Sentences with phrase «about hapless»

The rated - R adult animated film's synopsis reads: «The Adventures of Drunky is about a hapless barfly named Drunky (Sam Rockwell)....

Equally compelling are three films, the most riveting of which is «Willie» (1985), an 82 - minute documentary in color and black - and - white about a hapless prison recidivist named Willie Jaramillo.

One of the funnier stories on investment trading that I've come across is this one about the hapless commodities trader.

Megamind (PG for action and mild epithets) Animated adventure in 3 - D about a hapless, evil villain (Will Ferrell) who decides to align himself with the forces of good after the demise of his longtime superhero adversary (Brad Pitt) when he unwittingly creates a diabolical scoundrel (Jonah Hill) bent on world domination.

A lurid, bludgeoning, and ultraviolent (i.e., routine) turn - of - the - millennium story about a hapless misfit who joins the crew of a bulging - muscled, tattooed, but savvy dealer bent on seizing control of the Reykjavik drug trade, it's sleazily enjoyable and completely amoral fare, and should make a nice calling card for Axelsson when he makes the rounds in Hollywood.

Four Lions (R for sexual references and pervasive profanity) Jihad comedy, set in Great Britain, about the hapless antics of an inept, home - grown terrorist cell comprised of a quartet (Adeel Akhtar, Kay Van Novak, Nigel Lindsay and Riz Ahmed) of discontented Muslims bent on wreaking havoc with explosives.

But in 1996, Levy got a chance to break fresh ground in «Waiting for Guffman,» a «mockumentary» about a hapless community theater group.

But, like all comedies, everything turns out okay — a running gag about the hapless Jim whose sexual misadventures form the movie's backbone is that all of his disastrous missteps turn out right in the end.

You've heard people utter this phrase about a hapless dater — or would - be dater.

Forget about hapless mates being dragged around by macho mammoth killers.

Spurs totally outplayed Jose Mourinho's side and huge questions were asked about the hapless display.

Ex-Tottenham Hotspur and Norway international Erik Thorstvedt appears in the Norwegian film The Liverpool Goalkeeper, a 2010 movie about a hapless 13 - year - old goalkeeper and an elusive trading card.

Not exact matches

When you think about patent litigation today, you might picture scurrilous patent trolls lurking about, hoping to sue hapless small companies on frivolous charges of patent infringement.

Both metropolitan areas have said, for example, that short term rentals procured through Airbnb and VRBO are essentially against the law, as they cheat cities out of millions of dollars of tax revenues, but also because they aren't regulated the way hotels are, and could be fire traps or have other safety considerations about which hapless customers are not likely to be aware.

I know well whereof Peter Kreeft speaks, and in fact have a rather guilty conscience about purveying some of the errors of the Received Wisdom myself from time to time until my further reading informed me how deceived I (and my hapless students) had been.

So...... about tonight's game; Arsenal: hapless, hopeless City: dominant, confident BUT, there's a thing both teams have in common; their respective performances is a true reflection of their manager's abilities... For anyone to still want wenger at arsenal, that person has to really hate arsenal, be a troll, or a consummate idiot (I feel sorry to say this)...... If only Stan would text him his sack letter this night... (he should send it at least twice, along with two emails too.....

i am beginning to think that we will need a manager in before the end of the season... the summer will be disrupted by world cup so having someone interact with team and understand its weaknesses before season closes seems essential to me... of course that would imply that the greedy owner and hapless board are already thinking about alternatives and i worry that this is not the case but once we are out of the europa there will be no excuses even for these feckless characters let alone the last remaining wenger junkies on this site..

anything but a win will make 4th place an increasingly distant goal... to be honest we should be able to beat this lot woy has tightened them up but hardly turned them in to big hitters but i do nt think wenger can motivate the team anymore so its all about whether players show up on the night... wilshere needs to get on the ball more partnered with elneny who is probably the most reliable of a hapless riumvirate, kosalinac and debuchy given roles in a back 4... if sanchez wants to showcase his skills i can see a 2 1 victory... otherwise could be looking at another embarassing loss... pathetic that we have fallen to this level of speculation

At times against Cheltenham Mark Noble was playing centre back as the rest had gone walk about and Cheltenham were unlucky not to score when the hapless Masuaku and forever ambling Ogbonna were made to look foolish under an average cross.

wot he does nt realise after skimping for years and havin great success with cesc, song, deni, clichy, gibbs and all the lower end purchases is that if he were to spend 50m on 2/3 world class players we would still the lowest spenders in this category be a huge margin.i am not some1 who needs a signing for the sake of it so i can get excited about all things arsenal, we genuinely need a goalscorer and midfield enforcer, and not just cos songs away, as a backup incase he gets injured.im even willing to endure the hapless almunia if hed do this much ice i couldnt believe adebayour wearin the arsenal top, the chap is a few pence short of a pound

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

This incredibly irresponsible article about sexting portrays young males as hapless victims of their own sexual and approval needs and young females as those responsible for redirecting the young men into more appropriate behaviors.

Rumblings of discontent in Tory Remainia have revived chatter about a new political force linking together certain Labour rightwingers, the hapless Liberal Democrats and liberal Tories.

