Sentences with phrase «from central casting»

Any firm that wants summers to make an intelligent decision should have them work with a curmudgeon or two, not just the stunt Perfect Partner called up from central casting.

I'm sure they can find parents from central casting for this purpose.

Friedrichs looks like a case delivered straight from central casting.

While the Court could always deny cert, right now Friedrichs looks like a case delivered straight from central casting.

Alan Tudyk («Transformers: Dark of the Moon «-RRB-, for example, has the thankless task of playing the redneck manager of the Philadelphia Phillies who's every other utterance is the «n» word and has a cracker accent that comes straight from central casting.

Where Matt Damon looked the part, the weedy Jesse Eisenberg is very far from central casting.

He is part of an American - Italian family, who like much of Brooklyn, come straight from central casting and Eilis» visit to their humble apartment for dinner is one of the few things here that doesn't ring quite true.

Her lovers, Moore and Umbers, are both TV studmuffins from the UK, and they resemble each other physically, which might have sounded good on paper, but onscreen they seem too generic: handsome, rich playboys with situational ethics from Central Casting.

It also helps that the kids in «The Virginity Hit» look and sound like kids, not a group of rehearsed comics from central casting brought together due to their sharp looks or conventional schlubbery.

«If you want the politician from central casting, it's just not me, it's the other guy,» he said.

Esther Perel looks like the New York couples therapist from Central Casting.

Take a goalkeeper who somewhat resembles a klutzy New Jersey hoodlum from central casting.

Fittingly, some of the competitors this year looked as though they came straight from Central Casting — and, in a sense, some of them did.

One minute he's a high - profile wine entrepreneur from central casting, referring to himself in the third person — «Wazza» did this, «Mr Randall» did that — first - name - dropping the politicians he's phoned to harangue about industry issues, drawing plans in the air of the six - star accommodation he intends to build on this huge, 167 - year - old property.

It would have been easy to requisition a jaded - cleric type from central casting, perhaps give him a few eccentricities, and then knock off for the day.

I have had the experience of the pious Catholic lady from central casting, with the Irish or Italian or Polish name, the daily Mass - going, novena - saying, rosary - collecting woman of stereotype who will suddenly say, «Evangelicals know their Bible!»

But our pious Catholic lady from central casting will speak of Evangelicals as one might speak of a great athlete, or the unicorn.

You'd think Josh came straight from central casting.

In between making blockbusters for the Jurassic and Star Wars franchises, Trevorrow invests this unconventional drama - cum - thriller with plenty of heart, eliciting terrific performances from his central cast.

Not exact matches

But with precisely the same cast of argument, the judges will need to settle their answer to the question of just what is their principled ground for turning back these other demands that spring from the very reasoning they bring forward as they detach marriage from that central notion of begetting.

«And an even bigger story was the scuba diver coming up and holding it up, I don't know where this guy came from but he was central casting,» added Trump in his typical understated fashion.

Then in 1927 the Mitropa Cup was established, open to teams from a changing cast of countries across Southern, Central and Eastern Europe.

Qualified voters of the Newfield Central School District can cast their decision the 15th at the Elementary Building in Newfield from noon to 9 p.m..

Nine days after finishing sixth out of seven candidates in the NYC mayoral race, Bo Dietl returned to his usual Thursday night table at Rao's in East Harlem, the Italian restaurant famed for its exclusivity and straight - from - central - casting history as a mobster's redoubt.

A large cast of actors from all over the Southern Tier will perform in the Afton Community Theater's production of Shrek The Musical for 3 performances starting tonight at the Afton Central School.

Critic Consensus: Thanks to Al Pacino's stirring central performance - and excellent work from an esteemed supporting cast — Danny Collins manages to overcome its more predictable and heavy - handed moments to deliver a heartfelt tale of redemption.

Critics Consensus: Thanks to Al Pacino's stirring central performance - and excellent work from an esteemed supporting cast — Danny Collins manages to overcome its more predictable and heavy - handed moments to deliver a heartfelt tale of redemption.

Adapted and Americanized from the 1974 novel by popular British author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File), Dogs casts Walken as Jamie Shannon, one of several mercenaries making a narrow exit from war - torn Central America in the film's opening sequence.

