Sentences with phrase «film the comedy before»

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Well, a former SNL director — who also happens to be lead writer of the David Spade comedy «Joe Dirt» — was behind it, and Stewart was recruited only after the first actress suffered a «nervous breakdown» right before filming.

Mike White, who scripted biting, edgy satire of this sort («The Good Girl,»» Chuck and Buck») before making his fortune with «School of Rock,» serves up an unsettling and generally deft comedy of manners with this clash, a film that greatly benefits from subtle, stinging performances by Salma Hayek and as her opposite number, John Lithgow.

This unfunny, unoriginal, charmless teen comedy is so stunningly awful from start to finish, it's amazing to think its director has made a single film before, much less a dozen.

Baggage Claim is definitely a film that is made for an audience that is into these kinds of clichéd romantic comedies, which feature attractive casts and the bare minimum requirements to develop a premise that slightly differs from those that came before it.

The film is just a caricature of every other college comedy; we've seen it all before, this one is just predictable with a wasted cast.

She appeared with Kevin Costner in Message in a Bottle before going on to make the independent film Happy, Texas, the supernatural thriller Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon, and Can't Stop Dancing, a comedy in which she acted alongside Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo.She had a fine turn in the well - reviewed indie Ghost World, and a small turn in the infamous turkey The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

Luckily, Martin is surrounded by a nice supporting cast, with Kline almost outdoing Martin for the least convincing French accent in the film, Kline has played Frenchmen before, most notably in the romantic comedy, French Kiss, although he seems to have lost his ear somewhat for the inflections.

Although there have been many films about pregnancy and the fears involved in having a baby, there are angles here not often taken before in comedy, including what goes through a man's mind when having sex with a pregnant woman («I don't want that to be the first thing the baby sees», etc.) that is funny (because it probably actually does go through a man's mind).

With more than six minutes of never - before - seen footage woven back into the film and an additional 24 minutes of deleted scenes, alternate endings and a retrospective documentary featuring the cast of the film, Dumb and Dumber: Unrated is a must own for every comedy fan!

Battle: Los Angeles» early 2011 release date positions it before competing alien invasion films such as the comedy Paul (if that even counts), Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens, Michael Bay's Transformers 3 and the August release of The Darkest Hour.

Thankfully, the film which I was eagerly anticipating before it premiere at Sundance this week delivered a phenomenal comedy with some sharp writing, stellar acting and a direct line to the heart of all adult children of divorce.

«Becoming Mike Nichols» / U.S.A. (Director: Douglas McGrath)-- This intimate portrait of director, producer, and improvisational comedy icon Mike Nichols shows his final and historic interviews filmed just months before his death.

The early 1970s to the late 1980s was a unique moment in Australian cinema history; a time when censorship was reigned in and home - grown production flourished, resulting in a flurry of exploitation films — sex comedies, horror movies and action thrillers — that pushed buttons and boundaries, trampled over taste and decency, but also offered artistry within their escapism, giving audiences sights and sounds unlike anything they had seen in Australia before.

Unfortunately, a film has to put story and characters before comedy, and the film fails where it matters most.

The R - rated comedy will poke fun at Disney / Pixar films, and the story follows one sausage's «quest to discover the truth about his existence,» after he falls out of a shopping cart and, along with his friends, embarks on a journey to return to his aisle before the 4th of July sale.

Before I begin my review, I would like to point out that even though I am not a fan of most modern horror films, I do love the horror comedy genre and horror films from the 70s and 80s.

My favourite film of 2012 was a strange Belgian comedy called The Fairy which starred a limber comedic duo like nothing I had seen before.

Cheech & Chong had been a counterculture comedy team for about ten years before they started reworking some of their material for their first film.

I am just back from the cinema and I am still imitating the lines from blak thunder.The touch of ethan cohen make the sense of the film spread in so many ways.He must to had drunked at least one night with Stiller and decide to make the film that represent the sbluf hollywood production system and his stars.The first scene that comes on mine mind in this moment is the «Appocalypsis Now» scene with Stller and Downey at the end and the quasi-phycological dialog.Wonderfull for a men who was searching for a good comedy, my lastone good comedy was Burn After Reading, before that The Boss of it All fromm LArs von Trier.

