Sentences with phrase «age comedy follows»

Charming Sundance Film Festival viewers, this coming - of - age comedy follows three youths in search of adventure.

Not exact matches

A high - energy romantic comedy that follows three It is against the law to sell or supply alcohol to, or to obtain alcohol on behalf of, a person under the age of 18 years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The surreal L.A. - based coming - of - age comedy is written by author and Vice.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, and it follows Araki directing a number of episodes of the Soderbergh - produced Red Oaks series for Amazon.

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.

Following in the footsteps of Lily Tomlin and Blythe Danner, Sally Field is the latest woman of a certain age to receive a late career starring role in Michael Showalter's delightful indie comedy Hello, My Name Is Doris.

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

The second season of «SuperMansion,» the stop motion - animated comedy series from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, follows the adventures of Titanium Rex (voiced by Cranston, who's also the series» executive producer) as he struggles to live with and fight alongside the Millennial - aged, often lackadaisical members of The League of Freedom.

Following up its hit comedy «Bad Moms,» STX's coming - of - age dramedy «The Edge of Seventeen» earned $ 4.8 million, down from previous estimates of $ 10 million.

Greta Gerwig's coming of age indie comedy Lady Bird had followed Three Billboards with three nominations.

What follows however, isn't really effective as a comedy about middle - aged men taking stock of their lives.

Now Apocalypse is a surreal, coming - of - age comedy series follows Ulysses and his friends Carly, Ford and Severine, who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame.

The first (and only) feature directed by a promising young writer - director named Steve Gordon, who died the following year of a heart attack at age 44, the first Arthur was hardly a masterpiece, but it was a highly enjoyable comedy of manners done in a style that, even at the time, seemed quaintly old - fashioned.

Starring Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler and Susan Sarandon, the comedy follows an aging ex-convict (Langella), whose children hire a robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) to care for him.

Though once upon a time seeing Ben Stiller star in a serious - ish film about middle - class, middle - aged malaise was a refreshing rebuke to his broader work in studio comedy, the novelty has begun to wear off in recent years following his repeated — and arguably, repetitive — collaborations with bourgeois angst maestro Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, While We're Young, The Meyerowitz Stories).

Following on from the success of BBC Comedy Classroom [launched in April 2016] which saw Sarah Jayne, Samuel and Tom crowned as the future of British comedy, the «Red Nose Day Comedy Classroom with Blue Peter» competition will provide resources to teachers and call upon children aged 6 - 12 across the UK to write three funny, original and creative Comedy Classroom [launched in April 2016] which saw Sarah Jayne, Samuel and Tom crowned as the future of British comedy, the «Red Nose Day Comedy Classroom with Blue Peter» competition will provide resources to teachers and call upon children aged 6 - 12 across the UK to write three funny, original and creative comedy, the «Red Nose Day Comedy Classroom with Blue Peter» competition will provide resources to teachers and call upon children aged 6 - 12 across the UK to write three funny, original and creative Comedy Classroom with Blue Peter» competition will provide resources to teachers and call upon children aged 6 - 12 across the UK to write three funny, original and creative jokes.

Trevor Noah, one of the comedy world's fastest - rising stars and host of The Daily Show, tells his wild coming - of - age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.