Sentences with phrase «nebbish character»
Does she save Cary Grant's nebbish character from monotony — or is their pairing just... funny?
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Charlie's brother (a character with no correlative in real life) Donald (Cage again, in the finest twin performance since Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers) is cocksure and woman-wise to Charlie's twitchy self - loathing in a way that reminds of the swinger / nebbish iteration of the Jekyll / Hyde interplay.
His looks, body type, and demeanor don't seem to match up with the sensitive, nebbish, and feckless character of the lonely scientist that he portrays.
For what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical angles.