Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic characters who»

Taken together, the three installations suggest inventive, alternate worlds and the idiosyncratic characters who might once have inhabited them.

The film is rooted in Hollywood classicism, populated with idiosyncratic characters who have plenty of room to speak and interact in between the action / horror set pieces.

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Produced by James L. Brooks, who knows a thing or two about character - driven comedy (The Simpsons, Broadcast News), The Edge of Seventeen screams with an idiosyncratic voice at a time when so many movies just want to fall in with the popular crowd.

King, who matures from idiosyncratic comedies like The Bull and the Bunny and TV show The Mighty Boorish, peaks with a spellbinding narrative that utilizes characters to the most attractive and naturalistic effects.

The story of Burt Shavitz, the bearded, backwoodsy photojournalist - turned - homespun entrepreneur whose beekeeping and honey - selling business morphed into the Burt's Bees empire, «Burt's Buzz» spends its first hour as a charming character study of an idiosyncratic man who lives a ramshackle life («sort of like a high - class hobo») when he's not serving as the public face of a huge brand.

Populated with great character actors in a superb ensemble cast, the film sympathetically displays the believable motivations and everyday, idiosyncratic human personalities of the assembled characters, mostly two - bit criminals (one with a family) and a recently - paroled mastermind criminal (Sam Jaffe) who all dream of and long for a quick, million - dollar jewelry store robbery to provide salvation and a means of getting away for their impoverished lives.

Harry Dean Stanton, who died Sept. 15 at age 91, was an esteemed character actor who could play cantankerous or melancholy or plain idiosyncratic, all in unforgettable ways.