Sentences with phrase «plays hapless»

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She plays a hapless millennial globetrotter, currently finding Thought Catalog - y fulfillment teaching English and partying in Taiwan, most recently with a guy named Richard who is scruffy and wears red - tinted glasses and a straw hat.

For that matter, was there a crime film as risky yet as shambling as «Good Time,» from Benny and Josh Safdie, in which former «Twilight» sigh guy Robert Pattinson plays a hapless mook on one live - wire night of bad decisions?

He plays the hapless part - owner and manager of the place, and viewers will recognize him from Slumdog Millionaire, in which he played the oldest incarnation of Jamal.

Actor - filmmaker John Turturro made some canny choices in casting for his new comedy Fading Gigolo, in which he plays a hapless New Yorker whose friend suggests that he might have a new career as a...

The actor, who plays a hapless meteorologist in the comedy sequel, crashed the weather bulletin (at 4:46 above) much to the befuddlement of Tobin, questioning the various symbols on the green screen behind them.

In «Meet the Parents» (2000) and its wildly popular (and wildly inferior) sequel «Meet the Fockers» (2004), he's a psychic punching bag for Robert De Niro; in «Night at the Museum» he plays hapless divorced father Larry Daley, reduced to taking a job as a night guard at the Museum of Natural History, where the wax dummies come to life and terrorize him.

In fact, most Arsenal fans would sooner condemn Wenger for playing the hapless boob over 60 times, not for what Gervinho seems to think the Frenchman put him through, as revealed in a Metro report.

The cast is terrific: Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt play the hapless parents whose bargain dream home turns out to be a haunted death trap, with strong support from their onscreen offspring, especially Kyle Catlett as nervy middle child Griffin.

Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton play the hapless victims of John Ryder's deadly game with aplomb, and they're certainly easy on the eyes.

Playing hapless babysitter Laurie Strode, Curtis is the original half - dressed damsel in distress — and the yardstick by which all horror actresses are still measured.

Zac Efron and Adam Devine play hapless dudebro brothers in this silly, surprisingly offensive comedy.

In the Best Actor category, Daniel Kaluuya, who played the hapless hero of Get Out, is nominated alongside Timothée Chalamet for Call Me By Your Name, which also scored dual Best Supporting Actor nods for Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg.

Playing those hapless older folks are the likes of Tony Hale (Gary on HBO's Veep), Melanie Lynskey (Little Boxes) and Justin Long (Lavender), all fine actors who convey sincerity and ineptitude with dreary verisimilitude.

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Film parts have included playing Shazza, the foul - mouthed best friend to Renée Zellwegger's Bridget Jones (the third instalment will be released in September), while Clare in the Community, in which Sally plays politically correct - but - hapless social worker Clare, is in its fifth season on BBC Radio 4.

What the hapless Al Campanis did was to say out loud that though baseball tolerates the presence of blacks on the playing field, not enough of its leadership believe sufficiently in the principle of equality to make that second effort to put blacks in administrative positions.

PRO BASKETBALL — As play resumed after the All - Star break, the once - hapless New York Knicks stretched their surge to 11 wins in their last 15 games with victories over Cleveland (108 - 92) and Denver (124 - 115) before losing to Atlantic Division - leading Philadelphia 104 - 89 (page 14).

I'm sorry but the football we are playing is utterly hapless... That said once Walcott mert and flamini are nowhere near first team starters we should have a decent starting 11 for second half of year..

... not holding that is for sure whatever we might think of him as a prospect (and the jury is definitely still out)... lacazette is definitely way better than welbeck or Walcott (whose hapless footballing skills ironically you have sadly failed to recognise over the years) but how much better than Perez we don't know as Wenger refused to play the latter...

Wilshere has been injury prone but has been injury free for a good while now... Missing a friendly against holland is hardly a sign of medical catastrophe so this is a massive overreaction... Wilshere is by a very long way the best of the British stable at arsenal and on his day he is a top flight creative midfield play maker... Don't take my word for it ask xavi arguably the best ever in that role... Since his return he has shown signs of his best but not over 90 mins... But wenger has played him all over the place does not no how to combine him with ozil and miki and surrounded him with utterly hapless players like Ramsey and xhaka... He needs a new manager to bring best out of him I hope at arsenal but if the fossil stays he should go...

Wengers tactical approach and selection are the issue here, not Ozil, not Cazorla, noteven the hapless Giroud who needs a kick up the arse, he is playing so many players out ofposition that we have no fluidity, shape or continuity in the team.

According to McPitbull, the spectacular score in which Walcott played an out - of - this - world one - two off the hapless Hutton to put us level in the match should have been disallowed.

The hapless keeper was playing for Real Zaragoza at the time in a game against Bilbao.

