And oh yeah, there is chatter going around about Evan Rachel Wood's
appearance in the film too — and it's centered around a pretty significant moment — so again, you'd be advised to pass on those stories until you've seen it.
Not exact matches
We also get
appearances from James Earl Jones (who gets to be atypical and silly), as well as a stand out, but all
too brief cameo from Samuel L. Jackson (
in his second ever
film role) as a bum who tries to hold up a fast food joint.
Best known among her close to 100
film appearances, most for MGM, are Stella Dallas (1937), Test Pilot (1938),
Too Hot to Handle (1938), The Women (1939), Another Thin Man (1939), I Take This Woman (1940), Susan and God (1940), Honky Tonk (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Meet Me
in St. Louis (1944), Murder, He Says (1945), The Harvey Girls (1946), Summer Stock (1950), The Long, Long Trailer (1954), Rose Marie (1954), and Friendly Persuasion (1956).
No matter, the bulk has a daisy - freshness, though the
film grain's
appearance is a bit
too scrubbed at times; dynamic range is ideal — the narrow, painterly contrasts are chemical
in nature, not a digital artifact.
It's an odd, unpleasant little movie, with
too - brief
appearances by name actors like Jennifer Jason Leigh and Barkhad Abdi («Captain Phillips»), and
too many scenes
filmed in such dim light you're not sure exactly what's happening.
In supporting turns, Ike Barinholtz's dumb brother character is given far too much screen time and Joan Cusack is badly misused in a too - rare film appearanc
In supporting turns, Ike Barinholtz's dumb brother character is given far
too much screen time and Joan Cusack is badly misused
in a too - rare film appearanc
in a
too - rare
film appearance.
Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic
in A Bridge
Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo
appearance was as Bennett
in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself
in bit roles
in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe
in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles
in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer
in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant
in Panic
in the Streets (1950) Stephen King:
in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles)
in many of his own
films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints,
in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator
in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot
in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital
in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer
in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy
in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk
in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles
in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone
in his hand
in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber
in Platoon (1986)
She is simply
too much of a cypher to really become involved
in her journey toward something resembling emotional and psychological maturation (or, the
film suggests, only the outward
appearance thereof) on its own merits.