Sentences with phrase «more thankless roles»

Woodbine, as the troubled brother, has a more thankless role - it's not easy to be the source of all a plot's problems - but the way he gets us involved with the character is to show that his Joshua does love Jason, and their mother, and doesn't want to hurt them - although in his drinking and violence he is obviously the heir of Maddog.

Not exact matches

This role is much more difficult and thankless than that of a guerrilla chieftain or a corporate head, and there is no glory in it.

There has to be several players of high caliber and for that there has to be a farm - system and youth system that will provide great young players, or more money and luck to get players who can play those key thankless roles of being competent, while the flashy ones get the credit.

Being the prime minister's spouse is one of the more thankless jobs in British politics: the previous incum - bent, Cherie Blair, like Sarah Brown a successful professional involved in good causes, had gone from admired role model to object of ridicule and fury.

Be it Enos reprising her thankless wife role from «Gangster Squad,» to Ludi Boeken as an exposition - dumping Mossad agent, to Peter Capaldi and Ruth Negga as scientists so thankless they're literally credited as Scientists despite being central to the third act, most of the players that crop up on Pitt's travels are perfunctory at best (to say nothing of Matthew Fox, inexplicably fifth - billed in a part that's not so much a cameo as a day - player gig — presumably he has more left on the cutting room floor).

English character actor Nigel Bruce took on that thankless role, and would do so 13 more times with Rathbone in a Holmes series that ran for eight years and proved very successful.

On the flip side, Tom Sizemore just phones in his performance as a police lieutenant, but his role is so thankless that it's hard to imagine it being played any more effectively.

It's a role that Liam Neeson would have played had there not been a recent hue and cry over yellowface and whitewashing, and so Chan, in the twilight of his action career, is forced into somewhat thankless service in a film that wants to be more like The Fourth Protocol than like Police Story.

Laura Dern is saddled with the thankless role of neglected wife here, and while she makes the most of her few scenes (as Dern always does), the movie is more interested in her for how Kroc treats her.

Call it a function of public relations but this custodial role actually seems even more thankless.

Even Coach Haskins, who provides the entry point into the story, is little more than a caricature of the tough but inspirational coach, and his wife — a typically thankless role in such movies to begin with — simply appears briefly in scenes to look concerned, supportive, or a combination of the two.

Hopefully this film (along with Andrew Bujalski's Results) can also serve as a breakout towards many more interesting roles for Smulders, who has always shown a lot of potential but has until recently been mostly wasted on How I Met Your Mother and as Maria Hill, the most thankless role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.