Sentences with phrase «many eccentric characters»

The revelation came to this eccentric character on a drive in northern California.

New Yorkers is full of the most eccentric characters and, consequently, the most magical nights.

An energetically told tale, with eccentric characters to spare and a nostalgically bittersweet tone.

Visitors to the beautiful mystical town of Sedona encounter eccentric characters and a series of fateful disasters that lead them to unexpected life transformations.

In the Season 1 finale, series host David Steinberg interviews icons of improvisation: Robin Williams, whose wildly manic standup comedy style was greatly influenced by his mentor Jonathan Winters, off - the - cuff creator of delightfully eccentric characters.

The film is full of eccentric characters, but none of them had any depth.

It had a nice flow to it, and a great cast that portrayed nicely eccentric characters, especially John Travolta.

His eccentric character got a few laughs and a few tears from the audience and when an actor can accomplish both, he, along with the filmmakers, have done something right.

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.

Scorsese guiltily indulges often in superfluous side stories and eccentric character introduction, and yet it's hard to fault him — it is all the more fun for it.

They're reminiscent at times of the psychologically detailed or richly eccentric characters in an old - style British thriller by Alfred Hitchcock.

He flings paint on the frame like it's going out of style and this time he does it not just with whimsy but with whimsy in character as we follow a plane of eccentric characters going through a weird shared moment as they all are currently on drugs and probably about to die as the plane can not land and is running low on gas.

Greta Gerwig has played a variety of eccentric characters before to the point of making it a trademark feature for her.

A wonderfully eccentric character beautifully portrayed by Meryl Streep who manages to sing badly very, very well.

There have been similar films about young men traveling home to find themselves of late, perhaps most successfully in a similarly themed vehicle, Garden State, but Buscemi's knack for drawing out well - rounded eccentric characters that are believable allows Jim to work more often than not.

Based on the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name, it's filled with the robustly eccentric characters that he dreams up... Read More»

Doris is an eccentric character to say the least, almost like what the typical Manic Pixie Dream Girl would look like four decades later when it stops being cute and starts being a little sad, but Showalter and Field make sure that her quirks are a part of who she is, rather than being the things that define her.

Matthew Weiner's new Amazon anthology The Romanoffs continues to pile in talent to fill out its world of eccentric characters, linked only by the fact that they all think they're descended from the deposed Russian royal family.

Life of Crime is a wonderfully wicked tale filled with outrageously eccentric characters, sly comedy and surprising twists based on Elmore Leonard's darkly funny novel, The Switch.

It's based on a 70's French movie with Alain Delon but it's very British in its content and in its eccentric characters.

The fantastical world of Coraline is filled with eccentric characters, frightening scenes and moments of peril for the young heroine.

Stardust plays like The Princess Bride as if directed by Terry GIlliam (a la The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits) on a more subdued day, with eccentric characters and a meandering storyline that entertain more through visual confections, artistic flourishes, and deep character quirks galore that it does through the gist of the story at its core.

The BAFTA award winning teen drama sensation Skins took Britain by storm in 2007 with its controversial story lines and relatable and eccentric characters...

A new «Grand Budapest Hotel» trailer and poster highlight many eccentric characters that populate Wes Anderson's latest film.

«Spends a lot of time keeping its plates spinning (and napkins twirling) as the filmmakers parade a series of eccentric characters before their camera, the better to let us appreciate this farce we call modern life» — Norm Wilner, NOW Magazine

The comedy is subtle and rarely overplayed (think more Curb Your Enthusiasm than Anchorman) which works beautifully well with the tone of the film and its eccentric characters.

Schaffer did call Wiseau «delightful,» and wondered aloud if the eccentric character ever got a chance to meet their other table - mate, the singular Roseanne Barr.

Kline, who won his Oscar playing a similarly eccentric character in A Fish Called Wanda, proves once again that the quirkiest of the quirky roles are for him.

