Sentences with phrase «played as a romantic comedy»

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Even as it administered a patchouli - scented dose of fan service to James's hungry readership, 2016's «Fifty Shades of Grey» was a brittle, brisk surprise, refashioning the book's lilac prose into a warped romantic comedy of personal boundaries, with S&M as the bargaining currency between Anastasia and Christian — played by Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan with a wary, push - pull dynamic.

He proved ridiculously endearing as a grizzled, broken - down, beer - swilling little league coach with a marshmallow heart in The Bad News Bears (1976), and further expressed his comic persona in such comedies as 1993's Dennis the Menace, in which he played the cantankerous Mr. Wilson, and the romantic comedy I.Q. (1994), which cast him as Albert Einstein.Though many of his roles were of the comic variety, Matthau occasionally returned to his dramatic roots with ventures such as the crime thriller Charley Varrick (1973) and The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (1974).

As played by Mackenzie Davis (AMC's «Halt and Catch Fire»), Tully's a romantic - comedy free spirit remade for a fable on sisterhood.

In 1998, Northam played another married man when he starred as Parker Posey's husband in the romantic comedy The Misadventures of Margaret.

Later that year, Macdonald appeared in Mike Figgis» The Loss of Sexual Innocence, playing the young girlfriend of the film's protagonist; and in Gregg Araki's Splendor, a romantic comedy in which she played the blue - haired best friend of the film's heroine.After a slew of similar supporting roles, including a memorable turn as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Colin Firth in My Life So Far, MacDonald was given possibly her biggest break since Trainspotting when Robert Altman cast her as a lead (albeit one of many) in Gosford Park (2001).

Along with acting in Broadway and off - Broadway plays in the late»90s, Williams also played the young Sharon Stone in the film version of Sam Shepard's Simpatico (1999), joined the ensemble cast of the romantic comedy Just a Little Harmless Sex (1999), and starred as a contemporary young woman transported to fairytale land in the splashy NBC miniseries The 10th Kingdom (2000).

In 2009 she would play a first lady embodying Eleanor Roosevelt in the biopic Amelia, and had a busy 2011 appearing in Jodie Foster's The Beaver as well as Garry Marshall's ensemble romantic comedy New Year's Eve.

It plays out more sitcom than as a rehash of the film that inspired it, so expectations should be tempered to expect nothing more than formula romantic comedy antics.

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Evans plays a writer, known only as the narrator who is tasked with penning a light - hearted romantic comedy so he his agent can get him a deal writing an action movie.

Ryan Reynolds will star in an as yet untitled comedy written by Allen Loeb described as «a dude - in - drag romantic comedy, with Reynolds playing a jilted lover who must disguise himself as a woman and befriend his ex in order to win her back.»

As You Like It Desdemona Chiang makes her Cal Shakes directing debut with Shakespeare's romantic comedy about the cross-dressing and devilishly clever Rosalind, played by Jessika D. Williams.

Richard Curtis» Love Actually, which strikes me as the British counterpart to this film, played out as an ongoing series of happy endings, the kind every romantic comedy eventually provides.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Frustrated Writer Finds New Career as Criminal in Wacky Romantic Comedy When his grandfather (Harry Sterling) has a heart attack while sitting in the balcony during the performance of his latest play, Max Solomon (Spencer Berger) takes it as indication that maybe he's chosen the wrong line of work.

Both Portman and Kutcher play the moments in a real way, with a certain intensity — not as if they are in a fluffy romantic comedy.

Tsui sets his avoidance dances in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out in the open: a fountain in a public park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early in Romancing in Thin Air, itself a kind of compendium of all of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds of the hotel, oblivious to each others» presence despite occupying the same film frame).

Until a couple of tired romantic roundelays — Jasmine takes up with a wealthy widow played by Peter Sarsgaard, while Ginger strays with speaker - installation guru Louis C.K. — turn up in the last act, as they do in most of Allen's weaker comedies, this is an uncharacteristically focused work from the auteur.

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.

It's easy to imagine Clooney playing Bingham as one of the slick, charismatic heels the actor generally reserves for his romantic comedy work, but the character isn't as affectless as he appears on the surface.

