Sentences with phrase «buddy road film»

Sheridan set out to make a «buddy road film which was also a heist thriller, with elements of the inevitable showdown of a western with some of the real consequences of the flawed characters of a real drama,» he said.

Not exact matches

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.

«The Hangover» isn't in the same league by a long shot, but it is an amiably warped romp that suggests what you might have wound up with had Hunter Thompson been hired to do the script for a Hollywood buddy film: drugs, heavy drinking, a road trip, Las Vegas — it's even got its share of fear and loathing.

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.

Thankfully, this film doesn't follow the normal road trip trope of the leads becoming buddies, and then something happening that makes them not buddies again, then at the end they make up and are closer than ever.

The result is a drab road trip film, a cross between Grumpy Old Men and National Lampoon's Vacation, as the aged Bryson (Robert Redford) and his crude former buddy Katz (Nick Nolte) set out to hike the Appalachian Trail.

The film stars Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, and Steve Carell as veterans and old war buddies on a road trip and despite a tragic core, the film contains the sense of joy we often get from Linklater.

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.

Gondry's second film to be cast with young unknowns — following his 2012 South Bronx ensemble piece The We and the I — Microbe and Gasoline is a gentle contemplation of male friendship and the dreams of adolescence, in the form of a road / buddy movie that, unusually for Gondry, is only sometimes overtly goofy.

But this is no documentary, part road - trip, part buddy movie, the two British comedians spend most of the film trying to outdo each others» impressions of Anthony Hopkins and Sean Connery.

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.

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.

Two of the best films of the last year, S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk and John Maclean's Slow West, took the period and setting but twisted them to their own means, Zahler going for a buddy road trip / gonzo gore feast and Maclean dressing Ben Mendlesohn in the best coat anyone will ever wear and opting for a surreality that still lingers in the mind.

Director Hannah Fidell sounds like she's making a stark turn from the tone of her 2013 Sundance film «A Teacher» with this buddy road movie, but it's more who she cast as the buddies that makes it sound promising: Tony Revolori and Jason Mantzoukas.

By Hope Madden It is hard to believe Jack Kerouac's seminal buddy adventure On the Road has not been made into a film before now.