Sentences with phrase «marketed as a romantic comedy»

For a movie billed and marketed as a romantic comedy, you'd have to be pretty deranged to find a trace of either.

Not exact matches

It was marketed as a formulaic romantic comedy — its theatrical trailer shows just that — despite the fact that it is anything but.

Stiller made his directorial debut with Reality Bites, a sweet romantic comedy that had the misfortune of being marketed as the defining film of Generation X. Stiller's next film as a director, The Cable Guy, was an ambitious black comedy that was overshadowed by the hype surrounding Jim Carrey's then - unprecedented $ 20 million payday and dark role.

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.

It says a lot about the state of women and other marginalized groups in film that Trainwreck is being marketed (and praised) as «not your mother's romantic comedy.»

The lovingly crafted romantic comedy and zombie horror film — a «rom - zom - com,» as marketing called it — remains, perhaps, the most satisfying of any of them.