For all the talk about the rampant dysfunction in the West Wing and the leaks, the Achilles heel of the Trump Administration has always been its hapless press operation.

Hapless leftie pictured cycling in his grey tracksuit ahead of another day of announcements about his new frontbench

The hapless leftie was pictured in his grey tracksuit ahead of another day of announcements about the new Labour frontbench as he tries to fill dozens of holes left after mass resignations earlier this year.

Think of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's hapless Michael Brown and how he discovered thousands of people were trapped in the New Orleans convention center: «I learned about it from the news reports,» he said.

It is often the men who go on and on about how smart and «inntellingent» they are that are the most hapless.

Starring Ali Zafar and Yaami Gautam, Total Siyapaa (Total Chaos) is about a series of unfortunate events that befall a good - hearted but hapless Pakistani boy while visiting his girlfriend's parents, leading to some of the funniest, chaotic and outrageous situations.

Their memories wiped by a self - inflicted dose of Rohypnol, the hapless trio must piece together the events of their debauched night, in the course of which — ER, police custody, an encounter with Mike Tyson — some very funny, very non-PC dialogue is thrown about like a game of catch.

It's a tragedy, really: According to the hapless team who made the movie, Our Paige is a relatively interesting young liberal who knows her own mind before the accident and a rather tedious, girlish conservative who fusses about keeping her hair smooth afterwards.

Kubrick's direction is as steely cold and manipulative as the régime it depicts, and we never really get to know, let alone care about, the hapless recruits on view.

American Ultra is a fast - paced action comedy about Mike (Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small - town life with his live - in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down.

Cathy turns out to be an aggressive player and, amidst acrimonious disputes with Bob about the rules of the game, manages to knock her hapless partner unconscious.

This is a movie about a Great Dane with Owen Wilson's (Fantastic Mr. Fox, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian) voice who interrupts a marital kiss between Pace (When in Rome, A Single Man) and Greer's (27 Dresses, American Dreamz) hapless suburbanites by farting in as smelly a manner as possible, and then saying to us — we can, dear god, hear Marmaduke talk — «I know it's juvenile, but it's all I've got.»

It doesn't become about the hunting and killing of these four hapless souls.

It's about the roles that men and women play, hoping to fit in but also desperate to stand out, jealous and hapless and childish.

Luke Wilson's hapless (and literal) average Joe emerges from a 500 - year hibernation to find himself the one - eyed man in the land of the unbelievably stupid: surly, hostile, smug in their self - assurance and utterly clueless about the problems created by the shitheap they're living in.

Edgar Wright has saved the best for last in the final movie of his «Cornetto» trilogy about a gang of hapless men who feel alienated from their past

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Christmas in Wonderland (PG for crude language) Holiday comedy about a couple of kids from L.A. who find a million dollars of fake money in a Canadian mall and go on a shopping spree while being chased by a hapless gang of counterfeiters and a Canadian Mountie.

But the movie's coyness in committing to a point of view about the assassination and its focus on the hapless interviewer rather than the killer ultimately rob the movie of interest and meaning.

As Florence, an all - purpose «assistant» who helps the hapless Greenberg housesit while his brother's family is out of the country, Gerwig functions as an opposing force, as open and optimistic about human nature as he is sour and misanthropic.

Legendary guitarist Mark Knopfler helps drive the epic «17 Hills,» a song about a pair of hapless lovers and a jailbreak.

Matthew Broderick was a hapless schoolteacher in «Election»; Jack Nicholson was an angst - ridden widower in «About Schmidt» and Paul Giamatti was a social - misfit, wine connoisseur in «Sideways».

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.

More diverse roles followed: the lovelorn time - traveller in Richard Curtis romcom About Time; the dead boyfriend in the Be Right Back episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror; the hapless musician in Frank Sidebottom - inspired road movie Frank.

No doubt in another lame attempt at shock, The Cottage is also needlessly misogynistic, as the women in it have no function beyond the role of one - dimensional ball - breaking shrew: endless references to pussified Peter's nagging «fat pig» of a wife are bandied about while Tracey screams obscenities at the top of her lungs and emasculates our hapless anti-heroes at every turn.

Resembling the Sally doll from A Nightmare Before Christmas, Emily begins to behave like Regan from The Exorcist, talking to an invisible friend that says nasty things and causes her to behave poorly in front of guests (she even tells a hapless, Stephen King-esque local constable (Dylan Baker) that he's about to die).

There's Something About Mary without heart, timing, intelligence, freshness, you name it, Along Came Polly casts Mary's leading man Stiller as a risk management professional but doesn't make good on the comic possibilities of his patented hapless stick - in - the - mud shtick.

Sally Rogers as Wade's tough - talking wife Alice and Bronwyn James as his «mopey» daughter fight back against the male cabal, which is really more pathetic than oppressive — Tony Hirst's hapless alcoholic, Simon Rouse's semi-deaf codger, Craig Parkinson's mordant policeman, and Andy Nyman's former assistant hangman, defined by one ill - judged comment about a criminal's abnormally large privates.