Sentences with phrase «insecure men played»

Like Allen, Perry focuses on rarefied New York City couples in the throes of vague unhappiness, their uncertainty embodied in this case by a stranger (played by Emily Browning in a revelatory performance), who serves as a potential siren for bored and insecure men played by Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz and Jason Schwartzman.

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Warren showed how she could play the role as an attacker - in - chief against Republican Donald Trump, calling him a «small, insecure money - grubber,» «a nasty man» and «goofy.»

The old man fears his land will be confiscated by King John (Oscar Isaac), Richard's vain, tax - happy younger brother (essentially a lightweight riff on the insecure Commodus Joaquin Phoenix played with such reptilian panache in «Gladiator») and so asks Crowe to move in and assume his son's identity.

There's an interesting character study here of an insecure, lonely man, whose ego, daddy issues, and complicated feelings about being raised by a nun played by Diane Keaton — oh yeah, that's a thing — contribute to an inferiority complex that doesn't just define his ascension to power, but threatens the world's largest religious institution as we know it.

Turturro stars in his latest feature, Fading Gigolo, as Fioravante, an introverted, solitary New Yorker who works a series of odd jobs until his buddy Murray (Woody Allen) suggests an odder job: Playing male escort to an attractive but insecure bisexual dermatologist (Sharon Stone) who's hunting for a man to round out a ménage à trois with her lover (Sofía Vergara).

Directed by Jay Roach («Trumbo,» «Game Change,» «Recount») from a screenplay by Robert Schenkkan, who also wrote the Tony - winning play, the film brings the crude, demanding LBJ into focus along with the insecure, desperately needy man in one indelible performance.