Originally set for a June 2018 release, the live - action version of Barbie suffered a huge setback last March when comedy star Amy Schumer suddenly dropped out of the project due to «scheduling conflicts,» just two months before the film was set to go into production.

With a career that spans nearly 40 years in film and television, Nighy established a solid reputation in his native England long before his international breakthrough role in the Golden Globe nominated rock comedy Still Crazy in 1998.

What can be said for certain is that the talented comedian certainly needs to be more picky with his roles going forward, because The Wedding Ringer is a lazy, slapdash comedy that relies on familiar troupes told have been told thousand times before in many a Vince Vaughn film.

That hugely successful comedy show was filmed at Boston's Wilbur Theater for a special, entitled «Bigger and Blackerer,» which premiered on EPIX in April 2010 before being released on CD and DVD by Sub Pop.

Long before the end of the film, you come to the realization that, unlike the similar ensemble - driven comedy, Barbershop, this movie has no real inspiration involved in its conception, and the creators didn't know where to go with it.

Radley Metzger's 1974 X-rated porn - comedy is audaciously free of shame and is probably responsible for more bi-curious people getting actually laid with a member of the same sex than any film before it.

9:35 am — Sundance — A Girl Cut in Two One of the last films from great French director Claude Chabrol before his death, with Ludivine Sagnier as an up - and - coming TV personality faced with choosing between two men — with Chabrol at the helm, you know there's more than that to it, and his touch for black comedy thrillers should make this one an enjoyable watch.

However, despite the stark nature, before you know it the film shifts from being a character drama to a very black comedy and it's here that Slattery's inexperience in calling the shots comes to the fore.

He has supplemented his full slate of contractually obligated Marvel Cinematic Universe appearances with an array of films, including the romantic comedy Before We Go, which marked his directing debut, and Bong Joon Ho's acclaimed Snowpiercer.

Among the highlights include the world premiere of Chris Evans» directorial debut «Before We Go» (formerly «1:30 Train»), dueling Anna Kendrick films in dark drama «Cake» and musical adaptation «The Last Five Years,» ensemble comedy «This is Where I Leave You» starring Corey Stoll, Adam Driver and more, Jason Reitman's «Men, Women and Children» with Ansel Elgort, Kaitin Dever and others, and «99 Homes,» Ramin Bahrani's financial world set drama which also serves as the first film outside of «The Amazing Spider - Man» franchise for Andrew Garfield since «The Social Network.»

11:00 pm — TCM — Father of the Bride Long before Steve Martin kicked of his nearly twenty - year run of remaking classic comedies with his version of this film, Spencer Tracy was the Father of the Bride, dealing with the difficulty of letting his only daughter, Elizabeth Taylor, go to some other man.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 3, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Adventureland (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Retro romantic comedy, set in Pittsburgh in 1987, revolving around the plight of a grad school - bound virgin (Jesse Eisenberg) forced by his family's financial woes to take a minimum - wage job at an amusement park the summer before he's supposed to start at Columbia.

The latest film from the Walt Disney Company to explore the game is Mr. 3000, a comedy starring Bernie Mac, which bounced between the Disney and Touchstone branches before settling at the latter.

Running time: 129 minutes Studio: Fox Home Entertainment 3 - Disc DVD Extras: Widescreen theatrical feature film, unrated director's cut, Wolverine theatrical trailer, Valkyrie, S. Darko, The Wrestler, Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, commentary by director George Tillman, Jr., screenwriters Reggie Rock Bythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker, and editor Dirk Westervelt, commentary by with Biggie's mom Voletta Wallace, and his manager Wayne Barrow, Behind the Scenes: The Making of Notorious, I Got a Story to Tell: The Lyrics of Biggie Smalls, Notorious Thugs: Casting the Film, Biggie Boot Camp, Anatomy of a B.I.G. Performance, Party & [Expletive](never before seen footage), The B.I.G. Three - Sixty, Directing the Last Moments, It Happened Right Here, The Petersen Exit, The Shooting, The Impala, The Unfortunate Violent Act, The Window, 9 Deleted Scenes, 4 extended / alternate concerts, trailers from: Secret Life of Bees, Gospel Hill and Slumdog Millionaire, digital copy.

