Sentences with phrase «lived crime drama»

Within a year, she made her television debut as a female police detective in the pilot for a short - lived crime drama entitled Dog and Cat; in 1978, she landed the starring role in the made - for - TV movie Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold, appropriately playing a beautiful Southern girl who comes to Los Angeles in search of stardom.

WHY: Pablo Escobar seems to be all the rage these days in Hollywood — from the Netflix original series «Narcos» to the upcoming biopic starring Javier Bardem — and director Brad Furman's true - life crime drama is just the latest project to exploit the drug kingpin's sudden popularity.

Based on the 1993 murders of three eight - year - old boys who, late one afternoon, biked into a densely wooded park, this true - life crime drama covers a lot of the same ground as «Paradise Lost,» the acclaimed three - part documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.

The twist is that this character is himself a fictional creation of Neruda's artistic imagination, putting a post-modern twist on the true - life crime drama.

That tendency toward caution may help explain why the podcast boom is only just making an impact in the Canadian legal community, two years after the launch of Serial, the real - life crime drama widely credited as the catalyst for the genre's explosive growth.

Not exact matches

The Coen's common tack of forcing the audience to confront the possibility of nihilism being true, of human life being essentially meaningless, which for them has usually played out within a crime drama, here occurs in a mundane set of events.

Place beside that small drama a sermon that gives its conclusion, breaks it into points and applications and one senses the immensity of the preacher's crime against the normal currents of life.

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It's clear virtually from the get - go that filmmaker Todd Phillips is looking to transform this true - life tale into a Martin Scorsese - like crime drama, as evidenced by War Dogs» less - than - subtle visuals and almost paint - by - numbers rise - and - fall structure.

Based on the novel by Teri Woods, this crime drama follows the story of an up - and - coming drug dealer forced to choose between love and money after meeting an intriguing young woman from Philadelphia, who suddenly makes him long to escape the streets for a better life.

In this crime drama, an innocent wife has no idea that her husband makes his living by hijacking trucks.

CBS Reality is inspired by real life drama, crime, the bizarre and the unexplained.

The film tries to play as a realistic crime drama, but blows it with larger than life characters and situations.

An energetic debut feature from director John Krokidas, Kill Your Darlings is a hybrid biopic and crime drama based on actual events from the life of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe).

Amazon has given a straight - to - series order for a period crime drama called Tong Wars to be written by Paul Attanasio (Bull, Homicide: Life on the Street) and directed by Wong Kar - wai (In the Mood for Love) that will apparently be based on the Chinese gang wars that occurred in the late 1800s in the Chinatown districts of San Francisco and other big U.S. cities.

However, what really elevates «The Night Of» beyond the typical crime drama is the superb writing by co-creators Richard Price and Steve Zaillian, which delivers a probing examination of the systemic problems in the U.S. criminal justice system (from the police, to the prisons, to the lawyers) and how one crime can affect the lives of not only the accused but the people connected to them as well.

But with roles in JJ Abrams» sci - fi TV show 11.22.63 and Ben Affleck's forthcoming crime drama Live by Night, we've got more, and hopefully larger, Cooper performances to look forward to.

Three generations of the notorious Cutler family live as outlaws in the Cotswolds in this crime drama starring Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson.

For his next project as a director, Affleck is once again returning to the world of Lehane with the Prohibition Era crime drama Live by Night.

Other Boston crime dramas set for release this year are Ben Affleck's Prohibition - era thriller, Live by Night, and Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, a»70s shoot»em up set in a warehouse starring Brie Larson and Armie Hammer.

After working together on «Argo,» Chris Messina is in negotiations to join Ben Affleck again in Warner Bros.» Prohibition - era crime drama «Live By Night,» TheWrap has learned.

Farrell has been hard at work on a number of high - profile projects as of late, including a crime drama titled Widows, starring Viola Davis, Liam Neeson and Daniel Kaluuya; and a live action Dumbo, directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton and Danny DeVito.

Mann's interest in crime drama has not been short - lived.

Live by Night (October 7, 2016) A Prohibition crime drama starring Ben Affleck, who directs from a screenplay he adapted from a novel by Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island).

The only major change from last month's polls is the official date for Ben Affleck's 1930s crime drama Live By Night being pushed to October 2017.

The lead character in an Oscar Wilde play once opined «I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital importance of being Ernest» — although highly regarded in its native Italy, The Girl by the Lake succeeds in being earnest but never really manages to capture the imagination in the way a great crime drama should.

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LEONARDO DICAPRIO, «Live By Night» — The reigning Best Actor recipient joins Ben Affleck as producers on his «Argo» follow - up, a 1920s gangster / action / crime / drama.

