Sentences with phrase «hapless cops»

The hapless cops, it seems, were unaware that they were harassing an elected official, not just a nobody, and that their reckless abuse of authority was going to make the pages of the city's dailies.

Into this foray fall numerous side characters including the scientist's lover (Jeremy Northam), a hapless cop (Charles S. Dutton), a blind kid (Alexander Goodwin) who communicates with the bugs by tapping spoons against his leg, and the blind kid's pop / protector (Giancarlo Giannini).

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Our list of hapless auditions for the Keystone cops gets longer and longer.

Cannavale (Danny Collins) is wasted in a role that doubles both as the hapless husband to Lang's ex father to the daughter Lang is trying to reconnect more with, and the face of the cops who get involved in the mix of things (and, conveniently, seems to be the first cop on the scene no matter where the action takes place).

A gentle spoof of arch-patriots running amok when a Soviet sub runs aground on an East Coast resort, Norman Jewison's film stars Carl Reiner as a hapless vacationer, Alan Arkin as a Soviet sailor and Jonathan Winters as a bungling cop.

M.V.P.: Among a wondrous cast, including J. Smith Cameron as Lisa's mother, John Gallagher Jr. as her hapless prospective beau, Kieran Culkin as a manipulative, callous rival, Rosemarie De Witt as the prickly, paranoid wife of Mark Ruffalo's character, Stephen Adly Guirgis as a long - suffering cop, Michael Ealy as a smart - as - a-whip attorney and Lonergan himself as Lisa's hen - pecked absentee father, it's the great Allison Janney (also the best thing in «The Help «-RRB- who lingers in a one - scene cameo as the victim of the bus accident which sets the plot in motion.

Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and written by and starring Chandresekhar and the rest of the Broken Lizard troupe, «Super Troopers 2» picks up the story a number of years after the prank - obsessed, hopelessly hapless state troopers turned local cops were summarily dismissed after an unfortunate tragedy known as «The Fred Savage Incident.»

As Joe Denton, the hapless ex - cop / ex-con protagonist of Small Crimes, Nikolaj Coster - Waldau wears a thick goatee that somehow, all by itself, transforms his look from Lannister nobility into discount Josh Brolin.

The house is full of surveillance equipment, the dramatic possibilities of which the director, James McTeigue, fails to exploit, while the goons are so hapless (no gloves, no masks, no plan) that they make the Keystone Cops look like paragons...

George Miller's film is an outrageous exploiter drawing intelligently on everything from Death Race 2000 to Straw Dogs for its JG Ballard - ish story about a future where cops and Hell's Angels stage protracted guerrilla warfare around what's left of a hapless civilian population.

The generic plot is just there to get things in motion: a fearless cop, a drug lord, a hapless girlfriend, a much - tougher female sidekick.