Sentences with phrase «addled actors»

In this universe rife with inside jokes and gems disguised as throwaway lines, Guest himself appears as the wondrously detached director of the film, who asserts his authority by not asserting it when dealing with addled actors or wounded first - time screenwriters (Bob Balaban and Michael McKean).

Based on the Philip Roth novel, «The Humbling» follows an aged and addled actor (Al Pacino) and his affair with a much younger woman (Greta Gerwig).

Not exact matches

A scene where Rupert Grint (an actor looking at turning to porn), and James Buckley (copying and pasting his role from the Inbetweeners, but he is just too funny to criticise him for it), wander into a strip club is comedy gold, the drug - addled eeriness of it all exactly what this scene needs.

We are instead given a number of impressive, but token flashy performances by veteran actors in tough guy bit parts (Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper as irredeemable lifelong criminals) and newcomers in «dramatic stretches» (The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner who is good (again) but not as great as the star - makers would have you believe, and most notably, Blake Lively, excellent as a drug - addled neighborhood floozy).

: Put it this way: the first actor listed in the credits is Matt «Max Headroom» Frewer, and the movie's few laughs come from Tommy Chong as the drug - addled bus driver.

Few modern comic actors have done more for the 4/20 cause than Seth Rogen, and this festive farce may well be his most drug - addled to date.

Though Director Robert Downey Sr. could have been more disciplined — no film, for example, should feature Malcolm McDowell and Sean Penn playing sweetly addled pixie misfits — he does get relaxed, likable performances from his other actors, most notably Dempsey, who gives his character a sweetness and vulnerability that lends the film what little gravity it possesses.

In his twenties he directed a late career, quite addled, Orson Welles along with a cantankerous Tommy Smothers in a film called Get To Know Your Rabbit and would go on to direct a slew of movies both big and small with many of the biggest actors of the day: Sissy Spacek, Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Travolta, Melanie Griffith, Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Kirk Douglas, Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Jean Reno, Tom Cruise, and a music video with The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen (yes, that music video, so you can thank De Palma or blame him for giving to the world, Courtney Cox.)