Sentences with phrase «nicholson gave»

Jack Nicholson gave one of his best performances as «Bad Ass» Buddusky, an astonishingly foul - mouthed and cynical Navy lifer who pulls guard duty and has to escort a hapless Navy thief named Meadows (Randy Quaid) to eight years of hard time at Leavenworth.

Though Adrien Brody won the Oscar for «The Pianist,» which was a huge shock, I have always felt that Jack Nicholson gave one of his finest performances in «About Schmidt.»

One other Greavise quote I always liked was when Bill Nicholson gave him a rest for a league match at Southampton the week before an important Cup semi final against Nottingham Forest.

Nicholson gives a haunting and ravaged performance, and Penn shows real flair — for visual suspense, for holding his actors in the throes of slow - motion breakdown.

It is written with such a simplicity, yet it intrigues our knowledge because William Nicholson give us a spy tale and a mystical fable taking us into a journey with no destination, but self discovering.

Not exact matches

Read API Co-Founder Barbara Nicholson's full tribute and join her in remembering Tine through giving.

Our doula gave us a copy of Attached at the Heart [by API cofounders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson] as part of our gift basket.

Past Events April 4, 2009 — Book signing at Davis Kidd bookstore, Green Hills Mall, Nashville, TN 2:00 p.m. Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker will sign their book and give a short talk.

She notes a further 2,800 avoidable patient deaths have been registered at 14 other NHS trusts and calls on Nicholson to quit given his previous role as chief executive of West Midlands Strategic Health Authority.

Nicholson has been met with skepticism by some Republicans in the past given his previous tenure as president of the College Democrats of America.

Frustrated by the lack of information available about industry research at the university, Gervais's first insight into pharmaceutical research came toward the end of his PhD studies at McGill University when he attended a seminar given by invited speaker Don Nicholson, a senior director and head of biology at Merck Frosst Canada [Merck Frosst is sponsor of Next Wave Canada].

Also I'd take Something's Got ta Give with Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson.

On the whole, however, there's enough excitement, thrills and laughs to please fans of the genre — and Nicholson just gives it all an added boost.

Alas, Baldwin gives the strong impression that he has, Nicholson - like, become too large a character in his own right to convincingly play anyone else, at least in non-comic roles.

In «The Departed,» Scorsese once again puts us on the mean streets of... Boston... to tell the story of Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio), an undercover cop given the difficult and dangerous task of getting tight with Irish mob boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson).

The script — credited to the tag team of William Nicholson, Richard LaGravenese, and Joel and Ethan Coen — is a little on the nose for my taste, short on the kind of stray narrative curlicues that give movies some extra texture.

Bethany, along with her friend Alana Blanchard (played by Jack Nicholson's daughter Lorraine) are inseparable water buddies who are homeschooled by Bethany's mom (Helen Hunt) in order to give them more time to surf.

Screenwriters Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth also give Nicholson one of the film's creepiest scenes, where Bulger seeks her out in her bedroom and commits a form of psychological rape merely by stroking her face (pictured below).

«Something's Got ta Give» (Columbia) Writer - director Nancy Meyers («What Women Want») crafted this story about an aging playboy specifically for Jack Nicholson.

Robbie, Stan, Allison Janney (deliciously despicable as Harding's embittered mom, LaVona), and Julianne Nicholson (as coach Diane Rawlinson) play their characters in the past, and in the present day, where they talk to the camera and give differing accounts of what happened.

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Not the fault of the actors but when you have the excellent Danny Huston (30 Days of Night) playing an evil German officer then there is the potential to create a proper villain, a mad genius with grand plans for world domination during a time of great sorrow for the rest of the world, and instead his General Ludendorff is resorted to cracking open gas tablets that give him Hulk - like strength for no real reason and never really pays off in any way; in one scene he locks a group of people in a room with a deadly nerve gas and then decides to snort on his magic capsule before cackling and running off - camera like Jack Nicholson's Joker.

Video introductions from Shyamalan preface four full - frame deleted scenes — which, according to the cover art, «reveal clues to the movie's twists and turns» — totalling 11 minutes, the longest of which finds Brendan Gleeson giving his everything to a monologue that more than likely motivated him to accept the otherwise unmemorable role of August Nicholson in the first place.

How right to admire Diane Keaton's work in «Something's Got ta Give» without feeling obligated to give Jack Nicholson his 13th nominatGive» without feeling obligated to give Jack Nicholson his 13th nominatgive Jack Nicholson his 13th nomination.

Features interviews given by Kubrick's long - time producer Jan Harlan, Jack Nicholson, Sydney Pollack etc..

Teri Garr is fond of telling the story of how Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson came to name their Monkees feature: they hoped for a sequel so they could advertise it as «from the people who gave you Head.»

