Sentences with phrase «role than the script»

Freeman is the one that brings more to his role than the script mandates, as he is a bad guy, but not evil, only seeing his role as an assassin - for - hire as a job rather than a pleasure.

It's an interesting spree — strewn with cameos from Jake Tapper, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Richardson and more — and Nolte seems to make more of the role than the scripts offer.

Not exact matches

Even the most «sorted» young fathers will need some support to feel that they are really significant in their children's lives, given that fathers» roles are less clearly socially scripted than mothers», particularly in relation to intimate care - giving where fathers are generally perceived as optional extras.

In 1987, he landed plum roles in two films that capitalized on the Brat Pack phenomenon, James Toback's The Pick - Up Artist, (opposite Molly Ringwald), and Less Than Zero, for which he won acclaim playing cocaine addict Julian Wells.Through it all, Downey cultivated an enviable instinct for role (and script) selection.

That said, I think Robbie, Janney and the rest execute their roles as needed based on the script, and they probably add a bit more depth than they were given.

The script, by Robert D. Siegel (The Wrestler) and Hancock, was in pretty high demand as it made the rounds through Hollywood, but it's hard to imagine an actor better suited for this particular role than Keaton, who's going through a delightful resurgence of late between Birdman, Spotlight, and and now possibly Spider - Man: Homecoming.

Hopefully the script by «Fringe» writer J.H. Wyman has more to it than has been suggested so far, but if not, there's an eclectic cast, with Rapace joined by Colin Farrell, Dominic Cooper, Terrence Howard and, of all people, Isabelle Huppert, in her first English - language role since «I Heart Huckabees.»

We watch him wishing he would have a stronger script, because he is never less than convincing in the role.

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.

That is no fault of her own, since she performs the lead role capably, or at least no less capably than any other young actress bogged down by such a shallow script.

He's reliable as ever here, as a character considerably more altruistic than his villainous roles in Casino Royale and TV's Hannibal, but this script gives him so little to do.

The one thing I can say in its favor is that Amanda Peet (Syriana, A Lot Like Love) is quite good in it, and Dermot Mulroney (The Wedding Date, Must Love Dogs) is more than adequate in his role (that's two films in a row for Mulroney featuring people dying of cancer before they can see their next Christmas — The Family Stone is his other), but even then, they aren't quite enough to elevate the terrible script into something remotely approaching believable or plausible.

And if the expected pressure to be bigger and better than its predecessors wasn't enough, production on the film also ran into plenty of problems along the way, including numerous directors leaving the project (both David Fincher and Joe Carnahan were previously attached) and several actors (like Carrie - Anne Moss, Scarlett Johansson and Ricky Gervais) either being recast or having their roles cut from the script.

The only thing worse than watching Tatum bumble his way through yet another leading role is the dreadful script by Montiel, which lazily strings together a series of incredibly pointless events and moments of manufactured conflict that are so easily avoidable it can be viewed as nothing less than an insult to the audience's integrity.

I'm not saying «The Rock» can't play a simple character onscreen, but if Morgan truly believes he is the best actor suited for the role, than the script must be considerably different than the action game.

Those same scripts have emphasized women's (relative to men's) role in relationship maintenance and, in fact, research finds that women are more likely than men to engage in such maintenance behaviors as spending time thinking about the relationship, providing social support, and conducting relationship talk (Cross & Madson, 1997; Dainton & Stafford, 1993).

Consistent with these findings, cultural scripts for dating have historically, in most societies, granted men a larger role in relationship initiation than women (Ömür & Büyükşahin - Sunal, 2015; Eaton & Rose, 2011, 2012; Rose & Frieze, 1993).