Sentences with phrase «center of the movie»

A police chief and a hotel manager, both overwhelmed and sympathetic and arguably the moral center of their movies.

Joey appears as a character in Buckley's novel, but Reitman has made Naylor's warm relationship with his son (played by ubiquitous child actor Cameron Bright) the emotional center of the movie.

Best known as the world center of movie - making, LA is also a center for shipping (its port and adjacent Long Beach make up the fifth busiest port in the world).

If nothing else, Alpha Dog's worth a look for the performance of Justin Timberlake, the moral center of a movie sorely in need of some conscience.

Mark Strong, does an excellent job as her new boss, and serves as the moral center of the movie as he is devoted to his cause, but will not stoop to Elizabeth's level.

These two represent the comic center of the movie, while Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell), the narcissistic and oblivious protagonist (His assistant, played by Olivia Wilde, notes that she, an aspiring magician, idolized him for 10 years, and it only took a minute for her to hate him), goes through the motions of becoming a better person and performer.

That turns out to be the mini-trend this movie is a part of: men as the calm, rational center of movies written and directed by women.

Lilly is the unfortunate center of the movie.

That extends into the emotional center of the movie, the thing that every Marvel hit to date has used to appeal to the audience in one way or another.

That metatextual smartness extends to conflict at the center of the movie.

At the center of the movie are three mismatched cops with separately fueled ambitions, ferociously played by Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce.

asks Tommy Wiseau (James Franco), the pale, peculiarly dressed, raven - haired man of ambiguous age and accent at the center of the movie The Disaster Artist.

But few will be immune to the romance that lies at the center of a movie that takes as much delight in pneumatic tubes, linotype machines and telexes trailing like bridal veils as it does in temperamental opposites finding common purpose in the institution to which they're both truly, madly and deeply devoted.

His performance was the center of the movie.»

Stewart is at the center of the movie, stalwart and sure.

Perhaps it is Mark Olson's endearing score, June Squibb's eccentric performance, or most likely, the father and son relationship at the center of the movie (played by Will Forte and Bruce Dern).

Jason Bateman and Tina Fey are the two siblings at the center of the movie with Adam Driver (from TV's Girls) as the younger and truly obnoxious, spoiled younger brother, with Corey Stoll, Kathryn Hahn, Rose Byrne, Timothy Olyphant, et al., in the lineup.

At the center of the movie is Dakota Johnson, best known as the star of «Fifty Shades of Grey» and the only thing that makes the prospect of a sequel to that film even bearable.

The crime occupies the center of the movie, but in another way it doesn't.

Faxon and Rash put a painfully bland character at the center of their movie, and then try to convince us that anyone would help the uninteresting protagonist.

All of the scrappy anti-heroes at the center of the movie are interesting and the soundtrack ranks among the best of the decade in cinema so far.

There's certain sequences, like in the center of the movie, where the two kids are dancing on the beach together.

Yet we never get any particular sense of who Moonee and Halley are as individuals beyond their predicament and pluck, and why they are at the center of the movie, instead of, for instance, Scooty and Ashley, or Jancey and Stacy, or Bobby and the young delivery man named Jack who seems to be his son.

It toys elegantly with circles (the tower clock, the Hula Hoop that's at the center of the movie's most delightful scene by far) and vertical lines (the quickest ways up to, and down from, the 45th floor.)

Dixon's redemption becomes the center of the movie, as he takes on a renewed interest in cracking the case of Mildred's daughter.

The Oscar - winning Sorkin saw Jobs» relationship with Lisa as the emotional center of the movie.

In the sequence at the center of the movie's ad campaign, a savage Japanese commandant orders the emaciated hero at gunpoint to heft a weighty beam and hold it above his head.

Throughout, Bell proves a dashing, sympathetic leading man, holding the center of the movie with poise and understatement.

At the center of the movie is the friendship / conflict between the scholarly, straight - laced mission leader Marty «Easy» Julian (Nate Parker) and talented pilot Joe «Lightning» Little (David Oyelowo).

While Emily Blunt should certainly be commended for her performance, it's Haley Bennett's performance as the tragically flawed suburban floozy that becomes the center of the movie's suffering.

The best that can be said of the three brothers at the center of the movie is that their motives are pure.

While the behind - the - scenes aspects of making 2003's infamously terrible cult film The Room are undoubtedly entertaining (especially for those who are familiar with that movie), the reason James Franco's The Disaster Artist is elevated above mere nudging and winking is because of the co-dependent relationship at the center of the movie.

Ten - year - old Troy, flanked by her four brothers, is the center of the movie.

Not every actor could pull off this combination of Thoreau and MacGyver, but Mortensen is utterly credible — in part because the actor himself has so frequently seemed to withdraw from the camera's gaze, even when he's at the center of a movie.

It wasn't as flashy, but he's the center of the movie, the emotional core.

Meryl Streep, who plays Donna (Sophie's mother and the center of the movie), is the absolute queen of overacting, with her court of Julie Walters and Christine Baranski providing full, uninhibited backup.

The plot at the center of the movie was simple enough, if a little strange: Wiseau's character, Johnny, gets upset when his «future wife» cheats on him with his best friend.

During his 60 - year film career, he would sometimes appear at the center of movies, but more often at the margins.

The plot at the center of the movie was simple enough, if a little strange: Wiseau's character, Johnny,

At the center of the movie is Hannah Ware as Katia, the geneticist's daughter, who is searching for her father in Berlin while trying to escape various entities trying to kill her.

This placement provided a viewing experience similar to what one enjoys when sitting in the center of a movie theater.

Developers, including Harry Chandler, Hobart Whitley, Isaac Van Nuys, and James Boon Lankershim acquired additional acreage, and Studio City was on its way to becoming a center of movie and film production, commerce and manufacturing.