Sentences with phrase «of age comedy drama»
Ahead of its release on these shores later this month, a UK trailer has arrived online for the coming of age comedy drama The Edge of Seventeen.
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A handful of men and women «of a certain age» pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer - director Susan Seidelman.
He tackled two of his last assignments in the 2006 omnibus picture Paris, je t «aime and the 2008 comedy - drama Looking for Palladin, prior to his death at age 86 in early February 2012.
An African - American girl living in Brooklyn comes of age in this comedy - drama.
Though his breakout success could only be hinted at when he appeared in director Julian Schnabel's critically acclaimed drama Before Night Falls the previous year, it was his turn as a naïve, sex - starved teen in Cuarón's coming - of - age comedy drama that catapulted him to international stardom.
A funny, sad, scary and ultimately tragic coming - of - age drama / black comedy that skillfully — and uncompromisingly — creates its own world and uniquely pessimistic vision.
Equal parts road comedy and coming - of - age drama, director Taika Waititi masterfully weaves lively humor with emotionally honest performances by Sam Neill and Julian Dennison.
Larson's other film credits include the comedy HOUSEBROKEN starring Danny DeVito, the coming - of - age drama TANNER HALL, and the dark comedy JUST PECK starring Marcia Cross and Keir Gilchrist.
Dotted with honest observational drama and comedy, it makes a curious spiritual sibling to Lady Bird (another coming - of - age movie and another female director's solo debut), though it's considerably more sanguine.
Five other feature films complete the Best Picture line - up, including the financial crisis comedy - drama «The Big Short,» Cold War - era drama «Bridge of Spies,» coming - of - age tale «Brooklyn,» harrowing drama «Room,» and journalism docu - drama «Spotlight.»
Greta Gerwig won the best screenplay award for her Oscar - nominated coming - of - age comedy - drama Lady Bird.
Attempts at comedy, be it Hook and Smee banter or the Lost Boys» childish antics, are just as feeble as Jane's coming - of - age drama.
But Post, who broke into directing in 1950, managed to build a résumé that could have belonged to a golden - age Hollywood journeyman like Michael Curtiz, who in 1935 knocked out a labor drama, a workplace romance, and an action picture in rapid succession, along with a Perry Mason programmer, a gangster comedy, and part of an Al Jolson — Ruby Keeler backstage musical that somehow burned through three directors.
At the age of just 18, Cruz made her big screen debut in this lurid comedy drama next to her future husband Javier Bardem.
In films such as Oscar - winning coming - of - age drama Boyhood (2014) and teen drama - comedy Everybody Wants Some!!
I liked Driving Lessons, a sharp, engaging, and amusing comedy / drama that does well as a coming - of - age film, family drama, and unlikely friendship tale.
Asa Butterfield leads this»80s - set coming - of - age comedy drama as a typical teen — moody, bored, into punk music — whose freewheeling dropkick of a...
Also new: coming - of - age high school comedy Dude (2018, not rated) with Lucy Hale and Alexandra Shipp and romantic drama Porto (2016, not rated, with subtitles) featuring Anton Yelchin in one of his final performances.
This week on streaming video, we've got Bryan Singer's return to the X-Men franchise, an underseen animated film, an indie comedy, an acclaimed coming - of - age film from Sweden, and a retro space drama currently in theaters.
Posted in 1980s, Adventure, Authors: Walter Chaw, Comedy, Coming of Age, Drama, DVD, Esoterica, Family, Satire, Sci - Fi, ZERO STARS Permalink
Posted in 2012, Authors: Angelo Muredda, Authors: Bill Chambers, Comedy, Coming of Age, Directors: Steven Soderbergh, Drama, Theatrical Permalink Comments (0)
The coming of age comedy / drama The Way, Way Back opens this weekend in limited release.
Posted in 2011, Authors: Angelo Muredda, Authors: Bill Chambers, Blu - ray Disc, Comedy, Coming of Age, Drama, Romance Permalink
Posted in 2000s, Argentina, Authors: Walter Chaw, Comedy, Coming of Age, Drama, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Mystery, Spain, Sweden, Theatrical, Thriller Permalink
Fox Searchlight has released the first trailer for the coming of age comedy / drama The Way, Way Back.
