Sentences with phrase «family drama film»

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There's enough action, intrigue and drama to convince adults that it's «a serious movie well worth your time» but in reality, it's a film for the whole family, and for many, watching it together has become something of a rite of passage.

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy - drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends The Rules is a way of dating that really works!

Other previous projects include NBC's medical drama TRAUMA, Millennium Films» PRIVATE VALENTINE, opposite Jessica Simpson, FAMILY GUY, and GARY UNMARRIED with Jay Mohr, Adam Sandler's SPANGLISH, Sony's LIES & ALIBIS, starring John Leguizamo, DIRTY, opposite Cuba Gooding Jr., DRAGON WARS, the highest - grossing film in South Korea's history, and the Lionsgate feature, GO FOR IT!

The Forger is a moderately entertaining, low - key combination heist film, crime picture and family drama.

As a follow - up to his Oscar ® - winning The King's Speech, he could have played it safe and done another smart, funny period piece or a family drama — or any number of equally small independent films.

Save for the pro forma family drama and Ray's own journey of personal growth, War of the Worlds is remarkably unconcerned with the subplots that bloat most genre films.

Perhaps Jarecki could have completely discarded the facts of the Durst story and made a stronger film about family drama and possible insanity but the fact is that his subject matter ended his true story in such an unusual way that it doesn't necessarily support a dramatic retelling.

I never saw the first Bad Lieutenant film, but this one was presented as a dark drama, centered around the murder of an immigrant family, but that really wasn't the focus of this film.

When viewed on their own, the stunning sequences documenting the beginnings of life on earth might have worked, and the same goes for the gritty, dysfunctional family drama segments that form the core of the film.

The strong negative reviews are surprising, though the film is mislabeled as a «comedy» when it is a family / political drama.

But there were also numerous duds, including animated family film Free Birds, drama Out of the Furnace, and thriller misfire Paranoia, which all finished in the red (some in more ways than one, judging from those scores).

Shoplifters is a return to the family - centered drama of those earlier films after a dip into genre with The Third Murder.

Dorsey's movie career ranges from heavy drama (WALK THE LINE), to lighthearted family comedy (JUST LIKE HEAVEN, Disney's GIRL VS. MONSTER, and the American Girl series MCKENNA SHOOTS FOR THE STARS), but her appearance in the Golden Globe ® and Academy Award ® nominated film MONEYBALL established her as a bona - fide star.

Danes» other film credits include Matthew Vaughn's STARDUST opposite Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer; Lajos Koltai's EVENING, opposite Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Natasha Richardson, and Vanessa Redgrave; Thomas Bezucha's THE FAMILY STONE, opposite Diane Keaton and Sarah Jessica Parker; Jonathan Mostow's TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Nick Stahl; Stephen Daldry's Academy Award ® winning drama THE HOURS, opposite Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Allison Janney, Ed Harris, and Toni Collette; Jonathan Kaplan's BROKEDOWN PALACE, opposite Kate Beckinsale; Bille August's LES MISERABLES; Theresa Connelly's POLISH WEDDING; Francis Ford Coppola's THE RAINMAKER, opposite Danny DeVito and Matt Damon; Oliver Stone's U TURN, opposite Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, and Joaquin Phoenix; Michael Pressman's TO GILLIAN ON HER 37th BIRTHDAY, opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter Gallagher; Jocelyn Moorhouse's HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT, opposite Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, and Ellen Burstyn; Billy Hopkins» I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT, opposite Jude Law; Jodie Foster's HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, opposite Robert Downey Jr., Holly Hunter, and Anne Bancroft; and Gillian Armstrong's LITTLE WOMEN, opposite Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, and Kirsten Dunst.

She landed her film debut in the thriller The Thirteenth Floor at the age of 20 and soon was offered a role on the WB family drama Safe Harbor.

Ramin Bahrani has enjoyed the praise of critics for each of his first three films (Man Push Cart 71, Chop Shop 83, Goodbye Solo 89), so expectations were high for his latest, an Iowa farm - set drama about a family's struggles with each other and the American Dream.

Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (R for graphic sexuality and nudity) Romance drama, set in Paris in the Twenties, abut the scandalous affair conducted by a famous French clothes designer (Anna Mouglalis) with the promising classical composer (Mads Mikkelsen) whose penniless, refugee family she let live in her villa after they escaped the Russian Revolution.

More than a sports film, the story is a family drama that served as great material for a magnificent ensemble cast.

The opening stretch of the film plays - out like an emotional family drama — completely laugh-less.

It Comes at Night: Director Trey Edward Schults follows his acclaimed drama «Krisha» with a horror film about an isolated family battling an unnatural force.

