Sentences with phrase «buddy comedy film»

Ted is a 2012 American buddy comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane and written by MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild.

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Ted is a 2012 American buddy comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane in his feature film directorial debut.

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Female - buddy - cop comedy The Heat offered the best returns at almost $ 160 million in ticket sales, while The Wolverine and animated film Epic both crossed the $ 100 million mark.

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A fairly interminable teen comedy, American Pie follows four high school buddies (Jason Biggs» Jim, Chris Klein's Oz, Thomas Ian Nicholas» Kevin, and Eddie Kaye Thomas» Finch) as they vow to lose their respective virginities by prom night - with the film detailing the foursome's expectedly flamboyant and over-the-top efforts at accomplishing this feat.

A sordid tale that resembles many noir classic films from the forties and fifties, where its protagonists are police partners based on the duality of buddy movies but without the comedy.

Great plan, except that Deanna insists on going to the same college where Maddie is enrolled, setting up an intergenerational, interfamilial odd - couple buddy - comedy scenario that the film never makes the most of.

A buddy - comedy wrapped in a British Columbia road trip, Suck It Up figures out how to find the humor in emotionally distressing situations that might elude any less determined characters than the film's two protagonists.

Sixteen months after the blockbuster's debut, director Todd Phillips has one of this year's most anticipated movies in the forthcoming buddy road comedy Due Date, all three leads have moved past their vaguely familiar stage to a reasonable degree of stardom, the savvily - greenlit The Hangover 2 has begun shooting, and Warner Home Video has just reissued the film in Extreme Edition DVD and Blu - ray sets.

The Thunder Buddies return next week with the U.S. release of the comedy sequel Ted 2, and a rather excellent Flash Gordon - inspired poster has arrived online for the Seth MacFarlane film, which you can see right here... SEE ALSO: Watch the latest trailer for Ted 2 Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and co-star of -LSB-...]

Sundance describes it as a «delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film.»

But director Paul Feig, who found critical and box office acclaim with his female driven 2011 comedy «Bridesmaids,» daringly put in the effort to make the first female buddy cop film with «The Heat.»

He is best known for his roles as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, as Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy - comedy The Good Guys, as Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and as antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison.

Murphy had scored a big hit just a few months earlier in his film debut, the buddy cop action / comedy 48 Hrs.

STX Entertainment is seeking a new director for its buddy comedy about the late film critic and Russ Meyer

The film is a buddy action comedy in the vein of «The In - Laws» and «Midnight Run,» with a splash of 1930s movie slapstick.

In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.

One such film struck such a chord with viewers that it took out the festival's audience award, with The Intouchables exuberant and empathetic within its heartfelt, humorous buddy comedy mould.

One minute it is a stoner buddy film, the next a saccharine romantic comedy.

We look at this month's films (according to UK release dates), which include Shane Black's detective buddy comedy The Nice Guys, Studio Ghibli's animated drama When Marnie Was There, and the Australian adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man.

The combined efforts of this fine ensemble cast make Tower Heist go down easier than it otherwise might, but the film's potential as a buddy comedy is sadly wasted.

No mission too difficult: the progenitor of the buddy comedy (and the only film to win an Academy Award for Best Comedy Direcomedy (and the only film to win an Academy Award for Best Comedy DireComedy Direction)

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are re-teaming for a comedy called Daddy's Home.The actors previously starred in buddy cop film The Other Guys in...

It also manages to hit the bull's eye as a splatter horror film, an ode to Romero, a buddy picture, and an authentic romantic comedy.

From the era and «buddy comedy» guise, I originally expected to enjoy it for its non-stop over the top action or silly gags, but this film really shines through the interactions between its characters and the performances.

In one sense it's an enjoyable buddy comedy, in another an escape drama, and in another a war film.

They're terrific together and deserve to reunite for a buddy comedy or maybe even a sequel to this film five or 10 years down the line.

Joining Ottman on the score is rising action composer David Buckley («Jason Bourne»), together forming an action - comedy buddy - cop band that spins out spot - on spy jazz grooves, club funk and wah - wah guitar jams with a propulsive orchestra, along with a dramatic slice of film noir moodiness.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Eldorado (Unrated) Unlikely - buddy comedy about a Belgian auto dealer (Bouli Lanners) who befriends the young burglar (Fabrice Edde) he catches in the act of robbing his house.

