Sentences with phrase «dramatic comedy about»

A dramatic comedy about a spurned 1953 housewife who hits the open road, with her two sons in tow, in search of a new husband and a new life.

PIFF will kick off the festival with Madeleine Olnek's dramatic comedy about the secret life of Emily Dickinson.

Snapshot: A dramatic comedy about a family from India that settles down in France to open a restaurant — right across the street from a Michelin - starred eatery run by a haughty Helen Mirren.

Not exact matches

No one really expected that the Dramatic Competition title Austenland, a comedy from Napoleon Dynamite's co-writer Jerusha Hess about a resort that recreates Regency - era romances from the Jane Austen canon for tourists, to be very good — but no one expected it to be quite that lazy and unfunny either.

One of the more low - key summer releases, we love the sound (and the cast) of this true - story - inspired heist comedy about a nightwatchman who plans a dramatic break - in.

Director Craig Gillespie deftly combines Harding's dramatic story — about class, physical abuse and fierce determination — with black comedy about celebrity and about the bumbling attack on Kerrigan.

But that's not the big surprise about the film: this story of an arrogant, over-the-hill slugger (Mac) who comes out of retirement to chalk up his 3000th hit is more of a serious sports film than a knee - slapping comedy, and Mac gets a rare opportunity to showcase his true dramatic range as an actor.

In spite of its obvious flaws — and there are plenty of them — this odd mixture of dramatic chase scenes, more about goofy medical advice and family comedy actually...

On the dramatic film side, I could have lived without Jerusha Hess's «Austenland,» a feather - light dingbat comedy about a Jane Austen - themed resort in England.

In trying to offer a substantial dramatic plot line about civil rights alongside the raunchy comedy, its reach exceeds its grasp.

Of the dramatic films that I saw, and, like everybody else, I missed a slew of likely contenders, the best was probably Nicole Holofcener's «Please Give,» a pleasant enough comedy about a married Manhattan couple, played by Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt, who resell estate - sale furniture.

Casting director Gayle Keller never had an agenda about working in comedy, but after starting her career on various dramatic series, including Law and Order, she has become a force in the world of comedy casting.

It all began with The Uninvited, which was reportedly the first dramatic movie about a haunted house (previous pictures had all been heavy on the comedy).

This latest project marks the end of a four year break from the screen for Solondz, and very little is known about it - including the title - save for it being «a dramatic comedy set against the backdrop of a war».

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.

Consider «Bridesmaids,» a raved about comedy that was neither «topical» nor «dramatic» enough for a Best Picture nomination, even though it featured a good helping of both.

He rounded out the 90's with the title role in George of the Jungle, a serious dramatic role in the superb film Gods and Monsters about the director James Whale and a flirtation he has with the Fraser character, and another supremely underrated comedy, Blast from the Past, about a man who emerges from a bomb shelter after 35 years and falls in love with Alicia Silverstone.

A priceless coming of age saga overflowing in life, energy and exuberance, there's just way too much about this fabulous little gem of a dramatic comedy to adore.

One of them was fairly high - profile: Chris Kelly's Other People, a heartfelt, beautifully rendered comedy - drama about a gay man coping with a disintegrating relationship while caring for his dying mother, that stars recent Emmy nominee Jesse Plemons (Fargo) and Molly Shannon and was chosen to open the dramatic competition of this year's Sundance Film Festival.