Sentences with phrase «juicy roles of»

Nonetheless, this is a fun film, which doles out juicy roles of substance to two actors who have proven their worth again and again.

Even better is Vanilla Ice, who is gift - wrapped the juicy role of himself, an ice rink concession stand worker who still parties hard with his boy Donny.

A small role in Robert Altman's «Thieves Like Us» brought Fletcher to the attention of director Milos Forman, who gave her the juicy role of Nurse Ratched, the villain in this Ken Kesey allegory about personal freedom that co-starred Jack Nicholson.

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She got another juicy role the following year as older woman Joyce Fickett in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon opposite earthy teen heartthrob River Phoenix.

The director, who currently has a juicy supporting role as Juliette Binoche's arrogant, married lover in «Let the Sunshine In,» is far more respectful and appreciative here of the many crucial roles women play.

It also offers New Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey (Heavily Creatures, Happy Christmas) one of her juiciest roles to date as the lead character, a nursing assistant who has lost all faith in humanity and then finds herself chasing after some petty criminals who stole her laptop and heirloom silverware.

But of course, it's Depp who steals the show once again, proving that he's at his best playing eccentric characters like Tonto, and it doesn't take a genius to realize that the oddball Comanche is the juicier of the two lead roles.

Sean Astin may have been an integral part of one of the biggest franchises in film history not long ago, but he too is now on the other side of forty and would probably love if Adam Sandler could find him some more juicy supporting roles.

The strongest attribute of the first film was the character of Big Daddy, memorably played by Nicolas Cage channeling Adam West: having been set fire to in the last film, he's unlikely to return, though there's a juicy supporting role for Jim Carrey, of all people.

It's the story of a genius artist who is engulfed in a lifetime pool of blood and tears that gives her the foundation for her art to flourish, but here Frida is played by a proud actress ill prepared to get into such depths and who only sees Frida from the selfish standpoint of getting a juicy role.

Weisz, who is also one of the producers of Disobedience, told Variety that she read «a lot of lesbian literature» while hunting for a story that would provide juicy roles for women.

Since that coming - of - age tale opened in 2009, she's been picking up one juicy role after another.

As the tensions escalate, the film provides juicy roles for both Hall and Bateman — the latter in particular bringing to the forefront a side of his persona he's rarely shown.

Arianda is appealing in a role that's likely to be one of her juiciest.

Though a missed opportunity to give an amputated actor the juiciest role since Harold Russell's Oscar - winning turn in The Best Years of Our Lives, casting AnnaSophia Robb in the lead allows her to add another impressive performance to her strong filmography, this one raising clout and familiarity as her last few projects did not.

Will Forte is solid in a plaintive role, and June Squibb takes sensational advantage of the juiciest exposition dialogue in any movie this year.

In Killer Joe and Magic Mike, he tears into the roles of a murderous cop and a satanic stripping impresario like a starving man, sucking every last drop from the juiciest of roles.

Like George Clooney, who's the same age (57), Grant seems to be welcoming the onset of age and wrinkles as an opportunity to play juicier character roles.

In this juiciest of roles, J.K. Simmons is spry, agile, graceful and funny, and stalks the stage like the Nosferatu of the jazz circuit.

In an early movie version of the beloved and oft - filmed classic novel, Hepburn gets the juiciest role in «Little Women» as Jo, the tomboy of the four March sisters in a genteelly impoverished family struggling with their father's absence during the Civil War.

But «Split» offers James McAvoy a chance to take this concept to an entirely new level, resulting in one of the juiciest roles the genre has seen in years.

Kristin Scott Thomas has a juicy role to sink her teeth into, and not only is she a top tier contender for Supporting Actress, she could even be one of the early frontrunners to win the Oscar.

The film marks the unlikely feature directorial debut of Michael Rapaport, a veteran actor whose juiciest credits came in Tribe's one successful decade and include Beautiful Girls, Cop Land, Deep Blue Sea, and a recurring role on «Friends.»

Stuhlbarg, especially, is given a juicy supporting role, though I wish his final speech to his son — lovingly supportive of the relationship with Oliver — were shorter and less expositional.

Jenkins and co present a wealth of awesome women, of course (Lucy Davis is great, as are many Amazonians played by Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, and Lisa Loven Kongsli as well as Elena Anaya's evil Dr. Maru), but there's also juicy roles for Danny Huston, David Thewlis, and Ewen Bremner.

I'm talking the good kind of juicy, kick - ass roles that men mostly get.

Latino Review's El Mayimbe also tweeted this not - so - cryptic message regarding the role, «FANBOY BLIND ITEM: Which superhot actor finishing final season of hit TV show who also was in 2 films for WB is up for juicy badguy part?

The film's cult has largely sprung up around the depiction of Doc Holliday, which — though sentimentalized and painted in broad dramatic flourishes — gives Kilmer what's easily one of his juiciest screen roles.

The Oscar winner is at the top of his game, in a juicy, gritty role.

It paints an evocative picture of Hollywood and the methodology of filmmaking, circa 1961, while offering juicy roles to Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, two of the finest actors of their generation.

Bullock's role as white mother who takes in a poor black teen and helps propel him to success contains just the right cuts of juicy dramatic meat that the Academy loves to sink their teeth into.

Keaton leads the way, and he is matched by Zach Galifianakis, in an atypically serious role as the actor's producer and long - suffering best friend; Edward Norton, as an actor who joins the troupe at the last minute and proves to be a loose cannon, on and offstage; Naomi Watts, as his loyal leading lady; and, in the juiciest part of her career to date, Emma Stone, as Keaton's daughter, who's just out of rehab and working for her father.

Like Blanchett, Wiest gets Allen's juiciest female roles, playing a third wheel of unfulfilled potential in «Hannah.»

It's a juicy role that many actors dream of playing.

The TV legend has received the best big - screen buzz of her career, and it's a juicy role that's drawn comparisons to past supporting actress winners: Mo'Nique in «Precious» and Melissa Leo in «The Fighter.»

It's often said that strong roles for women are rare nowadays, but three new movies — Under the Sand, Ghost World, and The Deep End — have the virtue of handing a juicy, sympathetic part to a talented actress and letting her run with it.

The always enjoyable Bobby Cannavale gets a juicy supporting role as Chili, Ginger's «loser» boyfriend, while comedian Louis C.K. turns up as the «nice guy» alternative whose genial persona and line of work — sound system salesman — strikes both sisters as a step up from Chili.

It has so many juicy elements: politics, Quebec's unique role, the Constitution, the quality of legal drafting, good and evil (well maybe not, but maybe yes).

Stephens in particular is well - positioned to vie for juicy government contracts: after being tapped by Founders Fund managing partner Peter Thiel, he played a role in the Trump administration, overseeing the Department of Defense transition.