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-- comes «The Lincoln Lawyer,» a low - concept, single - genre film with live actors whose performances add the depth.

Not exact matches

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander prove they are two of the top actors working today as they play a couple whose lives crumble after rescuing a baby adrift in a rowboat.

Tom Hanks solidifies himself as one of the greatest actors of his generation with this look at a man whose life intersects with some of the greatest moments in history while trying to connect with his true love, Jenny.

Will Arnett voices BoJack Horseman, a once famous sitcom actor whose life has hit rock bottom.

The physical universe is not a mere shadow, it is a drama of billions of actors, some minute, blindly moving atoms, some living plants and moving animals, and some intelligent body - persons enacting an evolutionary history whose scenario still remains open to the future.

There's no denying the incredible impact technology has had on every aspect of our lives, from ordering a pizza in seconds (thanks, Dominos) to Googling that actor whose name is on the tip of your tongue but you just.

Robert Zemeckis, the same director whose «Who Framed Roger Rabbit» (1988) juxtaposed live action with animation, this time merges them, using a process called «performance capture,» in which human actors perform the movements which are translated into lifelike animation.

Before he was a made - for - TV wacko, Gary Busey was a pretty fine actor — and never better than when he played the title role in 1978's «The Buddy Holly Story,» a biopic of the «50s rock star whose life ended early.

Young actor Gonzalez voices 12 - year - old Miguel Rivera, whose only wish in life is to play the guitar like his idol, the late, legendary Ernesto de la Cruz (Bratt).

You watch it thinking: There's a reason why Tracy and Hepburn movies never hinged on therapy, and didn't feature actors whose exteriors looked a lot more exciting than their inner lives.

«The Prestige» From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, Insomnia) and starring a powerhouse cast including Golden Globe ® Nominee Hugh Jackman (Kate and Leopold), Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Psycho), four - time Golden Globe ® Nominee Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Match Point, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Girl with a Pearl Earring) and the legendary two - time Academy Award ® Winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules and Hannah and Her Sisters), «The Prestige» is the mysterious story of two magicians in Victorian - era London whose intense rivalry leads them on a life - long battle for supremacy filled with obsession, deceit and jealousy with astonishing twists and deadly consequences.

On his role in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: The Scottish actor says he initially turned down the starring role in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby because its subject matter was «too close to the bone» for someone whose life was the picture of domestic bliss.

Irish actor Robert Sheehan delivers a nicely nuanced performance as Picasso's friend, Carles Casagemas, a young artist who could never gain a foothold in his career and whose life spiraled downward in a haze of alcoholism, opium addiction and unrequited love for a young prostitute named Germaine (Emma Appleton).

The Creative Assembly are going through pain - staking efforts to bring the cast of Alien Isolation to life and instead of creating virtual characters and simply hiring voice actors to voice them, they have employed a real cast of actors whose likenesses are being scanned into the game and their acting is also being motion captured.

Veteran French actor André Wilms, whose association with the filmmaker dates back to 1992's «The Bohemian Life» (for which he won a European Film Award) takes the lead here, while other Kaurismäki alumni in the cast include New Wave icon Jean - Pierre Léaud and, of course, the director's favorite actress Kati Outinen.

The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.

Playing the women who run Reynolds Woodcock's atelier in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1950s fashion tale, Clark and Brown are not budding actors but real - life seamstresses whose hands have touched countless couture gowns.

Curtis, a magnetic actor sporting a weight gain and haphazardly shorn pate that make him unrecognizable from his «Fear the Walking Dead» duties, plays Genesis «Gen» Potini, a onetime chess prodigy whose bipolar disorder ensured a life in and out of mental institutions.

Morgan Freeman's mollycoddled and on meds, suffering the indignity of being infantlised by an idiot son, Kevin Kline's got a great wife but a boring life and is subsequently sexually dysfunctional and depressed, Robert De Niro's a widower whose only human contact is a soup making neighbour, while Michael Douglas, in a set up that must have presented the actor with the greatest challenge of his career, plays a rich old pervert who's eschewed commitment most of his adult life but is now about to settle for a woman less than half his age.

Keaton will get most of the accolades from an acting standpoint, but there are uniformly solid turns by an impressive cast, especially Ed Norton as the cocky actor whose stage life has superseded his real one.

Davis» real - life husband Julius Tennon signs on, along with veteran actor Jimmy Smits, whose character plays a major role in the season's overarching mystery.

Jon Polito, the prolific and raspy - voiced character actor whose more than 200 credits ranged from «Homicide: Life on the Street» and «Modern Family» to the Coen Brother films «Barton Fink» and «The Big Lebowski,» has died.

The film stars Academy Award ® nominee and Emmy ® award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo, the real - life couple whose son Colton (newcomer Connor Corum) claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience.

If it is indeed his final work, it's a fitting one that's in keeping with the actor's career of telling stories of grand, often larger - than - life men whose self - identity clashes with, and often destroys, their relationships.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

Consummate supporting actor Hawkes, whose recent filmography has plenty of titles that sound nearly interchangeable with this one (Life Of Crime, The Driftless Area, Low Down) leads an appropriately character - actor - heavy ensemble that includes Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster, Clifton Collins Jr., and Daniel Sunjata, among others.

But standing right alongside him, towering perhaps even taller, is Jared Leto, whose eerily lived - in portrayal of gregarious transsexual Rayon is one of the most entertaining and charming actor transformations of the year.

The credit for the warm undertones beneath the anguish should go to Haneke's extraordinary actors, whose own life experience is on display here.

