Sentences with phrase «filmmaker stacks the deck»

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It's not a message that audiences will extract as a prickly needle from the haystack of situational (read random) comic set - pieces that the filmmakers play like trump cards from the bottom of a stacked deck, but it does anchor film's narrative boat.

Such incisive moments, though, are subordinate to the filmmakers» penchant toward deck - stacking caricature, most noxiously the character of Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate), a villainous PTA president who's so invested in her high position that she, as part of the election platform she articulates when a fed - up Amy eventually challenges her presidency, seriously advocates for a 365 - day school year, citing Genghis Khan as a model.