Sentences with phrase «age comedies as»

It's also pretty clearly influenced by such wry post coming - of - age comedies as «Diner,» «The Big Chill» and, believe it not, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's great 1955 noir musical, «It's Always Fair Weather.»

Not exact matches

The multi-camera comedy has reinvigorated a family friendly genre and in One Day at a Time, the laughs are earned through your average multi-camera family hijinks as well as nods to current events, political commentary and age - old generational wisdom.

With activities for all ages such as a casino, art gallery and Nickelodeon - themed events as well as entertainment including Blue Man Group, comedy troupe Second City and a Cirque Show, Norwegian Epic's goal is simple — be all things to all people.

You simply couldn't script this whole mess, its like an Ealing comedy of a bygone age, where a bureaucratic nightmare of such proportions should surely only exist in fiction unfortunately the African continent has to contend with as a nightmare of a reality.

The cast is superb: Malkovich as the analyst Cox shows a true flair for comedy, Clooney is on top form here as the sleaze whose life intersects with Litzke almost by accident and Brad Pitt, playing a much younger man than his true age, is brilliantly idiotic and brainless.

A professional actor since the age of 15, Fox became a household name in the early 1980's for his Emmy and Golden Globe Awards winning role as Alex P. Keaton in the NBC comedy series Family Ties in which he starred as the young Republican son of hippie parents.

Director: Fred Cavayé Cast: Dany Boon, Lawrence Arné, Noémie Schmidt In this comedy about taking obsession too far, France's maestro of laughter, Dany Boon returns to the screen as François, a middle - aged violinist and compulsive «penny pincher», whose parsimonious ways are upended by the surprise arrival of two new women in his life.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

A romantic comedy about lazy rich people on holiday in Italy in the 1930s, it stars Helen Hunt as a gold - digging woman «of a certain age» who's stalking a young married couple — for third - act catharsis reasons you can see coming — and causing snippy, gossipy society people to make snippy, gossipy comments.

The 40 Year - Old Virgin is buoyantly clever and amusing, a comedy of horny embarrassment that has the inspiration to present a middle - aged virgin's dilemma as a projection of all our romantic anxieties.

Some of her more notable work included Clay Pigeons, a black comedy with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix; Permanent Midnight, which marked another collaboration with Stiller; and the animated Kiki's Delivery Service, which featured Garofalo as the voice of a new age artist and mystic.

The movie is a surprisingly touching, low - key ballad of middle - aged male regret disguised as a kiddie comedy replete with poop and fart jokes and soccer balls launched at Popper's crotch.

The multihyphenate (who reportedly began authoring poetry and songs at the age of 14) moved with her mother to Southern California immediately after high school graduation to accommodate her dreams of becoming a Hollywood star and promptly landed both representation and a key role as a pop diva in the Hugh Grant / Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Music and Lyrics.

Though his breakout success could only be hinted at when he appeared in director Julian Schnabel's critically acclaimed drama Before Night Falls the previous year, it was his turn as a naïve, sex - starved teen in Cuarón's coming - of - age comedy drama that catapulted him to international stardom.

The game - show climax is as exciting and riveting as one might've expected, however, and Starter for 10 finally (and ultimately) establishes itself as a perfectly watchable (yet far - from - memorable) romantic comedy / coming - of - age story.

Let the Sunshine In Juliette Binoche gives a marvelous performance as a middle - aged divorcee looking for love in all the wrong places, but Claire Denis» exquisite and soulful romantic comedy defies every expectation of that premise.

I don't know if The Hangover will age as poorly as many comedies do,

The coming - of - age comedy stars Hailee Steinfeld (actress, «True Grit», «Pitch Perfect 2»; pop singer, «Starving», «Love Myself») as Nadine, a girl in the midst of an early - life crisis.

Tiny Furniture (Unrated) Coming - of - age comedy about a rudderless, recent college grad (Lena Dunham) with a worthless degree in film appreciation who moves back into her mother's (Laurie Simmons) loft in Soho where she has to settle for an unfulfilling job as a restaurant hostess.

In his review, Turan compares the film to the classic - age comedies of Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch in noting that «making an anarchic, absurdist comedy about 2008's housing market collapse and the global financial crisis that followed is as unlikely as the collapse itself.

Even as he amounts acting gigs — like a major role in Noah Baumbach's latest comedy about aging, art and losing one's edge, «While We're Young» as a 40 - something father who's the opposite of cool — Horovitz is proud to stick to this label of a Beastie Boy (read our review).

«Fading Gigolo «has been described by Turturro as a tender, sweet comedy about an aging gigilo (Turturro) and his -LSB-...]

It's Superbad meets Zombieland as it's a good mix of awkward teenage coming - of - age comedy sprinkled with tons of blood and guts.

But what lifts this studio comedy, Stiller's fifth feature as director, is its sincere ambivalence about fulfillment in the age of iPhones and image saturation.

