Sentences with phrase «in thankless roles»

The evil corporation, Energyne, is run by a pair of cartoon sibling moguls (Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy, abysmally bad in thankless roles) who watch most of the movie unfold from the computer monitors in their high - rise headquarters, like kids waiting impatiently for their turn at the joystick.

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marie - Josée Croze, and Rachel McAdams come and go in thankless roles that call for the actresses to sustain peeved expressions for as long as possible.

A pulse-less, predictable thriller which seats Denzel Washington in a thankless role as a decorated Philadelphia cop who is tormented by a demon who once possessed a serial killer (Elias Koteas) that the detective helped put to death.

Felt's personal life is also a bore, including Diane Lane in a thankless role as his alcoholic wife distraught over Felt being passed over as the new FBI director.

Along the way he picks up French «accomplices» in girlfriend Annie (Charlotte Le Bon in a thankless role), a photographer (Clément Sibony) and eccentric circus mentor Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley) who pleads with Petit to use a safety harness (he won't).

French actress Elodie Yung looks uncomfortable as Bryce's Interpol agent ex, while Gary Oldman is hammy in the thankless role of an Eastern European dictator.

But she's gone too soon, as is Kristofer Hivju — the red - bearded scene - stealer of «Game of Thrones» — in a thankless role as Cypher's trigger - happy assistant.

Scarlett Johansson shows up in a thankless role as the only female dog to have any dialogue.

I love Annette Bening's performance, too, as Lester's shrill, crazy wife Carolyn — a real estate broker, it goes without saying; Bening is given the burden of screaming and crying and tearing at her flesh in another thankless role.

Josh Gad delivers yet another great performance in a thankless role.

Monica Bellucci (Irreversible) and Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Color) show up as love interests (it's Seydoux who's saddled with that unfortunate amorous declaration), while Naomie Harris (28 Days Later) does her best in the thankless role of Miss Moneypenny.

One of my least favorite things about the current season of American Horror Story is that it's essentially sidelined Lily Rabe in the thankless role of a talking head in a documentary frame story.

Laura Linney is the only actor who feels like she doesn't belong, stuck in a thankless role as Sully's wife Lorraine, whose few scenes with Hanks over the phone lack the emotional oomph that was intended.

Considering Corbijn's noted early career as a photographer, one would assume Stock to be an easy cipher, but while Pattinson's given all the right lines to utter about a man pursuing his dreams, it's never quite apparent, instead flatly drawn in interactions with boss Joel Edgerton (in a thankless role).

Taylor is fantastic in the film, exuding her natural warmth; Farmiga is also exceptional in the thankless role of the «sensitive» half of the Warren team.

And while Miller is solid in her thankless role, even she can't breathe life into such a thinly developed romance.

Liane Balaban is cast in the thankless role of the nagging fiance who gets left behind.

Witherspoon at least tries to be fun in her thankless role.

Only Diego Luna seems somewhat lost in a thankless role as an uncontrollable young lover of Milk.

Reese Witherspoon does what she can in a thankless role, but the simplistic plot wears her down.

Take, for instance, the casting of the amazing Jane Krakowski in the thankless role of First Lady.

These aren't bad decisions, necessarily — they just don't coordinate with the dull, no - nonsense figure at the movie's core, a patriot whose most compelling problem seems to be that he has a liberal for a girlfriend (Shailene Woodley in a thankless role with an unmotivated sex scene).

Dad, of course, reacts badly to the suggestion and Dr. Foster is made aware by the hospital's head of administration, Dr. Sophia Jordan [Alfre Woodard in a thankless role] that she was out of line.

Henry agrees take part in Carol's big plan, as does her husband Wayne (Dermot Mulroney, in a thankless role), who has reservations about the whole scheme.

Jerry and Kitty hole up at a motel, and in between (and sometimes during) attempts at sex, Jerry tells Kitty of his turbulent life: the out - of - control heroin abuse and the devastating effects it had on his marriage of convenience to a beautiful Brit (Elizabeth Hurley, trying her best in a thankless role) and his once - thriving writing career.

In the thankless role of Mrs. Lincoln's hostess, Julia Grant tried to calm her, only to bring Mrs. Lincoln's wrath down upon herself.

