Sentences with phrase «of struggling screenwriter»

Not exact matches

After taking some time off from directing and scriptwriting to appear in such films as Out of Sight (1998), Brooks resumed his director - screenwriter - actor hyphenate with The Muse (1999), starring opposite Andie MacDowell and Sharon Stone as a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter in search of divine inspiration; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World followed in 2005.

Top Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (here portrayed by Bryan Cranston), an outspoken member of said party, struggles to maintain his career, his family life, and even the safety of his

This time it's newlyweds (played by Steve Zahn and Milla Jonovich), a screenwriter and his blushing bride who go rural, and encounter, not just the islanders, but stateside couples of a lesser pedigree, which creates the same class struggle found in the Boorman film.

BlackBerry People's Choice Midnight Madness Award: Seven Psychopaths directed by Martin McDonagh [TIFF] A screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling to write a serial - killer script gets more real - life inspiration than he can handle when a dognapping scheme gone awry brings a galaxy of crazies to his doorstep.

The movie, written by returning screenwriters Keith Merryman and David A. Newman, takes its view of couples struggling to keep up a relationship and tosses it aside for a series of trying episodes that make every character here look like a buffoon to one degree or another.

This pitting of a gaudy showman against a near - reptilian intellect brings to mind the power struggle at the heart of Howard and screenwriter Peter Morgan's last collaboration, 2008's Frost / Nixon.

Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) wrote and directed Seven Psychopaths which reunites him with actor Colin Farrell who plays a screenwriter struggling for inspiration for his script, which just so happens to be called Seven Psychopaths, who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends (played by Sam Rockwell & Christopher Walken).

The story follows a screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling for inspiration for his script, Seven Psychopaths, who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken).

Tully — which features a script by Juno and Young Adult screenwriter Diablo Cody — tells the story of a struggling mother (Theron) who receives the services of a night nanny (Mackenzie Davis) as a gift from her brother.

His follow - up film will, according to Variety, revolve around «a screenwriter (Farrell) struggling for inspiration for his script, «Seven Psychopaths,» who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends (Rockwell and Walken).

The film struggles to create a context in which the climactic murder seems inevitable, but the facts don't support a psychological case study — all indications are that du Pont more or less lost his mind in the weeks leading up to the murder, whereas most of Foxcatcher takes place almost a decade earlier — and screenwriters Dan Futterman (who also wrote Capote) and E. Max Frye (Something Wild — this is not) never manage to build a series of petty rivalries and resentments into tragedy.

Charlie Kaufman has written some of the most original movies of the last decade, but «Adaptation» is probably his best thanks to an incredible (and surprisingly reserved) performance from Nicolas Cage, who plays a fictionalized version of the screenwriter as he struggles to finish the script for the very film that the audience is watching.

Spa Night (Director & Screenwriter: Andrew Ahn)-- A young Korean - American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.

NOVITIATE / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Maggie Betts)-- In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.

99 Homes / U.S.A. (Director: Ramin Bahrani, Screenwriters: Ramin Bahrani, Amir Naderi, Bahareh Azimi)-- A father struggles to get back the home that his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real - estate broker who's the source of his frustration.

The story of a struggling Hollywood screenwriter and his deadly encounter with a delusional silent film star.

Fences Rated PG - 13 for thematic elements, language and some suggestive references Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93 % Built off of the original Broadway production from playwright and screenwriter August Wilson, and starring basically the same cast, Fences tells the story of a black garbage collector in 1950s Pittsburgh (Denzel Washington) who boasts of the days he used to play ball in the Negro Leagues before the color barrier was broken, while his wife (Oscar - winner Viola Davis) and family struggle under his drinking, cheating and temper.

12:15 am (14th)-- TCM — Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder's classic noir explores the dark side of the rich and formerly famous, as a struggling screenwriter (William Holden) gets involved with a silent screen star seeking to make a comeback in the sound era.

But while the former is a struggling screenwriter, the latter has hit it big as the editor of a trendy magazine.

This and other juicy tidbits find their way into the journal, but it proves more of a hindrance than help when the journal is stolen by a reporter and struggling screenwriter (Bai Ling, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) that has been P.O.'d that Jack has refused to answer calls or acknowledge the screenplays sent in.

Sure, Ryan Reynolds spends the entire 94 minutes of the running time buried underground in a box, but such is the imaginative take on the subject by screenwriter Chris Sparling and director Roderigo Cortes, that the struggle of one confined... Read More»

Marty (Farrell) is a struggling screenwriter who thinks a bit of alcohol will take the edge off and let the ideas flow like wine.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books in the Haller series), Lawyer struggles to find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.

Happily, neither he nor Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves loses sight of the emotional urgency of Harry's struggle.

Gripping in parts, convoluted and stagnant in others, Syriana is screenwriter Steven Gaghan's (Rules of Engagement, Havoc) attempt to provide an insider's peek into the varying forces at play in the continuing Middle Eastern oil and terrorism struggles, similar to his Oscar - winning script written for Steven Soderbergh's Traffic.

Margin Call (Director & Screenwriter: JC Chandor)-- Over a 24 - hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis, the key people at a investment bank struggle to decide how to handle an emergency business situation while examining the personal and moral implications of every action they take.

In a nutshell, Cage takes on the role of Charlie Kaufman, a screenwriter struggling to undertake a project involving the big screen adaptation of a novel titled The Orchid Thief.

The Audience Award: NEXT, Presented by Adobe: James White (Director & Screenwriter: Josh Mond)-- A young New Yorker struggles to take control of his reckless, self - destructive behavior in the face of momentous family challenges.

On the creative side of development, both Fincher and screenwriter Steve Zaillian have been struggling to «make it [their] own thing,» as far as adapting Stieg Larsson's source material goes.

Fishing Without Nets / U.S.A., Somalia, Kenya (Director: Cutter Hodierne, Screenwriters: Cutter Hodierne, John Hibey, David Burkman)-- A story of pirates in Somalia told from the perspective of a struggling, young Somali fisherman.

As they struggle to figure out some reason to bring back Bourne, the screenwriters overwhelm us with repetitive exposition in the form of dialogue and flashbacks.

Based on This American Life's segment entitled «Heretics» that focused on Pearson and the controversial decision to tell his flock that Hell doesn't exist, director Joshua Marston (who made an impressive first film in 2004 with Maria Full of Grace but has largely worked in television since) and screenwriter Marcus Hinchey struggle to give the compelling true story of Pearson some much - needed dramatic mojo.

Along with a screenwriter commentary and blooper reel (both of which appear on the first disc with the movie), the two - disc set also includes a 25 - minute pre-production featurette («Charting the Return») covering (among other things) the struggle of the writers to complete the script in time, a lengthy production featurette («According to Plan») on the actual filming, and a three - part featurette («Mastering the Blade») on weapons training for Bloom, Knightley and Davenport.

The next owners on the dog's tour include a pathologically struggling screenwriter (Danny DeVito) and a resentful, ailing woman (Ellen Burstyn, brilliant) who wears giant sunglasses to hide the light of truth that she has wasted her time on Earth.

From his roots as a child in Florida, witnessing his brother drown before his eyes and suffering blindness as a result of Glaucoma, to his triumphant, genre - breaking career, the film juxtaposes Charles» personal struggles with his professional achievements, and screenwriter James L. White doesn't gloss over the less attractive aspects.