Attempts at comedy, be it Hook and Smee banter or the Lost Boys» childish antics, are just as feeble as Jane's coming - of - age drama.

Lady Bird is a masterful, exquisite coming - of - age comedy starring the great Saoirse Ronan as Christine — or «Lady Bird,» as she's re-christened herself — and it's as funny, smart, and filled with yearning as its heroine.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

In films such as Oscar - winning coming - of - age drama Boyhood (2014) and teen drama - comedy Everybody Wants Some!!

I liked Driving Lessons, a sharp, engaging, and amusing comedy / drama that does well as a coming - of - age film, family drama, and unlikely friendship tale.

is an episodic dark comedy set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, starring Josh Brolin as fixer, Eddie Mannix.

Elliott began his show business career as a standup comic, but he first gained public attention as a writer and performer on Late Night With David Letterman, helping that show define a new age of ironic comedy, and winning two Emmys as part of Letterman's writing team.

Asa Butterfield leads this»80s - set coming - of - age comedy drama as a typical teen — moody, bored, into punk music — whose freewheeling dropkick of a...

This largely comes from the unconventional pairing of Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway in the leading roles, an unusual duo who bring a surprisingly wonderful chemistry to the table in this light comedy about working in the modern age, seen from two unique viewpoints — the modern working woman who is looked down on by misogynistic men, and the older male seen by many as past his usefulness simply due to his age.

The humour is reminiscent of recent low - brow aging actors behaving badly comedies such as Last Vegas (2013) and Going in Style (2017).

Although the gore quotient may not be quite as high as some have suggested (though most viewers may want to skip the concession stand), this film otherwise not only lives up to all the advanced hype but exceeds it with a bold and startling original coming - of - age story that combines jet - black (and oftentimes deep red) comedy.

As this scruffy coming - of - age sex comedy turns into a horror movie, the combination is completely disarming.

Based on the books and animated TV series, this far - too - childish 3D comedy is pretty painful to watch for audiences of any age, as the cast and crew overplay every gag.

The actors engage in the exaggerated performance style of silent movie melodramas and comedies and Maddin digitally «ages» his films with scuffs and scratches and cracks and even distorted frames as if they were from decaying nitrate prints from the 1920s.

As a sucker for coming - of - age comedies, writers / directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash's The Way, Way Back (Matt's Sundance review here) is one that I can't wait to see.

However, what he hadn't quite done is go the distance into shamefully trite family comedies for all ages, especially one so lame, so the snickers turned into guffaws at Arnold's expense, to the detriment to his once vaunted status as the world's biggest action box office attraction.

He showed a brief spark in 2008 with his Spanish installment, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» but the aging director is sadly less than a pale shadow of the auteur / performer who enthralled audiences in the «70s, «80s, and even the early «90s with masterful comedies such as «Annie Hall,» «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» and «Husbands and Wives.»

In his assured and empathetic directorial debut Submarine, Richard Ayoade extends his talents beyond the cult comedy confines of the small screen (including Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Nathan Barley, The Mighty Boosh and The IT Crowd) to dwell upon sources of and threats to contentment, as apparent to a self - aware teenager burdened by the coming - of - age milestones of first love and parental marital disharmony.

Behind the scenes she has edited for movies such as the fantasy drama «The Age of Adaline,» the holiday comedy «Four Christmases,» and romance drama «The Vow,» among many more.

That rather sad fact, which is not uncommon, is one of the reasons that Johnson and Koch are proud that a festival run primarily by women regularly includes films with women directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.»

The 1982 comedy «Fast Times at Ridgemont High» is the prototypical coming - of - age guy flick best known for enduring stoner - surfer archetype Jeff Spicoli, played by future Oscar winner Sean Penn, the image of a topless Phoebe Cates and as the introduction...

In an age when films such as Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven are revered for their trickery, The Sting remains the definitive con artist comedy: as irresistible and ingenious as the scheme that hooks in Doyle.

Arriving in limited theaters this week is one of our favorite films from the Sundance Film Festival this year, a coming - of - age comedy called The Kings of Summer, formerly known as Toy's House (watch the trailer here).

A flare for stand - up comedy came at an early age for the Vancouver - born Seth Rogen — as early as the age of 13.

«Astro Boy» is yet another animated comedy in which the hero, who is about the same age as his target audience, is smarter, braver and stronger than the adults in his world.

The 1982 comedy «Fast Times at Ridgemont High» is the prototypical coming - of - age guy flick best known for enduring stoner - surfer archetype Jeff Spicoli, played by future Oscar winner Sean Penn, the image of a topless Phoebe Cates and as the introduction to the amiable zen of screenwriter Cameron Crowe, who would go on to create such bro - riffic tales as «Say Anything,» «Singles,» «Jerry Maguire» and «Almost Famous.»