Sentences with phrase «playing sad sack»

Highlights include Rachel Dratch, who's always great playing a sad sack, and here is no exception; Kate McKinnon as the crazy - eyed half of a flannel - clad lesbian power couple; and Maya Rudolph as Kate's high - school enemy, whose life is as sad as everyone hopes their teenage nemesis» life will be.

Not exact matches

Through the thriller's first six episodes, we see the sad - sack lawyer (played expertly by John Turturro) scratching his eczema - ridden skin with chopsticks, visiting a succession of not - very - sensitive doctors, and subjecting his feet to a string of seemingly suspect remedies, including slathering them with Crisco, bathing them in Clorox, and roasting them under UV lamps.

This sad sack of a show plays like an East Coast, economically challenged version of his HBO hit «Entourage.»

For a half - hour or so, «Cooties» has barbed fun with food safety (a local chicken - processing plant is responsible for the outbreak), eccentric sad - sack teachers (energetically played by Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, writer Whannell and others) and rabid children trying to get into the school to eat their daytime tormentors.

The film reunites Lanthimos with Colin Farrell, his star from The Lobster, who plays here a much more superficially successful character than the sad sack he inhabited in that film.

Lonesome Jim, his third feature film, is a portrait of a sad - sack loser and calls to mind his first film Trees Lounge, in which he also played the chief loser.

The always - underrated Josh Hartnett plays sad - sack Slevin, who is having a bad day.

Stiller is cannily cast here, offering a calmer sad - sack spin on his trademark obnoxiousness — when he glumly observes that «Life is wasted on... people,» it almost plays as a real - world Zoolanderism.

COM, AUG. 5, 2015 By Steve Newton If you thought Jason Bateman could only play affable sad - sacks, prepare for a nice surprise with The Gift.

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.»

(Trivia buffs take note: A less crucial supporting player I can't resist mentioning is Ross Bagdasarian, who plays a sad - sack composer trying to complete a new song.

Had he accepted that the character was playing a game, then it would have been something, but I he's a sad - sack lover with a broken heart, then the pressures off and the film no longer becomes a critique of capitalism, which is really what the film should be.

The Hinto Brews are a sad sack team, and playing the story really highlights the peaks of what Old Time Hockey is about.

Some of my favorite examples: A Moon for the Misbegotten With just those 5 words — simply the title of a play — Eugene O'Neill makes me think about sad - sack misfortunates reaching for a dream.