Sentences with phrase «drama the actors manage»

Not exact matches

Despite the actors being plagued with stiff dialogue exchanges from a screenplay that's almost impenetrable, Neustaedter and the whole cast salvage what they can from it, and at times, even manage to evoke a spark of emotion, in this otherwise drab and confused drama.

After the rush to switch out actors and recut the entire movie in the process, many feared that All the Money in the World, a biographical drama about the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, would be unsalvageable - and yet Scott managed to pull it off.

Jon Hamm managed one final win for Mad Men in Best Actor in a Drama Series, his first win since 2008 for the first season.

The first two acts of The Maze Runner play out exactly as you'd expect them to, with all of the various details and requisite dynamics sketched in through the thin characterizations of the group's leader Alby (Aml Ameen, who along with Sangster are the only actors who manage to escape this unscathed), the rote and relentlessly irritating (for no reason other than drama) group villain Gally (Will Poulter, whose acclaim and popularity continues to baffle me as he turns in another dreadful performance), the trite cliche of the young innocent Chuck (Blake Cooper) and so on.

It's an incredible tonal balancing act, half cinéma vérité, half reality TV confessional, and it's managed almost perfectly by actors who commit to the premise (devised by screenwriter Steve Rogers, best known for romantic dramas like Hope Floats), and director Craig Gillespie, who is no stranger to odd tones, having directed Lars and the Real Girl.