Sentences with phrase «for wealthy widows»

The Extra Man (R for sexuality) Unlikely - buddies comedy about a disgraced, cross-dressing, prep school teacher (Paul Dano) who moves from Princeton to NYC where he shares an apartment with a college professor (Kevin Kline) who spends his evenings as an escort for wealthy widows.

Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs while Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper.

Not exact matches

Jesus is not condemning the rich people for being wealthy, or for giving out of their wealth, nor is he praising the poor widow for giving her last two mites.

In 1991, Ivey returned to her Texas roots for NBC's Down Home, though she found more success playing wealthy widow B.J. Poteet on the final season of the long - running sitcom Designing Women (also NBC).

Fading Gigolo (R for profanity, sexuality and brief nudity) John Turturro wrote, directed and stars in the romantic comedy as a dashing Don Juan who woos wealthy widows in order to help out a cash - strapped pal (Woody Allen).

When it was announced that Jessica Chastain would be starring in A24's weighty biopic Woman Walks Ahead, which centers on wealthy widow and portrait painter Catherine Weldon who leaves New York City in the 1890s and becomes allies with the famous Sitting Bull and the fight for his Lakota people, many fans believed this could be the breakthrough role she needed to finally win an Academy Award after two nominations earlier this decade.

Kevin Kline is the life of this rather precious coming of age film as Henry Harrison, a former playwright and full time «extra man» (an escort to the wealthy society widows who like a man on their arm for social events) who rents out a room in his walkup to make ends meet.

She skillfully manages multiple points of view to tell the story, among them Claire Burwell, jury member and widow of a wealthy investment banker killed on 9/11; Sean Gallagher, the brother of a firefighter victim, who becomes an angry spokesman for survivor families; and Asma Anwar, a Bangladeshi immigrant, widowed herself on that terrible day, whose dignified appearance at a climactic public hearing provides the story's moral anchor.

Along the way, he finds time to court wealthy widow Martha Custis while professing love for the unattainable wife of a friend.