Sentences with phrase «playing bumbling»

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Her brother Wes (Colson Baker), guitar tech Milo (Peter Cambor) and sound engineer Donna (Keisha Castle - Hughes) are each more a collection of quirks than actual people, though Rafe Spall's financial overseer Reg Whitehead is the series» sole bearer of charm, playing a bumbling antagonist who slowly integrates into part of the group.

In playing bumbling Columbo, this knows exactly what it's doing.

Monty Python veterans Eric Idle (\ «Merlin \») and John Cleese (\ «King Harold \») feel wasted, with Idle playing a bumbling wizard, and Cleese merely showing up to have a prologued death scene.

The script does a similar favour for Frost, who's no longer playing the bumbling tubby guy.

9:15 am — TCM — Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein One of the most genius comedy - horror mashups ever made, with the duo playing bumbling freight handlers responsible for shipping the remains of Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster — until Dracula escapes, taking the monster with him.

Louis - Dreyfus won an Emmy Award this year for playing the bumbling politician who finds herself in over her head and in constant «damage control» mode after being elected to a powerless position.

Jason Sudeikis also plays a bumbling fool of an assassin that has some dialogue and scenes so stupid they might actually be funny.

Presumably she had her choice of roles for her «special appearance» before opting to play a bumbling - security - guard cameo that even Artie Lange might consider beneath his dignity.

Tom Cruise has been flirting with the project for some time, and he's now courting an acting veteran to play a bumbling sleaze of a former U.S. President.

Franco plays the brave knight Fabious, while McBride plays his bumbling brother, Thadeous.

Ryan O'Neal (dressed to channel Harold Lloyd) plays bumbling lawyer - turned - film director Leo Harrigan, just a guy who quite literally stumbles into the film industry and inherits an entire film company in the middle nowhere, and Burt Reynolds is the Florida rube hired to shut them down who ends up their leading man.

Miranda Hart plays Miranda Hart (stick to what you know, after all), Jude Law plays the bumbling spy and Jason Statham... well, it's probably best to see for yourself.

That flick saw the Bullit star play a bumbling bounty hunter and didn't exactly set the box office on fire.

The endearing book shop remains the focus of curious attention by tourists and fans of the film who may hope to see its stars Hugh Grant — who played the bumbling bookseller — and Julia Roberts as the film - star browsing the shelves.

Not exact matches

A few swipes into the popular dating app Bumble, and the diversity of interests is obvious: Users post photos of themselves swinging from trapezes, playing French horns, posing with freshly caught fish and, occasionally, brandishing a handgun or aiming a semiautomatic rifle.

Would be nice not to have to watch Mertesacker bumbling around and have some real pace at the back Then either or both CB's could move forward for set plays.

There's also a lens through which we view Bortles as an inevitability, as a dude who even when he plays really poorly is always an extant and overgrown threat to bumble his way into a big play.

West Germany's World Cup winning goalkeeper Sepp Maier played a kidnapper in the 1981 comedy C.O.D, which involved a rather odd plot revolving around a bumbling advertising salesman hired to save the Beaver Bra Company from impending doom.

Instead of taking it personally, help him work through his feelings about how much he prefers mom by playing a game where poor bumbling Dad «tries» unsuccessfully to keep him away from Mommy.

Maurice, played brilliantly by Kevin Kline, loses his cartoonish bumbling inventor - ness and becomes someone who can easily exist in real life.

One clue to the importance of climate: Bumble bee ranges began shrinking «even before the neonicotinoid pesticides came into play in the 1980s,» says ecologist and coauthor Alana Pindar, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph in Canada.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom - coms of all time — and is certainly one of NZ's favourites.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles, was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom - coms of all time.

To help prevent «ghosting» dating app Bumble has just evened the playing field for the guys with their new «24 Hour Reply» feature.

Bumble will allow users to connect their Spotify accounts so that potential matches can view their most played artists and see what music tastes they have in common.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles, was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom coms of all time.

In the nearly seven years of our relationship I had played around on my friends» apps, but never swiped left / right, Bumbled, Grouper'd, OkCupid'd, or Coffee Meets Bagel'd for myself.

In the controversial Fight Club (1999), Leto had a small part as a masochistic anarchist wannabe; in 2002's Panic Room, he played the most verbose and bumbling of the three burglars tormenting Jodie Foster's character.In the coming years, Leto would divide his time between an acting career and his rock band, 30 Seconds to Mars.

