Sentences with phrase «plays police chief»

Abbie Cornish plays the Police Chief's wife, Anne, and Peter Dinklage («Game of Thrones») is James, a friend of Mildred's.

Woody Harrelson plays the police chief struggling with the negative press of this particular case whilst facing a terminal illness and there's so much heart and rawness to his performance that you really feel everything he feels.

Harbour, who plays Police Chief Jim Hopper in the hit Netflix sci - fi show, is said to have been screen - tested alongside Ryan Reynolds to play the part of Cable in Deadpool 2 — reports Collider.

Its best bet is Harrelson, playing Police Chief Willoughby, one directly questioned by Mildred in her billboards over the lack of any arrests in the rape and murder of her daughter — the crime having been perpetrated not necessarily in that order.

Not exact matches

I would not hesitate to go to a wedding, funeral, graduation, retirement party, baby shower, ballgame, courtroom, birthday party, family reunion, public hearing, town parade, school play, or other social function due to the presence or lack of a 1 - 2 minute prayer from a pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, valedictorian, mayor, police chief, council member, or 3rd grader who will play the Tree in the school spring play, nor would I feel it appropriate or necessary to make a social scene just so everyone could hear my opinion on the matter.

Everyone has a motive and no one is willing to produce answers for Police Chief Wyatt Rash, played by Danny DeVito, to help wrap the case up quickly.

Unfortunately, Midler has the least screen time of any character, and DeVito plays a straight man, an upright police chief out to find out who tampered with Mona's car.

That's certainly true of Mildred, who sets her sights not only on Harrelson's inept police chief but his klutzy underling, played to great comic effect by Sam Rockwell.

Raylan soon teams up with his long beleaguered boss, Chief Deputy Art Mullen (Nick Searcy), to track down a person who may or may not be involved with Arlo's bag, but again this is mostly a superficial bait and switch that exists as a framework to highlight a promising array of new villains: Preacher Billy (Joe Mazzello) and his wife, Cassie (Lindsay Pulsipher), who may be using a traveling tent show to horn in on Boyd Crowder's (Walton Goggins) enterprises, which enticingly suggests the potential for a showdown that could pointedly play on Boyd's own discarded past as a hypocritical born - again Christian; Colton Rhodes (Ron Eldard), a former military police operative recruited as Wade's new right hand; and Randall Kusik (Robert Baker), a brutal bare - knuckle brawler who has a closer relationship to Raylan than he knows.

There are other adults too, among them the local police chief played by Bruce Willis and the scoutmaster beautifully realized by Edward Norton, more capable of a sympathy that seeps into the film through the tersest of exchanges.

It's another classic Disney story where the protagonist is repeatedly shot down (her parents tell her to give up on her dreams, her water buffalo police chief played by Idris Elba has no confidence in her and assigns her to be a meter maid, and more) except with a much more defined and well - written character at the center.

As we learn more about Mildred's tough history with her husband (the former chief of the police and brilliantly played by John Hawkes) the more we understand her need to not lose this fight for her dead daughter.

The basic outline of this play turned film is as such: King Cymbeline is a drug kingpin who is at war with a local Police Chief, Caius Lucius.

Berg creates more tension as the brothers go on the run and other larger than life Bostonian law enforcement played by John Goodman and JK Simmons (who steals scenes as a cigar - smoking local police chief) shout and gesticulate in their Bostonian brogue about the best way to find them.

Rod Steiger plays against him as Gillespie, the bigoted local police chief for whom a black police detective is a notion hard to comprehend.

A characteristically grizzled Nick Nolte (star of the aforementioned Mulholland Falls), playing the last American police chief untouched by mob influence, goes even farther with this clumsy period sign - posting in the big speech that provides our flimsy narrative clothesline.

The Willoughby referred to is Ebbing's Police Chief played by Woody Harrelson («War for the Planet of the Apes») who masks a soft heart with a veneer of toughness.

In its early sequences, and in the conflict between Luke and the sadistic chief played by Strother Martin that provided the film's most memorable line («What we've got here is failure to communicate»), the film feels like an unmistakable, generationally targeted indictment of police brutality.

(Christopher Abbott co-stars) Michigan Avenue Scarlett Johansson was recently honored in Chicago with a «Renaissance Award» and talked about her love for her job and for playing The Black Widow AV Club looks at the collaboration of Woody Allen & Scarlett Johansson in their «Together Again» series / Film Carrie Coon will play the chief of police in the third season of Fargo.

In 1997 a pilot was even shot, though never picked up, featuring a pre-Sopranos Edie Falco in the role of Marge Gunderson, the iconic police chief played by Frances McDormand in the film.

In the rather clunkily titled Three Bridges Outside Ebbing, Missouri she plays a grieving mother who hand - paints three signs leading into her home town, each with a provocative message aimed squarely at Woody Harrelson's police chief, who she blames for failing to catch her daughter's killer several months after the fact.

