Sentences with phrase «nicholson plays»

In the famous horror film, Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, who becomes progressively more crazy as the film goes on.

Nicholson plays Frank Costello, an Irish - American mobster in the film, who is also the main antagonist in the film.

Nicholson plays Frank Chambers, a drifter, hitchhiker, and con man who orders a big breakfast from Twin Oaks Tavern and invents an excuse that prevents him from paying.

Julianne Nicholson plays Diane Rawlinson, Tonya's longtime trainer, who puts up with a lot.

Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper - middle - class childhood home, blue - collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar - nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father.

Nicholson plays Mac McMurphy, a small - time crook sent down for statutory rape who by playing up his natural craziness gets what he thinks is a cushy transfer to a psychiatric facility, where he leads a revolt of the patients against the system.

Nicholson plays Warren Schmidt, newly retired after a lifetime in the insurance business, and having trouble adjusting to the idle time.

Jack Nicholson plays Randle McMurphy, a criminal hoping to escape hard labor by spending his term in a mental institution.

Make no mistake, Jack Nicholson played a truly great Joker.

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.

For some reason Garrett Hedlund plays Hook as if he is imitating Christian Slater who is imitating Jack Nicholson playing Indiana Jones.

Whereas Nicholson played the Joker as a portly, slightly menacing clown, the younger Ledger plays him as a dangerous psychopath with makeup by Francis Bacon.

He might have done better if he had focused on a single story — like, say, the Harrison Ford one, which at times resembles, to its disadvantage, the underrated «The Border» (1982), where Jack Nicholson played a border guard who becomes involved with a young Mexican mother.

Or Jack Nicholson playing a sitar.

The character Jack Nicholson played was based on accounts of Bulger and while Nicholson played him well, his «Frank Costello» can't hold a candle to the real thing!

With simultaneous projections of four screens, Video Quartet is a 13 - minute - long compilation of cinematic scenes emphasizing sound, including Jack Nicholson playing the piano in Five Easy Pieces, Meryl Streep on the violin, and Ella Fitzgerald singing — sampled and assembled into an original musical composition.

Not exact matches

He is asked to play a focal point character; actors like Nicholson, Day - Lewis, and Shannon are free to play the biggest possible version of themselves while orbiting.

While Tottenham, who currently sit eight points behind leaders Leicester City with only three games to play, know that they can not afford another slip up if they are to win their first league title since 1961, and Bill Nicholson's famous double - winning «glory glory» team.

It could be that Nicholson just hasn't had enough time to build a rep.. At Overland High in Aurora, Colo., where he played only one season, he displayed more virtuosity on the saxophone than on the hardwood.

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By Paul Nicholson March 4 — The five - year long New York court case following the sale of Liverpool Football Club to Fenway Sports Group revealed this week former owner George Gillett Jr is still paying # 125,000 a month in debt repayments for a loan secured against the club, and that the new owners felt that due to the aging playing squad the # 295 million price was in fact an overpayment for the asset.

And, as inspired by Jack Nicholson, all crying and no play makes Tall Mom a crazy girl.

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Anton Furst's production design is so evocative that one expects to meet a fiend on the order of Dr. Mabuse, Fritz Lang's master criminal, rather than D.C. Comics» Joker, who, though brilliantly played by Jack Nicholson, simply isn't up to the apocalyptic grandeur of the decor.

Much of the action seems grafted on almost as an afterthought, and Batman (Keaton) plays far too small a role in the proceedings; Burton clearly identified more with the Joker (Jack Nicholson) and apportioned screen time as such.

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.

Clark Gable stars as a Salvation Army preacher who rescues a socialite (Joan Crawford) from a suicide attempt in this romance based on Kenyon Nicholson's play Torch Song.

Nicholson finally gets to play a rotten bastard without diluting his character with any redemptive qualities, while Damon sheds his sympathetic Everyman persona for the first time since «The Talented Mr. Ripley.»

As Gilooly, Stan will totally make you forget about The Winter Soldier, playing a scumbag for the ages (not unlike Eric Roberts in STAR 80) and Hauser steals scenes as his dimwitted friend, while Julianne Nicholson is alternately sweet and hilarious as Hardin's timid, buttoned - up trainer.

Jack Nicholson has been playing himself for years:)

Scriptwriters Hirst and Nicholson shows us palace intrigue in which no one can be trusted, the Queen has few people she can rely on, she still gets marriage proposals from men of all ages and Sir Walter Raleigh is played by an Errol Flynn - type sailor, Clive Owen.

And of course how could I forget Jack Nicholson who plays — you guessed it, the part he was meant to play — a fucking pompous, asshole gangster.

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.

Last year in a GQ interview, director Francis Ford Coppola, who had worked with De Niro and Pacino in their prime on The Godfather movies, accused them, along with Jack Nicholson, of getting lazy and playing it safe.

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.

It also, funnily enough, already portrays the fictional version (via Jack Nicholson) of the real - life person Depp plays: James «Whitey» Bulger, one of America's most notorious mobsters.

Michael Keaton plays the caped crusader and faces off against the unforgettable performance of Jack Nicholson as the Joker.

All of which is reflected in Nicholson's phenomenal central performance, for Bobby is himself a kind of actor, playing at being ugly, mean and self - sufficient in a doomed effort to disguise his absolute emotional emptiness, feeling himself exposed layer by layer as the film approaches its devastating climax.

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.

In fact, Ethan Hawke seems to have channeled his good - hearted dope from the latter movie to play Sully, a septic tank cleaner who plans to steal a mobster's stash to pay for embryonic technology that promises a smarter baby for he and his wife (Julianne Nicholson).

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.

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.

The new film will pull 79 - year - old Nicholson from a seven - year dry spell to play a prankster, absentee dad who publicly humiliates his joyless daughter (Wiig) and forces her to reevaluate her life's priorities.

The surprisingly deep cast features Ethan Hawke and Julianne Nicholson (August: Osage County, 2013) as parents to son Jude played by Asa Butterfield (Hugo, 2011).

The audience is used to seeing how the mind plays out in the world, but in this film, we see the world from Jack Nicholson's perspective.

Most of this is due to the screen presence of a steady stream of talented actors: in addition to Streep and Shephard, we get their 3 daughters played by Julia Roberts (Barbara), Julianne Nicholson (Ivy) and Juliette Lewis (Karen); Ewan McGregor and Abigail Breslin as Roberts» husband and daughter; Margo Martindale (Violet's sister), her husband Chris Cooper (Charles) and their son Benedict Cumberbatch.

Jared Leto, in a small, mostly tangential role playing The Joker, is a push at best; he won't make anyone forget Heath Ledger's iconic turn any time soon — or Jack Nicholson's and Cesar Romero's for that matter.

Pairing Tracey Letts «Pulitizer Prize and Tony Award - winning play with an outstanding ensemble cast ranging from awards - nominated veterans to rising young stars — Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard, Misty Upham — it's hard to fathom the material not working.

He's closer to the Romulan Nero in Star Trek than to the gold standard of big screen comic villains, the Joker (whether played by Jack Nicholson or the late Heath Ledger).