Sentences with phrase «cast as the cop»

Ethan Hawke is well cast as the cop who believes «we serve and protect» but has trouble accepting the logic of Alonzo's style of serving and protection.

Not exact matches

In 2000, Hayek could be seen in smaller, edgier ventures, including the independent comedy Chain of Fools, in which she played a centerfold - turned - cop, and Mike Figgis» experimental Time Code, which cast her as Jeanne Tripplehorn's lover.

Sarandon gets great support from a cast that includes J.K. Simmons as a laid - back retired cop who pursues Minnie, and Jason Ritter as the ex-boyfriend whom Minnie desperately plots to reunite with her daughter.

And a cast to dream of down to the smallest roles, most of the actors giving the performance of their lifetime: J.Lo is hardly recognizable as the irrelevant pop singer of recent years, doing a great job as a female cop tempted by the attracting opposites of bank robber George Clooney, who was never better than here.

Game Night has a few going for it — one helluva cast (Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Billy Magnusson, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Danny Huston, Michael C. Hall, Chelsea Peretti, Camille Chen and more); an opening meet cute that is original and clever; the establishment of a weekly get together for a games night; the sad sack neighbor who used to be part of the group (and is also a cop with a cute dog), and, finally, the idea that what starts out as a special murder mystery game night turns out to be the real thing — but no knows it.

Liam Neeson is superbly cast as the voice of the quick - change artist Bad Cop / Good Cop, tasked with capturing Emmet and implementing the end of Bricksburg as we know it.

We have cops and gangsters, worthy charming adversaries, a cat and mouse game and as always — a great ensemble cast padding up a watertight script.

Together with her husband, CDC director Dr Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam) and an incredulous cop (Charles S. Dutton, the closest the film comes to comic relief), Susan investigates, at which point the film starts to successfully mimic Aliens, as Susan faces off against the giant creatures and the supporting cast (including a youthful - looking Josh Brolin) gradually get picked off.

The unusually well - defined cast of characters includes a family of thieves living in the mountains in southwest France — a widower and grandfather named Victor (Ivan Desny), his eldest son Ivan (Didier Bezace), Ivan's wife Mireille (Fabienne Babe), and Ivan and Mireille's son Justin (Julien Riviere)-- as well as Ivan's kid brother Alex (Auteuil), who has rebelled against his family by becoming a cop in a Lyons suburb.

The period film, which casts Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling as cops going against Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) for control of Los Angeles, has a great cast and period setting.

The British - led cast includes Andrea Riseborough as a local cop investigating the case, Simon Farnaby (who also co-wrote the script) as an inexplicably shirtless Dutch stuntman, and Steve Coogan as the successful star of a long - running Mindhorn spin - off.

Abandon, the directorial debut of noted screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, casts Katie Holmes as Katie Burke - a frazzled college student who must deal with the return of a former love (Charlie Hunnam), as well as an alcoholic cop's (Benjamin Bratt) investigation into said boyfriend's disappearance two years earlier.

Bruce Willis does his schtick as a rough cop, and in some inspired casting Elijah Wood turns up the creep - o - meter as a mute cannibal.

This is the first English language film from director Alexandros Avranas (MISS VIOLENCE, 2013) and his cast is led by Jim Carrey as police inspector Tadek, a disgraced cop who takes care of his elderly mother while also obsessing over the now coldcase that ruined his career.

Supporting performances by Danny McBride and Craig Robinson are also noteworthy, while the inspired casting of Gary Cole and Rosie Perez (as a dirty cop on Ted's payroll) only makes you wish they were given more screen time.

Disney's Zootopia features a stellar voice cast with Jason Bateman leading the way as a fox con artist who must team up with a rabbit cop (Ginnifer Goodwin) to uncover a dark conspiracy.

«I had not thought of Jake as a down - and - dirty L.A. cop,» says Barden, adding that he watched Gyllenhaal's police officer drama «End of Watch» while casting «Prisoners.»

It does feature some rather unique casting choices, with the roles being reversed, going against type, with Murray performing admirably as the tough guy mob boss and De Niro even more impressive as the down - and - out loser cop.

