Sentences with phrase «performance as the salesman»

Perhaps the biggest surprise is Jack Lemmon's (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment) outstanding performance as the salesman under the most pressure to sell.

Not exact matches

Gadon's extraordinary performance is matched by those of her co-stars; Paquin, all sugar and icicles in one swoop, is especially good, as is Zachary Levi as Grace's friend Jeremiah, a traveling salesman and something of a benevolent trickster as well.

It stars Dustin Hoffman (74) as a weary gangster, his first lead role in a television series (he won an Emmy in 1986 for his performance as Willy Loman in a television adaptation of Death of a Salesman), Nick Nolte (70) as a trainer for whom the word grizzled appears to have been created and eye - catching supporting roles for Michael Gambon (71) and Dennis Farina (67).

There are other good performances: Barry Pepper as Jack's right - hand man Michael Scanlon; Jon Lovitz as a crooked Florida mattress salesman who joins forces with Jack; and the late Maury Chaykin, the great Canadian actor, who plays a mob kingpin and whose last screen appearance this is.

A number of scenes, such as Matthew Korahais's performance as a junk food coffin salesman, venture toward slapstick, while others, like Carolina Do's infomercial for artisanal air, are sci - fi parodies that dissolve wonder into giggles.