Sentences with phrase «sad sacks who»

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.

Craig is a bit of a sad sack who can't catch a break in life while Vince sort of expects hand outs since he feels life has dealt him a crappy hand.

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.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Features Dysfunctional Family Dramedy John (John C. Reilly) is a sad sack who has been hoping to reconcile with his wife ever since she dumped him a half - dozen years ago.

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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.

If anything, the sad sacks I met in the few AA meetings I attended who keep affirming their powerlessness seem to have been at least headed for a bad case of «learned impotence».

, and two sad little goonies... rkw (who's evidently just a depressed moron and sack - Wenger whose in match comments rival Michael Owen for rank stupidity).

Totally agree.The problem at the movement we are crap but the other teams like Liverpool are worse.We would have to finish mid table for the board to sack Wenger.It is so sad that we have a talented squad but no manager who can create a team.When will this pain end?Oh what has happened to Diaby?

The Croat, who described Monk's sacking as «sad and shocking», said: «They call him El Loco — a big, big manager with big experience.

«And Hilary, it's very sad that Jeremy had to sack Hilary — we all know his father, who was a great man, a really great man.

In Richard Ayoade's sharp debut film, Oliver Tate is a precocious 15 - year - old Welsh virgin who has a crush on a tough girl, Johanna, and a mother who might just be cheating on his sad - sack dad.

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

Game Night has a few going for it — one helluva cast (Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Billy Magnusson, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Danny Huston, Michael C. Hall, Chelsea Peretti, Camille Chen and more); an opening meet cute that is original and clever; the establishment of a weekly get together for a games night; the sad sack neighbor who used to be part of the group (and is also a cop with a cute dog), and, finally, the idea that what starts out as a special murder mystery game night turns out to be the real thing — but no knows it.

Highlights include Rachel Dratch, who's always great playing a sad sack, and here is no exception; Kate McKinnon as the crazy - eyed half of a flannel - clad lesbian power couple; and Maya Rudolph as Kate's high - school enemy, whose life is as sad as everyone hopes their teenage nemesis» life will be.

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.

It opens to blowing papers that remind instantly of the chits around the feet of Wall Street traders (who were themselves brutalized in this year's Dark Knight Rises), then focuses in on sad - sack criminals and the sad - sack organized - crime bureaucrats enlisting the sad - sack assassins to kill them.

After he is blackmailed about his sexuality by a smart - alecky but sad - sack classmate (Logan Miller) who reads the private emails Simon has written to his mystery love, Simon will do anything to maintain the status quo in his life, his escalating cover - up lies unintentionally pitting his friends against each other and creating confusion and resentment among the group and, finally, toward him.

The film reunites Lanthimos with Colin Farrell, his star from The Lobster, who plays here a much more superficially successful character than the sad sack he inhabited in that film.

When our sad - sack hero and his daughter are invited to a party by the pregnant starlet (Rose Byrne) who wants to work with him, they happen to see a bald, goateed old man standing by her picture window.

Colin Farrell leads The Lobster as sad - sack David, who's just been left by his wife.

Since his return to low - budget filmmaking after a fallow decade, the writer - director (and actor) has made vérité - style profiles of an unrepentant convicted perv (RSO: Registered Sex Offender, 08) and a sad - sack troubadour who'll chew your ear off over his last break - up (Harmony and Me, 09).

Now, you can see for yourself — in bite - sized trailer form, at least — whether you're as affected by Lanthimos» tale of a sad - sack divorcee (Colin Farrell) who's forced to attend a government - run resort where single people are transformed into animals by a relationship - minded bureaucracy.

The always - underrated Josh Hartnett plays sad - sack Slevin, who is having a bad day.

Willis, who we usually see on screen as supremely confident and adept cop characters, as Sharp he is a lonely, sad - sack policeman for whom life seems to have past by.

A runner - up is the sad - sack Laurent scion Pierre (Franz Rogowski), who shows up drunk at a ritzy wedding with several bewildered African refugees in tow (the film is set in Calais, which has a large population of displaced people who are stranded there en route to Britain).

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.

Jon Lovitz, Southland Tales (2006) Jon Lovitz came to America's attention as a bumbling sad - sack on Saturday Night Live, best known for running gags like the «Girl Watchers» series, where he and Tom Hanks played two atonal, self - denigrating drips who dismissed every woman they saw as «waaaaay out of our league.»

Paul Walter Hauser is a scene - stealing comedic force as Shawn Eckhardt, the burly, sad - sack, delusional «bodyguard» to Tonya who fancied himself as some sort of internationally connected black ops expert, even though he lived with his parents and his stories were laughably easy to fact - check and debunk.

Which is basically half the fun of his self - starring scatological comedy the gross tale of a sad - sack TV repairman who gets bullied into smuggling a kilo of Bangkok heroin in his bowels only to be arrested by police and sweated out over a toilet bowl for the seven excruciating days they re allowed to detain him.

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.

Gyllenhaal does yet another appealing, recessive turn as a sad - sack doctor who's been up in space longer than anybody else.

(Trivia buffs take note: A less crucial supporting player I can't resist mentioning is Ross Bagdasarian, who plays a sad - sack composer trying to complete a new song.

This time we have Rainn Wilson's Frank, a sad - sack middle - aged loser who has just lost his ex-druggie wife (Liv Tyler) to drug dealer Jacques (a triumphant return from Kevin Bacon).

For a gag, the girls answer a «missed connection» ad in the paper and end up meeting the sad - sack Seymour (Steve Buscemi), a reclusive record collector who prefers the darkness and nostalgia of his room to real life.

And all this in addition to what might be his two best roles: Seymour, the sad sack in Ghost World, and Carl Showalter, the kidnapper in Fargo who winds up in a woodchipper.

Faults starts out seeming like a dark comedy about a washed - up, sad - sack cheapskate who tries to scam free meals from cheap hotels, and pockets any «complimentary» perk that isn't nailed down.

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

Written and directed by Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent), it stars Sandler as Max Simkin, a sad - sack New York City shoe repairman who discovers a magical stitching machine, allowing him to transform into anyone whose footwear he resoles (or re-souls?)

In its hero and actor Paul Giamatti, Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor have found the middle - aged Everyman, a sad - sack, depressed - but - medicated middle - school English teacher who has written a huge novel about his life and awaits its acceptance or rejection by a publisher.

The story begins with Oscar, a lumpy, sad sack, «alternative genre» obsessed geek with a sweet heart who falls in love instantly and deeply over and over again, always unrequited.

Someone who is never quite satisfied and always the victim or simply the sad sack with little hope?