Sentences with phrase «of shady businessmen»

It's a moral conflict expertly conveyed by Ejiofor, who, whether delivering stern lessons to his police officer student and friend Joe (Max Martini) or dealing with a host of shady businessmen (including Mamet regulars Rickey Jay and Joe Mantegna), smartly expresses his character's staunch conviction with hints of sorrow born from the recognition that devotion to his «code of the warrior» and its rituals inevitably means pain for himself and those he cares about.

«THE HEIST» Gene Hackman plays a career con artist, looking to retire, who enlists the nephew of a shady businessman (Danny DeVito) who commissioned a robbery.

Not exact matches

Paul «Effy» Raps and Yaron Turgeman each forked over the maximum $ 4,950 in donations bundled by businessman Jona Rechnitz, who is at the center of a federal probe into NYPD corruption and shady de Blasio campaign finances.

The chief of staff was also allegedly involved in a deal of taking money from Jide Omokore, a shady businessman who was allegedly involved in corruption in the oil sector during the preceding administration.

In The Rum Diary, adapted from the Hunter S. Thompson novel, actor Aaron Eckhart plays Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of wealthy Americans.

Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy.

His character doesn't get a ton of development, though, and for the most part, he's a shady businessman as opposed to a truly menacing baddie.

One good example comes in the first meeting between Jackie (De Niro) and Harvey Keitel, as the shady businessman father of a woman (Leslie Mann) Jackie knows.

In his latest film, Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, he plays a stunt driver (simply called Driver) for Hollywood films who moonlights as a getaway driver for hire, where he encounters all sorts of shady characters, including a pair of particularly ruthless businessmen played by Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks.

Shantae, the belly - dancing, hair - whipping half - genie hero, is the official guardian of Scuttle Town, which she must defend against pirates, monsters, shady businessmen, and evil wizards.

The characters that populate Red Plenty are both imagined and real; economists, scientists, everyday factory workers, and even shady businessmen all come to life in a series of short vignettes.