Sentences with phrase «by local thug»

Martin Freeman is downtrodden schmuck and woeful insurance salesman Lester Nygaard, henpecked by his wife Pearl, taunted by his more successful brother Carl, and tormented by local thug Sam Hess.

However, the arrival of Gordon's daughter, Alexia (Michelle Ryan), an old schoolmate of his, on top of some threatening behaviour towards his sister and brother by local thugs, starts to send Clayton spiralling out of control, and down the same path that his father travelled many years before.

The dramatised contents of the novel contain what is sure to be the film's principal talking point: a nightmarish encounter on a remote stretch of Texas freeway during which Tony and his wife and daughter are forced off the road by some local thugs who have no intention of listening to reason.

When his beloved pet is stolen by local thugs, Steve makes a questionable alliance with their leader, Spider (Momoa).

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His comments — which outraged local leaders — came as the parents of a 3 - year - old Brooklyn boy shot by thugs in a playground said they support the top cop's controversial stop - and - frisk program.

Written by Sylvester Stallone and directed by Gary Fleder, Homefront stars Jason Statham as a former DEA agent who moves to a quiet town with his daughter in order to start a new life, but winds up tangling with the local druglord and his band of thugs.

Set on the trail of a missing Goya by policeman and love rival Martland (Ewan McGregor), Mortdecai and his prim lady wife (Gwyneth Paltrow, inevitably) travel the world sipping cognac, sneering at the locals and staying one step ahead of a gang of Russian thugs.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a gruff CIA agent who suffers from PTSD and sees re-animated corpses at random moments is ordered to travel to the UK and hire Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moon landing that the American government can use in case the Apollo 11 mission turns out to be a tragic failure, only the agent (who is played by Ron Perlman, by the way) ends up giving a suitcase full of cash to a failed band manager and his perpetually stoned friend who looks a little bit like Stanley Kubrick, and those two idiots get robbed by the local mafia thugs right before Agent Ron Perlman realizes his mistake and threatens to kill everyone involved — and THEN the idiotic band manager (who is played by Rupert Grint, by the way) proposes that they all head off to film the fake moon landing with the help of a artistic hippie commune run by an egotistical dolt who can't understand why he can't put giant jellyfish on the moon.

Jason Statham (War, Crank) stars as Terry Leather, a two - bit car salesman who is being harassed constantly by thugs sent by the local loan shark for payment.

Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien (James Franco), an infamous local thug who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest Spring Break trip in history.

Harris plays Virgil Cole, a hired gun who, along with his friend, Everett Hitch (a restrained Viggo Mortensen), are employed by the town of Appaloosa as Marshall and Deputy to get rid of local thug, Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons).