Sentences with phrase «real role in the film»

It's just a shame she couldn't play a real role in the film.

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It's a minor shock to listen to Bill Bradley in a New York Knicks team film as the camera pans to the crowd's expressions while he wonders if his real role is to provide an opiate for them.»

The cast are all excellent, Quaid is good as the tough supportive coach and Brown is very good as Davis showing real love in his role, Dutton as Davis father is also very good in his short role adding real class to the whole film.

His real - life brothers Luke and Andrew Wilson play the roles of Anthony and Future Man, respectively, yet the three are not related in the film.

I think the film is pretty good but doesn't really stand out because it's too polished - the gangsters have gentlemanly attributes, far from Cagney's more realistic portrayal, and for all their pre-Code banter, the romantic exchanges lack real passion, with the exception of Mae Clarke (in a minor role), whose reaction when she's jilted is quite good.

Many real life musicians of the genre plays roles in this film, most notably Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society, Jeff Pilson Of Dokken and Ratt and Jason Bonham the son of the late John Bonham, phenomenal drummer of Led Zeppelin.

Although Nixon's starring role on the hugely popular series may have brought her to the attention of a new audience, observers of the New York theater had been watching the actor on and off Broadway since 1980, where she had performed in productions that included David Rabe's Hurlyburly, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Angels in America, and Indiscretions, for which she earned a Tony nomination.Born in New York City on April 9, 1966, Nixon made her film debut in the 1980 movie Little Darlings.

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

If there is anything I didn't like about the film, it's Cameron's lack of realism when dealing with the roles of children, especially Jonathan Lipnicki's (Stuart Little, The Little Vampire) character as the boy that Maguire forms a bond with, as he's too unrealistic in demeanor and too strange looking to buy as a real kid, and for that matter the same goes for Tyson Tidwell's (Suarez, The Ladykillers) demeanor (son of Rod) as well.

She began performing on stage, and has since appeared in several film and television roles, including Scream 3, Match Point, Lars and the Real Girl, and Shutter Island.

It's a difficult role, required to anchor a mystical, dreamy story in some sense of the real, but Farrell's inherent earthiness works to balance the films more whimsical tendencies, and makes it an offbeat charmer that's a win in the uneven filmographies of both director and star.

Which is not to say that Battleship isn't filled with them, just that they feel fresh because of things like the clever way in which the film references the original board game, or the way Jesse Plemmons takes a stock role — the sailor who talks too much when he's nervous — and adds just a few quirks that make him feel like a real individual.

No critic, no bad review, nothing could take away the feeling of seeing our first real action role model in film.

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

With its intimate exploration of the central role that food plays in forging cultural identity and familial relationships, the film becomes something more than a mere «imitation of life — it's the rumbling real thing,» as Wesley Morris writes in his liner notes for our release.

Rock does not cast his real family members, but he does enlist a bevy of famous friends and collaborators to fill the many roles in the film.

The real problem for me is that a Woody Allen film without Woody Allen in the central acting role is really a poor copy of his earlier films.Blanchet plays the crazed anxious neurotic, which is the part the Allen always played.No - body can do, the highly strung, manic neurotic part as well as him, and Blanchet whilst decent can not match him.A decent enough film, but perhaps a bit dry in it's delivery

Some of the big marketplace and street - chase scenes in Gangs of Wasseypur were filmed in real environments, no permits, and the actors performing their roles for hidden cameras.

Along with Firth and Eisenberg, best - actor contenders are Javier Bardem as a dying father in the Spanish - language drama «Biutiful,» which also is up for best foreign - language film; Bridges as boozy lawman Rooster Cogburn in «True Grit,» a role that earned John Wayne an Oscar for the 1969 adaptation of the Western novel; and James Franco in the real - life tale of a climber trapped in a crevasse after a boulder crushes his arm in «127 Hours.»

The Fox disc also includes a piece on actress Rhonda Fleming, who appeared in her first real film role as an oversexed mental patient.

But the film's real pleasure lies in McDonagh's verbal felicity — the naturalistic dialogue is a breath of fresh air — and while Farrell struggles to juggle his humorous «thick» persona with romantic pathos, Gleeson excels in his role as the weary gangster pondering the possibilities for his own shot at redemption.

Chuck presents a bit of a dilemma in presenting the movie version of the true story that inspired another film, especially when the existence of that film plays such a key role in the real story.

Selecting any one of them treats you to a dryly funny 30 -45-second short (HD) on the real location and its role in the film.

Michael J Fox plays a jaded, spoiled Hollywood megastar who decides the only way to prepare for his forthcoming role as a New York cop in a crummy action film is to hang out with the real thing.

This is the most charismatic role in the film (and real life), yet also the role that may have the most dramatic license taken in the film.

Kapoor soon bounced back by accepting diverse and complex roles in films that proved his real acting talent and dancing skills.

All did an adequate job in their supporting roles, but the real highlight of the film belongs to Jason Momoa as the killer mercenary, Keegan.

His most recent film roles included brief appearances in Real Steel in 2011 along with Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk with Me and The Odd Life of Timothy Green in 2012.