Ray Winstone is perfectly cast as the gritty cop.

I am going to hypothetically go with a gangster / cop movie, as the only movies I can think that handled a cast anywhere near that big before is Pulp Fiction or Sin City.

Among the cast, only Sun Hunglei, as the easily corrupted cop, resists the slide toward vaudeville.

Matthew McConaughey is perfectly cast as a sadistic dallas cop who works as a hit man in «Killer Joe», but at some point I found myself curiously disengaged from this story and didn't care what happened to everyone involved in it.

In some ways, casting George Kennedy as the heroic if slightly alcoholic cop demonstrates more affection and admiration for our civil servants than does casting Steve McQueen as a firefighter.

Even without an official teaser trailer, Warner Bros. has enjoyed loads of high - profile buzz, rivaled only by Lionsgate's Hunger Games announcements, that's followed the non-stop torrent of Dark Knight Rises casting additions which so far include: Tom Hardy (Bane), Anne Hathaway (Selina Kyle / Catwoman), Marion Cotillard (Miranda Tate), Juno Temple (a street - smart gal), Josh Pence (spoilerish flashback character), Joseph Gordon - Levitt (John Blake), and Alon Aboutboul (a mad scientist) with Matthew Modine, Tom Conti, and Joey King as well as Daniel Sunjata, Burn Gorman, and Diego Klattenhoff in unspecified roles (most likely cops and / or robbers).

Also entertaining and perfectly cast are Michael Caine as loyal butler Alfred, Morgan Freeman as smartass inventor Lucius Fox and Gary Oldman's as Gotham's amusingly dorky «last good cop» Gordon.

Especially when I asked Haggis if part of the reason he cast Phillippe as the rookie cop was because he has the face of an angel.

Both approaches yield their share of funny stuff, bolstered by good casting that ranges from Judy Greer and Bobby Cannavale as, respectively, Lang's ex-wife and her cop fiancé, to cameos from Gregg Turkington and the voice of Tom Kenny.

The casting of Trudi Goodman as a coke - snorting pedophile felt particularly inhumane, though not as mind - boggling as the beeline Michelle Monaghan made for the exit at the end of the film (those who've read the book tell me her character has been considerably dumbed down), leaving Casey Affleck sitting on a couch wondering if kindergarten - cop duty is just punishment for the ethical exactitude he showed earlier.

Though Tim Robbins won the Oscar for «Mystic River,» his cast mate Kevin Bacon was equally deserving for his performance as a conflicted cop on the hunt for a killer.

McHale, sadly, won't be providing comic relief but will be playing a tough and experienced cop alongside Bana, in a cast that includes Olivia Munn as Bana's wife and Edgar Ramirez as an improbably handsome Jesuit priest, who presumably provides some sort of spiritual advice.

M.V.P.: Among a wondrous cast, including J. Smith Cameron as Lisa's mother, John Gallagher Jr. as her hapless prospective beau, Kieran Culkin as a manipulative, callous rival, Rosemarie De Witt as the prickly, paranoid wife of Mark Ruffalo's character, Stephen Adly Guirgis as a long - suffering cop, Michael Ealy as a smart - as - a-whip attorney and Lonergan himself as Lisa's hen - pecked absentee father, it's the great Allison Janney (also the best thing in «The Help «-RRB- who lingers in a one - scene cameo as the victim of the bus accident which sets the plot in motion.

Josh Brolin leads the all - star supporting cast as an LAPD cop named «Bigfoot», who has a love / hate relationship with Doc.

Once more, Katz works with a kinetic and inspired cast, featuring Game of Thrones hunk Nikolaj Coster - Waldau as the ex-cop Joe Denton, veteran heavies Robert Forster and Jacki Weaver as a very bewildered Mr. and Mrs. Denton, House of Cards heroine Molly Parker as an all - too - forgivable nurse, an ever - reliable Blair as an all - too - gullible friend, a supremely terrifying Healy as a mob boss» dickhead son, and the one and only Gary Cole as a dirty cop trying to cover his dirty ass.

