Sentences with phrase «playing sympathetic characters»

I haven't always been enamored of Hugh Grant's films, or of Drew Barrymore's for that matter, but they both seem to excel at playing sympathetic characters desperately looking for love and success, In Music and Lyrics, both of them ingratiate themselves sufficiently that we like them in their roles.

Not exact matches

Steve Carell was a perfect casting option, not only because he could play to all sides of Michael's neediness, pettiness and genuineness, but also because he shaped the character to be more sympathetic than offensive.

So, my message is that even when scientists are played as comic characters, everybody likes them; you like them, they're sympathetic, they're not played as foolish, they're played as sympathetic.

Macdonald, playing an outsider with wisdom, is by far the most sympathetic character; the movie has plenty to say about the parenting traditions of the wealthy, not much of it favorable.

Lots of great characters, such as cheating wife Quinn who actually plays a sympathetic and vulnerable part, the gutsy, newly voluptuous matriarch played by dishy Jane Fonda, and the manboy next door whom eldest sister Wendy has to forgive herself for ditching years ago after their car accident left him brain - damaged.

Nicholson finally gets to play a rotten bastard without diluting his character with any redemptive qualities, while Damon sheds his sympathetic Everyman persona for the first time since «The Talented Mr. Ripley.»

Ironically, Black Panther is most successful in its treatment of the main villain, Erik «Killmonger» Stevens, played by Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station and Creed), a character who ends up being more sympathetic in his cause than the titular hero.

But while director Oliver Hirschbiegel («DasExperiment») very effectively takes youdeep inside Nazi Germany's crumbling heart and brings many infamous momentsacutely to life, his film doesn't offer much in the way of new insight.The script is more of a textbook play - by - play than an examination of impulsesand psyches, and while the Hirschbiegel and his cast add those dimensionsthrough their fine work, it seems the only way he could invest the audiencein these events was by seeking out a sympathetic minor character — inthe person of Hitler's young secretary, Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)-- and beef up her significance.

Tasked with linking the two narrative strands, Mara's character is a sympathetic daddy's girl who's not allowed to play with her tougher male colleagues, but the only one with any awareness of what could be around the corner.

The best of those characters is undoubtedly the horny motel purveyor and artist played wonderfully by Larry Fessenden who is brilliantly creepy yet still sympathetic.

Watching him play a character that is simultaneously deeply moving and grotesquely stupid, self - absorbed to the point of being blind and yet deeply sympathetic, is both thrilling and exciting.

Haggis wants to implicate us as well as many of his more sympathetic characters in the round - robin of prejudice, so he plays tricks with our expectations, making us retroactively aware of our own prejudices — not unlike the surprise endings of O. Henry.

She plays a smart character who you really feel sympathetic towards, considering she's not in this situation because she's stupid, but because she's there out of desperation.

She makes Mildred a heroic fighter, but the actress has never played someone so eaten up by fury, to the point that it renders the character — and the performance — at once sympathetic and forbidding.

This tendency to demand that female characters be sympathetic in order to be likeable is something Natalie Dormer knows all too well — after all, she's played a lot of complicated women.

He was really good, he played it straight, and he gave us a sympathetic and engrossing character.

Whether he's tracing the contours of an abbreviated marital spat between Alyssa and Nick (played by Horovitz in indelible shades of pathetic and sympathetic), or following Buddy through his own journey of desire and denial, Perry teases out the tension in the in - between moments, in the glaring chasm between the lives his characters are leading and the ones to which they long ago aspired.

According to Deadline, Danish actor Nikolaj Coster - Waldau, who plays Jamie Lannister, a character who remains sympathetic despite fucking his sister and throwing a child out of a tall window in THE FIRST EPISODE, has signed on to support Tom Cruise in Universal «s sci - fi actioner «Oblivion.»

Blethyn has the more interesting assignment, playing a woman whose situation is wholly sympathetic, but whose behaviour isn't; she plays the character's racism and self - absorption with admirable empathy, while her climactic breakdown is simultaneously unmoored and restrained, and all the more affecting for it.

For a movie that hinges on a soulless man developing feelings, Criminal is noticeably lacking any of its own, what with its roster of repellent characters and the chilly approach taken by director Ariel Vroman (whose previous feature, The Iceman, was similarly, uh, frosty) and scripters Douglas Cook and David Weisberg — note, as but one example, that the death of a highly sympathetic character (and played by a highly billed performer) is treated as an aside, completely ignored by the person's friends and colleagues and, by extension, the filmmakers themselves.

Of the younger actors, Michael Angarano makes for a sympathetic protagonist even when his character errs, Mary Elizabeth Winstead aptly plays an upperclassman dream girl, Steven Strait makes his conflicted Warren Peace more than a one - note villain, and Nicholas Braun shows off some fine comedic timing as lightly - glowing Zach.