The actor, who was introduced to unrelenting forces in David Robert Mitchell's superb horror film in 2014, will have a recurring role in season two, though there's no real information available about...

The rest of the cast provides solid support, but no one really stands out apart from «The Daily Show» correspondent Jessica Williams, who exhibits real potential in her first major film role.

It's a new era for James Bond, the debut of Daniel Craig in the starring role, and on nearly every level, it's a real step in the right direction for this hit - and - miss franchise, perhaps the best Bond film since the 1960s (some might say since Goldfinger, but I also have a fondness for On Her Majesty's Secret Service).

Margot Robbie admits she got so deep in to her role as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding she started to lose track of what was real and was what was for the film «I, Tonya».

Besides the upcoming Malick films and the final chapter of «The Hobbit» later this year, she will star in a live - action version of «Cinderella» directed by Kenneth Branagh as the wicked stepmother Lady Tremaine next year; she gets tangled up in a lesbian affair with Rooney Mara («The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo») in Carol, a thriller directed by «I'm Not There»» s Todd Haynes; and she will do a rare TV role as a real - life New Yorker cartoonist who battled cancer in HBO's «Cancer Vixen,» directed by Julie Delpy.

An important secondary role is badly acted; the film might have gained from a less closety approach to the characters» sexual impulsions; and during its course it is often more tedious than interestingly harrowing — but, once done, it does stick in the mind as the work of a director of real potential, and not in the craw where most of the festival entries eventually lodged.

He'll take safe films like Evan Almighty, but he was quietly impressive in roles like the suicidal Proust scholar in Little Miss Sunshine and the widowed advice columnist in Dan In Real Lifin roles like the suicidal Proust scholar in Little Miss Sunshine and the widowed advice columnist in Dan In Real Lifin Little Miss Sunshine and the widowed advice columnist in Dan In Real Lifin Dan In Real LifIn Real Life.

After 4 years in the making we finally have our first look of «Mowgli»; the film is based on «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling and it's a much real and darker approach to the storytelling that we know with the actors in motion capture suits playing the roles.

Director / writer Jeff Nichols, whose debut film Shotgun Stories also starred Shannon in an emotionally intense and conflicted role, takes us through Curtis» nightmarish visions but keeps his story and his ordeal rooted in the real world.

Actor Tom Hanks said the real draw for him to reprise his role as fictional symbologist Robert Langdon in the film adaptation of Dan Brown's thriller «Inferno» was the chance to be «the smartest guy in the room.»

Imagine how it felt to call and tell her that in the 2018 Oscars, two films with transgender people in starring roles have a real chance at winning film's greatest honor.

At a roundtable interview, DeWitt discussed her research for the role, how playing a real - life person informed her approach to the character, what it was like meeting the real Sue Webb, what she enjoyed most about working with Renner, what she learned about journalists and their determination to get to the truth of their story, her new film «Men, Women & Children» directed by Jason Reitman, and her upcoming projects: Joe Swanberg's «Digging for Fire,» Sam Raimi's remake of «Poltergeist» with Sam Rockwell, and a small part in the TV mini-series «Olive Kitteridge.»

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

Real - life World War II hero Audie Murphy played himself in the film classic To Hell and Back in 1955 (Murphy also played several other roles in films throughout his career); and in relation to lighter subject matter, shock jock Howard Stern, as well as his sidekick, Robin Quivers, played themselves in the big - screen adaptation of Stern's book Private Parts in 1997.

From AP drama critic Michael Kuchwara on the Broadway production of «God of Carnage»: The real revelation of the evening, though, is Harden, usually seen in much more somber roles such as her Oscar - winning performance as Lee Krasner in the film «Pollack.»

Nevertheless, the film's three stars — Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson — still turn in some decent performances despite the lack of any real laughs in the script, and although the terrific supporting cast (which includes the likes of Kevin Pollack, Brian Dennehy, Rashida Jones and Rosamund Pike) is mostly wasted in throwaway roles, it makes «The Big Year» a lot more enjoyable than it has any right to be.

Jordan played the lead role in the film, which was based on the real - life story of Oscar Grant, who was fatally shot by a BART police officer in Oakland, California, in 2009.

Gary Oldman makes the iconic role of George Smiley his own, but he's about the only thing in this bleak film that I have no real issue with.

But Telluride, and Venice before it, offers up so many great roles for women — so many brilliantly told films about real and imaginary women: a gay rising tennis star, a cleaning lady who falls in love with a monster, an aging movie star, a bratty teenager, a young Cambodian girl, and on and on it goes.

Starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in the lead roles, the film is based on the real - life story of two 1950s teenage murderers.

But the Safdies show a real knack for chase scenes — there's one toward the end, filmed from above, that's breathtaking — and for putting the right actor in the central role.

In the comic 2007 film Lars and the Real Girl, Ryan Gosling plays the role of an introverted guy who falls in love with a sex dolIn the comic 2007 film Lars and the Real Girl, Ryan Gosling plays the role of an introverted guy who falls in love with a sex dolin love with a sex doll.