Sentences with phrase «hammy actors»

Synopsis: Frederick Bronski (Mel Brooks) and his adulterous wife, Anna (Anne Bancroft), are a pair of hammy actors running a low - rent theater in Warsaw, Pola... [MORE]

Modeled on a live Disney extravaganza, the climax has hammy actor and political pretender Charming foiled by stagecraft mishaps more than blazing action.

Not exact matches

The hammy younger actor [James Roday] isn't quite as cute as he thinks he is, and he belongs on a louder comedy series, a laugh - track sitcom in which his clowning might fit in more naturally.

Yet unlike so many of the director's previous cinematic puzzle games, Redbelt cares far less about tricking its audience than about plumbing its protagonist's psyche in a way both viscerally exciting and intensely analytical, a nifty trick that's aided by a host of uniformly sturdy but tonally divergent supporting actors (dainty Emily Mortimer, chilly Rebecca Pidgeon, hammy Rodrigo Santoro, goofy Tim Allen) who don't, at first glance, seem well - suited to coexist with each other.

While Willis continues to phone in his performance with the same on - screen persona he's been giving us for the last decade or two, the other main actors get their chances to shine, especially an always fun Helen Mirren (Monsters University, Hitchcock) and John Malkovich, who know well enough to play to the audience that they know that the movie they're in is meant to be nothing but a hammy lark.

Veteran character actor Homolka brings a hammy late - period Bela Lugosi flavor to his performance, underhandedly stealing every scene he's in, especially those opposite stolid Lewis.

The lead actors are fine, though some of the supporting characters can be a bit hammy, especially the kids, who exhibit that «golly gee swell» sense of youth so typical of 1950s entertainment.

I caught up with Geoffrey Rush, one of my favorite actors, promoting his new film, The Eye of the Storm, where he plays a hammy Australian performer who decamped years before to London's West End to escape his harridan mother, played by Charlotte Rampling.

Although the three lead actors are all working under serious impediments — Travolta has been equipped with a singularly ridiculous soul patch and a Boston accent that runs the gamut from non-existent to «SNL» sketch broadness, oftentimes in the same scene, Plummer has a role that all but insists on being played in the hammiest manner imaginable and Sheridan (whose previous films have included such better projects as «The Tree of Life,» «Mud» and «Joe») is playing a contrivance instead of a character — they are not without a certain innate charm, and indeed, the best scenes here are the ones in which they are simply allowed to interact and bounce off of each other in a relaxed manner before having to return to the mechanics of the increasingly forced plot.

Rock plays a shade of himself; a quasi-washed-up comedic actor famed as the title role in the critically flattened Hammy the Bear buddy cop films.

Cassavetes directs a huge cast of pretty, fresh - faced actors (notably a not - bad Justin Timberlake) as well as a few hammy veterans (Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Harry Dean Stanton), allowing for sporadic and bizarre character invention.