Sentences with phrase «in the tangled plot»

In the tangled plot, The Dude is mistaken for another, much richer Jeff Lebowski (David Huddleston), a phony philanthropist.

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It's also a class in editing, keeping the various characters and plot threads consistently engaging and never allowing them to get tangled.

It disappointingly gets tangled up in plot contrivances, and the real issue of gifted children is just a gooey fantasy.

Woody Allen plays a magician named Sid Waterman, who gets tangled up in a plot to capture a suspected serial killer (Hugh Jackman), hatched by a conniving journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) eager to get the Scoop on a career - making story.

Woody Allen steps in front of the camera as a magician who gets tangled up in a plot to capture a suspected serial killer in Scoop.

This is a movie in dire need of a better script, because not only does it lack personality, but it's too complicated for its own ogod — a tangled mess of half - baked ideas and telegraphed plot twists that never properly explains anything.

Corman directs from a script by Howard Browne, who was a reporter in Chicago when the real event occurred, that takes in the big picture and charts the stories and trajectories of over a dozen characters tangled in the plot to kill Moran.

«The Promise» is pretty much a mess of a movie; the acting is overwrought, the plot is too tangled to play like anything but a plot, and although I know you can create terrific special effects at home in the basement on your computer, the CGI work in this movie looks like it was done with a dial - up connection.

Few revelations or genuine surprises arise as the caper unfolds, but there are a few amusing tangles in the plot.

Its labyrinthine plot takes in three separate but just - about interconnected mysteries, with Joaquin Phoenix's shambolic private eye Doc Sportello pulling on all the threads from somewhere on the outskirts of the tangled web.

As the rogue CIA agent who gets tangled up in a conspiracy plot to assassinate the president of Mexico, Sands is not only the most important character in the film, but he's the most interesting one as well.

They have created an intricate script with tangled plot lines that weave in threads from both of the proceeding films.

I found three errors in the Kindle version of J. K. Rowling's «The Cuckoo's Calling» (under the pen name Robert Galbraith) and found the last chapter or so such a tangled web of plot explanations it was bare readable.

Marie Force, a New York Times bestseliing author, shines at creating living, breathing characters and tangling them in a believable, scintilliating plot.

Right now, my thought is to offer three services: Developmental Editing: tangling my fingers in the plotting of your fiction manuscript when you're getting started or when you have a synopsis or if you've started and gotten stuck.

Final Fantasy IX follows the adventures of bandit Zidane and his motley crew of companions that you pick up along the way, thrusting the player into a tangled web of political intrigue, bungled kidnapping plots and dark secrets and connections from the past that threaten the very existence of the planet (Gaia, in this case)... So far, so very Final Fantasy.