In fact, shorn of any expectations of greatness and looked on as an artifact of the late - 90s East Coast indie scene, «Mr Jealousy» plays well: an amiable romantic comedy whose main strength is its charm, and whose main flaw is that it's just charm.

«Silver Linings Playbook» was a nicely played romantic comedy that was billed as something transgressive or progressive or whatever, but was actually hugely conventional, right down to the «the dance finals are on the same day as the Big Game» trope which I'm almost certain is the climax of at least three «Step Up» movies.

It is listed as a romantic comedy, but plays more like a dramedy, and has a premise that feels better suited for a psychological thriller.

It isn't the most original take on a romantic comedy, and for a while you might amuse yourself playing «Name the Movie Where You've Seen That Before,» starting right off the bat with the «woman as cow» metaphor from Someone Like You from the year before.

Having played supporting roles in most of his previous films, Domhnall found the chance to show off his potential as a leading man in Richard Curtis» romantic comedy After Time with Rachel McAdams as his love interest.

Such is 5 to 7, a romantic comedy - drama starring Anton Yelchin as Brian Bloom, an ambitious young writer who falls for Arielle, played by Skyfall Bond Girl Berenice Marlohe, after they meet cute while smoking outside the hotel where Arielle is having lunch.

His more recent films include «Dr. Dolittle 2,» «Daddy Day Care,» «The Haunted Mansion» and the romantic comedy «Norbit,» in which he played three characters as well as serving as the film's producer and screenwriter.

Instead of playing this out as a brittle exploration of identity and societal expectations, the filmmakers opt for a romantic - comedy formula, with a four - way friendship standing in for the usual love story.

Army of One's romantic subplot illustrates why King of Comedy was better off not being weighed down by a half hour of scenes featuring Rupert Pupkin's arbitrary love interest (played by, I du n no, Maria Conchita Alonso) about how, as a woman of a certain age who's been banged around by life a bit, she's lucky to have a good - hearted, if someone eccentric ambitious young show business striver like Pupkin in her life.

Few and far between are the romantic comedies that play out quite so naturally, the ones that don't suffer because of the strict parameters that make up the rom - com blueprint — we're of course reminded of those limitations within the final scene, that grand gesture that just has to happen in front of as large a crowd as possible.

Having played supporting roles in most of his previous films, Domhnall found the chance to show off his potential as a leading man in Richard Curtis» romantic comedy About Time with Rachel McAdams as his love interest.

Meg Ryan stars as another mathematically minded female who attracts the attention of an outgoing mechanic played by Tim Robbins, in the romantic comedy I.Q..

And the unresolved romantic and sexual tension between Black Widow and Hulk creates a weird driving force to the narrative: even the absurdity is somehow recirculated into the film's internal economy as comedy and irony and the cast - of - thousands effect never seems to split the focus: Andy Serkis plays metal trader Ulysses Klaw and Julie Delpy has a blink - and - you'll - miss - it cameo as Black Widow's sinister former controller.

Heather Graham's debut as both a screenwriter and a director is a mishmash of romantic comedy, buddy movie, and feminist ideas about empowerment in relationships, through sex, and at work — with the suggestion that there's some magic at play in achieving those goals.

Played for romantic comedy yuks rather than gravid melo - operatic contortions (and distinguishing itself from other products of the UK comedy mill by not featuring any old men and women or young boys naked), the picture follows the plight of shiftless loser, small - time criminal Jimmy (Robert Carlyle) as he steals a lot of money from three circus clowns and returns to his small Scottish burg to reclaim his lost love Shirley (the insufferable, simpering Shirley Henderson) and their daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins) from the clutches of mild - mannered simp Dek (Rhys Ifans).

Johnny Flynn plays Pascal in much the same way as he did his young Welsh Jack the Lad, in love with a cellist, in the recent romantic comedy, Love Is Thicker Than Water.

If the gender wars are inscribed in Top of the Lake as rape, murder, and melodrama, they are played for comedy with just a touch of despair in Richard Linklater's Before Midnight, the third but hopefully not the last in his series of romantic comedy «talkies» starring Julie Delpy as Céline and Ethan Hawke as Jesse.