To be honest, there isn't a bad performance in the lot, but I'd be remiss not to give credit to Nicholson and Margo Martindale, who manage to shine in front of this all star assembly.

Nicholson and Lange fans will enjoy their performances enough to forgive the lackadaisical nature of some scenes, and those looking for early Mamet scripted flicks might want to give this well - written adaptation a shot.

Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kevin Bacon, Rory Cochrane, Corey Stoll, and ladies Dakota Johnson, Julianne Nicholson and Juno Temple give Director Scott Cooper his most impressive ensemble to date.

Release: Friday, September 18, 2015 [Theater] Written by: William Nicholson; Simon Beaufoy Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur There are a great many A-list names attached to this cinematic treatment of a particularly dark chapter in the history of Mt. Everest, yet the only one that really matters is the one given to the mountain.

He was cast against type as David Staebler, an uptight, near autistic radio monologuist, while Bruce Dern was given what would normally have been the Nicholson role, playing David's brother, Jason, a comic, megalomaniacal hustler with a head full of outsize dreams and a dangerous connection to the mob.

Even given the usual Happy Madison stable of filmmakers and performers, keep in mind who has appeared in cameo or even co-starring roles in those movies: Jack Nicholson was in Anger Management.

Without spoiling anything, Wan's «muse» Patrick Wilson is given something much more dynamic than his usual straight - man role and does fairly well with it — even if he fails to reach that Nicholson «Jack Torrance» level of slow - burn mania.

Jesse Plemons, Kevin Bacon, Corey Stoll, and Peter Saarsgard shine in smaller and more limited roles; their female counterparts — Dakota Johnson, Julianne Nicholson, and Juno Temple, are given less to do but still wring a lot out of their scenes.

By Emma Steele 2017-11-06T09:19:21 +00:00 November 6th, 2017 Categories: Festival Tags: Charles Krug, Charles Krug Legendary Filmmaker, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Nancy Meyers, Something's Got ta Give, The Intern, The Parent Trap 0 Comments

By Emma Steele 2017-11-06T09:19:21 +00:00 November 6th, 2017 Categories: Festival Tags: Charles Krug, Charles Krug Legendary Filmmaker, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Nancy Meyers, Something's Got ta Give, The Intern, The Parent Trap

GIVE12.jpg Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson star in Columbia Pictures sophisticated romantic comedy Something s Got ta Give.

There was very strong support for Jack Nicholson in the wonderful comedy «Something's Got ta Give» but all the love for that film went to Diane Keaton.

I'm giving her to you,» Jack Nicholson (who doesn't have her to give) tells Art Garfunkel (who doesn't know how to take her).

The wonderful Hope Davis gave a brilliant performance in «About Schmidt» but everyone was talking about Nicholson (rightly so) come Oscar time.

With a sure thing in Keaton, and bolstered by another perfect performance by Jack Nicholson (Anger Management, About Schmidt), in a script deliberately written with both of them in mind, Something's Got ta Give is an impressive personality driven piece that is easy to like, mostly because we like the stars enough to forgive the heavy contrivances that necessitate the traditional romantic comedy mold.

Her single mom (Julianne Nicholson) doesn't approve of her daughter's determination to «give it all away to God.»

Oscar - winner Ronald Harwood and twice - nominated William Nicholson urge industry to give writers credit they deserve

Following the same basic plot as Infernal Affairs, mob boss Frank Costello (Nicholson) has his adopted son Colin Sullivan (Damon) infiltrate the Massachusetts State Police to give him a man on the inside.

Despite the overstuffed cast, Nicholson is given two roles, with his secondary one as some sort of rootin» - tootin», faux - cowboy, lush businessman in Vegas.

Leba Hertz: In this film about three illegal high school immigrants, the stories are timely, and Julianne Nicholson and Dennis O'Hare give riveting performances and are the driving forces behind the story.

A small role in Robert Altman's «Thieves Like Us» brought Fletcher to the attention of director Milos Forman, who gave her the juicy role of Nurse Ratched, the villain in this Ken Kesey allegory about personal freedom that co-starred Jack Nicholson.

Cranston is doing a loose riff on what Nicholson did in the original Ashby film, playing the rebellious, hard - drinking, tough - talking member of the trio; Fishburne is the now - religious man who hasn't lost the passion of his youth, he's merely channeled it into something else; Carell sometimes looks like a shell of a man, giving the most subdued performance, and one of the best, of his career.

What matters is that Nicholson is never provided with an opportunity to give Harriet any depth or dimension.

Kubrick was also happy to give his actors full latitude to improvise and Jack Nicholson is in full scenery chewing mode, his descent into madness making for mesmerising viewing.