Sentences with phrase «rare for a comedy»

Reitman shares the writer's evident love and care for these characters, taking time to give them complexity and depth that is rare for comedies.

Not exact matches

The pace of Star Wars is rapid fire for most of its hour and 57 minutes, and the script is filled with a verbal and visual wit that has been rare in Hollywood movies since the screwball comedies of the «30s.

The Coens are rare beasts in today's Hollywood, as capable of turning their hands to thrillers like No Country For Old Men but equally at home with comedies like this one.

The rare buddy - cop action - comedy to feature female leads (you'll likely have to thank Bridesmaids, which Feig also directed, for that), The Heat stars Sandra Bullock as a no - nonsense FBI agent and Melissa McCarthy as her industry - standard «loose cannon» partner.

It's rare for a mainstream Hollywood comedy to emerge now which hasn't got Frat Pack fingerprints all over it - although the group evolved through such esoteric, critically lauded hits as The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander, and Rushmore.

«Genevieve» and «Green for Danger»: What a nice night out at the movies - a rare double feature of comedy and suspense from Britain's golden age.

And sitting in the theatre beforehand, witnessing trailers for the likes of Jack and Jill, Spy Kids 4D and Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (don't worry, I'd never heard of it either), it seems that in the realm of family comedies, not insulting your audience is becoming an increasingly rare thing.

What You Need To Know: We're not going to pretend we have any particularly high aspirations for this one aside from it hopefully being an enjoyable, entertaining comedy, but the presence of Woody Allen in a so - rare - it's - endangered acting - only role certainly has piqued our interest in the John Turturro - directed and - starring story.

This source material provided the basis for Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 film of the same name — a rare foray into drama by a master of comedy, and one which promises to be a tough act to follow.

It's the best performance of the lineup, but foreign - language acting wins are very rare for the Oscars — and something tells us that Huppert arching her eyebrows in a demented rape - revenge comedy is no match for Stone belting out a show - stopping ballad.

Sequels to comedies used to be pretty rare, but these days if you make even an okay amount of money studios are going to be much more willing to let you return for another go around rather than take the risk of making an original property on a large budget.

But winning for a comedy is even rarer in Cannes than at the Oscars, never mind a comedy by a woman.»

It doesn't seem new for them, yet as super polished, mannered, slightly surreal comedies go, the movie feels as rare as a unicorn.

Normally, that would qualify a comedy film as a hit and such a total is both rare and robust for a live - action family film.

Meyers has pulled - off something rare these days for a big - studio Hollywood comedy.

It was that rare thing, a crudely honest social comedy for the megaplex audience.

If you have a soft - spot for raunchy comedies, but are usually dismayed by their lack of intelligence, The 40 Year - Old Virgin is one of the rare ones that won't make you feel guilty for laughing your ass off at its attempts at gross humor.

From the first overheated moments of «Bridesmaids,» with its Kama Sutra - plus - six - positions sex — so satisfying for him, so exhausting for her — it's clear we're in for that rarest of treats: an R - rated romantic comedy from the Venus point of view.

That's rare for women in romantic comedies.

Starring Paul Newman in one of his rare comedy roles, The Secret War of Harry Frigg tells the story of a good - for - nothing goldbrick whose only talent is escaping from the Army stockade.

«Mr. Deeds» (2002) A rare foray into broad comedy for Ryder, who played the tabloid reporter chasing Adam Sandler in this remake of «Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.»

«The To Do List» may not be a film of great substance, but this comedy about a young girl's strange, semi-erotic journey from untouched maiden to minx accomplishes something both rare and significant for a teen movie: it places a female character in the central role as unapologetic sexual aggressor.

The filmmaker continues to be a bastion for finding young comedic voices and giving them a huge stage to work on — this time with stand - up and sketch comedian Schumer, who wrote the sole writing credit on the film (think about how rare that is for comedies these days).

Most mainstream Hollywood studio comedies peddle pat, «happily - ever - after» fantasies, while most dramas of familial dissolution (a rare breed to begin with) aren't interested in exploring how things for a time went right.

With a trailer for his unreleased 2007 sex comedy «Oliviero Rising «hitting the web a few weeks back, the rare presence of Vincent Gallo on the film scene recently grew just a bit more noticeable.