Sentences with phrase «career comeback»

A stunning career comeback from Mickey Rourke underpins Darren Aronofsky's tragic sports drama.

It is about the troubled jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, shown making a tempestuous career comeback in the 1960s.

Not only was it surprisingly lucrative and entertaining, the beloved film launched the careers of Sam Rockwell and Justin Long, helped Tim Allen and Alan Rickman make strong career comebacks, and was heralded as the seventh greatest «Star Trek» film by fans at the 2013 annual Star Trek Convention.

Andrea Arnold's skewering of the American dream gains extra resonance from recent events, while Matthew McConaughey's career comeback stumbles

And you wouldn't normally think of Matthew McConaughey as a moody spaceman, but «Interstellar» was a key element of the actor's career comeback, the «McConaissance.»

International intrigue, great music, a career comeback.

Maguire (Cruise), a high - powered sports agent, is enchanted by a young mother (Zellweger) who believes in him and oversees the career comeback of his struggling football player client Ron Tidwell...

Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell - bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar.

Alex, an architect desperately in need of a career comeback, and his girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holms), an interior decorator, are calling the place home for the time being, as they're working to restore the house and sell it for a pretty penny and ego boost.

So, yes: In the middle of an awards show that, via its wear - black campaign — and via the Time's Up movement — was attempting to focus on much more than appearances, L'Oréal aired an ad that equated the triumph of a career comeback with the triumph over split ends.

Florence Foster Jenkins had a «career comeback» of sorts in 2016, thanks to the successful movie of the same name with Meryl Streep in the title role.

Crawford, almost 45 when she made this movie, was riding the wave of a career comeback that started with 1945's «Mildred Pierce.»

We believe in you, Kevin, but maybe stick to Westerns for your late - career comeback.

A career comeback that began about 10 years ago has led to a glut of comedic roles, including efforts in recent years such as «Horrible Bosses,» «Identity Thief» and the scabrous «Bad Words,» which he also directed.

Shane Black's first effort as a director — after making his name as one of the 1990s most successful screenwriters — was the near - perfect Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, aka the movie that jump - started RDJ's career comeback.

Since then, any career comeback has been looked at through those high - expectation goggles (the Winona Ryder - ssaince, anyone?).

Set fourteen years after the original, Zoolander 2 finds our hopeless and utterly idiotic male models in a world of hurt attempting to make a career comeback while also working to find out who they really are and whether they have the testicular fortitude to stop an ancient prophecy from coming true.

Robert Downey Jr. was definitely on a career comeback (the sensational Iron Man the year prior) and this reboot of a British classic character ensured that.

Looks like a win win for him - if Tower Heist is dreadful then he can make up for it by putting on a great show (which I think he's surely capable of) and if the movie happens to do well, then the Oscars will (hopefully) continue his career comeback.

Never mind that Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem don't exactly scream «perfect couple»; it's what happens after some unexpected guests show up — including Michelle Pfeiffer in what's being whispered about as a career comeback — that has us strapped in for wherever Darren Aronofsky's latest crazy train takes us.

Several of the smaller works by Saul around it had sold — the painter is enjoying a late - career comeback, after all.

Lynn Hershman Leeson has recently enjoyed a late - career comeback.