Sports films fans will deem it a bloop single hit, but those who aren't in tune, especially those who are tepid to clichéd, dumb comedies, will think this entry was brought up to «the bigs» before it was ready.

Jim Carrey, who donned a Kick - Ass costume for Conan O'Brien's stage show more than two years before being cast in the sequel to the brutal 2010 superhero comedy, has suddenly distanced himself from the film because of its violent content.

Stiller, Vaughn, Hill and Ayoade all play to form - you've seen them play these roles before, what makes this film kind of work is seeing these comedy personas on screen together.

Sure the movie has a predictable outcome and some of the jokes have been seen before in many other films, but it is a nice and sweet comedy to see.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 5, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hangover (R for sexuality, nudity, drug and alcohol abuse and pervasive profanity) «What Happens in Vegas» comedy about three friends (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis) of the groom - to - be (Justin Bartha) who throw a wild bachelor party in a suite at Caesar's Palace only to have their pal disappear without a trace the day before the wedding.

But before you start praising the film for casting someone who's more classically beautiful, I just want to remind you: the Barbie movie is a subversive comedy about a woman who doesn't fit in, in the land of Barbies.

When Augustine Frizzell's buddy - girl comedy Never Goin» Back bows Monday at midnight, it will mark the culmination of a four - year endeavor — an odyssey of sorts mined from Frizzell's own unconventional childhood, and one that required the first - time feature director to completely scrap her original film before re-writing, re-casting, and re-shooting her Sundance debut.

He's certainly done it before and it's not one of his comedy classics like Annie Hall and Sleeper, but Midnight in Paris is undoubtedly one of Woody Allen's best films of the past ten years.

Before winning hearts and Oscar nominations with her coming - of - age comedy Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig starred in the perfect companion film, about an aimless 27 - year - old who hops from New York City to her hometown of Sacramento to Paris to Poughkeepsie and eventually back to New York in hopes of stumbling into the perfect job, the perfect relationship, and the perfect life.

Headhunters is a very ambitious film that expects its audience to stick with it through a wild ride through film genres, starting with light - hearted comedy, progressing through heist film, black comedy, thriller, back to heist film before finishing back at quiet comedy.

The first Ant - Man received the genre film treatment with a superhero twist on the heist movie, and its sequel Ant - Man and the Wasp promises to dip into a genre that Marvel has never touched before: the romantic - comedy.

So the burden of the film rests mostly on Silverman, who like Mo'Nique and Robin Williams before her, shows a commanding grasp of drama as well as comedy.

It's a rude and crude comedy through and through, so be warned that not only are you going to hear nearly every cuss word before the end of the film, but see every (and I do mean every) bodily fluid as well.

Interestingly, the film was released in January of 1941 — several months before the US entered WWII (see also the Bob Hope comedy Caught in the Draft, released around the same time).

10:45 am — TCM — Father of the Bride (1950) Long before Steve Martin kicked off his nearly twenty - year run of remaking classic comedies with his version of this film, Spencer Tracy was the Father of the Bride, dealing with the difficulty of letting his only daughter, Elizabeth Taylor, go to some other man.

Carrell made the film after a string of solid supporting roles in similar ensemble - oriented comedies but before The Office established him a small screen star and plays the role as amiable if socially awkward, with an undercurrent of melancholy in his isolation from the rest of the world.

It's been noted that the film approaches the rhythm of Richard Linklater's Before series, but a more apt comparison might be the schizoid comedies directed by their star, Julie Delpy — the second of which, 2 Days in New York, featured Rock himself.