Sentences with phrase «mostly as a character actor»

Hoffman, who was no matinee idol figure with his tubby, lumpy build and limp blond hair, made his career mostly as a character actor.

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Too muted and pensive to work as a thriller, too withdrawn to be a character study, and too cold to evoke any sympathy, the film is instead a dull and alienating exercise in how to take a strong actor and interesting premise and mostly waste them.

Working mostly in comedies, Ruffalo appeared in The Last Big Thing (1996) and alongside comic character actor stalwarts Steve Zahn and Paul Giamatti in Safe Men (1998); he also starred as an artist with love problems in the romantic comedy Life / Drawing (1999).

Featurette one, Into The Wild; The Story, The Characters is 21 minutes worth of interviews with actors, Penn, Krakauer, and varying bits of behind the scenes footage used mostly as a backdrop for the interviews, rather than for giving us a look at production methods.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

No Pay, Nudity mostly functions as a pastiche of «prestige - y» things — respected character actors, stories about life's small successes and failures — intended to trigger the «this is a good movie» parts of the brain.

«We believe these character actors are not being given the recognition they deserve as the Supporting Acting Award is now mostly going to leading men and women,» Carney Award producers said, in a statement.

The (mostly male) ensemble is full of amazing character actors from Alan Arkin as a feisty film producer to Bryan Cranston as a CIA agent.

This is easily Voight's show, as he tears into his character with the energy of an actor who just wants to memorable in a film that is mostly likely going to be banished to a bargain bucket.

Unlike the trailers, which went full on action, this TV spot is mostly about the characters as the actors fire off the great dialogue we've come to expect from writer - director Joss Whedon.

«Pawn Sacrifice» certainly whips up a dervish of energy, and as a piece of dramatic entertainment, it's mostly engaging, and features character actors doing very good work.

The supporting cast is mostly restricted to the background, but character actors such as Angus Sampson (also known for playing the ghost - hunting Tucker in the Insidious films) and Eamon Farren (who made a splash as the disturbing Richard Horne in last year's Twin Peaks: The Return) do get to make some fun appearances here.

Mostly known as a character actor and supporting player, he first appeared on television in 1954 and made his feature film debut in 1957, going on to more than 200 screen credits.

As with the supplements attached to home - video releases of many contemporary blockbuster films, the featurettes included with the Doctor Strange disc are composed mostly of puffery, in which the filmmakers discuss how «extraordinary» everyone was, while the actors repeatedly insist that everything boils down to the characters.

It's worth noting that the actors who originally voiced these characters are mostly absent, such as Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear and Tom Hanks as Woody.