Sentences with phrase «playing private eye»

When kids my age were playing as astronauts or whatever, I was playing private eye.

Joaquin Phoenix plays private eye Doc Sportello in the second trailer for Inherent Vice, with advanced screenings set for December 13th.

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The union is highlighting the role played by private security officers (10 of the 24 32BJ members who perished held that job), who the ad says serve as the public's «eyes and ears» because they're often first on the scene of emergencies.

(It'll transform you into a sultry femme fatale from a forties movie; perhaps he'll want to role - play the hard - boiled private eye.)

Trading slightly on the actor's own longtime status as a taken - for - granted utility player in Hollywood, Elliott plays Lee Hayden, a has - been western actor relegated to voiceover work, smoking pot, and private re-watches of his big movie moment as the steely - eyed star of a famous horse opera called «The Hero.»

Masterful crime thriller starring Adrien Brody as a private eye hired to solve the mystery behind the suspicious 1959 death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), who played Superman on TV.

And private eye Dwight (Brolin) is spying on the likes of Ray Liotta and Temple, who plays his paramour.

In the first film of brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, M. Emmett Walsh plays Visser, an unscrupulous private eye hired by Texas bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to murder Marty's faithless wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her paramour, Ray (John Getz), one of Marty's employees.

Starring Ralph Meeker as the cranky Los Angeles private eye Mike Hammer, the film begins with Hammer picking up a lone woman in a trench coat (played by Cloris Leachman), who is frantically hitchhiking down the highway one shadowy night.

John Hawkes takes a rare leading role, playing an alcoholic ex-cop who stumbles across a woman's dead body and haphazardly becomes sort of an amateur private eye to investigate further.

Starring Gene Hackman as a private eye hired to track down a teenager, played by Melanie Griffith.

Adrianne Palicki plays porn star Holly Rocket, with Timothy Olyphant portraying private eye Dellwood Butterworth.

Liam Neeson will follow in the footsteps of many hard - boiled men before him to play the legendary private - eye Philip Marlowe, previously embodied by the likes of Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould, and Robert Mitchum.

The Big Sleep (Blu - ray) Release date: Feb. 23 Details: 1946, Warner Archive Collection Rated: Not rated The lowdown: Humphrey Bogart plays Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe in this confusing whodunit about murder and blackmail.

«Hare's play hits you straight between the eyes with its mixture of private pain and public rage at our profoundly polarised society,» Billington continued.

He assembles a likable leading pair in Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, who play incompetent private eyes Jackson Healy and Holland March.

Willis» character is a P.I. named Steve Ford, who runs a small agency with a young partner named John, played by Thomas Middleditch, who narrates because somebody's always narrating in a private - eye movie, one assumes the thinking went.

Willis plays Steve Ford, a Venice Beach private eye and disgraced loose cannon cop whose beloved Parson Russell terrier gets abducted by drug dealer Spyder (a conceptually Latino Jason Momoa) while he's supposed to be working a case for local real estate developer Lou The Jew (Adam Goldberg)-- a simple enough premise that first - time director Mark Cullen and his co-writer and brother, Robb Cullen, excruciate into 35 minutes.

In 1941, the same year he played Sam Spade, private eye, one of the greatest of all movie detectives, in John Huston's classic film noir «The Maltese Falcon,» Humphrey Bogart also played one of the greatest of all movie gangsters, Roy Earle, in Raoul Walsh «s classic noir, «High Sierra.»

Willis plays Steve, a hardboiled private eye in Venice Beach who has a penchant for getting himself into trouble.

Downey gets the part and trains with a private eye, played by Val Kilmer, who is known as «Gay Perry.»

Downey plays a crook masquerading as an actor and Val Kilmer is a gay private eye in Shane Black's witty, intricate riff on Los Angeles noir.

Paul Newman, at his most attractively laid - back, plays one of detective literature's most celebrated private eyes, novelist Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer.

We are given no simple backstory to explain why «Doc» Sportello — so named because he runs his illicit private eye business out of the back room of a medical clinic, and played by Phoenix with a somewhat more subdued energy than the ferocious kind he brought to his character in The Master — comes off as so deeply dislocated from the main fabric of American life.

Crowe plays Jackson Healy, a rough private eye who is often hired to threaten and intimidate certain individuals.

Bob is married to Delores (Stephanie Sigman), with whom he has two overweight sons; Terry is the loner alcoholic with the vibe of private eye in the 1940s from a parallel universe with a country twist, one that plays Glenn Campbell 24/7 on the jukebox.

Like Haruki Murakami in Hard - Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1991), Chabon plays with the conventions of the Chandlerian private - eye novel, but that's only one ingredient in an epic - scale alternate - history saga of Jewish life since World War II.

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The JRPG game developed by SWD Tech Games allows gamers to play as a cop that turns private eye following a 10 - year stint in the prison.

All eyes are on China's new economy, and winner of TMT Firm of the Year, Han Kun Law Offices, has positioned itself perfectly at the heart of the nation's TMT sector, sweeping up key investment and regulatory work and playing to its core strengths in M&A, private equity, venture capital and funds to help grow domestic startups and internet giants alike.