Sentences with phrase «as a private detective»

People who were around in 1985 remember the hit TV show Moonlighting, which began airing that year, starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis as private detectives.

As Mallory and Lana wait by his bedside, the comatose Archer imagines himself as a private detective circa 1945.

Savor their technique and the sizzling performances of Frances McDormand as an adulterous wife, Dan Hedaya as her vengeful husband and M. Emmet Walsh as a private detective from hell.

Bored to Death: The Complete First Season Available on DVD and Blu - ray Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson star in this freshman HBO comedy about a mystery writer who is so bored that he posts an ad on the internet lending his services as a private detective in order to pass the time and maybe get a few ideas for his novel.

The film stars John Hawkes as a private detective and is divided into five short stories, each consisting of one, uninterrupted shot.

After The Storm follows author Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), a past - his - glory prize - winning author who now wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support.

Combining his nearly obsessive concern for the truth with his experience as a private detective, Morris unearthed a plethora of misconceptions and flat - out lies that made it clear Adams was being framed.

It appears that someone is following her and we finally get a glimpse of Martin Donovan as private detective Douglas Cartland waiting for Sharon outside her school!

Rüdiger Vogler reprises his role as private detective Philipp Winter from Until the End of the World, which reunites him with a much older Yella Rottländer as his guardian angel.

An Oscar nominee for «Winter's Bone,» Hawkes recently starred in «Everest» and can currently be seen as a private detective in the indie gem «Too Late.»

Fast - forward seven years and the city is in the midst of a mayoral election while Billy fights tooth and nail to make his way as a private detective.

The website reports that just as Pizzolatto was finishing up writing the first series of True Detective, he was approached to write the reboot of The Rockford Files which would star Vaughn as the private detective.

Words flow freely and comically, too, through Trixie (2000), which features Emily Watson as a private detective whose loquacious misuse of the English language suggests an ironic take on the screwball comedy.

Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara) has left the OSS and has struck out on his own as a private detective.

For Bernie Gunther, Berlin has become too dangerous, and he now works as a private detective in Munich.

We're the state's only humane society licensed as a private detective agency.

Not exact matches

Kathryn is a Lord Peter fan and shares some of that great detective's idiosyncrasies, including a cozy private fortune and a Bunter - like servant («Warby») whom she treats as a friend rather than an employee.

I used to be a police officer; I left the department to be a security consultant — where I did the same things I did as a detective, just for private business and got paid better for it.

Jan 04,2016... Over the years, in detective fiction, we have had the little old lady as private eye, the obese gour...

In Watson's case, Michael Egelhoff, who had been molested by him as an 11 - year - old Little Leaguer in Riverside in 1975, was so haunted by that abuse that he asked a private detective to see if Watson was still coaching children.

As always, the blog exchange deteriorated into insult and abuse — and I suspect he is still paying a private detective to find me — when a timely intervention by my wife brought me back from the brink of insanity and a 12 hour night shift at the computer face.

Bo Dietl, 66 Party: Independent Current role: Private investigator, business owner and former NYPD detective Brief bio: Dietl worked as an officer and detective in the city from 1969 through 1985.

A judge has appointed Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka as a special prosecutor in an ongoing investigation in which Troy detectives are suspected of fabricating a burglary report to cover up their unauthorized search of a private residence.

GOP leaders rejected bombastic independent candidate Bo Dietl, a private detective and former police officer, refusing to hand him a waiver to run in the Republican primary (Dietl is still running as an independent and could take votes from the eventual Republican nominee).

Special prosecutor in police probe — Times Union «A judge has appointed Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka as a special prosecutor in an ongoing investigation in which Troy detectives are suspected of fabricating a burglary report to cover up their unauthorized search of a private residence.»

The independent candidate Bo Dietl, a former detective and private investigator, remains barred from running as a Republican.

Former Republican and now independent Bo Dietl had been seeking the Republican Party nod, but party leaders recently stated they would not be giving the former NYPD officer and private detective the Wilson - Pakula authorization needed to run as a non-Republican on the party's ballot line.

