Sentences with phrase «disguised as comedy»

Our Take: Marley & Me - the last film from director David Frankel and Owen Wilson — was a moving drama disguised as a comedy.

A dark psychological drama disguised as a comedy about an offbeat, mysterious family, specifically their five girls and how their parents (James Woods, Kathleen Turner) start to take their hands off their leashes after one of the girls (Hanna Hall) takes her life.

Self - confidence is everything, they tell us again and again, and leave us with the feeling of having attended a self - help sermon disguised as comedy.

Not exact matches

In this superlative comedy of the Eighties, Hoffman plays a fussy, underemployed actor who finds work only when he disguises himself (superbly) as a woman.

The movie is a surprisingly touching, low - key ballad of middle - aged male regret disguised as a kiddie comedy replete with poop and fart jokes and soccer balls launched at Popper's crotch.

A brilliant comedic gem disguised (much too well for its own good) as a generic, throwaway teen comedy.

The Big Lebowski is a wicked sharp genre satire disguised as a stoner comedy.

The 3D computer animated adventure comedy, produced by Illumination Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures, chose an amusing marketing campaign to promote the movie that will soon be in theatres: a blimp disguised as a Minion, named «Despicablimp,» has been touring the United States since March 2013 in its six - month tour to advertise the film's release.

In the «30s, there was a series of screwball comedies — cleverly disguised as mysteries — that revolved around a rich, happily married couple, Nick and Nora Charles [William Powell and Myrna Loy] who drank too much; engaged in something called witty repartee, and solved mysteries.

Ryan Reynolds will star in an as yet untitled comedy written by Allen Loeb described as «a dude - in - drag romantic comedy, with Reynolds playing a jilted lover who must disguise himself as a woman and befriend his ex in order to win her back.»

John L. Sullivan, played by Joel McCrea, is a successful Hollywood comedy director — but he wants to create serious art, in the form of a movie called O Brother, Where Art Thou, and as research, he leaves all his money behind and, disguised as a hobo, goes out to live among «real people.»

There may have been laughs in the first two Thor movies, but they were much darker and more serious - minded than what director Taika Waititi and writers Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and Christopher L. Yost have cooked up in Thor: Ragnarok, essentially a flat - out comedy disguised as a superhero comic book... Read

It's way too easy to draw a parallel between bittersweet chocolate and this German director's exquisite new film, Toni Erdmann, a black comedy about a stressed - out corporate exec, Ines (Sandra Hüller), and her practical joker of a father, Winfried (Peter Simonischek), who — disguised as a false - toothed life coach named Toni Erdmann — attempts a desperate intervention to save her soul.

An art house film disguised as a stoner comedy, that is why Linklater is so great, he makes enjoyable movies that can stack up with the best of them.

It was more or less a character piece disguised as a raunchy comedy.