Sentences with phrase «actors in the central role»

Jenkins casts three different actors in the central role, each of them exquisite at capturing the confusion of growing up gay in a community that has little acceptance for it.

But the Safdies show a real knack for chase scenes — there's one toward the end, filmed from above, that's breathtaking — and for putting the right actor in the central role.

Not exact matches

During his tenure at Treasury, Dr. Levitt played a central role in efforts to protect the U.S. financial system from abuse and to deny terrorists, weapons proliferators, and other rogue actors the ability to finance threats to U.S. national security.

Actor / writer / producer Steve Agee was a driving force in the creation of The Bogus Witch Project before his brief appearance in Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic led to a more substantial role in the comedienne's surprise Comedy Central hit The Sarah Silverman Program.

The movie also features a number of great character actors in early roles, including David Paymer and Ed Begley Jr., although none do so much with so little as James Hong, who shines in an amusing sequence as the co-pilot of a puddle jumper transporting Vince and Sheldon to Central America.

Hall brings a worried, intelligent gravity to the central role, and if the drama doesn't stretch the actor's range in its opening hours, we know he's capable of much more, should later installments of «Safe» require a wider variety of emotional colors from him.

The Pink Panther, meanwhile, asks us not just to accept an actor besides Peter Sellers in the role of bumbling French inspector Jacques Clouseau, but to believe that star Steve Martin, whose career took a sharp left turn into New Yorker country about 15 years ago, can still work magic in the type of deranged slapstick romp that hasn't been central to his career since the early»90s.

As for the actors in less central roles, Hank Azaria is, predictably enough, very funny as horribly be-toupeed porn auteur Gerald Damiano, and Chris Noth is chilling, but also strangely sympathetic and as interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriage.

American comedic actor Danny McBride plays the central role in the ads as Dundee's long lost doofus son returning to the outback to save his dad.

By now, the three central actors have settled solidly into their roles, adding subtle edges in every scene.

But the introspection offered by this many - layered approach would fall flat without the strength of its central performances, and while a number of Anderson's staple actors make appearances — Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, among others — Ralph Fiennes steals the film as M. Gustave H. Achieving the subtle distinction between delivering a huge performance without being over-the-top, Fiennes balances his theatrical gravitas with his rarely - executed gift for comedy, making it impossible to imagine anyone else in the role.

Mirren has come onboard as an actor hired to play a central role in the intended scheme.

David Strathairn — One of America's most respected stage and screen actors, David plays the central role in The Sensation of Sight, and also serves as one of the film's producers.

Academy Award Best Actor nominee David Strathairn plays the central role of Finn in The Sensation of Sight

Ted Levine, one of my favorite character actors, plays Sonya's protective commanding officer, Annabeth Gish is the widow of a landowner who discovers her husband's underworld activities after his death, Matthew Lillard and Emily Rios are reporters, and Catalina Sandino Moreno is Marco's wife, who plays a more central role in the story as it unfolds.

Given the superhero genre's ever - more - central role in the pop - cinematic imagination, it was perhaps inevitable that some actors would have to start performing double duty.

Considering the central and multifaceted role that women in the society plays as an actor that influence constructively their environment, the National Committee for the Prevention of Traffic Accidents (CNPAC) and the National Union of Women of Morocco (UNFM), co-organize the 1st World Congress on woman and road safety under the theme» Women and Road Safety: project for society.»

Central to the exhibition will be fragments of the artist's writings and footages and videos as well as short films from the oeuvre of French director Jean Michel Bruyère in which Samb plays the role of an actor at the service of Bruyère's durational performance - installations.