Sentences with phrase «sad sack»

Stranger Than Fiction had the same sad sack character who eventually must come out of his shell to experience the joys in life as subtle as enjoying a warm cookie before his impending death.

They're the sentimental favorites, and they just so happen to be a secret baseball sad sack.

I've seen Jemaine Clement in various supporting roles over the years, but never really latched on to him as a performer (I saw not one episode of his «Flight of the Conchords «-RRB-, but he makes for a very appealing sad sack of a leading man.

Set in 2003, Last Flag Flying opens with sad sack Larry «Doc» Shepherd (Steve Carell) paying a visit to the bar owned and run by his old friend and fellow Marine, Salvatore Nealon (Bryan Cranston).

Within the chronological story, there are chapters on medics, nurses, and doctors; on the quartermasters; on replacements; on what it was like to spend a night on the front lines; on sad sacks, cowards, and criminals; on Christmas 1944; on weapons of all kinds.

The middle - aged dramedy about a bunch of sad sacks who form a synchronized swim team has a real murderer's row of bankable local talent, including arthouse leading man Mathieu Amalric («Ismael's Ghosts,» «The Diving Bell and the Butterfly»), comic star Virginie Efira («Elle») and heartthrob Guillaume Canet (who, alongside wife Marion Cotillard, makes up the country's biggest celebrity couple)... and you'd better believe that all of them showed up.

Ben Stiller's choice of comedy has been self - deprecating, making a career of playing sad sack characters who are either uptight or downtrodden victims.

This year's Sundance Film Festival was prime - time for sad sacks, including Paul Giamatti as a sour comic - book writer, William H. Macy as Vegas» biggest loser and Peter Dinklage as an anti-social dwarf.

The middle - aged sad sack Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn, Aussie actor), a gambling addict, is a divorced real - estate agent from Dubuque, Iowa, who has deep financial troubles — his debts due to gambling have mounted and he has not only lost a wife (Robin Weigert) but a daughter because of his addiction.

The idea that «trying» is what counts — regardless of results — is a dreary commentary and a cheap excuse foisted on the real doers and the winners by sad sacks and also - rans who just can't cut it.

They aren't very good sad sacks, as they've each enjoyed thrilling postseason runs within the last few years.

The Farrellys have taken the bowl - cut ringleader Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos), the Bozo - haired sad sack Larry (Sean Hayes), and the light - on - his - toes oaf Curly (Will Sasso) and plunked them down in 21st - century America, where a babe (Sofia Vergara) and her boyfriend (Craig Bierko) lure them into a plot to murder the babe's husband (Kirby Heyborne).

The fact that Terry Zwigoff's misanthropic comedy somehow turns this pathetic sad sack into a sympathetic hero — and the movie into a foul - mouthed ode to goodwill to all men — is nothing short of a Christmas miracle.

We read war - themed comic books, like Marvel's Sgt. Fury and comic strips like Sad Sack & Beetle Bailey.

Remember when it was just about partying with your other sad sack single friends and you could forget for one night that your girlfriend left you and now you're alone and no one will ever love you?

Except, the Royals are also sad sacks, the punchline to a joke you didn't even feel like telling.

For years, plus - size professionals have been forced to make do with gaudy, cheaply made separates, sad sack dresses, and matronly suits — but not anymore.

Stu's friends are the requisite sad sacks, losers, and weirdoes that populate the genre.

A cameo as Drew Barrymore's sad sack boyfriend Chad in the blockbuster Charlie's Angels (2000) paid off personally when Green and Barrymore became an offscreen item; after much hedging and a faux jilting at the altar on Saturday Night Live in November 2000, the two married quietly in 2001.

The plot follows a shy sad sack prone to occasionally violent outbursts who begins dating a woman as equally shy and awkward as him.

Some of the moments between Annie and Ted are amusing while some of the ones between Annie and Rhodes are sweet, but ultimately these scenes highlight Annie's sad sack side, which is a bit of a downer.

But it's Mendelsohn who's the man here, proving he can do sad sack, sensitive loser and small - fry dreamer with a calibrated subtlety that's astounding.

The entire cast of the film (all of whom are both a lot more successful and a lot older) is back, with Showalter again donning the short - shorts and even - tighter than before T - shirts as Coop, Camp Firewood's resident romantic sad sack.

What you see above is a lumpy Mr. Bautista laying a beat down on some poor sad sack.

Set in 1970s suburban Detroit, the film introduces us to what we hope will be a cast of edgy, funny characters but who, thanks to a crummy script from writer / director Daniel Schechter, turn out to be a bunch of insipid sad sacks.

In the previous movies, Clark was a likable sad sack cursed by Murphy's Law.

Bottom Line: If there's an actor of his generation that plays the droopy sad sack better than Cusack, he's doing it someplace where no one can see him.

After a blow to the head, a self - loathing sad sack played by Amy Schumer, right, with Aidy Bryant and Busy Philipps, transforms herself in «I Feel Pretty.»

Sad sack dog catcher Gilly (Chris Klein), who has been living on his own for as long as he could remember, finally finds someone to be with when he meets Jo (Heather Graham), a hairdresser.

Otherwise Gerry is rather endearing, a dorky, superstitious sad sack who forms an easy bond with happy - go - lucky fellow gambler Curtis (Ryan Reynolds), as they together tour casinos and gambling dens along the Mississippi river looking to make their fortune.

Summary Capsule: After losing his wife to a drug dealer, sad sack loser Frank decides he must become a superhero to win her back.

When sad sack Arthur Parker (Steve Martin) is denied a loan from the bank to help his business, the scene abruptly transitions into a musical number called «Yes Yes!»

But she steals every scene she's in, portraying a chatty colleague of Joaquin Phoenix's sad sack philosopher who's obsessed with him, desperately looking for a way out of a dead - end marriage.

Gosling's the perfect choice to play dutiful sad sack LAPD blade runner K. Few actors can be simultaneously expressionless and expressive, but Gosling's blank slate face and long distance stare seem to say something mournful, defeated and rebellious without giving anything away.

«Brooklyn» isn't sad sack either.

Oyelowo's sad sack evokes memories of William H. Macy's Fargo character.

The zeroes - to - heroes side is embodied with primal grunts, sad sack orchestrations and daintily strumming instruments that might make you think you're in Italy.

Lying sad sack Hugh (Dennis Quaid) cruises bars and restaurants telling wild stories to anyone who will give a listen.

Not so for Louise, who has turned into a whiny sad sack of a woman.

Trapped in their personal prisons amongst the ranks of crazed, Hollowed Undead, the tired souls and sad sacks mocked the player for fighting against an unbeatable fate.

Right above my writing desk in New York is one of his «Garbage Drawings» — isolated refuse with everything else but the garbage eliminated from the original Sad Sack cartoons.

After 30 years as a film comedian, Bill Murray has found a brilliant second wind as a character actor, playing deeply soulful middle - aged sad sacks.

The film begins as outrageous, over-the-top comedy, with sad sack Will taking verbal abuse from everyone, particularly his mother; then the film jarringly becomes dark and serious with the assault; and then on a dime it becomes a satire of celebrity and children's television.

After he finally notches a sale, Shelley goes from a pathetic sad sack to a cocky and arrogant force of nature.

Joaquin Phoenix is great as lonely dude Theodore, the sort of sad sack who we've seen on screen plenty of times before but seldom with so few actual people to act alongside.

Because we can't help our sad sack selves.