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer puts the actor at the centre of a dark and twisted tale about a surgeon whose well - ordered life is turned upside down by a troubled teenager (Barry Keoghan) seeking revenge — not just -LSB-...]

Ruffalo also had a charming, affable leading - man turn in «Begin Again» this year, as a weary record label exec whose passion for music is reignited by a young singer - songwriter, but his turn as real - life Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz in Bennett Miller's retelling of a bizarre true story is a prime example of an actor at the peak of his powers.

There's a decent supporting cast, with Ben Whishaw as a Copenhagen bachelor attracted to Lili (for a long time it's not clear if he knows she's still a man underneath) while the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts does his handsome best to bring to life a character who feels he's been invented especially for the film — the childhood friend who once found Einar so attractive he kissed him, but whose romantic attentions are now firmly fixed on Gerda.

It features four «Bridesmaids» actors playing married couples with children: Kristen Wiig and Jon Hamm are Missy and Ben, whose once - hot sex life is now cooling, while Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd are the bickering Leslie and Alex. Writer - director Jennifer Westfeldt (the 2001 indie hit «Kissing Jessica Stein») casts herself as Julie, and Adam Scott (NBC's «Parks and Recreation») as Jason, two lifelong buddies who decide to platonically make a child and skip the whole strained - relationship thing.

When: January 8th Why: Believe it or not, «The Forest» isn't a remake of a Japanese horror flick, but rather an original story whose makers somehow thought it would be a good idea to cast mostly white actors in a movie about a real - life problem in Japan.

In several of his films, Hauff employed individuals with no prior theatre or film training and experience whose life circumstances paralleled those of his characters as actors.

The former dancer earned a supporting actor nomination for Douglas Sirk's lush 1959 melodrama «Imitation of Life,» based on Fannie Hurst's novel, as a maid whose light - skinned daughter rejects her and her black roots: «If, by accident, we should ever pass on the street, please don't recognize me.»

Day - Lewis plays dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock, whose glamorous bachelor's life in 1950s London is upended after he falls for a headstrong young woman (Luxembourgian actor Vicky Krieps).

Although the three lead actors are all working under serious impediments — Travolta has been equipped with a singularly ridiculous soul patch and a Boston accent that runs the gamut from non-existent to «SNL» sketch broadness, oftentimes in the same scene, Plummer has a role that all but insists on being played in the hammiest manner imaginable and Sheridan (whose previous films have included such better projects as «The Tree of Life,» «Mud» and «Joe») is playing a contrivance instead of a character — they are not without a certain innate charm, and indeed, the best scenes here are the ones in which they are simply allowed to interact and bounce off of each other in a relaxed manner before having to return to the mechanics of the increasingly forced plot.

This oddball lark is more off - putting than endearing as it explores the often sophomoric absurdities surrounding Isaac (Brett Gelman), a fledgling actor and theater director whose life goes into a downward spiral after his relationship with his longtime girlfriend (Judy Greer) crumbles.

For the actor playing Ivan Locke, a mild - mannered foreman whose life falls apart over the course of a 90 - minute drive, the film would be like a Saw trap.

What we said: «Driver's performance cements his status as an actor whose physical command matches his ability to telegraph inner life.

Pacha (boasting the commanding vocals of John Goodman, as the start of a short but fruitful relationship between the actor and Disney) is a large, kindhearted peasant whose family lives on the hill where Kuzco plans to build a new dream home.

Such talent includes co-writers Jim Taylor, Tamara Jenkins (whose film «Private Life» helped open the festival on Thursday night), producer Judd Apatow and three usually compelling actors: Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, and Chris O'Dowd.

Starring Academy Award ® nominee Greg Kinnear (Best Supporting Actor, As Good As It Gets, 1997) as Todd Burpo, the real - life father whose son Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience.

Shot mostly in black and white, it's an Oedipal melodrama about two brothers (the over-serious, monotonous Vincent Gallo and youthful Leonardo DiCaprio lookalike Alden Ehrenreich) whose lives have been blighted by a talented but egotistical father (Klaus - Maria Brandauer, a fine actor wasted here).

Narrated by actor / writer Chazz Palminteri, Miracle on 42nd Street «features on - camera interviews with people whose lives were positively impacted by the complex, including Alicia Keys, Terrence Howard, Donald Faison, Larry David and Samuel L Jackson, Angela Lansbury, Giancarlo Esposito, and many others.»

The English actor plays a well - off San Francisco shrink whose life is turned inside out when his long - time live - in, played by Julianne Moore, announces she's pregnant.

Along the same lines, Hellion, which premièred at Sundance, turns on the paired central performances of first - time actor Josh Wiggins as Jacob, a 13 - year - old budding delinquent in rural Southeast Texas and Aaron Paul as his troubled widower father, whose loving yet hands - off approach to parenting results in child - protective services sending Jacob's little brother Wes (Deke Garner) to live with his aunt (Juliette Lewis).

The actor navigates Saroo's complex feelings of gratitude for his privileged life and guilt over a mother and brother whose whereabouts still haunt him.

The 1953 book features a woman whose entire life revolves around her «interactions» with actors whose shows take up three full walls of her living room — an immersive kind of entertainment unheard of in Bradbury's time, but commonplace now.

An intimate video biography chronicles the personal life and professional career of late AIDS activist, screenwriter, poet, novelist, and National Book Award recipient Paul Monette, whose distinctive personality is poignantly captured in home videos, news footage, photographs, and heartfelt reflections from actors, authors, family members, and Monette himself.