Sentences with phrase «central couple»

While Long Weekend's central couple go on a mini-holiday to resolve their tensions, displaying an amount of self - awareness, Killing Ground's leading pair Ian and Sam (Ian Meadows and Harriet Dyer, respectively) couldn't be more wholesome in their devotional behaviours.

This rom - com - drama is merely amiable, even when the two central couples pretend to be bristlingly incompatible.

Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams make for a wonderfully droll and believable central couple, and they're ably backed by Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright as his long - suffering wife and Leonard Nimoy as a shifty self - help guru.

Nonetheless, the irresistible central couple carry the movie through and its tendency to leap around between science fiction, romance and political thriller means that it has a lot to offer many different viewers.

Perhaps it's the out - of - the - past setting — a narrowboat plying the canals of rural France — or the weirdly disconnected central couple, or even the presence of Simon's crusty, irascible Pere Jules.

The movie's de facto rocks of Gibraltar are its Guardian - reading central couple, Tom and Gerri, and Broadbent and Sheen (pictured above) play together easefully like the Leigh veterans that they are.

The central couple make big money by buying the furniture of the newly dead (and formerly elderly) from their grieving children for very little and then selling it in their trendy shop as either antique or retro.

In a series so obsessively dazzled by its central couple that even actors like Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Ehle are reduced to subservient stick figures in their orbit, that's an accomplishment.

Pretty soon, however, the honeymoon's over, as the central couple tries to adjust to marital bliss.

Until a cathartically violent ending, Pearce only sporadically brings Moll's anxieties to a proper boil, as this is a film about sexual fear that's skittish about mining the drama enacted by the central couple between the figurative sheets.

As the envious, destructive best friends of the central couple, Jim Belushi and (especially) Elizabeth Perkins have the actor's know - how to fill in the gaps, but as the lovers, Rob Lowe and Demi Moore are hopelessly pallid.

The central couple of «The Strangers» has now been replaced with a family in crisis — Christina Hendricks and Martin Henderson as beleaguered parents Cindy and Mike, Lewis Pullman as golden boy son Luke, and Bailee Madison as troublemaking daughter Kinsey — who arrive at the park after an exposition - heavy introduction that soon gives way to a lean, mean narrative.

Starz and Sony Pictures Television teased the sophomore season of «Outlander» with a gag reel and a new image of the central couple in 18th - century France.

The pair was also missing from The Ugly Dachshund DVD (leaving the producers to pay tribute to Japanese actor Mako) in 2004, but efforts should have been taken during the 18 - month delay of this disc to try to get some insight from the central couple.

Will's disability thus exists less as a trait informing his character and more as a device to bring the central couple together.

TV history is littered with the corpses of shows that couldn't survive once the central couple got together.

But the central couple's strong chemistry and a stream of lively side characters keep us...

With a deliberately wistful style, this romantic drama never quite convinces us that its central couple is actually in love.

Awkward Americanized title aside, this mood - driven, candy - colored French romantic comedy follows its central couple into a survivalist boot camp.

The follow - up finds the central couples gathering for a wedding in Las Vegas, but their romantic plans are subsequently sidelined when various...

Opening with a violent rupture — police breaking down the door of a tastefully appointed Paris apartment, to find a solitary corpse neatly laid out on the bed — the film flashes back to introduce its central couple, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) and Georges (Jean - Louis Trintignant), experiencing smaller but more ominous cracks in their world.

Julia Loktev's drama revolves around one small moment, an unexpected encounter on the road that gives a seismic shake not only to the relationship of the central couple (Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg), but also to their ideas about themselves and what they want from each other.

The central couple just plays Brief Encounter with more profanities.

Tom Cullen and Chris New as the central couple are both revelatory, and the slow building of their rapport is wonderfully convincing.

Still, the connection between his central couple is undeniably engrossing.

The central couple are Joe (Matthew Modine) and Mary (Catherine Keener), who have been together so long, they feel they should either break up or get married.

Their sneering superciliousness is so pronounced it is insulting both to the central couple and the audience.

The main criticism against the central couple refers to the one factor that could save this film: chemistry.

Portraying the central couple are two actors who have been very much in the eye of Oscar lately.

The central couple, Charlie (Johnny Flynn), who is soon to drop from heroin, and his cherubic - looking girlfriend Alice (Antonia Campbell - Hughes), create attention mostly because at least one of the guys, Felix (Benn Northover) would like to take Charlie's place (not dropping but linking up with Alice).

They sap the claustrophobic mood without adding much insight into the central couple's psychology.

As the franchise's central couple, Zellweger and Firth are their usual bundle of flawed but ingratiating charms.

Sony Pictures Classics Advantages: A gay love story that transcends the central couple to become universally relatable.

As for the performances, Brie Larson and seven - year - old Jacob Tremblay are nothing short of perfect as the central couple around whom this trembling universe revolves.

While it takes a few too many dramatic detours, including a subplot involving a local pedophilia ring that distracts from the appeal of this central coupling, the movie retains an elevated sense of awe around the nature of Tina and Vore's relationship.

The central couple are played wonderfully.

There is a scene in South where Tom and Jess have an intimate exchange against a sea backdrop which looks genuinely beautiful, with the central couple illuminated in a golden hue.

And it's in the disparity between that visual splendor and the intimacy of the central couple that the film's power lies: as the quote above stresses, this is a film about anyone, and everyone.

As the central couple, Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan are each intriguingly Janus - faced, confident and politically progressive in flashbacks, timid and conservative in the bedroom.

These are usually used instead of calling either character a protagonist because most romances focus equally on both halves of a central couple.

Readers were already introduced to the central couple of Too Wilde to Wed in Wilde in Love, where the dissolution of North and Diana's engagement played out in the background.

Promise Not to Tell by Jayne Ann Krentz Krentz is a master at building compelling puzzles around a central couple, and Promise Not to Tell is the love story of two complicated and noble people in the midst of an investigation into the terrifying cult they both survived.

Gerald and Sara Murphy are widely believed to be the inspiration for Dick and Nicole Diver, the central couple in F. Scott Fitzgerald's last novel, Tender Is the Night (1934), not just for their physical resemblance, but also for their habit of hosting lavish parties at Cap d'Antibes in the south of France.