Sentences with phrase «film comedy about»

Two high school friends set out to film a comedy about getting revenge on bullies, but one of them begins to take the joke too far.

When two best friends team up to film a comedy about getting revenge on bullies, the exercise takes a devastating turn when one of them begins to think of it as more than a joke.

When two best friends team up to film a comedy about getting revenge on bullies, the exercise takes a devastating turn when one of them begins to think of i...

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The people who claimed responsibility for the hack have said on Internet postings that they were incensed by the Sony Pictures film «The Interview,» a comedy about a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

«In a 2008 study, nearly 120 students were induced to feel amused, neutral, or sad (by watching a comedy video, a nature documentary, or a film clip about cancer).

Some 200 U.S. theaters screened the Sony Pictures film despite threats of terrorism and an international cyberwar spawned by the farcical comedy about a plot to assassinate the leader of North Korea.

In the end, he had to put on the only completely crueltyfree film he could find, a comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, but I still managed to cry when they crossed the finishing line and wondered whether this transformation into a pathetic weepy female was permanent.

Along with promising comedies, a new David O. Russell film, the latest offering from Pixar and a documentary about Hillsong, our list of the most anticipated movies of next year is filled with reboots and remakes.

There were some iffy - looking films made at the time, and in French cinema there's the fine Louis Malle comedy May Fools about May 1968, but that's about all that I'm recalling.

The year's funniest movie is probably The Big Sick, a heartwarming romantic comedy written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon, who tell their own life story in this film about an interracial couple dealing with their cultural differences.

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

Romantic comedy film starring Catherine Zeta - Jones and Justin Bartha is about a housewife and mother who discovers that her husband has been cheating on her.

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Maybe you're curious about what comedy to see with your BFF and which romantic film to save for the next date night with your man.

Director Tom Dey's film is yet another by - the - numbers romantic comedy where the same tired escapades ensue, including one character's climactic discovery of the other's secret (in this case, when Tripp finds out about Paula's career as a female Hitch), and their eventual reunion at the end.

Lars And The Real Girl is a film without compare, about as far removed from conventional comedy as it's possible to be.

While, yes, the film is a comedy about the end of days led by a marvelously subdued Steve Carell, it is also a romance about finding what — and who — is really important to you.

In an absurd twist of fortune, the film essentially becomes a comedy about the ineptitude of the informant program.

it is funny in deed but, when their is someone to cover Sandler's movie their most likely gonna never make a film again Oh look see Denis Dugan and Frank Coraci BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! you suck stop making adam sandler movies here is the problem they are directors who don't care about cinematography or shots of using the camera all they care is comedy!!!!!!! see Tyler Perry yeah their just like this big joke.

«Guess Who» is a dry comedy, a remake of the classic «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» (1967), only this time, it has a race role reversal, where the original film was about a white family meeting a black man, this film centers around a black family meeting a white man.

Director Ron Howard brings his usual light touch to the proceedings and manages to hold the viewer's interest even through the narrative's oddly action - packed final third (ie once the truth about Hannah's character is revealed, the film becomes more of a thriller than a cute little romantic comedy and there's even a chase sequence as the army attempts to capture the mermaid / woman).

Despite its notably gross veneer the film is so unimaginative that it recycles just about every antique comedy bit with the exception of «Who's on First?»

I enjoyed the film as a horror / comedy, but I can't give it one of my TOP ratings simply because I was in the mood to get scared tonight - and there's nothing particularly scary about this film.

But while that film hit every clichéd note you'd expect, despite its good intentions and great ensemble cast, «Other People» breathes new life into the formulaic, dark comedy about death.

Although billed as a romantic comedy, this film is neither: it's a drama spanning about two decades in a marriage

Evans further solidified his trans - Atlantic success with his next film, the blockbuster gross - out comedy romance There's Something About Mary (1998).

No one is expecting an in - depth look into what it takes to actually make a marriage work out of a Farrelly brothers film (or any relationship comedy about marriage, really).

But those two films, along with Paul Feig's summer comedy hit Spy, were about all that went right for the studio in 2015.

Russell pokes fun of his weight, makes ludicrous power plays to establish his dominance in prison, and invites a number of deeply uncomfortable jokes about his inevitable sexual abuse in prison — a line of comedy that feels even more unwelcome given that the film's cast includes an accused sexual assailant in T.J. Miller, who needlessly returns as Deadpool's best friend, Weasel, in a few throwaway scenes.

Tom and Huck is a failed attempt at crafting an effective family oriented comedy, and there's really nothing memorable about the film.

Someday in film - history textbooks, they'll write about the arc that began with the mid-aughts shedding of the «alt -» from alt - comedy.

Even if you don't buy into the idea that Home Alone was an expression of libertarian, Republican values - in which poor, lazy criminals only got what they deserved - the comedy in this film is hit - and - miss precisely because we don't care enough about the fall guys.

The Puffy Chair is the funniest, saddest and most emotionally honest «romantic comedy» to come along in years, even if I've yet to encounter many over the age of about 35 who like the film, or even get it.

Teenage comedies of this kind don't always have to go down the Porky's route of just being gross or sexist; in fact, the film's ideas about the education system could have been a starting point to challenge such conventions.

We sat down with Boston - area library maven Margaret Willison to talk about the film, the 2014 documentary that partly inspired it, and how hard it is to make a comedy in which there's a lot of physical abuse.

I don't know why this film is labeled a comedy since it has nothing to laugh about.

In Evil Dead 2, Sam Raimi made no bones about the film being a slapstick - driven comedy in which we were meant to empathise with the fall guy (Ash).

Even if the casting choices in portraying some of iconic talents in Kenney's orbit are occasionally questionable — a detail the film gleefully acknowledges — there's something delightful about watching actors known for comedy now try to capture the sound or energy of the performers who inspired them.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

The film is about the same kind of social overcompensation that virtually any other mainstream comedy is about, but it feels comfortable with this, not desperate to pile on the raunchy bells and whistles in an effort to feel more current.

I can't think of anyone who would want to watch a film about the creepy 1980s comedy act Frank Sidebottom, except people really missing Jimmy Savile.

Director Robert Schwentke taught her much about the film business.Just a few short months after completing «Flightplan» she booked the role of Kelly Beardsley, Dennis Quaid's daughter, in the comedy «Yours, Mine and Ours.»

No new acting ground is broken here, as the main comedy of the film comes about as the sleazy Pratt adapts to any view that keeps him in power.

Breslin is the best thing about this myopic comedy that doesn't even get any humorous traction from the stereotypes it presses through its low - fidelity independent film filter.

This week, catch the latest trailers for summer comedies «30 Minutes or Less,» «Submarine,» and «The Change - Up,» and read news about «The Dark Knight Rises,» «The Hunger Games,» and other films in production.

Well, film noir literally translates as «dark film» so that means that this is really as dark as you can get outside of the Holocaust (and no, I don't wish the Coens made a comedy about the Holocaust).

For once a comedy in the Animal House school that knows what it's was about: the vulgarity of the gags matches the vulgarity of the subject, and this 1980 film becomes a fierce, cathartically funny celebration of the low, the cheap, the venal — in short, America.

In 2012, she completed work with Griffin Dunne on Justin Schwartz's film THE DISCOVERS, a human comedy about a dysfunctional family.

Yet Phillips makes a startling stylistic choice in the film's opening minutes, one that punctures assumptions about what kind of comedy The Hangover is peddling.

Van Dormael's film was pure torture from first to last, about as mirthless a comedy as I ever hope to see.