Sentences with phrase «eccentric characters»

It's so delightfully British, full of eccentric characters with magic revealing itself in unexpected ways.

The intriguing premise and a world filled with eccentric characters begs to be thoroughly explored from top to bottom.

-- 13 eccentric characters who each have a unique story and reasons for kicking the crap out of each other.

Her voice slips so naturally into the many eccentric characters that listeners may be hard - pressed to realize this is not a full - cast recording.

The great eccentric characters of the past have given us great art, literature and music — and they should be welcomed today.

The film is full of eccentric characters, but none of them had any depth.

Numerous encounters with eccentric characters is the order of the day.

Of all the star - studded names wearing great costumes and playing eccentric characters in Wes Anderson «s «The Grand Budapest Hotel «-- Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Mathieu Amalric, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Lea Seydoux, Jeff Goldblum, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson — one of the main faces leading the movie is someone who you probably haven't heard of: Tony Revolori.

«A show about eccentric characters played by unquestionably committed comic performers.

It's just a pity that they aren't given more to do, as Uprising is at its best when leaning into the bizarre, and who better to shepherd us into that territory than the most eccentric characters in the franchise?

Studios think they can just cast comic talents as eccentric characters and put them amid debaucheries and criminal acts, hoping the underdeveloped screenplay would bounce effectively between situations.

In the Season 1 finale, series host David Steinberg interviews icons of improvisation: Robin Williams, whose wildly manic standup comedy style was greatly influenced by his mentor Jonathan Winters, off - the - cuff creator of delightfully eccentric characters.

Instead, Julia goes on this senseless quest to a small town with eccentric characters like the blind watchman for a cemetery (Vincent D'Onofrio, Dardeevil).

A wonderfully eccentric character beautifully portrayed by Meryl Streep who manages to sing badly very, very well.

Their simple and innocent move puts them in a case of mistaken identity involving two corrupt NYPD officers (Common, Jimmi Simpson), Manhattan's District Attorney Frank Crenshaw (William Fichtner), and mob boss Joe Miletto (Ray Liotta) and other eccentric characters in a long night of running for their lives in one outrageous situation after another.

Alcide and a pack of hot shirtless men tour the South meeting eccentric characters with seemingly supernatural powers.

Reminiscent of the mostly improv feel that would become a trademark of Woody Allen, it's a refreshing comedy that gets most of its laughs through eccentric characters stuck in funny situations.

Bartholet: Yeah, I mean, he's a very interesting, somewhat eccentric character who grew up in what is currently Indonesia, at the time it was a Dutch colony.

BP seems the perfect place to set a cloak - and - dagger potboiler: a secret establishment full of eccentric characters using their wits to defeat a deadly foe against terrible pressure of time.

Greta Gerwig has played a variety of eccentric characters before to the point of making it a trademark feature for her.

There are plenty of likable, or at least enjoyably eccentric characters featured in the book, but for the most part this is an unpleasant bunch.

He flings paint on the frame like it's going out of style and this time he does it not just with whimsy but with whimsy in character as we follow a plane of eccentric characters going through a weird shared moment as they all are currently on drugs and probably about to die as the plane can not land and is running low on gas.

If you can't get enough of The Big Bang Theory, you won't want to miss out on what led Sheldon Cooper to become one of America's favorite eccentric characters in it.

It had a nice flow to it, and a great cast that portrayed nicely eccentric characters, especially John Travolta.

Makes the translation with all its wit, incisive dialogue and eccentric characters intact, and then some.

Scorsese guiltily indulges often in superfluous side stories and eccentric character introduction, and yet it's hard to fault him — it is all the more fun for it.

They're reminiscent at times of the psychologically detailed or richly eccentric characters in an old - style British thriller by Alfred Hitchcock.

There have been similar films about young men traveling home to find themselves of late, perhaps most successfully in a similarly themed vehicle, Garden State, but Buscemi's knack for drawing out well - rounded eccentric characters that are believable allows Jim to work more often than not.

Based on the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name, it's filled with the robustly eccentric characters that he dreams up... Read More»

Life of Crime is a wonderfully wicked tale filled with outrageously eccentric characters, sly comedy and surprising twists based on Elmore Leonard's darkly funny novel, The Switch.

Though loosely based on the 1997 Loomis Fargo bank robbery, Hess» latest comedy wastes its stranger - than - fiction true story on a bunch of overly eccentric characters (what in the world is going on with Zach Galifianakis» hair?)

Kline, who won his Oscar playing a similarly eccentric character in A Fish Called Wanda, proves once again that the quirkiest of the quirky roles are for him.

As with his previous effort, Bloom inhabits its own unique universe with its own eccentric characters, but ultimately overcomes the inherent contrivances of its peculiarities through its crackling script and wonderful characterizations.

Fraser is renown for playing unconventional and eccentric characters throughout his two decades - plus career.

It had a cast of likeable eccentric characters, many of which came into battle clutching weapons, while the narrator couldn't be knocked for sheer enthusiasm.

Starting on an island that is the easternmost Chinese territory, three friends decide to drive one of their number across the country to his new teaching job at the westernmost point of the country, encountering various eccentric characters along the way.

The rest of the film is a muddle of sloppy social satire (the title has less to do with the extended family than the tree in the front yard where the school hero meets a nasty fate while playing peeping tom), aggressively eccentric characters (Keith Carradine as a gun - loving priest) and caricatures of teen rebellion.

Along with Finding Nemo, this is one of two major animated features released in 2003 in which a guardian must travel to rescue their child from certain doom, meeting a variety of different eccentric characters, and risking life and limb along the way.

Jason Reitman follows up his sleeper hit Thank You for Smoking with another incisive character - driven comedy, Juno, which falls into the category of small films with fun dialogue and likeably eccentric characters, a la Napoleon Dynamite, Rushmore and Ghost World.

Unlike his previous notable effort, The Sure Thing, this is a film that's anything but conventional, dishing out a generous helping of crazy sight gags, extremely eccentric characters, and hilariously conceived situations.

An absolute must for quirky indie films, «Rocket Science» is positively littered with eccentric characters designed to keep the movie interesting even when the story isn't.

Some of the best parts of The Taliban Shuffle are Barker's encounters with various Afghan and Pakistani high officials, all of whom are fairly eccentric characters.

Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age... an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression... a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s.

«Delicious wit, wonderful eccentric characters, and a beguiling plot.

Eccentric characters abound, such as Walt Butterfield, the 79 - year - old proprietor of the Well - Known Desert Diner (so named because it had been featured in a number of movies) who keeps his restaurant in tip - top shape but hasn't opened it in over 30 years — and chases away prospective customers with a shotgun.

Throw in a tour bus full of seriously eccentric characters, a wily uncle and a weasly almost - ex-husband, and the stage is set for fun and romance.

I'm already preparing myself for a ration of Social Justice Ninnies whining about cultural appropriation when I finish one of my next book projects — a small South Texas town full of interestingly eccentric characters, about half of whom are Hispanic.