Sentences with phrase «as a maid whose»

The former dancer earned a supporting actor nomination for Douglas Sirk's lush 1959 melodrama «Imitation of Life,» based on Fannie Hurst's novel, as a maid whose light - skinned daughter rejects her and her black roots: «If, by accident, we should ever pass on the street, please don't recognize me.»

Not exact matches

Synopsis: Annie (Kristen Wiig) is a single woman whose own life is a mess, but when she learns that her lifelong best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), is engaged, she has no choice but to serve as the maid of honor.

Also nominated: Cate Blanchett, ethereal in her role of a teacher having an affair with her young student; Abigail Breslin as a smart, irrepressible offspring of a dysfunctional family in «Little Miss Sunshine» (she has her emotional hooks into everybody); Rinko Kikuchi, as a deaf grieving teenager in «Babel» whose life becomes a target in her world, and Adriana Barraza as the Mexican maid who becomes the victim of a border guard while returning from her son's wedding in «Babel.»

They've served, for example, as the quintessential naive boy - scout and provincial maid in their early films and as older, more tortured versions of the same in the chapters that bookend Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois couleurs trilogy, whose ironic casting suggests a blueprint for Haneke.

(2015) dir Jamie Babbit w / Judy Greer, Natasha Lyonne, Aubrey Plaza, Malcolm Barrett, Ron Livingston, Allison Tolman, Fred Armisen [85 min; DCP] This black comedy from director Jamie Babbit (But I'm A Cheerleader) features the great Judy Greer — finally in a starring role — as Shannon, a fresh - out - of - rehab sex addict, whose optimistic sister Martha (Lyonne) lands her a job as a maid at Fresno Suites, the local hotel.

From her years as a spirited, secretive child, through her university studies - a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel - to her escape to a new life in California, Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships of her past, recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated family: her beautiful yet fragile mother, Frankye; her unpredictable father, Garbert; Daddy Jack, whose life Garbert saved; grandmother Mother Mayes; and the family maid, Frances's confidant Willie Bell.