Sentences with phrase «as an ensemble cast»

These action sequences aren't anywhere near as much fun as the ensemble cast, which includes Jeffrey Dean Morgan's FBI agent (pastiche - y southern drawl and suit included) and romcom nice boy Jake Lacy (Obvious Child, Girls) as a sweaty, slightly useless Pop - Tart - eating minion to his evil genius sister.

But the movie earns a place in horror history for employing actual circus «freaks» as its ensemble cast.

While the hyperactive story focuses on a pair of twins, Lianna and Rowan, in battle you play as an ensemble cast, free to switch between a number of various characters at the touch of a button.

On paper, Horrible Bosses has quite a bit going for it: an entertaining story idea (a trio of friends set out to murder their «horrible» bosses), as well as an ensemble cast featuring Jason Bateman, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, and Jamie Foxx.

Not exact matches

This excellent ensemble cast is portrayed as average Americans who are navigating a dangerous and unstable environment, trying to flourish in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

There are pies - as - decor stacked high in cases on the sides of the stage and slices eaten by the ensemble (one, bacon - blueberry, is surprisingly salty - sweet amazing)-- with one sugar - free pie for an older cast member, and yes, a few fake pies here and there, though good luck pointing out which is which.

Walnut Hill School of the Arts Summer Theater Program (Natick, MA) is an intensive five - week boarding program; participants take daily classes in acting, musical theater, and dance and are cast in a play and a musical, as well as the ensemble of a second musical production.

Featuring a strong ensemble cast and solid camera work, the film starts out as one kind of story before metamorphosing into a bittersweet tale of retribution that never fails to engage.

What's happened with The League is that the already - talented cast has gelled even more as an ensemble over the show's four seasons.

Just as important to the films» emotional core is the often underutilized but never the less wonderful ensemble cast, all of whom do themselves proud with the moments that they are given.

Beyond O'Neill (excellent in his role), the cast includes Józef Pawlowski (Warsaw» 44) as Bartosz — that reformed gangster — and Susan Lynch (Here and Now) as the main antagonist, among many others in the strong ensemble.

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

Kaling and co-creator Grandy use plot as a display case for consistently funny writing, sweet and credible performances by the ensemble cast and most of all, the exceptional skills of J.J. Totah, who plays Priya and Vince's proudly out son, Michael.

Jackson was seen as part of the ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed film BOBBY, directed by Emilio Estevez, and starred in the psychological thriller SHUTTER for 20th Century Fox / New Regency, which was shot on location in Tokyo.

He made his big screen debut in Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994), and he subsequently appeared in Lee's Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), and Get on the Bus (1996), the last of which cast him as a gay man on his way to the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C.Some of Washington's other memorable credits during the»90s included the Hughes brothers» Dead Presidents (1995), the warmly received ensemble romantic comedy Love Jones (1997), Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (1998), in which Washington gave a memorable turn as a scheming con's violent brother - in - law; Warren Beatty's Bulworth (1998), and Clint Eastwood's True Crime (1999), which cast Washington as a man awaiting execution on death row after being falsely accused of murder.

Another critically - acclaimed Fox show, the ensemble sitcom Arrested Development cast the actress as the self - righteous twin sister of Jason Bateman's Michael Bluth.

Obviously alotting more work, and money, towards getting an ensemble cast — as opposed to garnering producers with emphasis on purpose and ingenuity — the filmmakers, here, create a product that is not the least bit unique; it's a generic label laden with followed genre - specific cliches, bawdy humor, and disjointed direction.

He was nominated in 2012 and again in 2013 as part of the Best Ensemble Cast (HOMELAND) at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as individually for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama at the 2013 Emmy Awards.

Along with acting in Broadway and off - Broadway plays in the late»90s, Williams also played the young Sharon Stone in the film version of Sam Shepard's Simpatico (1999), joined the ensemble cast of the romantic comedy Just a Little Harmless Sex (1999), and starred as a contemporary young woman transported to fairytale land in the splashy NBC miniseries The 10th Kingdom (2000).

The film is loosely focused, but its ensemble cast is as affable as anything on television these days.

Milch has a keen eye for his actors» untapped resources — he doesn't so much cast against physical types as he does psychological ones — and this is what makes Deadwood's expansive ensemble so continually exciting to watch.

An ATF agent in the former and Jennifer Lopez's morally questionable boyfriend in the latter, he turned in solid performances as part of a strong ensemble cast in both critically acclaimed films.

We have cops and gangsters, worthy charming adversaries, a cat and mouse game and as always — a great ensemble cast padding up a watertight script.

Too gentle and leisurely to survive as a solid classic, though there's pleasure to be found in the cast's graceful way with comedy and their smooth ensemble playing.

