Sentences with phrase «playing fictional versions of»

There are some enjoyable laughs and jokes by the film's dual leads Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, playing fictional versions of themselves again, but the comedy doesn't strike as frequently.

Former CNBC talk show host Donny Deutsch plays a fictional version of himself in the comedy series.

Co-written by estimable Frownland director Ronald Bronstein, it's inspired by the experiences of street kid Arielle Holmes, who plays a fictional version of herself alongside actor Caleb Landry Jones in what's described as «a tumultuous drama about a New York City couple battling addiction in the midst of a love affair»... And finally, the prize for oddest remake of the week: French thriller specialist Jean - François Richet is changing gear rather alarmingly with his, er, «reboot» is the word I'm looking for, of Claude Berri's 1977 comedy Un moment d'égarement, in which two fathers take their sexy adolescent daughters on vacation — and one of them is seduced by the other's jeune fille.

Not exact matches

This trope — an actor playing a surlier, fictional version of himself — has been done to death already, and Don't Trust the B — leans too heavily on the actor's state of celebrity limbo, filling in late -»90s jokes and references where the real laughs ought to be.

It also, funnily enough, already portrays the fictional version (via Jack Nicholson) of the real - life person Depp plays: James «Whitey» Bulger, one of America's most notorious mobsters.

Ruby Sparks is about a fictional woman come to life, a female - led version of all those male fantasy movies such as Weird Science; Kazan exposes the limitations of that fantasy (Dano plays a novelist whose heroine, played by Kazan, steps full - blooded into his life, whereupon he discovers that to exert total control over another human is less of a gift than a nightmare).