Sentences with phrase «once in a romantic comedy»

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Translated from the French, the novel is at once a romantic comedy and a comedy of errors — two people from different worlds coming together in a small French town immersed in the culture of food.

Shane Meadows» previous film «Once Upon a Time in the Midlands» (2002) was, as its title would suggest, an attempt to transplant the American western onto English soil — but the hybrid which emerged was a disappointing romantic comedy that almost ruined the director's reputation (carefully built upon the improvised do - it - yourself naturalism of his 1997 debut «Twenty Four Seven» and his 1999 follow - up «A Room for Romeo Brass»).

Following their romantic comedy team - ups in The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore will once again reunite, though now with a brand new title.

Though once a light, blandly handsome lead in musicals and romantic comedies, Payne remade himself as a taciturn post-war tough guy and used his broad - shouldered physique and the strength of his physicality to make himself a formidable action hero.

Extremely ambitious in scope — the movie takes on several genres at once, including fantasy, romantic comedy, action, adventure and more — «The Secret Life of Walter Mitty» does have good intentions, but the road here is often paved with cloying misdirection.

Meg Ryan seemed to realize that once she turned 40, she would no longer get to play leading lady in the kind of romantic comedies in which she made her name.

That philosophy came in handy once more when he decided to revive a long - dormant movie genre — the screwball romantic comedy — back when action flicks like «Lethal Weapon» and «Die Hard» were the rage, with 1990's «Pretty Woman,» an unlikely Disney fairy tale about a beautiful streetwalker who falls for her rich prince of a business - exec client that turned Julia Robert into a superstar.

Angelic's executive producer credits include Guillermo Arriaga's The Burning Plain, starring Charlize Theron, John Corbett and Jennifer Lawrence; Friends with Money, starring Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener and Frances McDormand, which received two Independent Spirit Award nominations; The Wendell Baker Story, directed by Luke and Andrew Wilson, starring Luke Wilson, Eva Mendez, Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell; In the Cut, directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan; The Ex, a romantic comedy directed by Jesse Peretz, starring Zach Braff, Amanda Peet and Charles Grodin; and Once in a Life, directed by and starring Laurence FishburnIn the Cut, directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan; The Ex, a romantic comedy directed by Jesse Peretz, starring Zach Braff, Amanda Peet and Charles Grodin; and Once in a Life, directed by and starring Laurence Fishburnin a Life, directed by and starring Laurence Fishburne.