He played lascivious hairstylist Gianni in Angie (1979), horny mailboy Johnny Danko in The Associates (1979), egotistical Regis Philbin takeoff Reggie Cavanaugh in The Two of Us (1981), bumbling bandit Theodore Ogilvie in Gun Shy (1983), philosophical derelict Jerry in Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1987), and Sgt. James «Buddy» Zunder, confined to a desk job because of his irregular heartbeat, in the first two seasons of Sirens (1993 - 96).

Playing the role of Chief of Staff to a bumbling President of the United States, René endeared him to American audiences with his haughty, holier - than - thou portrayal of Clayton.

Apart from Klaue, the only other prominent white character is veteran CIA secret agent Everett K Ross, played in typically engaging and bumbling fashion by Martin Freeman.

But Phillips and company are only after some simple - minded male - centric hilarity (women play a nominal role at best) and, thanks to its bumbling triumvirate of charming comedians, Old School is a raunchy and raucous, if decidedly inane, fantasy of college glory days revisited.

The robbers turned out to be somewhat bumbling, which is how they came to be played by Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, and Owen Wilson in a studio comedy directed by Jared Hess — his first movie to be released in six years, time he presumably spent researching the most comically garish fashions and hairstyles for his hapless characters.

Christie plays the role of the opium - dependent Mrs. Miller with a mix of vulnerability and ferocious strength, while Beatty brings a bumbling, endearing quality to his performance as McCabe.

Dano proves himself the best cast of all the actors and actresses; the bumbling and foolish Pierre might be the part he was born to play.

Her character still occasionally bumbles her way through some situations, and there's a section of the film where McCarthy's Susan Cooper has to play up her aggressive side in order to fool a villain into believing she's a hard - edged security professional.

Guests will also be treated to a performance from 16 - year old piano prodigy Emily Bear, who will play Disney short Bumble Boogie live - to - film.

The latter include salty alcoholic Captain Haddock (mo cap legend Andy Serkis in the film), bumbling twin British detectives Thomson and Thompson (to be played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), and absent - minded Professor Calculus.

Their buddy Fogell (Christopher Mintz - Plasse) a.k.a. McLovin (who they peg to get the alcohol with a fake I.D.), ends up hanging around two bumbling, idiot cops played by Bill Hader and Seth Rogen.

In the latest spinoff of the real estate defence genre, «Cowards vs. Zombies», play as a bumbling green - capped mansioneer, and try to escape the wrath of undead sports trainers who want to get you fit into a coffin!

John Krasinski — a man who has directed a film based on a David Foster Wallace short story — plays beefcake leading man Jack, back on his twelfth visit to the snake pit and once more charged with taking on security detail for the bumbling, blowhard desk jockeys.

Gervais, on the other hand, reverts to the same bumbling, self - indulgent character he plays in Night at the Museum and Ghost Town.

The innkeepers charged with the care of Cosette are a pair of bumbling con artists and Cohen and Carter play them broadly, eliciting the occasional light mood in the production.

Jon Lovitz, Southland Tales (2006) Jon Lovitz came to America's attention as a bumbling sad - sack on Saturday Night Live, best known for running gags like the «Girl Watchers» series, where he and Tom Hanks played two atonal, self - denigrating drips who dismissed every woman they saw as «waaaaay out of our league.»

Their latest is, fittingly enough, a tale of intense brotherly devotion: Benny Safdie plays Nick, a troubled young man who gets dragged into an ill - advised bank robbery by his brother, Connie, a bumbling yet resourceful small - timer played with ferocious agility by a revelatory Robert Pattinson.

James Stewart plays a suicidal banker reliving the agonies of his small town, small - time life of thwarted dreams with the help of a bumbling guardian angel.

While the show was darker in tone at first, the Dr. Smith character — played with glee by Jonathan Harris — soon became the comic relief with his bumbling, self - serving, cowardly behavior, spars with the Robot and genuine affection for young Will (Billy Mumy).

The supporting characters are also given defining traits, like Sisto's asshole husband, who he plays with a hint of desperation, or Fillion's bumbling doctor, who gradually becomes more charming throughout the course of the film.

The film starts off with Hunter (Crash) and Lindo (Heist) playing a couple of bumbling angels who are given one last chance to redeem themselves by making two mismatched people, a Scottish janitor (McGregor) and the debutante daughter of the head of corporation he works for (Diaz, The Mask), fall in love.