Reminiscent of the mostly improv feel that would become a trademark of Woody Allen, it's a refreshing comedy that gets most of its laughs through eccentric characters stuck in funny situations.

Humorously highlighting British and American cultural differences, Kingsman: The Golden Circle simultaneously skewers James Bond, Matrix and Fast and Furious flicks while its eccentric characters bring it home.

What's exhilarating about the film is that it's not only about perplexing and eccentric characters, it's also about how they can change their lives.

This mass of premise established, the film begins a zippy and entertaining first act, introducing us to eccentric characters like Cliff Curtis» scene - stealing «Shifter» (he can shapeshift objects) and Djimon Hounsou's sinister Pusher Carver, while Cassie and Nick band together and start seeking out allies.

However, it does take place in snow country, it has a dark and offbeat sense of humor, and at its heart, it's a crime thriller full of eccentric characters all trying to get away with something.

Of all the star - studded names wearing great costumes and playing eccentric characters in Wes Anderson «s «The Grand Budapest Hotel «-- Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Mathieu Amalric, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Lea Seydoux, Jeff Goldblum, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson — one of the main faces leading the movie is someone who you probably haven't heard of: Tony Revolori.

It's just a pity that they aren't given more to do, as Uprising is at its best when leaning into the bizarre, and who better to shepherd us into that territory than the most eccentric characters in the franchise?

Like most other Burton films, the director offers a sumptuous visual display to go with a roundup of eccentric characters.

There's not as much of the eccentric character detail that fleshes out the similar romantics and heartbroken drifters of the later films, and the result is that the film feels like a stripped - down template for a typical Wong scenario.

Numerous encounters with eccentric characters is the order of the day.

The intriguing premise and a world filled with eccentric characters begs to be thoroughly explored from top to bottom.

Generating some laughs through its eccentric characters played by Keith, Landau and Pleasence, the amiable western spoof never caught fire and stumbled along in a clumsy way until it became almost unbearable.

The straight adventure doesn't glow like Pixar's emotionally meaty movies, but with eccentric characters and a scrappy heart — courtesy of NewsRadio - era Kids in the Hall alum Dave Foley — the movie has a taken - for - granted kid's movie quality: fun.

Now that we have that my disclaimer and the premise of the way, I can just tell you that the movie, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events is a wildly mixed bag, imaginative in appearance, but a bit of a mess underneath, whisking us from one set of eccentric characters to another and paying only the barest amount of attention to any of them.

Nat is an eccentric character on the written page (he plans his journey west based around IHOPs he and Flynn can hit up for free «birthday» breakfasts), so Walken's casting in some ways might seem kind of yawningly uninspired — a bit too on - the - nose.

More like a Guy Ritchie movie than a Tarantino one, the boys then indulge themselves in a series of wandering conversations, throwing crass jokes around, and having chance encounters with eccentric characters — all of which turned up knowing each other and eventually come to a head with a final chase / shootout.

The film's tone successfully mixes violence, humor and an enjoyable «whodunit» conspiracy storyline with some truly magnificent vintage set decor and a string of random, memorable single - serving bites of eccentric characters.

Fraser is renown for playing unconventional and eccentric characters throughout his two decades - plus career.

As often is the case with projects involving «Saturday Night Live» performers, this does seem like a one - joke premise when you first hear of it, and to some extent it is the stuff of skit comedy stretched to feature length, but writers Jeff and Craig Cox, with rewrite assistance from John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, manage to find enough angles in these eccentric characters and funny premise to not lose steam throughout.

In Django Unchained (2012), Quentin Tarantino takes on one of his favorite genres: the spaghetti western, with all its extreme violence, operatic drama, eccentric characters, and brutal portrait of frontier existence.

Eccentric characters and interesting situations are tossed in, but almost nothing is ever done with any of them.

Like Lansdale novels and good noir, the series is populated with eccentric characters, ranging from the war protester who blew off half his face with a homemade bomb to the psychotic killers who are downright terrifying.