Sentences with phrase «dramatic comedy do»
Keegan - Michael Key (Key & Peele), Gillian Jacobs (Community), and Kate Micucci (Garfunkel And Oates) have all been cast in Mike Birbiglia's upcoming dramatic comedy Don't Think Twice.
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As he did with Jonah Hill, Miller will direct an actor known for comedy in a dramatic role, with Steve Carell playing du Pont.
His dramatic performance here is one of the best in his career, showing that he can do more than neurotic comedy.
Hader shows off dramatic chops you didn't even realize he had while Wiig completes her transformation from a comedian to someone capable of seamlessly slipping back and forth between comedy and drama.
Nevertheless, Chadha has a wonderful command of both comedy (Jules's mother (the normally dramatic actress Juliet Stevenson) walks off with the funniest line in the picture in criticizing her daughter's athletic garb: «All I'm saying is why do you think Sporty Spice is the only one without a fella?»)
Zissis and Duplass don't quite have the same dramatic heft, but both have a gift for a certain scruffy, loose kind of naturalistic comedy and their longtime friendship and professional relationship helps them make believable best friends.
Kristen Wiig would love to tackle a «dramatic» role.The 40 - year - old actress is mainly known for her work in comedy, and while she doesn't think...
What Allen does do in this straight comedy is to gently poke fun at the all the dramatic conventions of Greek tragedy.
There's a comedy star — Molly Shannon, in this case — doing unexpected dramatic work.
There's so much ire directed at Sandler now that I think a lot of people conveniently forget his earlier comedies like «Billy Madison» and «Happy Gilmore,» as well as some of his dramatic work like «Punch Drunk Love» and «Funny People» (the latter of which I didn't like, but I blame Apatow for that one more than I blame Sandler).
The cast is pretty much perfect with no one doing any serious dramatic lifting and everyone just along for the ride, breezily goofing their way through a script that allows for more comedy than anything else.
Director Shane Black lets his cast do their thing and so we get a comedy duo from Crowe and Gosling, the dramatic Keith David being a hit man and Matt Bomer, not dancing, («Magic Mike») but being another hit man.
While he too has had success in dramatic films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, his recent batch of comedies hasn't struck gold as they did in the»90s and early 2000s.
He told me he always wanted to go ahead and get back to doing comedies again and just seeing the way Judd and Seth worked was really similar to the way David worked with his dramatic stuff which is making sure the actors had the characters down and they would just improv and let them do whatever.
Back then, you would not only get a feature film, but possibly a cartoon, a newsreel and a short subject, which could be something dramatic such as MGM's «Crime Doesn't Pay» or «Passing Parade» series or a comedy featuring Laurel & Hardy, The Three Stooges, Our Gang or some other comedian.
That split can lead to some controversy (as it did already this year with the characterization of Get Out as a comedy), but it also means that comedies and musicals, which get much less prestigious awards attention than their dramatic cousins, can get a little love, too.
That doesn't begin to do justice to Maren Ade's brilliantly funny and moving comedy, in German with English subtitles, but this is a story whose dramatic wellsprings are as inexplicable as they are original.
SANCTUARY (2017) In this dramatic comedy, Larry and Sophie are trying to be together, in a world doing everything to...
The film tries to balance dramatic themes and dark comedy, and although that certainly works for some films, it does not work here.
In truth, as a comedy, it's standard sitcom, and the broadly stereotypical characters are far beneath the talent of the stars, but the story does gain a bit of traction in the more dramatic moments in which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to be.
Paul Rudd is mainly known for comedy, but I think he'll do a good job with the action and more dramatic parts here.
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I love Meet the Parents and don't mind him dabbling in that kind of crowd - pleasing comedy, but I see every movie he does hoping that he might find the meaningful, dramatic glory he has long deserved as much as any actor.
Often you'll see a comedy nominee submit a more dramatic episode (Sarah Jessica Parker did for Sex and the City and won) to show range but that doesn't always work.
The man is best known as a writer / director of comedy (Defending your Life, Lost in America, The Muse) does a serious left turn in a highly dramatic role.