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There's also the fact that Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes is basically the romantic lead of this film opposite Rogers.

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).

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.

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 romantic angle is what drives the narrative of the film, but this is first and foremost a character piece that is clearly built around its tremendous leading lady.

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.

Writer - director - star Michael Showalter (Wet Hot American Summer) attempts to turn the romantic comedy formula on its ear with The Baxter, a film that tells the story from the point of view of the poor schlep that typical romantic comedies usually leave stranded at the altar, while the bride - to - be runs off with the handsome leading male.

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.

This film explores the web of romantic obsession and betrayal that may have led an innocent man to make the ultimate sacrifice for love — taking the fall for a murder he didn't commit.

But while the title and film's opening setup may lead you to believe you're going down the road of typical alien - invasion sci - fi, the romantic comedy journey that the film takes instead makes for a very enjoyable alternate route.

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».

Drake Doremus is getting ready to make his next film scientific / romantic drama Zoe, but he's had to make a change to the leading cast line - up because of those pesky scheduling difficulties.

The protagonist of Be My Cat: A Film for Anne is played by his namesake Adrian Țofei — and if Țofei serves as this film's director, writer, producer, DoP, editor, sound designer and production designer / manager, his character Adrian is also a first - time polyhyphenate filmmaker pitching his own movie called Be My Cat, and himself trying to get into character to play that film's creepy romantic lead.

This is the kind of film that includes a romantic comedy style run - across - town - to - tell - the - leading - lady - something scene, and Jackman, bless him, runs so hard that you'd think Barnum was rushing to defuse a bomb.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, we decided to revisit the film that established Leonardo DiCaprio as a romantic lead to check whether the passing of time had poisoned its charms or given it wings.

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.

This leads to an unexpected but touching side of the film, but don't think this is a romantic comedy.

«I hadn't thought about it before, but that's probably an astute point,» said star Alden Ehrenreich, who plays one of the film's romantic leads.

With Greig Fraser's delicate cinematography, longtime Campion collaborator Janet Brown's sophisticated production design (The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady), and the vivacious chemistry between the film's accomplished young leads, Bright Star is Campion's most romantic film to date.

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.

As his first romantic drama (and borderline romantic comedy, really), the film shows the shrewd command of form and tone he brings to all of his projects, and with actors the quality of Day - Lewis and Krieps leading the way, he honestly doesn't need to do much to make something fascinating and alluring and gratifying all at once.

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.

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.

Like all typing montages, it features a camera panning over people tapping on keyboards and music that indicates industry and dedication, here leading to some images of the film that Catrin and her fellow writer and obvious romantic interest, Tom (Sam Claflin), will eventually conjure.

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.

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.

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.»

Never one to let much time go by without a new movie entering development, action star turned romantic comedy mainstay turned action star again Gerard Butler has signed on to lead the cast of the upcoming sci - fi adventure film Geostorm.

«Don Jon,» rated R for its graphic sexual content and strong language, leads a wave of comedies taking the place of conventional romantic - comedies drawing audiences looking for warm feel - good films as the weather gets colder.

Less a spoof of vampire flicks than a fish - out - of - water romantic comedy about a Victorian nobleman trying to negotiate the dating scene of Studio 54 - era Manhattan, this enjoyably silly film is no one's idea of great cinema, but writer Robert Kaufman's concept of a vampire being the standard bearer for old - style morality and romance is an inherently funny conceit helped immensely by a straight - faced lead performance by Hamilton.

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.

They describe how the creature's sound design evolves over the course of the film as he goes from being a potential threat to the romantic lead, and how the movie theatre downstairs helps score the film.

Writer - director Guillermo del Toro's new movie, the romantic fantasy The Shape of Water, has earned raves from critics at the Venice and Telluride film festivals as an empathetic outsider's love story, which just happens to star a leading man with gills.