The film is also, more subversively, both sendup and tribute to the 1980s buddy action comedy.

So sayeth New Zealand's Taika Waititi, who steers the latest solo film for the musclebound Asgardian towards the realm of buddy comedy.

Hart and Cube tread no new ground in this routine buddy comedy, which will invite comparisons to films like The Other Guys, Cop Out, and Pineapple Express from myopic moviegoers.

When Augustine Frizzell's buddy - girl comedy Never Goin» Back bows Monday at midnight, it will mark the culmination of a four - year endeavor — an odyssey of sorts mined from Frizzell's own unconventional childhood, and one that required the first - time feature director to completely scrap her original film before re-writing, re-casting, and re-shooting her Sundance debut.

Per the standards long established in the road trip buddy comedy (a subgenre also embodied by films like Midnight Run and Tommy Boy), the mismatched men of course endure high - spirited adventure and outrageous obstacles en route to their destination.

This excellent film is a lot of things — a valentine to the harebrained fringes of showbiz, a buddy comedy about two kindred souls taking a bite out of Los Angeles, the first persuasive argument that Dave Franco might have a future in this «acting» racket — but foremost among them, it's an inquisition into the enigma that is Tommy Wiseau.

Their oddball friendship makes for a cracked buddy comedy — Julian and the film itself constantly keep one off balance.

The American 3D computer - animated buddy comedy will be the perfect film - treat for Thanksgiving.

Uber - prolific (with over a dozen films in seven years — some of them very rough around edges, which could lead some to opine he's too prolific), things really transformed for Swanberg last year with the release of his breakthrough indie comedy «Drinking Buddies.»

As far as the narrative side of the equation is concerned, the film plays both like a 1980's - style buddy comedy like Midnight Run or 48 Hrs.

With Falk and Arkin doing the majority of the heavy lifting, filled to the brim with one memorable sequence one after the other, without a doubt this is one of the great buddy comedies ever made, and for those who have never seen it I suggest giving the film a look right away.

These portions of the film are as much buddy comedy as anything else, but buddy comedy fitted with cinematic splendor and dramatic weight.

Identity Thief is all over the map when it comes to the kind of film it wants to be, sometimes playing like a wacky farce, sometimes as a black humor raunch-fest, sometimes as a silly thriller with laughs, and sometimes trying to draw out even some touching moments in a mismatched buddy road - trip comedy, a la Trains Planes and Automobiles.

WHY: Whether he's making poetic coming - of - age films or pot - fueled buddy comedies, David Gordon Green hasn't allowed himself to be confined to a certain genre, although he does seem to have an affinity for the kind of naturalistic, salt - of - the - earth dramas that he's returned to in recent years, including his latest movie, «Manglehorn.»

We've got everything from silly buddy comedies, big splashy commercial comedies, more esoteric indies, and even a couple of films that toe the line between comedy and drama.

It's also we get a Marvel movie that doubles as a weird buddy comedy that pairs Thor with Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner / Hulk, who spend much of the film stranded on an alien - junkyard planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum's royal Grandmaster, a supreme oddball who finds great entertainment in staging gladiator - style coliseum fights.

The Danish Girl's stylistic drowsiness is especially unfortunate in light of another, better film released earlier this year: Sean Baker's Tangerine, a raucous buddy comedy which follows two trans women of color as they prostitute their way through the streets of Los Angeles.

The film itself has a remarkably dramatic edge to it, moreso than the previous films, with the buddy comedy peppering in dark undertones of adolescent trauma, the dullness of adult life, and the frustration inherent to drug abuse and depression.

The World's End is a bit harder to pigeonhole than the first two films, really; it's clearly a science fiction body - snatcher film, and it has the basic conceit of a «reliving the past» buddy comedy, but all the elements meld together into something fairly original instead of the previous film's overt pastiches.

The film is being billed as a sequel to Hal Ashby's 1973 buddy comedy, The Last Detail.