Sentences with phrase «into screwball»

Seriously, this thing is full of jokes, and they come at a rapid fire pace that puts the film squarely into screwball territory.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Features Janitor Mired in Emotional Quagmire This indie flick isn't half - bad, for a taut, neo-noir thriller that inexplicably transforms into a screwball comedy around its midway point.

This all sounds terribly unpromising by description, but Russell, working from Matthew Quick's novel, harnesses Cooper and Lawrence's mutual quirks into a screwball delirium that plays like a more mainstream Flirting With Disaster or I [Heart] Huckabees.

They pretend to be an absent couple in order to grab a reservation at a trendy restaurant, and two hit men assume they are that couple and topple them into a screwball comedy.

Like that film and Wes Anderson's «The Royal Tenenbaums,» «The Meyerowitz Stories» is very much about the burden of having a difficult dad, although toward the end I could have sworn the movie also morphed into a screwball remake of «Summer Hours,» Olivier Assayas» wonderful 2009 film about three siblings trying to figure out how to deal with an artistic inheritance.

Romantic shenanigans and unexpected twists turn Rebecca Miller's comedy into a screwball delight

Michel Hazanavicius never has trouble coming up with bad ideas, and turning the romantic life of Jean - Luc Godard into a screwball comedy will be hard for him to beat.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Prodigal Janitor Gets Mired in Emotional Quagmire in Screwball Sitcom This indie flick isn't half - bad, for a taut, neo-noir thriller that inexplicably transforms into a screwball comedy somewhere around its midway point.

Dead - ender Lyonne reluctantly connects with her sex - addict sister before an accidental death pitches this indie comedy deep into screwball territory, with too few gags packed in.

The movie plays into screwball humor and some plotlines we've seen in Date Night or Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn's Charade, but this is a sweet couple who brings out the lovey - dovey chemistry.

We get the feeling a Chaplin character is trying to sneak into a screwball plot and turn it sentimental.

Not exact matches

What you think is a 97 - mph heater leaving his fingertips may be an 83 - mph curveball that can turn the bravest hitter's knees into gelatin, or it may be a 77 - mph changeup that breaks like a hyperactive screwball.

It started off as what I thought was going to be a screwball comedy but slowly shifted gears into a heartbreaking tale of beauty and political corruption.

Great screwball comedy about the transformation of a plain and repressed girl (splendidly played by Irene Dunne) into an eccentric and loving woman.

Stuck between screwball comedy that allows Alex to emerge unscathed from a high - speed collision with a car and honest romance that features Alex and Juliette staring longingly into the sunset, Heartbreaker is a mixed bag that is charming and funny when it's good and insufferably sophomoric when it's bad.

Inspired by an iconic photograph of Nixon shaking Presley's hand and appointing him as an honorary federal drug - enforcement agent, the screenwriter spun the meeting into a full - on screwball comedy.

Now, add a romantic comedy narrative combining elements of amnesia, lack of consent, and sexism into the mixture and you have Garry Marshall's 1987 screwball flick Overboard.

The lengthy set piece at a Connecticut mansion is a classic of screwball escalation, as Baumbach ably piles a Sturgesian array of characters and relationships into a few crowded rooms.

After a patchy faux - screwball start that has Carell and Moore rapidly talking over one another, the film settles into a more casual rhythm that lets their chemistry come through in their easy shorthand.

In their attempt to wheedle the money out of a sanitary napkin heiress (Stockard Channing in her film debut), Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson jump into the roles of befuddled, sometimes outsmarted, and pathetic men in the world of the screwball force.

If screwball comedies are about sex (previously without the actual sex) and about gender politics and power dynamics between men and women, Mike Nichols» The Fortune falls into this solid, if not always successful, attempt at reviving those little discourses under the guise of manic comedy.

Russell's penchant for barely controlled chaos just isn't funny in the context of diagnosed mental illness, and while Playbook's late shift into a conventional, crowd - pleasing rom - com works exceedingly well, it does so at the expense of all the previous manic episodes, making it seem as if men who suffer from bipolar disorder just need to find a screwball dame to nurse them to health via wacky dance routines.

Millennial communication patterns — a constant, rapid shuffle between angst, oversharing, self - mythologizing, self - abasement, insincere social ritual, and sincere shared enthusiasm — slot incredibly well into the framework of a screwball comedy.

Among those that I recall once driving audiences wild here in México were «The Party» (1967), starring Peter Sellers, with all the guests falling into a pool full of bubbles, and Peter Bogdanovich's zany screwball feature «What's up Doc?»

Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie is many ways his best and certainly his most enjoyable, a screwball fling that takes a road movie turn into darkness.

At a swanky suburban residence, the film transforms into a full - fledged screwball farce, sending characters constantly in and out of frame, jokes flying fast in a torrent of overlapping dialogue.

Also, Smith's direction quickly settles into a predictable set - up - and - follow rhythm (Bean is left alone; Bean gets himself into all sorts of screwball trouble; people react).

How Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig Turned «Mistress America» Into a Female - Friendly Screwball Comedy

Film Adaption: His Girl Friday A brief look at the adaptation of the novel The Front Page into this classic screwball comedy.

Beyond the ickiness of the relationship between an infamously predatory director (John Malkovich) entering into a relationship with the 17 - year - old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) of Louis» character, the juxtaposition of a black - and - white,»40s - screwball comedy setting with profane, raunchy humor just never works.

That philosophy came in handy once more when he decided to revive a long - dormant movie genre — the screwball romantic comedy — back when action flicks like «Lethal Weapon» and «Die Hard» were the rage, with 1990's «Pretty Woman,» an unlikely Disney fairy tale about a beautiful streetwalker who falls for her rich prince of a business - exec client that turned Julia Robert into a superstar.

The ridiculous plot blighted the book and, despite Levinson's efforts to phase out some of the novel's excesses, he still struggles whenever he incorporates some of the the screwball elements into the plot.

And yet, it works, not unlike The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook, because we meet it halfway with our own awareness of the forebears Russell lightly subverts (whether underdog sports movies, screwball comedies or, now, Scorsese's American crime epics), and we're willing to fill in the blanks to enjoy trappings like Bale finessing Irving's «rather elaborate» combover or Lawrence yammering Rosalyn's way into getting what she wants.

But when a feisty reporter (Zellweger) starts snooping around, she turns the two teammates into instant rivals and kicks off a wild competition filled with hilarious screwball...

the 1939 screwball Cinderella story «Midnight» stars Claudette Colbert as a street smart showgirl who pulls into Paris without a penny to her name and lands in the lap of luxury, thanks to a most unlikely fairy godfather (John Barrymore).

A familiar plot turns into a delicious screwball comedy when a tough kid is exposed to a manic household and people who are willing to let him change.

Parke's debut novel melds screwball comedy, hipster - style irony and an old - fashioned unreliable narrator into a quirky whodunit that challenges our perceptions about how we think and interact with the world around us.

While the title main appeal is the amorous visuals and screwball storyline, sending the girls into fits of ecstasy in enduringly comical.