Sentences with phrase «billed as a comedy»

Billed as a comedy, it is tears - running down - your - face hilarious at certain times, drolly funny elsewhere, slyly satirical at other times, sometimes just plain quirky and even squirmy - uncomfortable in places.

This one has an «Entourage» pedigree (Mark Wahlberg is a producer) and is technically billed as a comedy, though it has neither the witty banter nor satisfying ending of one.

I bring this up not to scare away potential audiences, but to make clear that this film, while billed as a comedy (and it is that), also has a dark side that some (sensitive) people (like me) might not be comfortable with.

Why Dustin Hoffman Taught Us a Relationship Lesson in Tootsie Tootsie might have been billed as a comedy starring Dustin Hoffman as a hapless actor...

Oddly billed as a comedy, I couldn't sniff out a single laugh in «Dark Stranger,» despite laudable efforts from the cast, who feel around blindly for punchlines that are never there.

From March's battle with a bathroom stall door to the pair's ill - thought - out disposal of a corpse, there are some truly fun and memorable scenes that border on slapstick, and I suppose they're the reason why The Nice Guys is being billed as a comedy.

Billed as a comedy, 20th Century Women won't have you rolling in the aisles.

Although Francis Veber's «The Closet» is billed as a comedy, it's not clear at first what sense of humor it might have.

Billed as a comedy by some critics, it is difficult to see much deliberate humour in the film.

The film is billed as a comedy, but the real story is both weird and disturbing — more of a comedy of errors.

Billed as a comedy, the movie will leave most viewers wondering wherefore art the laughs.

While I'm worried this is billed as a comedy or even a romance, this fits in more as a caustic tale much like a story from «The Twilight Zone.»

And if all of this is indeed meant to amuse (it's billed as comedy / drama), we've stumbled upon the Guinness of black comedies here, folks — this is some dark, heavy stuff.

The film is billed as a comedy, but I only laughed out - loud once.

Deadpool was far from the first superhero movie to put a particular emphasis on jokes, but unlike a Guardians Of The Galaxy or whatever, it did partly bill itself as a comedy.

It's billed as a comedy traffic school, and reading other online drivers education reviews it's not hard to see that those who choose this option end up laughing as they learn.

Not exact matches

Show to Watch for: The Meyers - created animated comedy The Awesomes, which debuted in August, features the voices of SNL alum Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader and Taran Killam as members of the world's (former) greatest superhero team.

This movie is neither a comedy (not even a black comedy it's billed as) nor a sci - fi flick.

Fan ascended to star billing as Breeze Loo (a riff on Bruce Lee) in Finishing the Game (2007)-- a martial arts - themed comedy about director Robert Clouse's attempts to polish off the actioner The Game of Death following the death of lead actor Lee.

Billed as a fantasy - comedy - drama, it manages to be none of these.

Valletta's roles — given the actress» off - camera motherhood and intermittent magazine work — accumulated slowly over the next several years (in films such as the Nicolas Cage holiday vehicle The Family Man and the Danny DeVito - directed black comedy Duplex); as a result, Valletta only ascended gradually to top billing.

Although billed as a romantic comedy, this film is neither: it's a drama spanning about two decades in a marriage

And then there was Tonya Harding, the Olympic figure skater whose connection to a 1994 attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan ensured she'd become as much of a household name — and late - night comedy punchline — as O.J. or JonBenét, or Bill Clinton, for that matter.

Blue collar comedy rules the roost with this hilarious farce starring Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and D.J. Qualls as buddies who are mistaken for Army Reservists and sent to the Middle East - but when they are accidentally dropped into Mexico, they misread the situation and set about trying to «liberate» a besieged village from a demented drug lord.

David Steinberg interviews comedy greats like Drew Carey, Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, Louis C.K., Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Bill Maher, and Ben Stiller, as well as living legends Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart, Lily Tomlin and Betty White.

Following several solo performance films (including Bill Engvall: Here's Your Sign Live in 2004 and Bill Engvall: 15 Off Cool in 2007), Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy co-starred in the feature comedy Delta Farce (2007), as a couple of blue - collar Joes mistaken for Army personnel.

Greig has starred in episodes of the ground - breaking series PEOPLE LIKE US, DR.. WHO, WHEN I»M 64 for the BBC, but she gained recognition and a British Comedy nomination for her television role as Fran Katzenjammer in Channel 4's BLACK BOOKS with Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey.

