Sentences with phrase «romantic lead in a movie»

When I was younger, it was easier to write stuff for myself because I could write the romantic lead in a movie and play the part, but now, I'm 78 years old and I can't be the guy who's flirting with the girl and gets the girl, so it limits the kinds of parts I can do.

Not exact matches

Brian might be the leading man in this movie, but he is far from the standard romantic comedy charmer.

As if it's not enough that Mamoudou Athie played Grandmaster Flash in The Get Down, he was also a very dreamy romantic lead in a little movie called Jean Of The Joneses, from writer - director Stella Meghie, which follows a young woman (Taylour Paige) with a sprawling matriarchal Brooklyn family.

It's a picture as well about the romance of restraint in a romantic lead pairing, Driver and Irene (Mulligan, bearing a close enough resemblance to Michelle Williams that the movie takes on a weird, alternate - universe Blue Valentine feeling), that is never consummated save for one magic - realist kiss in an elevator.

When it comes to the big YA movies in question, most feature a female lead faced with troubling romantic prospects.

Many of the nominated films are still going strong in theaters, notably the monster movie / romantic drama The Shape of Water, which leads this year's class with thirteen nominations; the polarizing Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, -LSB-...]

So while it may be a humorous look at a much maligned sub genre by having our lead character visualise himself in romantic movie scenarios, it could also be Justin Reardon thinking he's clever by presenting a visual aide to his narrator's plight.

The problem is that the movie becomes more focused on diagnosis than character, and so what eventually unfolds is a meandering picture that only too late in the game leans toward highlighting any kind of thematic undercurrent while introducing romantic interests for the leads that do little but pad out an already too long running time.

Dick Powell, the 1930s crooner and boy next door romantic lead of dozens of musical comedies, changed his career trajectory overnight when he took the lead in the Edward Dmytryk - directed adaptation of «Farewell, My Lovely» (the title was changed for the movie just to let audiences know that this was a darker side of Powell).

Domhnall Gleeson, son of Brendan and best known as one of the Weasley brothers in the «Harry Potter» movies, plays a typical uptight British romantic leading man, stammering adorably through his misadventures with women.

In a normal Hollywood romantic comedy, this would lead to an inevitable disaster, but Anderson instead provides us with some of the sweetest, most heartbreakingly wonderful moments in any movie this yeaIn a normal Hollywood romantic comedy, this would lead to an inevitable disaster, but Anderson instead provides us with some of the sweetest, most heartbreakingly wonderful moments in any movie this yeain any movie this year.

Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson's romantic horror movie Spring is the exception — equal parts eerie and adorable, due in part to phenomenal performances from leads Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker.

Sometimes when I go to the movies and you see characters on the screen that have these amazing, incredibly unrealistic lives, I can't help but wonder wouldn't it be great to see a Romantic Comedy or Drama where everyone lead boring, bland lives like we do in the real world?

And so, as I say, he didn't seem at all when I went to see him in that as a potential romantic lead in «Baker's Wife» until he walked into his audition and just brought the thing that made him a movie star.

The «Control» actor will portray Mr. Darcy opposite James as heroine Elizabeth Bennett and Bella Heathcote as one of her sisters in the movie, which is based on Seth Grahame - Smith's novel mash - up of Jane Austin's classic 19th century drama which sees the romantic exploits of the lead characters disrupted when they are faced with an army of the «sorry stricken».

As good a movie as The Fault in Our Stars was, it was still a movie in which dying was gauzy and romantic and the leads fell in love and went to Amsterdam.

It was a surprisingly good movie, and then came a straight romantic lead in «The Notebook» and a comic romantic lead in «Wedding Crashers,» where Owen Wilson fell in love with her and caught a heart - warming case of sincerity.