At times against Cheltenham Mark Noble was playing centre back as the rest had gone walk about and Cheltenham were unlucky not to score when the hapless Masuaku and forever ambling Ogbonna were made to look foolish under an average cross.

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The scenario of hapless city slickers gamely trying to make a go of living in the country is an old classic, from Aesop's fable «The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse» and Shakespeare's As You Like It to Kaufman and Hart's 1940 play George Washington Slept Here and the»60s TV sitcom Green Acres.

Tepco's hapless efforts since to stabilize the situation have been like someone playing «whack - a-mole», Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Toshimitsu Motegi has said.

While the young lovers drive the plot, the comic heart of a play like this one belongs to the servants and the hapless older generation.

The screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber is based on the behind - the - scenes memoir by Greg Sestero, the hapless novice who played Mark, the two - timing best friend who betrays Wiseau's Johnny in the original film.

The story, insofar as there is one, centres on the return of Anastasia's lunatic ex-boss Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson): not a stable man, but one who repeatedly manages to outwit Christian's hapless security detail, at one point kidnapping the business mogul's sister (played by the pop star Rita Ora), and at another breaking into the couple's apartment undetected, then pouncing from the shadows with a giant knife.

Owen Wilson plays Luke, the third and final insomniac in Liam's hapless party.

The robbers turned out to be somewhat bumbling, which is how they came to be played by Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, and Owen Wilson in a studio comedy directed by Jared Hess — his first movie to be released in six years, time he presumably spent researching the most comically garish fashions and hairstyles for his hapless characters.

In the new thriller, Yelchin plays Tim, a hapless, frequently beaten - up drug dealer who gets blackmailed by a rich girl and her emotionless best friend into becoming an accomplice in killing her wretched stepfather.

With his bug - eyes, he's hapless, but insinuating enough to play the live - action version of «Simpsons» barkeep Moe.

It's about the roles that men and women play, hoping to fit in but also desperate to stand out, jealous and hapless and childish.

Young Rusty Griswold is grown up now, played by Ed Helms in the image of his father: a nice guy, clumsy, hapless, often clueless, but usually well - meaning.

This supremely well - cast indie reimagines tragedy as comedy, as Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig and Owen Wilson play three hapless criminals as they plan and execute the second - biggest cash theft in American history.

I've been playing a bit of Escape Plan on the Vita; it's a charming puzzle game that places you in a series of incredibly dangerous rooms and tasks you with helping the two hapless, goofy main characters survive.

Craig T. Nelson, Rachel McAdams and Luke Wilson play other members of the hapless Stone family.

Dan Stevens is a standout within the main group, playing against type as a hapless rich kid nerd that was always picked on by the other three in high school.

In taking this approach, Anderson offered Adam Sandler an opportunity to put forth his most convincing argument as a serious actor, constructing a character that added retroactive depth to his previous performances playing dime - a-dozen hopeless, hapless romantics.

Former «Saturday Night Live» favorite Jason Sudeikis stars opposite Jennifer Aniston, playing a pot dealer forced by gangsters to smuggle drugs across the border with the help of Aniston's stripper, who poses as his wife, and two hapless teens who pretend to be their kids.

Zahn and Jovovich are play against type effectively, and are terrific as the hapless lovebirds, while Olyplant and Sanchez are superb as their edgy new buddies.

But his latest feature, «Suburbicon,» provides reason for hope: for one thing, it's based on an»80s Coen brothers screenplay (rewritten by Clooney and his long - time writing and producing partner Grant Heslov) and it's a dark James Cain «Double Indemnity» story starring Clooney's «Oceans» co-star Matt Damon as a hapless miscreant — no one plays dumb and funny better — and an adept cast of smart comedy actors, including Julianne Moore as his wife and Oscar Isaac as the suspicious insurance man hounding them.

Galifianakis played Alan, the hapless member of the wolfpack in all three films, the first of which became domestically, the highest grossing R - rated comedy of all time.

There's a strained attempt at a sweet romance with go - to quirk - provider Zooey Deschanel, and some nice moments courtesy of Rhys Darby, playing a variation on his hapless Flight Of The Conchords character.

There are strong ties to the genre: Robert Mitchum plays Harry Powell, a murderous preacher whose pursuit of hidden booty leads him to hunt down a pair of hapless orphaned children through a mystical Southern dreamscape.

While The Devil's Rejects does contain a number of genuinely creepy moments - particularly the sequence in which a hapless maid stumbles upon the mess left by the Firefly family - Zombie bogs things down with a plethora of broadly - played, overly wacky supporting characters.

You may not be familiar with United Passions, a vanity project by the organisation to play up its hapless leader.

Meg Ryan first met her now ex-husband Dennis Quaid while working on Innerspace, a goofy sci - fi comedy about a cocky pilot (Quaid) miniaturized and inserted in the bloodstream of a hapless store clerk (played by Martin Short).