Deadline (PG - 13 for mature themes) Crime drama, set in rural Alabama, recounting the real - life story of an idealistic newspaper reporter (Steve Talley) who, in spite of death threats, investigated the unsolved murder, 20 years earlier, of an African - American child.

The first reviews for Ben Affleck's crime drama Live By Night suggest the film is a mixed bag that can not overcome its storytelling shortcomings.

Proving he has talents beyond the comedy realm, Krasinski has appeared in the true - life war drama 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Bengazhi in 2016, and most recently, director Kathryn Bigelow's historical crime drama Detroit.

Live By Night, the crime drama directed, written by and starring Ben Affleck, proves to be a sizable dud at the global box office.

If you're living in Austin or thinking about moving there, check out these five notices for everything from ABC's new drama series «American Crime» to short film «Booty Call of Cthulhu.»

Jerry Jameson's faith - based, crime drama and psychological thriller, Captive, starring Kate Mara and David Oyelowo, is based on the real - life account of the 2005 Atlanta Hostage Hero, Ashley Smith's book Unlikely Angel.

Despite its attempts to construct itself as a crime drama and psychological thriller, rather than exploit a pontificating agenda to appeal a more balanced audience, Captive remains an unsatisfactory account of a notorious real - life event that made headlines around the world, owing to the phenomenal spiritual awakening of a cold - blooded murderer and rapist.

We have a diverse set of premieres this week: a medical slice - of - life drama, a legal drama posing as a crime caper (or is it a crime caper posing as a...

HONORABLE MENTIONS: ANIMATION «Kubo and the Two Strings» — Laika's most daring, innovative film yet «My Life as a Zucchini» — About little kids but not for little kids; a bold, 70 - minute feature from Switzerland «Sing» — Delightful and triumphant, with terrific voice performances and song renditions «Trolls» — I can't stop the positive feelings I've had about this DreamWorks musical since I saw it 3 months ago «Zootopia» — Disney's live - action crime drama / social commentary disguised in animated form has one of the year's best screenplays

Dustin Maker (Parenthood) has been added to the cast of second season of TNT's Taye Diggs crime drama as «a blue - collar kid who has never had it easy in life.»

Warner Bros has debuted the second trailer for Ben Affleck's new crime drama Live by Night, set during the Prohibition times in the 1920s in Boston.

Cary Joji Fukunaga's crime drama follows a Honduran teenager whose search for a better life becomes interlaced with a Mexican gangster as they travel through the Latin American countryside in an attempt to make it across the US - Mexico border.

Language: Korean Genre: Crime / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Ki - duk Kim Actors: Seung - yeon Lee, Hyun - kyoon Lee, Hyuk - ho Kwon Plot: A silent, young drifter breaks into the homes of vacationing families, but instead of stealing, lives their lives while cleaning and repairing small items.

It's a gritty, viscerally engaging crime drama with a very good eye for the vernacular of the street, with the main players often changing the dialogue to match the phrases and slang they heard when on the beat with real - life police detectives.

Based on a Dennis Lehane short story (and Lehane himself wrote the script), this is a totally solid crime drama which may seem a little familiar with its low - life figures and working - class setting.

Frank Lloyd's upstairs - downstairs domestic drama rose above competition that included the Ernest Hemingway adaptation A Farewell to Arms starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes, Alexander Korda's history - stretching biography The Private Life of Henry VIII, George Cukor's sentimental Little Women and Mervyn LeRoy's stark crime drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.

European actors do an uneven job bringing a «hey - yous - guys» Brooklyn crime drama to life in the English - language debut of Belgium's Michaël R. Roskam (Bullhead).

«The Place Beyond the Pines» «Blue Valentine» director Derek Cianfrance reunites with his star Ryan Gosling for this crime drama about a motorcycle stunt driver who considers a life of crime.

Jean - Pierre Melville's reputation rests predominantly on his amazing string of crime dramas but the director (who during World War II was active in the Resistance) also made three films about the life during the Nazi occupation.

European actors (including future Mad Max Tom Hardy) do an uneven job bringing a «hey - yous - guys» Brooklyn crime drama to life.

Polytechnique (Unrated) Canadian crime drama, shot in black & white, dramatizing the real - life, 1989 rampage by a misogynistic lunatic (Maxim Gaudette) on the campus of the University of Montreal which left 14 college coeds dead and another 10 wounded.

Set during the winter of 1981 — statistically one of the most crime - ridden of New York City's history — A MOST VIOLENT YEAR is a drama following the lives of an immigrant and his family as they attempt to capitalize on the American Dream, while the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.