The rest of the ensemble is first - rate, with clever casting on down the line that includes the Eagles» Glenn Frey as the coach of the Cardinals -LRB-!!!)

«I've said it before, and it's only getting more and more accurate as cast members keep joining, there has never been an ensemble like this in cinematic history,» says Marvel president Kevin Feige, who produces...

Despite various B - movie trappings (the killer in a hooded rain slicker; an atmospheric slasher movie score), Odar and a strong ensemble cast (led by Sebastian Blomberg as the haunted lead detective) maintain a steady intensity and a strong focus on psychology rather than exploitation.

More than a sports film, the story is a family drama that served as great material for a magnificent ensemble cast.

Rather than a straight sequel, Weiner - Dog is — as all of life's stories are — «tied together thematically by a dachshund,» who spreads comfort, joy, and dachshund farts among one of Solondz's usual ensemble casts.

His work also refuses to be pigeonholed; for example, defying his reputation as a period film director, 1957's The Eleventh Hour is an ensemble - cast, social realist melodrama about a rescue at a caved - in mine that equals anything made by Hollywood during the same era.

As for the rest of the ensemble cast, the writers made sure even those who don't receive their own full narrative arcs, their presence is felt - either through standout lines of dialogue or cool action beats.

Though the ensemble cast is fantastic (Jesse Eisenberg is one of the better Allen surrogates in recent years, while even Kristen Stewart and Blake Lively manage to be charming), «Café Society» falls apart in the final act as its barebones plot begins to run on fumes.

The ensemble cast includes Hugh Grant (as the minister), Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley and Rowan Atkinson.

As it stands, it is occasionally engaging, but far too uneven and not consistently enthralling enough to recommend to anyone not a huge fan of the ensemble cast.

• Rounding out the cast are James Gandolfini as «Big Dave» Brewster (the Coens» third «Big» in a row, following David Huddleston's Lebowski and John Goodman's «Big Dan»), along with a variety of Coens ensemble returnees.

Directed by Jon Favreau («Swingers»), it has an ensemble cast including Ed Asner as Santa Claus with Bob Newhart, Mary Steenburgen and Zooey Deschanel.

There's not a weak link in the ensemble, beginning with the no - brainer casting of the great Angela Lansbury as the demanding Aunt March and Emily Watson as the warm and frazzled matriarch Marmee.

Sally Hawkins is so so so perfect as Elisa, and his eclectic ensemble cast is as good as she is.

The ensemble cast includes Peggy Rea and Richard Hamilton as Sam's grandparents, Joan Allen as her mother, Kevin Anderson and John Terry as her boyfriends and Judith Ivey as Emmett's sometimes - girlfriend.

«Trial & Error's» ensemble cast includes Omaha - born - and - raised Nicholas D'Agosto, who most recently was seen as Harvey Dent on Fox's «Gotham.»

Kurt Russell heads an ensemble cast comprised primarily of character actors, including the likes of Wilford Brimley (before he became typecast as a folksy grandpa), Richard Dysart (who would later become a regular in the TV series L.A. Law), Keith David, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, and Charles Hallahan.

The rest of the cast is wonderful, an ensemble of simple characters who support a very realistic urban story; Nathan Lane as Frankie's gay neighbor, Jane Morris as old and bitter co-worker Nedda, Kate Nelligan as Frankie's free - spirited bestie, and Hector Elizondo as cafe owner and Frankie's boss.

The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Joseph Gordon - Levitt as the title character, Edward Snowden, with Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall - Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage also starring.

Which isn't to say that the film doesn't boast plenty of powerful and often disturbing sequences (it does), nor that its mostly - female cast don't deliver a forceful ensemble performance, with Natalie Portman exceptional as the traumatised but driven central character, biologist Lena.

WAFCA also honored the cast of «Barbershop» as the best acting ensemble, while selecting «Lilo and Stitch» as Best Animated Feature and dishonoring the George Clooney / Steven Soderbergh film «Solaris» as the year's biggest disappointment.

An ensemble piece co-starring Sam Worthington and Terrence Howard, the film casts Schwarzenegger as the head of a corrupt DEA task force whose members are gradually falling to foul play.

As with many ensemble cast movies, there are several plots which are interspersed throughout.

A picture like this lives and dies by its cast, and while it's easy to target Black as the odd man out in this ensemble, better to forgive the Malcolm character as an example of the frustrated intellectual, straitjacketed by potential and the belief that he was bound for something better promised him by people (parents?)

The cast also features F. Murray Abraham as an older Moustafa, Tom Wilkinson and Jude Law as an author at different ages and an impressive ensemble including Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Mathieu Amalric and Léa Seydoux.

In the 70s, the «day in the life of...» occupation movies were more the norm as far as comedies went, with an ensemble cast of colorful characters, and not much plot other than to watch them all interact and laugh at the results.