Sentences with phrase «forced by gangsters»

They're forced by the gangsters to crack safes, despite their total inability to do so.

Former «Saturday Night Live» favorite Jason Sudeikis stars opposite Jennifer Aniston, playing a pot dealer forced by gangsters to smuggle drugs across the border with the help of Aniston's stripper, who poses as his wife, and two hapless teens who pretend to be their kids.

Not exact matches

The movie, which follows Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) as they're forced to track down Ken Jeong's nefarious Mr. Chow by a ruthless gangster (John Goodman's Marshall), is actually at its best in its opening half hour, as filmmaker Todd Phillips has infused the proceedings with an affable feel that compensates for the lack of wholeheartedly funny elements.

«Lucy» is a combination of the title character's superhuman powers and a standard gangster melodrama, the former given life by a gorgeous series of psychedelic images and imaginative, fantasy scenes, while the latter exhibits groups of Taiwanese thugs with AK - 47's, a drug mob that kidnaps people and forces them to work as drug mules by implanting whole plastic bags of blue powder into their stomachs.

In talking about his cops - versus - Russian - gangsters movie We Own the Night, the writer and director James Gray cites the ancient Greeks» idea «that one's life is shaped primarily by forces outside of one's control, as if the gods had dealt each person a fate — a destiny.»

A pair of criminals are forced go highjack a bus as they are hunted by a feared gangster in Heist, arriving in theaters this November.

Thinking initially that the offenses are being carried out by rival Serbian gangster Papa (Bruno Ganz), Greven responds to Nils's attacks on minor henchmen with a preponderance of force, starting a gang war that lands Nils conspicuously in the middle.

McCall strikes up a platonic, fatherly friendship with a beautiful young woman, Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), whom he discovers is being forced to work as a prostitute by Russian gangsters, and is being beaten and abused.

Based on Infernal Affairs, a finely complex Asian policier from 2002 (this is ten times better), the plotting has much the same wit as Face / Off, with DiCaprio's precarious dive mirrored by the spectacular rise of a clean - cut detective (Damon, equally well cast), secretly compromising the force for the benefit of his decadent gangster patron (an unhinged Nicholson, which is saying a lot).

In the film, gangster Big Boy Caprice (Pacino, Sea of Love) trying to get a conglomerate of mob bosses to join forces and own the town before the tenacious police, headed by the seemingly incorruptible Dick Tracy (Beatty), snuff them out.

Little does Peter know that his paramour has been marked for death by demonic forces led by the ruthless gangster Pearly Soames.

But when the younger sister she thought was dead arrives on her doorstep, followed closely by a gun - wielding Russian gangster, a shady New York lawyer, and a desperate Connecticut housewife, Shae - Lynn is forced to grapple with the truth she discovers about the life her sister's been living.

When the younger sister she thought was dead arrives on her doorstep, followed closely by a gun - wielding Russian gangster, a shady New York lawyer, and a desperate Connecticut housewife, Shae - Lynn is forced to grapple with the horrible truth she discovers about the life her sister's been living, and with one ominous question: Will her return result in a monstrous act of greed or one of sacrifice?