play estranged siblings David and Jason, the former a depressive late - night - radio talk show host, the latter an extroverted con man; when Jason drags his younger brother to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real - estate scam, events spiral toward tragedy.

In «The Incredible Two - Headed Transplant,» Bruce Dern plays Dr. Roger Girard, a scientist obsessed with his «work» — his work, of course, being head transplantation.

Laura Dern plays a long - lost girlfriend and Rebecca Hall is a pregnant neighbor with an absent husband.

Dern plays the ex-wife of Woody Harrelson's character in the comedy and Hines portrays her sister.

Laura Dern plays Resistance officer Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, while Benecio Del Toro plays DJ, «a shady character of unclear allegiances,» whose real name hasn't been revealed yet (insane conspiracy theory time: what if he's somehow playing The Collector and the MCU is also the Star Wars universe?

In the first segment, Laura Dern plays a lawyer whose desperate client (Jared Harris) is getting screwed out of his workman compensation.

Not exact matches

The film will debut with its original cast, including the late Carrie Fisher, as well as introduce some new characters played by Laura Dern, Benicio Del Toro and Kelly Marie Tran.

She demonstrates obvious kinship with the characters played by Molly Shannon in «Year of the Dog» (which Mr. White wrote and directed) and Laura Dern in the HBO series «Enlightened» (which he created).

Playing father and son is the unlikely pair of Bruce Dern and Will Forte (MacGruber!).

Taylor to the creepy caretaker played by Bruce Dern!)

Written by Alex Ross Perry (who's maybe the last human being on Earth whose name you'd expect to see in the closing credits) and filled with all of the sincerity that he's left out of the savagely caustic screenplays he's written for himself, «Nostalgia» begins with an insurance agent named Daniel (John Ortiz) visiting Ronald, a curmudgeonly old hoarder played by Bruce Dern.

There are a few notable cameos: Jonah Hill, Amber Tamblyn, Bruce Dern, Tom Savini, Robert Carradine, and Franco Nero (who played the lead character in the unrelated 1966 film, Django).

Benicio was joined on the panel by returning cast members Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey, John Boyega, who is Finn, and Gwendoline Christie, who plays the formidable Captain Phasma, and newcomers Kellie Marie Tran as Resistance mechanic Rose and Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo.

The father's emotional incapacity and stubborness coupled with his fragility is finely played by Bruce Dern and Will Forte as the long suffering son whose own humdrum life is of no interest to his self - absorbed dad is also a delight.

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The would - be adoptive mother, played by Laura Dern, further complicates the issue by not being a cruel child - beater who wants the monthly state payments, but a loving, sensitive mother who would probably be great for Lucy.

Much of the fun comes from «Star Wars's» new cowboy pilot, Oscar Isaacs's Poe Dameron, and his tussles with killjoy rebel leaders Leia and a vice admiral played by Laura Dern, who should be in every movie.

Goggins» wonderfully - played Chris Mannix, son of a famous Southern rebel, picks away at Warren's calm nature by reminding him of the horrible conditions he faced as a black man; later, Warren does the same with Dern's Gen. Smithers by describing the sexual brutality he inflicted upon Smithers» son after the war.

Besides a full dose of Harrelson just being Harrelson for a full - length feature, Laura Dern is playing totally against type.

It simply seems to believe that the characters» most identifiable traits, a subplot about Bernard's grandfather (played by Bruce Dern) falling in love, the growing admiration and affection between the teens, and a story about politics that has nothing to say about politics will be enough.

There are two bounty hunters, a former union soldier (Samuel L. Jackson) and sadist named The Hangman (Kurt Russell), Russell's prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a new sheriff (Walton Goggins), an executioner (Tim Roth), a stranger (Michael Madsen), an old confederate soldier (Bruce Dern), and a Mexican cabin worker named Bob (Demian Bichir)... broad character types are big part of the western genre and the Tarantino delights in playing with them.

Oscar - nominated Dern will play Lynn Nash, Dennis's widowed mother who raised him and his nine - year - old son Connor.

Luke Hemsworth plays the titular character with a supporting cast that includes legend Bruce Dern, Trace Adkins, and Kris Kristofferson.

And from scene to scene, Johnson gives veteran characters (Chewbacca and R2 - D2 especially) and those who debuted in «The Force Awakens» enough screen time to showcase them at their best while also introducing compelling new faces (including a heroic maintenance worker, Kelly Marie Tran's Rose Tico; a serene and tough vice admiral in the Resistance, played by Laura Dern; a sort of «safecracker» character played by Benicio Del Toro).

The biggest defining detail of this new character played by Laura Dern is that she has pink hair in Star Wars: Episode VIII.

In adapting Strayed's memoir, Nick Hornby has brought both Cheryl's story and her character to vivid life, both though her solitary, reflective journey and through her relationship with her late mother (played by the great Laura Dern).

Amy Adams plays the wife of Hoffman's character, and Laura Dern, Jesse Plemons and David Warshofsky are in the cast, too.

2017's «Downsizing» broke Payne's four - feature streak of securing acting nominations for the actors playing his alienated male characters — Thomas Haden Church, Jack Nicholson, George Clooney, and Bruce Dern.

All too often Forte plays a broken record of perma - embarrassed groans; some of his scenes with Dern feel like better rewrites of The Guilt Trip.

Laura Dern, in what then counted as a deviation from a more squeaky - clean career path, plays Lula, his sex - and excitement - starved sweetheart.

His new partner in the movie is played by Bruce Dern, who distinguished himself in all sorts of character roles, usually as a psychotic, before finally graduating to leads.

For the next two hours we're confined to a remote haberdashery, where our tricksome troupe are forced to wait out a terrible blizzard along with a second, even more dubious crew (played by Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Demian Bichir and Bruce Dern).

I could go on and on about Bruce Dern's performance as an old man duped into believing a marketing scheme is actually promising him a million dollars if he travels back to his native Nebraska to claim it, but the truth is his son, played with affable sincerity by Will Forte, provides a vantage point that is easy to relate to.