Sentences with phrase «playing overachievers»

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And here's where that all - important confidence comes back into play: overachievers are willing to admit their weaknesses and ask for the help they need to get to the next step.

For the most part, it's an extremely clever revival, an overachiever that knowingly plays off the title's kitsch factor while evolving the characters and augmenting the cast in savvy ways.

Thus Franken's first assignment on a Hollywood soundstage was in the role of Chatsworth Osborne Jr., snotty young millionaire overachiever (the character had been called «Milton Armitage» when Beatty played it).

Lily, a chipper prep - school overachiever played by The Witch and Split star Anya Taylor - Joy, has agreed to tutor Amanda (Olivia Cooke, the dying girl of Me And Earl And The Dying Girl), mostly because the latter's mother has paid her handsomely to do so.

Election: Special Edition (Blu - ray) Details: 1999, The Criterion Collection Rated: R, language, sexual content, sex - related dialogue, drug use The lowdown: Reese Witherspoon plays perky, overachiever and super-ambitious Tracy Flick in this comedy, which costars Matthew Broderick as the high school teacher who can't stand Tracy's bubbly and perky personality.

She's also got to deal with the competition — veteran fellow - agent, and quite the overachiever, Rick Ford (played by a scene - stealing Jason Statham).

Meaden will play A.J. Fielding, a popular overachiever at the academy who's well - liked by administrators and students.

Having, in his own words, too much fun, Reeves's mop - topped high - school senior Chris plays bad guitar in a bad band with his best friend, David (Alan Boyce), a type - A overachiever who succumbs to the pressures of pretending to like Gilbert & Sullivan, getting accepted into a great school, having a hot wooden girlfriend (Pamela Gidley), and being sainted by every acquaintance.

We already know how good Witherspoon is at playing the chipper overachiever (see: Election; Legally Blonde), and she absolutely shines here as Madeline.