The supporting cast is a thing of wonder — there are familiar faces like Dickens, Fugit, and Perry all pushed to greatness, with Missi Pyle perfect as the film's version
of harridan - for - justice Nancy Grace, Neil Patrick Harris elegantly worrisome as on old suitor of Amy's, and Carrie Coon («The Leftovers») a revelation as Nick's loving, tough sister Margot.
He sets off on foot, defiant in the face
of harridan wife Kate (June Squibb, brilliant) and worried sons David (Will Forte) and Ross (Bob Odenkirk), until finally David, a home sound - system salesman, agrees to drive Woody from Billings to deep in the heart of Huskerville.
Not exact matches
The script, by Baker and Chris Bergoch, is essentially an old - fashioned stage farce — complete with a
harridan mother - in - law and a big ending commotion — spread out over several miles
of city and transposed into a social stratum that's somewhere below the bottom.
Every blowsy
harridan who ever beset W.C. Fields; character actresses like Gale Sondergaard or Minna Gombell, who could always be counted on to make big trouble in»30s films; even Lucile LaVerne, the moustached hag who made the Gish sisters» lives hell in Orphans
of the Storm and served as the model for the witch in Disney's Snow White - none
of these is an evil patch on Midler here.
I caught up with Geoffrey Rush, one
of my favorite actors, promoting his new film, The Eye
of the Storm, where he plays a hammy Australian performer who decamped years before to London's West End to escape his
harridan mother, played by Charlotte Rampling.
The son
of a lawyer (Brett Rice, channelling Ned Beatty) and a
harridan (Clara Jones), Bobby, because he was sickly, irritatingly fey, and dangerously over-protected as a child, becomes a great golfer, and, taking a moment to marry Nurse Grimace (Claire Forlani) while at Georgia Tech, continues onwards in his quest to become the first man in history to win the PGA's four major tournaments in one calendar year «Grand Slam.»
by Walter Chaw Between preaching its preach about not being pigeonholed and the importance
of living life in the moment, Raja Gosnell's The Smurfs misses no opportunity to talk about the superficiality
of Smurfette (voice
of Katy Perry) discovering her secret shopping bug; Gargamel (Hank Azaria) turning an «old lady» into a balloon - chested hottie; and human hero Patrick (Neil Patrick Harris) helping his
harridan cosmetics boss Odile (Sofia Vergara) sell gallons
of snake oil to the Vanity Smurfs (voice
of John Oliver)
of the world.
Why reproduction would appeal to either Jason or Julie is unclear, given that their once fun - loving friends have all been turned into either bitter drunks or frumpy
harridans by the experience
of parenthood.
Gwendolyn is painted as such a
harridan that she even intimidates some
of the male authority figures at school, including a wimpy soccer coach (J.J. Watt) and an indifferent principal (Wendell Pierce).