Sentences with phrase «female buddy comedy»

Opening April 25th, the female buddy comedy directed by Nick Cassavetes from a screenplay by Melissa Stack also stars Taylor Kinney, Nicki Minaj, and Don Johnson.

A poignant meditation on art as well as a delightful female buddy comedy with sublime performances by its three female leads.

Sin - Dee and Alexandra's last, quiet scene together, in a laundromat not far from the same Donut Time franchise where they began their action - packed Christmas Eve, succeeds at once as a new kind of female buddy comedy and as a rueful reflection on the meaning of coming home — by whatever definition you choose to understand that word — for the holidays.

Not exact matches

Female - buddy - cop comedy The Heat offered the best returns at almost $ 160 million in ticket sales, while The Wolverine and animated film Epic both crossed the $ 100 million mark.

The rare buddy - cop action - comedy to feature female leads (you'll likely have to thank Bridesmaids, which Feig also directed, for that), The Heat stars Sandra Bullock as a no - nonsense FBI agent and Melissa McCarthy as her industry - standard «loose cannon» partner.

But director Paul Feig, who found critical and box office acclaim with his female driven 2011 comedy «Bridesmaids,» daringly put in the effort to make the first female buddy cop film with «The Heat.»

In the first female driven buddy cop comedy, the actresses proved that women characters don't need a man to help them thrive in their careers and relationships; Ashburn and Mullins succeeded in their decision to work together stop a dangerous city drug lord from further killing anyone else he perceived to be a threat.

The two styles never quite mesh, though, and the movie starts to feel Frankensteinish; it's partly a female buddy movie, it's partly a romantic comedy, it's partly a Superbad - style R - rated comedy, and partly a tender character study of a woman whose life is falling apart around her.

Bullock and McCarthy were well cast alongside each other in the daring first female cop buddy action crime comedy.

How exquisitely ironic that a would - be Enfant terrible who whines and complains about a more successful filmmaker's female character being improbably, impossibly, glibly perfect and hyper - competent in every way would write, in his universally reviled new Netflix original movie Bright, a sloppy inter-species buddy comedy team where both halves «unexpectedly» turn out to be magical figures of destiny.

Cassius and Clay is an action - buddy comedy set in the post-apocalyptic American South in a town called Wilke, and follows two female bandits.