Sentences with phrase «romantic lead in films»

Woody Allen no longer casts himself as the romantic lead in his films, but it's still pretty obvious when the director's own viewpoints, neuroses, and inclinations are coming out of his male leads» mouths.

Piper Perabo (Rachel) seems stuck in the same rut as Reese Witherspoon before her... forever the sweet - as - pie romantic lead in films such as Coyote Ugly, Perfect Opposites (A Piece of My Heart), and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle.

Not exact matches

She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic

While most parody spy films have the bumbling lead given understanding, OSS is shot at, kidnapped, and shown no mercy, even in the face of his romantic lead, portrayed by the gorgeous Berenice Bejo.

Later that year, Macdonald appeared in Mike Figgis» The Loss of Sexual Innocence, playing the young girlfriend of the film's protagonist; and in Gregg Araki's Splendor, a romantic comedy in which she played the blue - haired best friend of the film's heroine.After a slew of similar supporting roles, including a memorable turn as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Colin Firth in My Life So Far, MacDonald was given possibly her biggest break since Trainspotting when Robert Altman cast her as a lead (albeit one of many) in Gosford Park (2001).

The constant droning of sad classical music over 70 % of the film is highly manipulative.The lead actress is toiling hard in the fields, yet at all times wears lipstick, foundation, rough and mascara.Even some of the males wear lipstick throughout.Everybody is drop dead gorgeous, no mud or gore in sight.The whole film is suffused with too much romantic zeal and sentiment.The two lead actors are excellent, but as usual Tom Sturridge is poor.He fails to convince he could ever be the dashing colonial soldier with his thin, weedy style of acting.One star

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-...]

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

The Film Festival Stars deals from Sundance are in addition to the films Amazon Studios acquired in Park City this year, led by romantic comedy «The Big Sick» for about $ 12 million — one of the biggest deals in the fest's history.

Plot details for MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT are still under wraps but the Sony Classic Pictures film, thought to be a romantic comedy (so no change there) spanning 20 years during the 1920 / 30s, has a super cast that is led by Emma Stone and Colin Firth.

Bogdanovich contends that this film made Cary Grant a superstar because it proved he could win the girl as a romantic leading man, not a screwball comic (as in Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth) or a poetic misfit (as in George Cukor's peak - high comedy Holiday).

Though some felt that Stevens's tunes were a mismatch to the surrounding soundtrack's volley between Maurice Ravel and the Psychedelic Furs, the meek «Mystery of Love» is the best song in the lineup both in and out of context, charting the impatient but hesitant undercurrent of the film's romantic leads, at the same time as it approximates their shared, vaguely pretentious cultural interests.

Momentum Pictures has unveiled the first official trailer for an indie romantic comedy titled Half Magic, the feature directorial debut of actress Heather Graham, who also stars in the film in the lead role as «Honey».

sees Laurentz exasperated to discover Western film star Hobie Doyle cast as Merrily We Dance's romantic lead; resulting in the film's standout comedic bit, in which Laurentz tries in vain to teach Doyle the elegance of the Mid-Atlantic accent.

The irony is, a film that points out how people are conned with misdirection can't keep you from noticing the ridiculous age difference in the romantic leads.

Carroll actually made her film debut in 1954's «Carmen Jones» and was an established recording artist, Broadway star («No Strings») and groundbreaking sitcom star («Julia») when she earned a lead actress nomination for the charming 1974 romantic comedy «Claudine.»

Part of the reason is that Paul Kaye is extremely unlikable in the lead role, looking a bit like a cross between Marilyn Manson and Gary Oldman, without much charisma or romantic appeal, which is especially critical to make the romance, which constitutes a great deal of the film's short running time, fly.

Having played supporting roles in most of his previous films, Domhnall found the chance to show off his potential as a leading man in Richard Curtis» romantic comedy After Time with Rachel McAdams as his love interest.

This film's «centerpiece» shocker involves Jane and her latest romantic interest in a particularly compromising position that has attracted the entire neighborhood up the stairwell leading to Jane's boudoir.

Nolan seems to think the Wally Pfister photography can sell any scene, whether it's one of the most boring chase sequences in a big budget film (but it's at twilight and Pfister makes it look great) or if it's ostensible lead Christian Bale and his romantic interest, Marion Cotillard, letting the rainy afternoon bring out their passions.

CHICAGO — Referring to her new film, «It's Complicated,» Meryl Steep recently said, «It's incredible, I'm playing the romantic lead in romantic comedies.

«The Fault in Our Stars» will put him over the top to women and men everywhere as it'll be his breakout role as the film's male romantic lead.

This is the kind of film that was all the rage in the early «60s: aging male star, once a romantic lead, is cast as head of a really annoying family that puts him through absolute hell, until the denouement that insists that family life is in fact splendid and really the ONLY THING WORTH EXISTING FOR.

Having played supporting roles in most of his previous films, Domhnall found the chance to show off his potential as a leading man in Richard Curtis» romantic comedy About Time with Rachel McAdams as his love interest.

Its political commentary can be occasionally simplistic, but also offers important messages around cultural tolerance, and the strong performances of the film's leads paper over any cracks in the film, bringing Mullin's gentle romantic comedy to life.

Bana performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of low - budget and major studio films, ranging from romantic comedies and drama to science fiction and action thrillers.

Pegg is starring in the upcoming romantic comedy Man Up, and he praised the film's writer, Tess Morris, for writing a female lead in Lake Bell's Nancy who is «honest and true» rather than «some male fantasy of what a woman is or should be.»

Gina and Gambit «s Channing Tatum worked together in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire, where they do have a bit of a romantic encounter.The film which launched Gina's film career taking the lead role in it and had the actress beating the hell out of Magneto himself Michael Fassbender, it's cast also included Ant - Man «s Michael Douglas and A.O.S. actor Bill Paxton.

He also overshadows some of the film's finer and more surprising features, namely the terrific debut performance by «Talk Soup»'s Greg Kinnear as a romantic lead and Ormond in another fine role, although the last commercial one in her career.

(MCT)-- Actress Meg Ryan, known for her leading - lady roles in romantic films, has been having an on - again, off - again relationship with her Bel - Air home since she first listed it in 2008 for $ 19.5 million.