Sentences with phrase «mother in romantic comedies»

Not exact matches

The multihyphenate (who reportedly began authoring poetry and songs at the age of 14) moved with her mother to Southern California immediately after high school graduation to accommodate her dreams of becoming a Hollywood star and promptly landed both representation and a key role as a pop diva in the Hugh Grant / Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Music and Lyrics.

Think of the unwed mother who falls in love with her gay best friend in The Object of My Affection; the broke, still - single stoner and odd - man - out in Friends With Money; the adult who tries and fails at cohabitation with a man - child in The Break - Up, a raw relationship drama dressed up as a romantic comedy; or the professional woman, angsting for a baby, who opts for artificial insemination in The Switch.

With another big film, Rebel in the Rye (directed and written by Danny Strong and co-starring Nicholas Hoult) coming to theaters this fall, a recent wrap on The Year of Spectacular Men (written by her sister Madelyn Deutch and directed by their mother), and production starting on the Netflix romantic comedy Set It Up, a work drought does not seem to be in Zoey's future.

It's a very pleasant romantic comedy in which Woody discovers that the mother of his adopted son is a prostitute played by Mira Sorvino.

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.»

Leaning heavily on her mother's stock - in - script - trade, Meyers - Shyer's screenplay hits practically every beat of the romantic - comedy genre, albeit with one or two superficial tweaks, primarily in a premise that throws an unsure - of - herself Alice with three young wannabe filmmakers, Harry (Pico Alexander), an aspiring director, George (Jon Rudnitsky), an ambitious screenwriter, and Teddy (Nat Wolff), a would - be actor.

While it is clear that director and writer, Hallie Meyers - Shyer took inspiration from her own mother, Nancy Meyers (writer and director of the 2006 romantic comedy, The Holiday and producer of Home Again), she still managed to create a fresh film that truly hopes to capture the tenacity of a woman in her forties in a way that Hollywood rarely allows.

Although the cast is not as large as his other two holiday romantic comedies, there's still no lack of A-list talent in Mother's Day.