Sentences with phrase «hit comedy play»

Not exact matches

Speaking to politics.co.uk, Jason Biggs, who plays Jim Levenstein in the hit US comedy series, also backed disgruntled Tories who want their leader replaced with Boris Johnson.

The 31 - year standup comedy veteran has played Susie Greene for all eight seasons of the hit HBO comedy series, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

This dizzy but sweet character from the 1995 comedy hit — Clueless was played by Alicia Silverstone, who became a fashion icon to young girls everywhere — with her knee socks, a - line miniskirts and many other stylish 90s outfits.

He first played Jimmy Kelly in the ABC comedy hit GRACE UNDER FIRE, and then starred for five seasons as Jack Molloy in the WB's riotous comedy UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER.

She would play a memorable role on Don Cheadle's comedy series House of Lies, and co-produced and starred in an action - oriented romcom with Bradley Cooper called Hit and Run (which was written and co-directed by Bell's real - life love, Dax Shepard).

Andrew Bujalski's follow - up to his 2013 Sundance hit Computer Chess is an Austin - set comedy about a pair of personal trainers, played by Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders.

Billy Bob Thornton might have been amusing playing a surly a-hole in the last several comedies he's done, but I think that tank hit empty long before he attempted another one in Mr. Woodcock.

In 1997, she starred as Kevin Kline's mother in Frank Oz's In & Out, earned a 2000 Primetime Emmy Outstanding Guest Actress nomination for her recurring role as Debra Messing's mother in the hit comedy series Will & Grace, played Katherine Heigl's grandmother in 2012's One for the Money and, in 2013, portrayed Liberace's mother Frances (the Liberace family were longtime friends of Reynolds) in the award - winning HBO telefilm Behind the Candelabra.

She plays an athletic female wrestler in her Netflix hit comedy GLOW.

The Hitman's Bodyguard: Ryan Reynolds plays the bodyguard and Samuel L. Jackson is the hit man in this R - rated buddy - comedy.

For six seasons, Gillian Jacobs played Britta Perry on the hit comedy show «Community.»

This part feels like it could have easily been Will Ferrell's but as Reilly has proven in the past five years, he can play in the lower levels of comedy and hit homers just as well as anyone.

The comedy played last year's SXSW festival and proved a smash hit with audiences who ate up Michael Showalter «s confident directorial debut.

Other films playing are It Follows, which caused a stir earlier this year at Cannes; Jermaine Clement & Taika Waititi's vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows; Kevin Smith's Tusk; [REC]: Apocalypse, the fourth entry in the hit Spanish franchise, and Big Game, the new film from the director of past TIFF film Rare Exports starring Samuel L. Jackson as the president.

In Sean Anders» comedy hit Daddy's Home, Will Ferrell plays Brad, a middle - aged man who is very much in love with his wife (Linda Cardellini) and with the notion of being a responsible family man.

In a way, the film plays like a greatest - hits collection of the worst films so far of Summer 2017, from an appearance by the Knights of the Round Table that calls to mind «King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,» the leaden comedy and leering courtship of «Baywatch» and the general «Why are we in England again?»

A messy but winning musical comedy, Pitch Perfect was one of the surprise hits of 2012, thanks in large part to its charming star, Anna Kendrick, who played Beca Mitchell, a lonely college freshman who joins legendary a-cappella group the Barden Bellas.

10:35 am — IFC — Barton Fink One of the Coen Brothers» most brilliant dark comedies (heh, I think I say that about all of their dark comedies, though), Barton Fink follows its title character, a New York playwright whose hit play brings him to the attention of Hollywood, where he goes to work for the movies.

A year after the release of Get Out, the hit horror - comedy - satire by Jordan Peele, in which Kaluuya plays Chris, a good - natured photographer who finds himself at the mercy of a plot by his white girlfriend and her family to body - snatch African Americans, he is still uncomfortable with the apparatus of fame.

Multiple Sarcasms (R for profanity and sexual references) Midlife crisis comedy about a successful but unhappy architect (Timothy Hutton) who quits his job to write a semi-autobiographical play which becomes a hit, but at the expense of his marriage and other relationships.

It's a sort of «Rhapsody in Blue» for the CGI toon set as 30's - style swing mixes it up with bouncy poodle cuteness and bridge - hanging adventure that manages to hit every pet nationality to boot — all cohesively playing the madcap toon humor without Mickey Mouse'ing the comedy.

In the theater he collaborated with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award winning play «700 Sunday,» Martin Short's Broadway hit «Fame Becomes Me,» and he wrote the off - Broadway play «Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner - A Sort of Romantic Comedy» which he adapted from his bestselling book.

It reunites the entire team responsible for the 2014 comedy hit, right down to the little girl who plays Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne's daughter.

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.

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He's injected odd moments of kitchen - sink realism into a gangster saga (Down Terrace) and surreal dollops of WTF horror into a hit - men thriller (Kill List); surely no one expected director Ben Wheatley to play a comedy about a camping vacation straight, right?

FLIFF also will offer the dark comedy «August: Osage County,» based on Tracy Letts» hit play and produced by Harvey Weinstein, George Clooney and Jean Doumainian, among others.

Melissa McCarthy is on the loose and up to no good in the new trailer for «Tammy,» her upcoming comedy about a woman who experiences a particularly awful day and then hits the road with her hard - drinking grandmother, played by Susan Sarandon.

In a prequel to the 2008 hit comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason Segel plays Secretary of State George Marshall as he negotiates for the economic rehabilitation of Europe — and rehabilitates himself in the process.

After playing a bit part with his own name in Project X, this year Teller went on to lead the raunchy teenage comedy 21 and Over and this summer that's followed by a stellar performance in the Sundance hit The Spectacular Now along with Shailene Woodley.

Director Alfredo De Villa doesn't play it for the kind of knockabout comedy so often seen in these films (like the shrill hit «Four Christmases»).

Julianne Moore is reportedly in talks with Fox to play the villain in the sequel to its surprise action - comedy hit Kingsman: The Secret Service.

If they play it as a screwball comedy, then it hits the aforementioned unholy mess levels, because it would allow Diane Keaton to mug even more than she already does, and the woman needs to be muzzled as it is.

While hit comedy show «South Park» isn't quite synonymous with turn - based role - playing games, the two concepts make a delightfully lewd combination in «South Park: Stick of Truth.»

It was a monologue (delivered in a rotary telephone costume I designed) exploring a symmetrical rift between high and low culture, inspired in part by a musical comedy about a working class bell hop who exposes a pretentious composer (who stole his girlfriend) as a fraud by revealing that his critically acclaimed avant - garde divertimento is really just a hit - parade song played backwards.