As a result the second banana of this service comedy, the affable Harold Ramis, becomes its genuine dramatic center: his struggles to keep his buddy Bill in line have a strange urgency and poignance.

Kudos to Roos for giving Lisa Kudrow the best screen role of her career as Lucia, the sister of Bill's deceased partner, and the acerbic conscience of a perfectly dysfunctional modern anti-romantic comedy.

Still, it does at least support an interesting premise for a family comedy, although it does come off as a second - rate rekindling of the Jumanji (rampant animal madness) and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure formulas (a motley ensemble of historical figures coming together to help the people of the present).

Although billed as the «ultimate romantic comedy», Curtis takes a strange stance on relationships in this film.

But it sort of fizzled, which is a shame because it's a smart, funny and affectionate romantic comedy that was billed as Rock's Annie Hall.

Delta Farce DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Unfunny Mistaken Identity Comedy Makes Its way to DVD Larry (Larry the Cable Guy), Everett (DJ Qualls) and Bill (Bill Engvall) are best friends who ordinarily welcome the periodic male - bonding opportunity afforded them by their service as National Guard reserves on the base where they're stationed in Chattahoochee, Georgia.

Billed as an action - comedy, Gringo sees Selma's David Oyelowo as a pharma exec who gets stranded in Mexico and is seduced by the life of crime.

It's billed as a black action - comedy that sees Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgård's bent cops (pictured above) looking to blackmail and generally stitch up all the felons they cross paths with.

During his first few decades as an actor, Bill Macy took whatever was readily available: poetry - reading jobs, movie bits, comedy - record gigs (he's the operatic cabdriver in the classical music lampoon The Wurst of PDQ Bach) and off - Broadway stage assignments.

I found it to be peculiar and unique, but the comedy it has been billed as was nowhere to be found.

Billed as «a romantic comedy with zombies,» the film is exactly that.

Crazy People (stylized as Cяazy People) is a 1990 American comedy film starring Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah, and directed by Tony Bill.

A scriptwriter from 1944, Monicelli formed a partnership with comedy scrivener Stefano Vanzina, who billed himself as «Steno.»

But even if its plot fits the bill, «The Wedding Plan» as a whole doesn't quite fit the mold of the traditional romantic comedy.

Stripes is the definitive military comedy, and the first onscreen pairing of Ramis as the egghead counterpoint to Bill Murray's wiseacre lead.

While not entirely abandoning his comedy roots, in recent decades Bill Murray has carved himself a career as a serious actor in films such as Rushmore, the Royal Tenenbaums, and now St Vincent (written and directed by Theodore Melfi).

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Cramming this many A-list names onto one bill was meant to be a buffer from (or, even more pathetically, as an enhancement to) the bizarre nature of gross - out comedies.

From Richard Linklater (Boyhood) comes this ensemble comedy set in a 1980s college, billed as the «spiritual sequel» to Linklater's classic Dazed and Confused (1993).

It is billed as a neo-noir black comedy (written by Mitchell): Andrew Garfield plays Sam, a guy who has fallen hopelessly in love with his beautiful neighbour who then disappears.

It is being billed as a return to the workplace comedy for Judge, and stars Jason Bateman as the owner of a flower - extract plant who has injured and unhappy employees to deal with from 9 to 5, but he also has his share of marital problems at home.

I suppose I could choose the great movies that have made me laugh the most — the first that come to mind, such as: a Keaton («Sherlock, Jr.» or «Steamboat Bill, Jr.»), a Fields («It's A Gift» or «The Bank Dick»), a Marx Bros. («Animal Crackers» or «Duck Soup»), a Sturges («The Lady Eve» or «Miracle of Morgan's Creek»), and, let's say, a classic comedy (preferably starring Cary Grant or Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur, and written and / or directed by Ernst Lubitsch or Howard Hawks or Billy Wilder or Mitchell Leisen, like «Trouble in Paradise» or «Heaven Can Wait» (1943) or «Bringing Up Baby» or «His Girl Friday» or «The Major and the Minor» or «Some Like It Hot» or «Easy Living» or «Ball of Fire»...).

This stylish, star - studded caper comedy stars Uma Thurman (KILL BILL franchise) as Harriet and Tim Roth (THE HATEFUL EIGHT) as Peter, a con - artist couple cooking up a jewel - theft scam in L.A. to pay off sexy gangster Irina (played by Maggie Q).