Sentences with phrase «age comedy along»
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The Puffy Chair is the funniest, saddest and most emotionally honest «romantic comedy» to come along in years, even if I've yet to encounter many over the age of about 35 who like the film, or even get it.
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The comedy follows a trio of dysfunctional upper class New York siblings who recruit a «New Age deprogrammer» and go on the road to save their youngest sister from a doomsday cult — confronting their deep - seated issues with each other along the way.
But Post, who broke into directing in 1950, managed to build a résumé that could have belonged to a golden - age Hollywood journeyman like Michael Curtiz, who in 1935 knocked out a labor drama, a workplace romance, and an action picture in rapid succession, along with a Perry Mason programmer, a gangster comedy, and part of an Al Jolson — Ruby Keeler backstage musical that somehow burned through three directors.
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.»
Samuels» previous credits include the series regular role of Grace in the first season of Ryan Murphy's Scream Queens and Bonnie Lipton in American Horror Story: Freak Show, along with the Lionsgate / CBS Films coming - of - age comedy, The Duff and The Nine Lives of Chloe King, in which she starred as the title character.
If I had a sole complaint, it's that the story rides a thin line along the coming - of - age dramedy and all - out comedy, not quite sure what it wants to be.
Along with Stranger Things, Levy and 21 Laps» other recent productions include the critically acclaimed coming - of - age drama THE SPECTACULAR NOW starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller as well as the Fox comedy WHY HIM starring James Franco and Bryan Cranston, which has earned over $ 115 million to date.