Sentences with phrase «as shaggy dog»

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The nearly -60-year-old reflects on making Yeller, as well as The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, and in the midst of a 5 - movie year, The Absent - Minded Professor.

Not exact matches

It's as much a snapshot of a screwball neighborhood as it is a loose - ended shaggy dog story, with a weird, buoyant spirit that lifts it up over its somewhat sloppy storytelling.

As such, it recalls not only the two other sweetly appealing films written and directed by Cameron Crowe («Say Anything» and «Singles»), but also the great shaggy - dog storytelling style of James L. Brooks («Broadcast News»), one of its producers.

Naturally, the ring in question is the very item which was responsible for Wilby's transformations as a teen, as witnessed in The Shaggy Dog.

Seventeen years after The Shaggy Dog became one of Disney's biggest live action hits, the studio ushered into theaters a sequel, titled The Shaggy D.A., as its major Christmas 1976 release.

Come as you are: the cinematographer who crafted the glam looks of Wong Kar Wai's films offers a shaggy - dog look at everyday people in Hong Kong

While The Shaggy Dog took quite a bit longer than most films to land on disc, the wait seems acceptable, as Walt's first all - out comedy is treated to a delightful widescreen transfer and three worthwhile bonus features.

This is a film best understood as writer / director Mike Mills» attempt to capture his childhood through a fictionalised shaggy - dog comedy drama.

Think of it as a slacker «The Big Sleep,» a shaggy dog parody of classic L.A. detective stories where the passive hero is threatened, confronted, assaulted, seduced, drugged and so completely bummed out that he's forced to solve a mystery so everyone will just leave him alone to enjoy his dope and his Dylan.

In 2002 she had a part in the film version of Scooby - Doo as Mary Jane, Shaggy's love interest (wearing a blonde wig) who is allergic to dogs.

It stars Andrew Garfield as Sam, an unemployed voyeur who falls for the bikini - clad girl he's been spying on — playing by Riley Keough — and then turns shaggy - dog detective when she abruptly moves away.

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The Shaggy Dog casts Tim Allen as Dave Douglas, a stereotypically harried father who - through a set of unusually convoluted circumstances - discovers that he now has the ability to transform himself into a sheepdog.

And the movie overall recalls the shaggy - dog crime comedy of Wes Anderson's «Bottle Rocket» — an observation, by the way, that is intended as high praise.

The project acts as the director's follow - up to 2014's sublimely disjointed, shaggy dog tale Inherent Vice, starring Joaquin Phoenix; who had also previously collaborated with Anderson on 2012's The Master.

Nordan charms the reader's pants off with his storytelling skills as he relates the shaggy - dog tragedy of Hydro Raney, about 20, with limited intellectual abilities, who lives with his daddy in Arrow Catcher in the Mississippi Delta and helps him run a fishing establishment.

It's not a legal thriller so much as a long, comic, intricate shaggy dog story, the story of a man's whole life, which just happens to wrap itself around and around questions of the law.

Shaggy Dog has been receiving the puppies from PD Kennels as of April 2011.

Referred to as «lion dogs,» they are the possible result of breeding from the shaggy herding dogs of that region.

In 1861 the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi came into power, and developed a small shaggy dog solely as pampered pets.

She is not perhaps as shaggy as some of the dogs pictured.

The Beardie's shaggy coat, also covering the dogs face and chin, gave the breed its name as we all know it now.

The breed hails from France, was used as a herding dog and is known for its exceedingly shaggy appearance.

I took it to a local tailor and had him tuft it, because I knew it had to be shaggy to cover the dog's paws as he walked over it.

Pranks in art turn out to be as richly varied and diversely resonant as their distantly analogous verbal and written equivalents, which might include puns, shaggy - dog stories, bon mots, satire, doggerel, and funny lyrics.

The visitor soon discovers — maybe when seeing a coral - encrusted bronze self - portrait of the artist as a collector holding Mickey Mouse by the hand — that the shipwreck is an elaborate shaggy dog story.