After an injury, I had a brief stint as a waitress, modeled, and worked for a private detective before going back to school.

The clarity of dialogue is such that you don't feel as though you're eavesdropping on the conversations, you feel like you have an «access - all - areas» privilege to listen in to the detective's investigation and private lives.

Washington also turned in powerful performances in a number of other films, such as Mississippi Masala (1991), as a man in love with an Indian woman; Philadelphia (1993), as a slightly homophobic lawyer who takes on the cause of an AIDS - stricken litigator (Tom Hanks); and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), as a 1940s private detective, Easy Rawlins.

A private detective finds himself right the middle of a carnival show that the saboteurs use as a cover!

The Nice Guys is a prototypical Shane Black film, saturated with all his earmarks as a filmmaker: Southern California, Christmas, private detectives, slapstick violence, explosions, people falling off of things, and a loosey - goosey plot that won't really hold up if you look too hard at it.

As Boston private detective Patrick Kenzie, taking on small - time cases with his girlfriend, Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), Casey — just off a standout turn gunning down Brad Pitt's Jesse James — grabs his breakthrough role and runs with it.

Richard Roundtree fills the central role nicely, making it completely his own as the untouchable but charismatic private detective from Harlem.

A low - rent private detective poses as a preppy nerd in order to foil a plot by conspirators.

Starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as an odd couple of private detectives, the film sees them embroiled in a mystery involving porn, catalytic converters and kids too smart for their own good.

Set in 1950s New York, Motherless Brooklyn follows «Edward «s Lionel Essrog, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (played by Bruce).

Desperate to restart her career, she talks her way into shadowing a lone - wolf private detective as research for a potential comeback.

Among the strong but woefully underused supporting cast are William H. Macy as Mick's best friend, a private investigator; Bryan Cranston as a homicide detective whose screen time looks suspiciously truncated; and Michael Pena as a former client of Mick's whose case will become crucial later on.

On TV, Lonny Chapman starred as private eye Jeff Prior in the 1958 summer - replacement series The Investigator, and was featured as another detective, Frank Malloy, in the 1965 courtroom weekly For the People (1965).

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

Like the novel, Anderson's Inherent Vice is a raucously convoluted, intellectually nimble take on the crusty mythology of the private detective as Don Quixote.

Joaquin Phoenix goes all the way for Anderson (just as he did in The Master) playing Doc Sportello, the private investigator searching for his ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston, a revelation), menaced at every turn by Josh Brolin as the telegenic police detective «Bigfoot» Bjornsen.

Tim Story of the original Fantastic Four (2005) is directing the movie, which is seen as a continuation of the story of the private detective that first appeared in the 1970s blaxploitation action movie that became a pop culture phenomenon.

Davis took the title role as a glamorous 1920 private detective in the show, which has aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation since 2012.

The body count piles up as they realize a private detective is on their trail.

Warner Bros. has set a December 12, 2014 release date for «Inherent Vice,» the Thomas Pynchon adaptation, that tells a 1970s Los Angeles - set story about inept, pot - smoking private detective Doc Sportello as he investigates the case of a kidnapped girl, who also happens to be one of his ex-girlfriends (incidentally, we place it right at the top of our Most Anticipated Films Of 2014 list).

Healy is hired by porn actress Amelia (Margaret Qualley) to protect her after fellow porn star Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio) was recently involved in a car accident, which leads Misty's aunt to hire private detective Holland March (Gosling) to find out whether her niece is actually dead or not as she claims to have seen her.

Crowe and Ryan Gosling star as a hired enforcer and a down - on - his luck private detective who team up in 1977 Los Angeles to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star.

The film already stars Colin Firth as Ron Lax, the private detective working the West Memphis Three case pro bono and the man responsible for connecting one of the victim's stepfathers, Terry Hobbs (Nivola), to the crime.