The seventh film from the beloved Japanese to screen at Cannes, Kore - eda's family drama was picked up by Magnolia Pictures after it premiered to strong reviews at the festival.

Coming off two critically acclaimed films — the family drama «Summer Hours» and the epic terrorist thriller «Carlos» — his next effort marks another gear change for the director who refuses to be pinned down to any one genre or style.

Language: Russian Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: NR Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Actors: Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya Plot: A Russian man in his 40s is going to die - he reflects back on growing up during WWII, his adolescence and family in a film that mixes flashbacks with historical footage to tell a personal story but also explore the story of Russia itself.

I liked Driving Lessons, a sharp, engaging, and amusing comedy / drama that does well as a coming - of - age film, family drama, and unlikely friendship tale.

What The Funeral does do well is make its case for more of a family drama then a true gangster film.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Sidney Lumet's final film is back on Instant, a twisty heist thriller with elements of family drama that I'm still eager to check out for myself.

Full of humor, romance and everyday family drama, the film exposes the complexities of a couple living with Down Syndrome and the family eager to support them.

Although it's still a gangster film, as it gets going it relies more and more on the family drama and less and less on he actual ins and outs of the business.

Worthington has three films premiering at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival: THE KEEPING ROOM, with Brit Marling and Hailee Steinfeld, the Australian family drama PAPER PLANES, and CAKE.

Curtis's free - floating anxieties are intended to connect up with our fears about the collapsing economy, about the safety of the world and our families, but Nichols never loses sight of the small - scale human dramas at the film's core

It's clearly the year of Isabelle Huppert... at least at AFI FEST presented by AUDI, Huppert starred in two excellent films: «Elle» a thriller by Paul Verhoeven and «Things to Come» a family drama by Mia Hansen Love.

When he's not starring in terrible family films, Brendan Fraser likes to spice things up with forgettable dramas.

The 54 - year - old director left a successful run in British theater and television to tackle a striking range of genres on film: horror, romantic comedy, family drama, thriller, dark comedy, among others.

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«One of the reasons I was so excited to be in this film,» Tessa Thompson told Collider in a recent interview, «is I remember seeing the first Thor film and being like, «Oh my God, it's a Shakespeare family drama.»

«The Artist,» the charming film about Hollywood's transition from silent movies to talkies, and the family drama «The Descendants» were catapulted to front - runner Oscar status Sunday night with an armful of Golden Globes to their names as the awards...

In Triple 9, Hillcoat's ode to Michael Mann's and David Ayer's LA oeuvre, plus more recent crime dramas The Wire (the HBO series) and The Town (the Ben Affleck film), a gang of outlaws / inlaws / lawmen - some are criminals, some crooked cops, some married into the same family - must carry out a series of sketchy robberies for a Jewish mafia crime queen played by Kate Winslet.

Hulk — Halfway between a regular Ang Lee movie (dysfunctional families, lots of slow drama) and a modern comic book movie (the Spider - Man and X-Men movies), most people hated this film.

Figuring that by now viewers have become jaded with the predictable, cross double - cross triple - cross trajectory of your average con film, «Matchstick Men» also offers a psychological profile of a conflicted, conscience - plagued career criminal, and throws a credible family drama into the mix for good measure — all of which makes for a surprisingly substantial film whose many facets leave you with plenty more to digest after the final credits have rolled than just who did what to whom and how (although it certainly has that too).

That Meier's film has been given the initially rather vague title is surprising, but will soon make sense for viewers who take in this brittle family drama from Switzerland.

Hirokazu Koreeda is one of Japan's best working directors today (his 2008 film, «Still Walking» is absolutely wonderful) so the intimate family drama «Like Father, Like Son» didn't disappoint one bit (review here).

Early on, the film seems to be shaping up as a moderately absorbing drama about a close - knit family coping in adversity.

At the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her latest film Wilson, in which she stars opposite Woody Harrelson in a drama about broken families, Laura...

He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).

His follow - up to the almost - VR scale of that film is a return to his home country of Mexico, where he's been working on a»70s - set family drama for years.

A sensitive drama about a hidden subculture, this film is sometimes difficult to watch as its naturalistic approach reveals chilling details about a Turkish family living in Austria.

While some artifice creeps in during the sometimes strange dialogue and sensationalist situations, there is an underlying truth to each scene and character that anchors the film from becoming too overwrought, as many other family crisis dramas tend to suffer from.

After all, he's a certified director now after being at the helm of his first feature film, The Hollars, a family drama that we loved at Sundance and is coming to limited theaters starting this weekend.

Timbuktu Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Running time: 96 minutes Certificate: PG - 13 Nominated for best foreign language film at the Oscars, this French - Mauritanian drama follows a family who try to avoid the suffering and violence of incoming jihadists.