Sentences with phrase «buddy movie about»

When we last reported on «El Presidente,» the high - concept buddy movie about a clean cut Secret Service agent and the disheveled, alcoholic schlub of an ex-president he's assigned to protect, Tom Cruise was loosely attached, as was «Recount» director Jay Roach, with Robert Downey, Jr. being eyed for the pivotal role of the ex-prez.

«Flight of the Intruder» is a buddy movie about Navy pilots in the Vietnam War, circa 1972.

The buddy movie about Karl Rove and Lee Atwater's college years follows the future political consultants on a cross-country road trip to Washington, D.C.

Not exact matches

These days, the Marvel movie on everyone's lips is Black Panther, but we'd be remiss to entirely forget about Thor: Ragnarok, a shaggy, sci - fi buddy comedy that just happened to take place against a vista of wild, intergalactic gladiatorial combat.

I'm a smart athletic guy (nice smile) who loves going to sporting events, traveling (just need a travel buddy), being outdoors, dinners, out and about, or just kicking back watching a movie or reading a book.

Such are the layered joys of this exuberant — if surprisingly conventional — buddy comedy about the making of the worst movie of all time.

Between that and the wise use of online marketing (then in its infancy) buoyed this minimalistic, naturalistic home movie about three bickering buddies who venture into the Maryland woods to document the urban legend of The Blair Witch.

Alas, the film suffers from the usual buddy movie clichés of having most viewer interest brought about from the interaction of the two leads amid the most threadbare and derivative of plots.

All we know is that the movie is about five high school buddies who get together thirty years later for a holiday weekend getaway.

Fortunately for us, we made a movie that is a comedy in a time that I think a lot of people need some levity, but it's also just an unapologetic love story, a buddy story about following your dreams.

Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying, an unofficial sequel to Hal Ashby's 1973 film The Last Detail, is similarly a buddy road movie that blends humour, pathos and subversive cynicism about the damage done to men who become soldiers.

Vikram Murthi writes about John Michael McDonagh's nihilistic new buddy cop movie «War on Everyone» in this week's critic - at - large column.

From my review of Rush Hour: «The film suffers from the usual buddy movie clichés of having most viewer interest brought about from the interaction of the two leads amid the most threadbare and derivative of plots.»

Ted is a mash - up of John Waters, Bad Santa, Jackass and just about every stereotypical slacker - buddy movie from the past 25 years.

In an unfancy way — in a way that's like life, not like movies — everything that happens in «I'll See You in My Dreams» is about waking her up and making her feel again, from the handsome new man played by Elliott, to the presence of an unlikely new drinking buddy, the new pool guy (Martin Starr).

A whole lot of plot ensues — an entertaining mix of buddy movie, road trip, Clash of the Titans, archetypal quest and a coming - of - age tale about misfits making their way despite, or because of, absent parents.

The coming - of - age tale, the on - the - run road movie, the buddy comedy, the boy's adventure story — all genres that require a steady hand and a singular sensibility, and all of which you'll find in Taika Waititi's goofy, giddy mash - up about two fugitives fleeing authorities in the New Zealand bush.

Greater acceptance and tolerance might have rendered movies about «coming out» less necessary, but this gritty drama puts a fresh spin on familiar themes by chronicling Frankie (Harris Dickinson), a Brooklyn teenager with a troubled family life who patrols the beaches with his macho buddies by day and surreptitiously flirts with older men online by night.

It's also a buddy movie that uses visual phallic puns to hint wickedly at what might have only crossed the minds of viewers of previous buddy movies, spelling out the ambiguity of their relationship with a funny routine involving an overheard conversation about feeling each other's breasts.

How exquisitely ironic that a would - be Enfant terrible who whines and complains about a more successful filmmaker's female character being improbably, impossibly, glibly perfect and hyper - competent in every way would write, in his universally reviled new Netflix original movie Bright, a sloppy inter-species buddy comedy team where both halves «unexpectedly» turn out to be magical figures of destiny.

Alison Bagnall's Funny Bunny is a shaggy buddy dramedy about a road trip that doesn't seem to take its characters much of anywhere, in the tradition of the low - budget American road movie that must often elide the potentially money - burning trip undertaken by the protagonists so as to emphasize merely the embarking point and the destination.

As Susan Sarandon has pointed out (love this woman, and love how much she talks about this movie), Thelma & Louise basically is an outlaw buddy movie in the vein of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.

Heather Graham's debut as both a screenwriter and a director is a mishmash of romantic comedy, buddy movie, and feminist ideas about empowerment in relationships, through sex, and at work — with the suggestion that there's some magic at play in achieving those goals.

Rian Johnson's back - catalog hardly reads like a collection of tongue - in - cheek buddy movies or intergalactic comedies; his cult breakout Brick was a film about heroin abuse.

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