Sentences with phrase «age comedy set»

Written by Soderbergh's producing partner Gregory Jacobs and screenwriter Joe Gangemi, «Red Oaks» is a coming - of - age comedy set in 1985.

Though Steven Soderbergh partnered with Showtime for his critically acclaimed series, The Knick, he also will also serve as Executive Producer for Red Oaks, a coming of age comedy set in 1985 for Amazon.

Red Oaks: Season 3 * Amazon Original: A coming - of - age comedy set in the «go - go» 80s about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end — and the future begins.

Red Oaks is a coming - of - age comedy set in the «go - go» 80s about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end — and the future begins.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

Amazon description: «A coming - of - age comedy set in the «go - go» 80s about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end — and the future begins.»

Not exact matches

In 2009, the comedian released Aged and Confused, a comedy set detailing the pitfalls of middle age, and took on a hosting gig in 2011 for a re-launch of the gameshow Lingo.

In While We're Young, Baumbach's most accessible comedy yet, the Frances Ha film - maker sets his sights on the generation gap and gets to grips with ageing.

Superbad (R for profanity, sexuality, alcohol and drug use, a violent image, and pervasive crude content) Raunchy, coming - of - age comedy about a couple of inseparable, nerdy high school seniors (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera) who plan the perfect party in order to end their interminable losing streak and finally get the girls of their dreams before they set off in the Fall to different colleges.

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.

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.

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

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...

His second big screen offering came in the form of coming of age comedy Orange County, with the little - seen The TV Set and uneven Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story next on his slate.

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.

First up, Glee star Chris Colfer is set to make his big screen debut in the indie coming - of - age comedy Struck by Lightning.

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.

Dirty Girl (R for profanity, graphic sexuality and frontal nudity) Coming - of - age road comedy, set in 1987, about an Oklahoma high school student with a bad reputation (Juno Temple) who runs away from home to L.A. to search for her long - lost father with the help of an equally - ostracized, gay classmate (Jeremy Dozier).

The coming - of - age comedy, set to a soundtrack of Booker T and the M.G.'s, Fats Domino and Harrison Ford (he belts «Some Enchanted Evening»), is based on Lucas» real - life upbringing in Northern California.

The vocal performances range from monotone drone (Romano, Leary, and Goran Visnjic as the evil sabretooth) to spastic (Leguizamo, of course, and Wedge)-- leading me to wonder if Ice Age could be read with more profit as an underground stoner comedy — and the action set - pieces run out of imagination long before they're allowed to fizzle out.

That film, «Risky Business,» set a high bar for the R - rated coming - of - age comedy.

Permanent (PG - 13 for profanity, crude humor, sexual references and mature themes) Coming - of - age comedy, set in the South in 1982, revolving around a white «tweener (Kira McLean), new to a town, who ends up ostracized at school after her hairdresser accidentally leaves her with an afro instead of curls like her idol, Farah Fawcett.

A hilarious dark comedy version of Single White Female, it stars Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen and is set in the age of social media idolatry.

Ping Pong Summer (Unrated) Coming - of - age comedy, set in 1985, revolving around a 13 year - old kid (Marcello Conte) who becomes obsessed with hip - hop and table tennis during a vacation spent with his family in Ocean City Maryland.

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If the 1960s cartoon plumbed comedy from putting the familiar in an unfamiliar context, the comic thrusts contemporary constructs like politics, consumerism, the military, and TV news into a Stone Age setting to encourage a frank reevaluation of perspective.