This is the kind of American independent comedy - drama that restores our faith in the cinema, combining a talented cast, witty direction and a razor - sharp script to reboot the coming - of - age genre.
Behind the scenes she has edited for movies such as the fantasy drama «The Age of Adaline,» the holiday comedy «Four Christmases,» and romance drama «The Vow,» among many more.
Spikier than the average coming - of - age movie, this astute comedy - drama is packed with memorable characters and resonant situations.
In movies, coming - of - age has become convenient shorthand for the crush of stories about the high school crowd — sci - fi, drama, comedy, horror, take your pick.
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Woody Harrelson star in this coming - of - age comedy - drama about an endearing but self - absorbed teen whose life goes into a tailspin after her older brother starts dating her best friend....
However, like all Edgar, Frost and Pegg collaborations, the shackles of convention are forcefully removed as they take this ordinary and somewhat touching coming of age drama and lead it down the action / sci - fi / comedy path.
Posted in 2000s, Authors: Walter Chaw, Comedy, Coming of Age, Drama, Romance, Teen, Theatrical, ZERO STARS Permalink
The latest of these goldies for oldies is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a coming of old - age comedy drama about finding yourself, even if it's only in the autumn years.
Baseball has been at the foreground of a diverse group of great films, from the classic drama Pride of the Yankees to the screwball comedy Major League, from coming - of - age tale The Sandlot to Disney's own spiritual family dramedy Angels in the Outfield.
Instead of sticking to comedy, Burnham branches out with a coming - of - age drama that chronicles a shy teen's final weeks of eighth grade.
The AFCA also announced its Best Austin Film nominees: two films from director Jeff Nichols, the harrowing period drama «Loving» and the sci - fi thriller «Midnight Special;» Keith Maitland's animated documentary «Tower;» Greg Kwedar's border patrol thriller «Transpecos;» and Clay Liford's coming of age comedy «Slash.»
It certainly plays half of the time as a coming - of - age drama with war elements, but in the mix we also find rebel - punk angst, teen romance, quirky comedy, and, perhaps most oddly, a fantasy element involving telepathic connections between characters.
Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).
After shooting to prominence at the age of 19 in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, she'd caught the eye in a couple of Woody Allen comedies before getting mixed up a string of dull period dramas and dodgy romcoms.
The teen coming of age comedy / drama The Edge of Seventeen scored a Best Picture nomination as well as a nomination for its writer / director Kelly Fremon Craig but strangely snubbed the film's lead, Golden Globe nominee Hailee Steinfeld (in a field of six,...
It's part teenage comedy, coming of age, family drama, and character study — yet it's also so much more.
Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.
Peter Mullan and Sam Neill star in the Scottish golf drama Tommy's Honour (2017, PG) and Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore are daughter and mother in the coming - of - age comedy LOL (2012, PG - 13).
The film fluctuates between parody, tribute, straight - up reboot, coming - of - age drama, gross - out comedy and surreal commentary on blockbusters in general.
Current and upcoming domestic releases from Focus include Victoria & Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria; Darkest Hour, directed by Joe Wright and starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill; the untitled Entebbe project, a gripping political thriller directed by José Padilha and starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl; Jason Reitman's new comedy Tully, starring Charlize Theron and written by Diablo Cody; Lenny Abrahamson» atmospheric thriller The Little Stranger; Joel Edgerton's coming - of - age and coming - out drama Boy Erased starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe; Mary, Queen of Scots with Saoirse Ronan as Mary and Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I; and the untitled new film from Paul Thomas Anderson starring Daniel Day - Lewis.
Sometimes the best surprise comes when one is least expecting it, and this bizarre melange of coming - of - age drama and Fargo-esque black comedy / thriller is a great example.
Posted in 2000s, 2017, Authors: Sydney Wegner, Blu - ray Disc, Comedy, Coming of Age, Drama, Scarlett Johansson, Teen, The Criterion Collection Permalink
Lady Bird is an absolute gem of human comedy and personal drama, a coming - of - age story turned on its ear by virtue of its intense female gaze and crushing human subtlety.
The drama from A24 marries a tender coming - of - age saga with perfectly - layered cringe - comedy in a universal story of finding oneself in the digital age.
The Falling is a paranormal mystery, a coming - of - age drama, a black comedy and a school musical all in one.