Sentences with phrase «age comedy at»

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The critically - acclaimed Amazon drama Transparent — created by Jill Soloway and inspired by her own father's transition at age 75 — won the 2015 Golden Globe for best TV series, musical or comedy, thereby increasing its odds to score an Emmy (or two) come September.

Harold Ramis, a beloved mind behind some of the greatest comedy classics of all time, has passed away today at the age of 69.

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.

Indeed, this show's unique mix of music and comedy appeals to guests of all ages and from all walks of life, and it fits in spectacularly with the vintage showroom atmosphere at The Plaza.

Comedy legend Joan Rivers passed away today in Manhattan at the age of 81.

Canadian - born actress Patricia Owens moved to England with her parents in 1933, and ten years later, at age 18, she made her motion - picture debut in Val Guest's musical comedy Miss London Ltd..

He tackled two of his last assignments in the 2006 omnibus picture Paris, je t «aime and the 2008 comedy - drama Looking for Palladin, prior to his death at age 86 in early February 2012.

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.

Abandoned dreams of a music career at age 22 and switched to comedy.

At times, this coming - of - age comedy is quirkily saccharine, at others good - for - you sophistiAt times, this coming - of - age comedy is quirkily saccharine, at others good - for - you sophistiat others good - for - you sophistic.

Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her alt - cult sensation A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT with her sand - blasted, dystopian love story THE BAD BATCH; Maren Ade delivers what will be the most uncomfortable film of the festival, the desert - dry black comedy TONI ERDMANN; and Julia Ducournau's directorial debut, RAW, takes us on a cannibalistic coming - of - age shock ride that resonates long after its stunning finale.

On Monday 30th April at Canberra, Newtown and Coorparoo locations, Dendy is set to host a screening of the iconic coming - of - age comedy The Breakfast Club starring Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson.

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.

At the age of just 18, Cruz made her big screen debut in this lurid comedy drama next to her future husband Javier Bardem.

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.

There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining film about a middle - aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.

Alejandro G. Inarritu's black comedy Birdman was the big winner at the 2014 Gotham Independent Awards on Monday night, despite the fact that Richard Linklater's coming - of - age pic Boyhood topped the nominations with four.

Following a very long and acclaimed career — which included two Oscar wins, four Golden Globes and countless iconic performances — Hackman retired from acting in 2004, at the age of 74, after appearing in the very poorly received comedy Welcome to Mooseport, opposite Ray Romano.

At age 87, director Resnais creates a playful and often infuriating comedy about the impulsive things people do in reaction to something unexpected.

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.

by Walter Chaw The Malloy Brothers» ode to the «makin» it» comedies of the mid -»80s (which reached their apex at the genre's nascence with Bob Clark's coming - of - age smut-fest Porky's) is the flaccid snowboard epic Out Cold.

Janicza Bravo's obscure comedy follows middle - aged Isaac Lachmann (Brett Gelman) whose acting career and love life are at a standstill.

Comedy great Gene Wilder has passed away at age 83.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 0s & 1s (Unrated) Digital Age comedy about a yuppie (Morgan Krantz) who's so dependent on his computer that his life starts to come apart at the seams when he discovers after a night of partying that someone has stolen his laptop.

After collaborating on comedies like Tammy and The Boss (both starring McCarthy and directed by Falcone), the pair is at it again with Life of the Party, co-writing this story of a middle - aged mother who returns to college after her husband asks for a divorce.

«Genevieve» and «Green for Danger»: What a nice night out at the movies - a rare double feature of comedy and suspense from Britain's golden age.

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...

It is also pleasing to see that in an age in which the romantic comedy is such an unfashionable genre in the cinema that filmmakers are, at least, attempting to go back to basics and call to mind a style of filmmaking in the screwball comedy that is all too rarely visible in the modern era.

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

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.»

Received her first film role at the age of 13, in the Australian comedy Dallas Doll (1994), starring Sandra Bernhard.

The first time Seth Shubin a.k.a. Veruca Bathsalts and Jerry Lee Abram were in a room together was at the Castro Theatre during a 2013 Sketchfest Peaches Christ tribute to «Welcome to the Dollhouse,» Todd Solondz's 1995 coming - of - age black comedy.

It's an extremely edgy black comedy that chronicles the way Harding endured various forms of abuse and exploitation — from her mother (Allison Janney), her husband (Sebastian Stan), and tabloid media that covered and actively amplified the lurid story, set at the dawn of the Age of Truthiness.

One of the most surprising films at SXSW was the comedy / thriller, coming - of - age love story Teenage Cocktail.

Gently poking fun at itself - hello Karen Gillan in hotpants - this is a warm, sparky & surprisingly moving comedy perfect for every age group and ideal for when you need to watch something that requires little in the way of intellectual engagement.

While the script got them other work, including on Alexander Payne «s «The Descendants,» for which they shared the Oscar with Payne, «The Way Way Back» — a coming - of - age comedy about a young man working at a waterpark to avoid his dysfunctional family — languished in development hell.

When: October 24th Why: I was originally going to write about Lynn Shelton's sweet coming - of - age comedy «Laggies,» but after hearing so many great things about «John Wick» after its debut at this year's Fantastic Fest, it seemed crazy not to highlight that film instead.

At the premiere, Akhavan introduced the film as her attempt at a queer John Hughes comedy, and like his coming - of - age classics, it's both sincere about its characters» struggles and aware that maturity will solve most of theAt the premiere, Akhavan introduced the film as her attempt at a queer John Hughes comedy, and like his coming - of - age classics, it's both sincere about its characters» struggles and aware that maturity will solve most of theat a queer John Hughes comedy, and like his coming - of - age classics, it's both sincere about its characters» struggles and aware that maturity will solve most of them.

Altogether, Blockers is a raunch comedy for a new age, with plenty of hilarity and emotion to win over viewers of all ages (or, at least, all ages able to catch the R - rated comedy).

Actually, as I point out right in the beginning of our conversation, Odenkirk didn't set out to be an actor at all, but instead was smitten at a young age with comedy writing.

Baseball has been at the foreground of a diverse group of great films, from the classic drama Pride of the Yankees to the screwball comedy Major League, from coming - of - age tale The Sandlot to Disney's own spiritual family dramedy Angels in the Outfield.

Britell cut his teeth as a virtuoso pianist at an early age, landing in Juilliard's pre-college division, but since then he's become known for his finesse to deliver an emotional range to both drama and comedy features.

Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).

After shooting to prominence at the age of 19 in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, she'd caught the eye in a couple of Woody Allen comedies before getting mixed up a string of dull period dramas and dodgy romcoms.

«Me, Myself & I» stars Bobby Moynihan in a comedy about the defining moments in one man's life over three distinct periods — as a 14 - year - old in 1991, at age 40 in present day

From writers / directors Jay and Mark Duplass (Cyrus) comes Jeff Who Lives at Home, a coming of age comedy for two men who are already well beyond their youth.

The Times caught up with Iannucci at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the film made its world premiere, and he spoke about making comedy in the age of Donald Trump.

Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming - of - age comedy about three teenage friends — Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias)-- who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.