Not exact matches

None of them has anything to gain by serving in those roles, which are thankless and extraordinarily demanding.

This role is much more difficult and thankless than that of a guerrilla chieftain or a corporate head, and there is no glory in it.

Pro-Corbyn groups at a national level tend to be reluctant to criticise party officers, given the many years of thankless service often involved in their roles but also point out that they are not necessarily in tune with the new members.

Grant Shapps, housing minister, is tipped to take over from Warsi, in what is notoriously a thankless role due to interference from Conservative central office.

Being the prime minister's spouse is one of the more thankless jobs in British politics: the previous incum - bent, Cherie Blair, like Sarah Brown a successful professional involved in good causes, had gone from admired role model to object of ridicule and fury.

Be it Enos reprising her thankless wife role from «Gangster Squad,» to Ludi Boeken as an exposition - dumping Mossad agent, to Peter Capaldi and Ruth Negga as scientists so thankless they're literally credited as Scientists despite being central to the third act, most of the players that crop up on Pitt's travels are perfunctory at best (to say nothing of Matthew Fox, inexplicably fifth - billed in a part that's not so much a cameo as a day - player gig — presumably he has more left on the cutting room floor).

Penny (who seems to have reinvented the «thankless role») attends to Kay's general life needs, cleaning ashtrays in her spotless white - on - white apartment and offering encouragement toward completing the manuscript: «I'm available to you every minute of every day,» she says sternly, adding, «I do not abide narcotics.»

There's also the assembly of a very impressive cast, all - be-it, a lot of them are wasted in thankless, underwritten roles.

He has a good eye for actors; recent Oscar nominee Felicity Jones plays what could have been the thankless role of Finkel's girlfriend, but she eventually becomes a kind of lynchpin in the relationship.

In this role, she takes what could have been a thankless role and turned it into a pathos inducing performance.

In fact, in Jean - Marc Vallée's new comedy drama Demolition, he's lumped with a particularly thankless role, as if the director overlooked him entirelIn fact, in Jean - Marc Vallée's new comedy drama Demolition, he's lumped with a particularly thankless role, as if the director overlooked him entirelin Jean - Marc Vallée's new comedy drama Demolition, he's lumped with a particularly thankless role, as if the director overlooked him entirely.

Woodbine, as the troubled brother, has a more thankless role - it's not easy to be the source of all a plot's problems - but the way he gets us involved with the character is to show that his Joshua does love Jason, and their mother, and doesn't want to hurt them - although in his drinking and violence he is obviously the heir of Maddog.

Amidst all the «police work,» Terry falls for a woman (Tessa Thompson, in a predictably thankless role) and eventually adopts a young kid caught up in a nasty crime scene.

While Rachel Griffiths appears in an utterly thankless role, Hugo Weaving scores the only authentic non-combat sequence as a father who breaks down at the dinner table when he learns his elder son has enlisted.

Cranston is swell in the lead role, giving heart and humanity to Trumbo, while Lane lends grace to the thankless role of the dutiful wife.

In this competent but unremarkable drama, Liam Hemsworth and Michael Angarano pull off the crime, while Johnson takes a thankless supporting role as the cop hunting them down, who has no personality traits to speak of.

English character actor Nigel Bruce took on that thankless role, and would do so 13 more times with Rathbone in a Holmes series that ran for eight years and proved very successful.

In fact, all the female roles are thankless, and this is where Mud lets itself down.

First of all, Fresno is a welcome change from the small, thankless roles that we keep seeing Judy Greer in this summer.

Leighton Meester takes a thankless role and turns in a good performance with some solid comedy.

Bobby Cannavale isn't nearly as entertaining as he has been in other films this year (Spy, Annie) as the fiancée of Scott's ex-wife Maggie, played by Judy Greer... getting yet another small, thankless role in a blockbuster this summer (she was previously seen in Tomorrowland and Jurassic World).

Though the series» young leads all do an admirable job (particularly Salazar, in a relatively thankless role), their older counterparts tend to steal scenes right out from under them.

Copley has been floundering for a decent role since the success of District 9, and he still hasn't managed to land it in this thankless bankroll job.

Mainstream cinema hasn't quite caught on yet, with her most prominent studio role to date a somewhat thankless part as Ben Stiller «s wife in flop comedy «The Watch.»