Featuring an all - star cast (and that's used a lot, but it really does fit in this case) including a scene - stealing Clifton Collins Jr. as a pimp with principles and Robert Forster as grumpy, heavily armed grandpa, it follows the redemption of an alcoholic former cop (Hawkes), who discovers a dead body in a field and decides to find out who she was and how she got there.

Friedkin cast several real NYPD employees (including the real cops who broke the case, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grasso), vitally shot on location (in Marseilles and Washington D.C. as well as Brooklyn), and hewed closely to his research and the advice of ever - present consultants Egan and Grasso.

One of the most thuddingly unfunny sequences is the «movie - quoting bad cop» opening scene, which the Blu - ray's behind - the - scenes material identifies as a laugh - filled day for cast and crew that didn't translate to any fun for the audience (the lower energy unused opening scene found on the Blu - ray is much funnier in Smith's patented «shooting the shit» style).

Rampart's superb cast includes Cynthia Nixon and Anne Heche as Brown's two ex-wives, sisters, with whom he still lives; Ned Beatty as a corrupt retired cop; Robin Wright as Brown's sex interest and sometime confidant; and Sigourney Weaver and Steve Buscemi from the DA's office.

Jerzy Skolimowski describes his next film, 11 Minutes, as a «catastrophic thriller,» suggesting that the Polish director's bit part in Joss Whedon's The Avengers was time well spent... The cast for John Hillcoat's Triple Nine, a thriller about crooked Los Angeles cops planning a robbery, includes Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Aaron Paul, and Michael Peña... Mohsen Makhmalbaf lives!

A trailer has just been released for the film, and it looks like a good period cops and robbers story, bolstered by that cast into a level of quality that might let it sit alongside other period LA crime tales such as L.A. Confidential.

Dashiell Hammett's supreme hard - boiled detective novel, with Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade, and an unbeatable supporting cast that includes femme fatale Mary Astor, genial fat man Sydney Greenstreet, perfumed crook Peter Lorre, patsy Elisha Cook Jr., and tough cops Ward Bond and Barton MacLane — all turned by writer - director John Huston into «the stuff that dreams are made of.»

Also, joining the cast is Ray Liotta, who has a small role as a typical bad egg lurking in Sin City and Jeremy Piven, who is replacing Michael Madsen, as Bob, the corrupt cop, who was old friends with Hartigan.

What I got instead was a creepy horror film bogged down by bad decisions (who cast Margaret Cho as a straight - edged cop with only two scenes?)

Because Ah - nuld was busy making Total Recall, Danny Glover is cast as the maverick cop who defies a government goon (Gary Busey) to curtail the alien's inner - city killing spree.

The Guard took the Festival's spirit to heart with expert storytelling, a beautiful Irish setting, and exceptional performances by an accomplished cast led by Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle, the flinty local town cop and Don Cheadle as the FBI outsider investigating an international drug - smuggling ring who turns that cop's sleepy, workaday world completely upside down.

Yet that's what you'll be doing in Serial Cleaner, a game that casts you as a man who makes his living going to crime scenes in order to grab all the bodies, clean up most of the blood and then scarper with any leftover evidence such as guns or other nonsense, all while the cops patrol the area.

It casts you as a dashingly moustachioed professional «cleaner» (the shadowy criminal kind), and tasks you with infiltrating a succession of cartoonishly ghoulish murder scenes in order to mop up all evidence of wrongdoing before the cops can sniff it - or you - out.

Cast in the role as cop Davis Russel along with his partner Leo Delgado, you find yourself caught up in the midst of invasion from an alien race known as the Lutadores.

With Obama and Premier Wen Jiabao's visits, the recent e-mail scandal casting doubt on the scientific validity of climate data known as «Climategate,» over 200 world leaders and 25,000 participants in attendance, this year's COP - 15 will surely be one for the ages... stay tuned.

(This is a cop of my post on thread # 1 — did not see the newer one — makes more sense here) The «casting «of this book is very interesting: introduction by a novel writer and a former member of IPCC's Bureau; 15 authors of which half selected as CLA, LA or reviewer of IPCC's AR5; of which 4 or 5 as review editors.