Sentences with phrase «human comedy about»

Operating in the Alexander Payne vein, co-directors Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn have crafted a perceptive human comedy about the insecurity / vanity that fuels creative personalities, and the disconnect between artists and their audience.

Based on his one - man show of the same name (which was in turn inspired by actual events from his life), the film is a witty and consistently funny human comedy about the fear of commitment, and hands - down my favorite movie at this year's SXSW.

Based on his one - man show of the same name (which was in turn inspired by actual events from his life), the film is a witty, sharply written human comedy about professional rejection and the fear of commitment.

Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.

In 2012, she completed work with Griffin Dunne on Justin Schwartz's film THE DISCOVERS, a human comedy about a dysfunctional family.

Not exact matches

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

What Netflix's Autism Comedy Atypical Gets Right About Dating While on the Spectrum Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

Aside from these momentary lapses and some third - act stuff that wants us to take the characters far more seriously as human beings than we're capable of doing, «The Campaign» is an effective vulgar comedy about two idiots competing with each other.

SHOW DOGS is a family comedy about the unlikely pairing of a human detective (Arnett) and his canine partner (voice of Chris «Ludacris» Bridges), who has to go undercover at the world's most exclusive dog show to solve his biggest case yet.

But these are defects in a movie that, for the most part, is bracingly perceptive about the human comedy.

There is no smarter director of wry and human comedy than Alexander Payne, whose filmography includes gems like Election, Nebraska, About Schmidt and Oscar - winning scripts like Sideways and The Descendants.

There's nothing groundbreaking about Anders Thomas Jensen's blessedly non-Dogme The Green Butchers, the latest movie to mine the consumption of human flesh for laughs (even the title suggests a cheeky allusion to Soylent Green)-- but for a comedy, that most culturally - specific of genres, the Danish production travels remarkably well.

Analysis: «Sideways» and «The Descendants» director Alexander Payne co-wrote this science fiction comedy / drama, about an Omaha couple (Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig) who opt in to an experiment to shrink humans to action - figure sizes, and place them in environmentally conscious ecosystems.

Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folly, «The Awful Truth» is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistible.

Despite the lack of discipline, Apatow is trying to stretch himself, to say something about human nature: his insight here is less about comedy than about adult life as a succession of equivocations and betrayals.

Starring Will Arnett, Chris «Ludacris» Bridges, Natasha Lyonne, Jordin Sparks, Gabriel Iglesias, Shaquille O'Neal, Alan Cumming, and Stanley Tucci, Show Dogs is a family comedy about the unlikely pairing of a human detective (Arnett) and his canine partner (voice of Chris «Ludacris» Bridges), who has to go undercover at the world's most exclusive dog show to solve his biggest case yet.

Since Hill's feature debut, The Foot Fist Way, the Carolina hooligans have been crafting idiosyncratic comedies about highly capable buffoons that — despite being remarkable joke generators — are also three - dimensional human beings.

Inside Out (Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen, 2015) Pixar's family comedy about emotional intelligence was astoundingly ambitious not least because it tackles the saddest of human truths — eventually we will lose everything we love, sometimes even the memory of it.

Shot like an early 2000's British single camera TV comedy, Oram's directorial debut is an off the wall journey about ape - like humans who run only on instinct, shitting on the floor, animated chickens, gender roles and the pain of losing someone.

At first glance, «Living Out Loud» is a brash and sassy comedy about the human condition.

There's not a recognizable human being to care about, the story line is thin to the point of anorexia and much of the off - the - cuff comedy falls flat in the absurdist setting.

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

On that note, be extremely excited about her newest project:, a puppet / human hybrid dark R rated comedy directed by heir to the Muppets Brian Henson called The Happytime Murders...

A black comedy laced with moments of shocking cruelty, the film is a dystopian allegory about the human need to find a mate — a brilliant, if morbid, meditation on relationships in the age of the dating app.

An absurd horror comedy, the film offers no dialog at all, just grunts, as humans — devolved into ape mentality — go about their poop - throwing, territory marking, television smashing daily existence.

It is a comedy about Dracula's monster - only hotel, now open to humans.

SHOW DOGS is a family comedy about the unlikely pairing of a human detective and his canine partner, who has to go undercover at the world's most exclusive dog show to solve his biggest case yet.

Starring Craig Robinson (The Office, This Is the End) and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation, Big Little Lies), Ghosted is a comedy about the partnership between two polar opposites — a cynical skeptic and a genius «true believer» in the paranormal — who are recruited by a secret government agency, known as The Bureau Underground, to save the human race from aliens.

But it's the ingenious screenplay that makes this film so amazing, weaving complex human relationship drama with clever comedy all wrapped around a story that actually speaks volumes about the way we interact with each other.

«So who do I talk to about a Cap / Human Torch buddy comedy spin - off?»

Starring Will Arnett, Chris «Ludacris» Bridges, Natasha Lyonne, Jordin Sparks, Gabriel Iglesias, Shaquille O'Neal, Alan Cumming, and Stanley Tucci, SHOWDOGS is a family comedy about the unlikely pairing of a human detective (Arnett) and his canine partner (voice of Chris «Ludacris» Bridges), who has to go undercover at the world's most exclusive dog show to solve his biggest case yet.

Peach Mermaid (debuting April 17), a goofy, and somewhat off - color, comedy about a mermaid who makes the decision to walk amongst us in the human world — which goes perfectly well... if she didn't have one little problem... (Japanese title: Momoiro ningyo);

This romantic comedy about a princely alien that meets his match in a human girl was created by Meca Tanaka.

Felix The Reaper - A Romantic Comedy Game About The Life of Death - is a 3D shadow manipulation puzzle adventure with original mechanics in which you make humans die.

The pratfall reveals an innate human truth, and comedy is exactly about incorporating such folly, or potential for failure, into our actions.

This is an opportunity for the civilian and military world to connect through comedy, dispel stereotypes and misnomers, and engage in an honest dialogue about the veteran, military, and human experience.