Finally, the chief of police (played by Ray Liotta) enters and provides the obvious «let's take the swift and violent» approach to solving the situation.

Sure, the movie threw out some of the novel's human subplots, especially those involving an adulterous affair between the Oceanographer character (played in the movie by Richard Dreyfus) and the Chief of Police's wife, but this is all for the better ultimately.

Twenty - one years after Frances McDormand's portrayal of a pregnant Minnesotan police chief in Fargo won her an Oscar, she stands a strong chance of winning another for playing a woman who rubs a sheriff's face in the mud in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» (Nov. 10): Martin McDonough, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for «In Bruges,» returns with another dark comedy, this one starring the always terrific Frances McDormand as a woman so angered by the law's half - hearted investigation of her daughter's death that she paints exactly what it says in the title to take on the police chief, played by Woody Harrelson.

Douglas plays Nick Curran, recovering alcoholic SF police detective with a murky past; Sharon Stone is Catherine Tramell, the blonde bombshell chief suspect in his murder investigation.

The film opens in 1920s Boston where Affleck's character, local hoodlum Joe Coughlin is introduced as the son of the local chief of police (and WWI veteran) Thomas Coughlin, played by Brendan Gleeson.

Then throw in a cast of actors who are known for playing connivers or egotists, such as James Woods (usually a bad guy) as the schmoozy doctor, Anne Heche (incredibly annoying) as the ambitious hospital administrator, and Ray Liotta (usually a bad guy) as the politically - minded chief of police.

While the town works together to find Miles, the local chief of police (Cary Elwes) begins to suspect foul play.

Jean - Baptiste will play Detroit Police Chief Karen Dean and joins a star - studded cast of Joel Kinnaman, Hugh Laurie, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman and more.

«I was struck by her absolute focus on character,» says Clarke Peters, who plays the Ebbing police chief in Three Billboards.

Francis McDormand plays Mildred, the grieving - yet scabrously funny - mother of a murdered teenage girl who has installed a series of billboards accusing her town's police chief of inaction.

Like many other people in the town, Mildred knows that the police chief, played with aw - shucks charm by Woody Harrelson, has terminal cancer, and she displays compassion for Willoughby as a fellow citizen, but as a victim's mother, she's furious at him.

You said I get to play the no - nonsense Police Chief, who yells at Hobbs for crashing his 58 valve Nissan Sentra into an Olive Garden.

Lively, dead - accurate steering commands the rear back to attention like a world - weary police chief who's done with playing games.

The annual luncheon, held at the ASPCA Adoption Center, celebrated our NYPD Partnership and recognized those who have played critical roles in preventing, investigating and prosecuting cases of animal cruelty and neglect in 2017 — roles like that of Deputy Chief James Luongo, whose commitment to this partnership has elevated the issue of animal welfare for all members of the NYPD; Detective Walter Brant, who is an NYPD Community Affairs Officer and has consistently worked to engage the public with the ASPCA's message through community events like National Night Out; Police Officer Danielle Venuto, whose work and dedication to animal welfare has extended to the rescue and successful placement of dozens of dogs; or Detectives Matthew Edelman and Jonathan Kalman, who saw a Facebook ® video of animal cruelty and took immediate action that resulted in the arrest of a perpetrator and saved the life of a cat named Chester.

Chief new addition in Calling All Units is the ability to play as the police and chase down reckless racers in souped - up squad cars.

In fact, with much skepticism an actual Chief of Police is rumored to have played Police Quest and to his amazement realizes what he has thought initially to be a fun little computer game actually proves to be an excellent simulation training tool for his rookie officers.

In This is the Police, you play as long - time Police Chief Jack Boyd.

2014 started off with a bang in the legal marketing world when Georgia lawyer Jamie Casino ran a two - minute local television ad during this year's Superbowl that includes (and I'm hardly scratching the surface here) biblical references, allegations of a cover - up by the area's chief of police in the death of Casino's brother, and a sunglass - clad Casino wielding a flaming sledgehammer to smash his brother's tombstone while a pounding heavy metal soundtrack plays in the background, all of which apparently provides the backstory for Casino's decision to move from criminal defense to personal injury law as his preferred area of practice.

during this year's Superbowl that includes (and I'm hardly scratching the surface here) biblical references, allegations of a cover - up by the area's chief of police in the death of Casino's brother, and a sunglass - clad Casino wielding a flaming sledgehammer to smash his brother's tombstone while a pounding heavy metal soundtrack plays in the background, all of which apparently provides the backstory for Casino's decision to move from criminal defense to personal injury law as his preferred area of

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But he felt that as the chief of police he had a role to play as a town father, as someone whose job it was to look out for trouble and head it off if possible, and if not, then announce it at least.