Sentences with phrase «first real comedy»

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When their first date at a comedy club rolled around, they hit it off effortlessly, and an online spark immediately turned into a real - life connection.

The real value of the documentary from Douglas McGrath lies in charting Nichols» creative trajectory from the staging and improvisation lessons learned with comedy partner Elaine May, through collaborations with playwright Neil Simon on «Barefoot in the Park» and «The Odd Couple,» and the director's first two feature films, both legendary — «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»

At first, Writer / Director Peter Stebbings seems intent on making this a darkly amusing comedy set in a real world where children grow up too fast, drug use, violence and murder are too casual and little seems hopeful.

Among them are George Clooney's home - invasion race - critique «Suburbicon» featuring Matt Damon (he does double duty with «Downsizing»); Angelina Jolie's fact - based Khmer Rouge drama «First They Killed My Father,» a Cambodian production rooted in native culture; Greta Gerwig's California comedy «Lady Bird» starring Saoirse Ronan as the title character; and Andy Serkis» «Breathe,» about the real - life polio activist Robin Cavendish, played by Andrew Garfield.

Among other opportunities, it gave Clooney the chance to take his first real stab at screwball comedy, a box he was eventually going to have to check if he wanted to validate the by - now - ubiquitous comparisons between him and Cary Grant.

This is McConaughey's first real dramatic role in five years, following a string of comedies where it seemed he was content to ride his good looks and Texas charm until the horizon vanished.

Much like «Inglourious Basterds» in that it's another revenge tale based somewhat in historical fact (although there are no real - life figures this time around), «Django Unchained» also reveals itself to be somewhat of a buddy comedy, at least in the first hour when Django and Dr. Schultz travel around the country collecting bounties.

Gosling was also awarded the Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical at the Satellite Award and earned his second Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and his first Golden Globe Award for his lead performance in Lars and the Real Girl (2007).

Loosely inspired by the real - life adventures of first - time writer / director Maggie Carey, «The To Do List» is a heartfelt comedy about close

Fortunately Daddy's Home 2 not only has Ferrell and Wahlberg doing their thing that worked well the first time, they have real pros in Lithgow and Gibson (in his first comedy since 2000's What Women Want) to come to the rescue.

Prince Avalanche has been preceded in the media by the kind of mood music that suggests that it is the film in which director David Gordon Green retreats / recovers from the commercial, stoner - comedy digressions of Your Highness and Pineapple Express to the artistic purity of his well - reviewed first films, George Washington and All the Real Girls.

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The extremely low - budget film features a stellar cast of British talent - Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Winstone - and is Schepisi's first real diversion from comedy in a while.

I hate romantic comedies.And until I saw this movie I didn't know why, I thought I just didn't like the genre.But Love Actually showed me that I usually hate romantic comedies because they just aren't done very well.They are lazy and formulaic.Love Actually is anything but.Its genuine and heartfelt messages come across as natural reflections of the good you can find in the real world.Its funny, sad, uplifting, and exciting all at once.A friend dragged me to this when it first came out, and I can only imagine how much of a fight I put up.I owe that friend.

They soon began collaborating and their first film as a writing team was 2012's Frances Ha, a warm - hearted, black - and - white comedy about a dancer, Frances (Gerwig), who doesn't seem wholly cut out for the real world.

It's an honest comedy about dealing with the first real losses in life, but it's also about getting stoned with your friends in your car listening to hip - hop.

This time around the music is fine, though not as memorable as that of the first film, but the comedy has taken a real downslide into painfully unfunny depths.

Among them are George Clooney's home - invasion race critique «Suburbicon» featuring Matt Damon (he does double duty with «Downsizing»); Angelina Jolie's fact - based Khmer Rouge drama «First They Killed My Father,» a Cambodian production rooted in native culture; Greta Gerwig's California comedy «Lady Bird» starring Saoirse Ronan as the title character; and Andy Serkis» «Breathe,» about the real - life polio activist Robin Cavendish, played by Andrew Garfield.

He first came on the scene with a streak of well - recieved dramas (All the Real Girls, Undertow, Snow Angels) before diving into a series of juvenile comedies (Pineapple Express, Your Highness, The Sitter).

The first film, released last July, paired its stars with their real - life mothers in the closing credits, a sweet postscript to a raucously uncouth comedy.

This is Lohan's first real almost - grown - up romantic comedy.

Plemons» casting (as a villain, along with Edgar Ramirez) is the first real indication that the movie might be leaning into the comedy.

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Tyler Perry proves to be a real nutcracker in this first look at the upcoming holiday comedy, in theaters December 13th.

The first hour is an absolute bore, littered with shots of the expressionless doll sitting around a spooky English mansion and, well, not doing much else, while the manner in which its «parents» (and eventually, Greta herself) treat it like a real - life boy is so incredibly stupid that it borders on comedy.

Featuring an all - star comedy cast including Aubrey Plaza, Johnny Simmons, Bill Hader, Alia Shawkat, Rachel Bilson, Christopher Mintz - Plasse, Donald Glover, Scott Porter, Andy Samberg, Connie Britton and Clark Gregg, The to Do List is a comedy about close friends and a special summer project, loosely inspired by the real - life adventures of first - time writer / director Maggie Carey.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: 40th Anniversary Edition (Sony, Blu - ray)-- After a career of inspired skit comedy, the unbalanced minds of Monty Python pounded the Knights of the Round Table into their own skewed square hole for their first «real» feature film (I'm not counting their skit comedy And Now For Something Completely Different) and Camelot has never been the same.

But while Marvel's first real attempt at comedy had good reviews and a sizable box office gross, enough to greenlight a sequel, Ant - Man and the Wasp this summer, there's an ineffable notion that Ant - Man is kind of a forgotten Marvel movie.

How their first «talkie» The Jazz Singer was cast and made is a great story on its own with both real life comedy and tragedy involved.

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