It stands to reason that the central cast from the first film (including, Michael Ealy, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, Taraja P. Henson, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Romany Malco, Gabrielle Union, and Chris Bown) will likewise be brought back, as could also be the case with director Tim Story.

Despite lots of energy from the cast, Blankman is marred by stupid humor and an inability to make its central plot the least bit interesting.

A lesson in grief and hope, this crowd - pleaser (Sydney Film Festival Audience Prize winner) has a strong central performance from Mohamed Fellag as the substitute teacher, M. Lazhar and equally great turns by the cast of children who play his students.

His harrowing journey is told through the international cast of characters who have been involved in Sudan's life, from when he was snatched as a calf from his mother's side in war - torn Central Africa, to his captivity as a prized exhibit in a cold, concrete zoo behind the Iron Curtain while poaching devastated his kind to extinction back home.

The cast also deserve the utmost praise for making the roles their own; the always reliable Hanks is solid in the central role and there are exceptional performances from the first rate support, namely, Barry Pepper and the aforementioned Goldberg and Ribisi, who are all outstanding.

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

The one thing Seven Psychopaths can guarantee is pitch perfect performances from its four central stars (although the supporting cast are hardly letting the side down, even if they are usually horrendously side - lined: poor Olga Kurylenko).

First, she cast Anna Kendrick in the central role of «Beca;» second, she cast herself as «Gail» (an ever - present but far from omniscient narrator on the sidelines).

M.V.P: The cast is flawless, but it's New York - born Peyman Maadi who has the heaviest lifting to do as Nader, and he does that carrying like Atlas; never putting us in doubt that he's a good man, but one loyal to his family to a fault, and just shrouding his motivations away from view enough that the film's central question remains in question.

Filmed entirely in South Africa, with a cast made up of the country's citizens, this powerful, sometimes shocking account of the life of the apartheid martyr, Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, frequently benefits from a strong central performance by Thabo Rametsi that helps to hold the story together.

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Then Ben Stiller signed on as a co-lead and the target of the central heist was changed from Donald Trump to a Bernie Madoff - like swindler, but the cast is still packed with big names, like Matthew Broderick, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Judd Hirsch, and Alan Alda.

From the beginning, Ezra cast minority children as his central characters.

The real strength of the novel lies with the great cast of characters, ranging from the employees of the Good Relations Unit of Belfast City Council and their «bland conformity» to the central character Eban, a complex, damaged individual, determined to remain marginal.

Although there are a multitude of characters and plot threads in The Tenderness of Wolves (perhaps, a few too many of both), the central role is taken by Mrs Ross, who stands out from the rest of the cast because she narrates her part of the story, while the rest of the story is told in the third person.

Because you can only do so much to try to educate a group of travel bloggers, Dearbhaill woke us up a bit with some music from a man you would expect to get if you called Central Casting and said «Send me a convincing congenial bloke to play some Irish music).

American Mystic includes a number of photographs in which Meatyard cast family members and friends in central roles, often masked and enacting symbolic dramas, such as Romance (N.) from Ambrose Bierce # 3, 1962.

The building is cast as the central character in a tangled narrative which reflects Johannesburg's magnetic pull on the social and mythical lives of those who come to this place from all over the country and all over the continent.

Conductor John Myers — straight out of «downtown New York central casting, circa 1984,» according to one pal — summoned an at - times - unholy noise from the six hundred assembled strings, and the music's power conjured a litany of metaphors, all describing moments verging on abandon: His calisthenic conducting elicited a tidal surge of synchronized nodding heads; the performers then inspired him to feats of excitement that could compete with Christian - revival praise dancing; his attempts to rein in the players for quieter passages gave the impression of a lion tamer placating a feisty animal.

Central to the show at Other Criteria, London are a series of sculptures that were cast from the entwined hands and forearms of Lucas and poet Garbay.

From long walks in remote Japanese or American woodlands and Europe, to urban forests such as Central Park in New York or the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, Takeshi Shikama trained his lens to capture fleeting moments of living things: plants and flowers about to wither, flowing streams or shadows cast by trees.

Located at the southeast entrance to Central Park, Open House stands just eight blocks from the original mansion and transforms Doris C. Freedman Plaza into a ballroom, featuring cast cement sculptural interpretations of the interior's opulent furniture.