Sentences with phrase «school comedies in»

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She trades in observation comedy, sometimes about situations she's far removed from («Types of Kids at School,» for example).

This John Hughes classic highlights almost every embarrassing moment that can happen in high school, but matched with incredible comedy, it's a must - watch.

It's a movie I wish I had when I was in high school instead of the then - standard «American Pie» or «Superbad» or every other male - centric teen sex comedy.

In this case, the season premiere of the beloved - yet - struggling comedy will put the Greendale Seven into a Hunger Games - type battle royale for missing school records.

Cynthia has taught at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program in the mountains of southern California, with the Chicago Children's Theater's Red Kite Program for children with autism and currently teaches improv and sketch comedy for The Second City Teen and Youth Program and at The Stage School in Park Ridge.

Outside of school, catch me in the research lab, cooking vegan pad thai, getting weird in improv comedy performances, and giving sick Kesem face tats.

Now, Willis is a graduate of the Second City improv school in Hollywood and has helped write, produce, and star in a sketch comedy for kids about climate change called «The Lollygaggers.»

Having been a videotape editor for the 1970s TV comedy show Barney Miller before going to graduate school, he applied for a AAAS Fellowship, was awarded one, and asked to work in television.

After more than two years of performing comedy in Los Angeles, she found her calling in the kitchen and, after enrolling in the International Culinary School at the Art Institute, started her own catering company.Her healthy and flavor - packed cooking style has made her a fan favorite among thousands of home cooks and food lovers looking for healthy options that don't sacrifice taste.In her newest video course, The Complete Guide To Gluten - Free Eating, she shows you how to whip up amazing gluten - free dishes.

After more than two years of performing comedy in Los Angeles, she found her calling in the kitchen and, after enrolling in the International Culinary School at the Art Institute, started her own catering company.

My favorites would have to be Band of outsiders for holding it at a comedy club I think that's a fun idea and would make a cool thing to watch.I also liked Pronounce I would so wear those clothes but in black of course, but my first fav would have to be KTZ as a punk in my youth yes I had a mowak I really liked the old school vibes in this collection.

I am 6ft 4in tall 230 lbs blonde hair blue eyes I am 54 years old I am divorced no kids I am Scottish dutch and Irish I drive a truck local here in the Denver metro area I like action and comedy movies I like classic rock and country and jazz I am old school I like to ride my bike weather...

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In this campus comedy, the war between the sexes turns into a veritable holocaust when a bunch of guys try to get all the females out of their school.

It's your typical comedy about a loser high school guy in love with a hot girl, and it's mildly amusing, at best.

Taunted by their classmates since grade school and never quite able to escape the culturally suffocating confines of their homogenized Midwestern hometown, a pair of small - town misfits make a break for the big city in this comedy from director Lorene Machado.

Old School, which follows three grown men (Luke Wilson's Mitch, Will Ferrell's Frank, and Vince Vaughn's Beanie) as they turn their house into a fraternity, marks director Todd Phillips» first fictional endeavor since Road Trip, and it's immediately clear that the movie, like that 2000 Tom Green comedy, manages to entertain in spite of a distinct lack of overt laughs.

But this is a comedy — or it's meant to be — and as much as I would have loved for the sense of the sinister inherent in this concept to turn into something deeply, blackly funny (I'm thinking of Very Bad Things as a possible precedent for this, but The Hangover is never so audacious), Lucas and Moore and director Todd Phillips (School for Scoundrels, Starsky & Hutch) go for the easy, cheap laughs, things that will shock a juvenile mindset — a mother breastfeeding?

When a geeky high - school valedictorian throws caution to the wind by expressing his love for a popular cheerleader during his graduation speech, life finally starts to get interesting in this coming - of - age comedy adapted from the book by journalist / author / screenwriter Larry Doyle.

A private school - educated everyman who could play outrageous comedy and wrenching tragedy, Jack Lemmon burst onto the movie scene as a 1950s Columbia contract player and remained a beloved star until his death in 2001.

The diminutive Schneider, who was born to a Filipino mother and Jewish father in San Francisco on October 31, 1963, got his start in comedy in high school.

Welcome to the Dollhouse is a stark suburban comedy about 11 - year - old Dawn Wiener (Matarazzo), a middle child in middle school in the middle of New Jersey.

Melissa McCarthy goes back to school in this college comedy with a few surprises up its sleeve.

Though McAdams» early screen roles found her specializing in the bitchy teen princess to maximum effect, closer inspection reveals a skilled dramatic actress who no doubt has the talent to move beyond the high - school trappings of such comedies as The Hot Chick and Mean Girls.Born to a truck driver and a nurse in London, Ontario, Canada, McAdams warmed to the spotlight early on by taking up competitive skating at just four years old.

The multihyphenate (who reportedly began authoring poetry and songs at the age of 14) moved with her mother to Southern California immediately after high school graduation to accommodate her dreams of becoming a Hollywood star and promptly landed both representation and a key role as a pop diva in the Hugh Grant / Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Music and Lyrics.

Synopsis: Jared Paul and Andrew Mogel's comedy - drama The D Train stars Jack Black as Dan, a man in charge of organizing his high - school reunion.

During an overnight grad night party, a group of high school graduates seek to complete their unfulfilled dreams before high school is over forever in this AwesomenessTV comedy series created by Jason Ubaldi.

What separates Strangers with Candy from other high school comedies, or from most mainstream comedies in general, is the cast's total dedication to their parts.

Garofalo's prolific output continued in 1997; in addition to starring roles in two comedies, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion and The Matchmaker, she was featured prominently in James Mangold's Cop Land and Paul Schrader's Touch, she hosted the MTV series Indie Outing, and she remained a fixture of the emerging alternative comedy circuit.

In this black comedy, a philosophical hit man (Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit which coincides with his 10 - year high school reunion in the upscale suburb of Grosse Point,.In this black comedy, a philosophical hit man (Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit which coincides with his 10 - year high school reunion in the upscale suburb of Grosse Point,.in Detroit which coincides with his 10 - year high school reunion in the upscale suburb of Grosse Point,.in the upscale suburb of Grosse Point,...

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

From the age of five on, Lewis occasionally performed in his parents» act, and later quit high school in order to travel with his own comedy routine, which consisted primarily of mocking famous entertainers while their records were played off - stage.

In this low - budget romantic comedy, a self - styled playboy (actually a young grade - school teacher) puts his best moves on a lovely tour guide at a New York museum and soon finds himself hopelessly entangled with the mob.

Other comedies present men in ways that are too crude or too sentimental, but Phillips - both in previous pictures («Old School,» «Starsky & Hutch») and this new one - has an instinctive feel for the truth.

For the most part «Old School» opts out of the gross - out style of comedy used in the likes of «American Pie» and «Road Trip», but maintains a certain low - brow appeal that for some inexplicable reason still works fairly well.

Best friends Alexa (Paris Berelc) and Katie (Isabel May) face their first year in high school and Alexa's cancer treatments in this comedy created by Hannah Montana writer Heather Wordham.

A men - will - be-boys comedy, Old School imagines what it would be like if three guys in their 30s suddenly decided to start their own fraternity.

Since that's what happened in Very Bad Things, it's an easy bet that director Todd Phillips (Old School, Road Trip) will probably offer a different course of shock - comedy treatment.

After participating in several films throughout 2006 (Material Girls, Art School Confidential, Seraphim Falls), Huston reunited with Wes Anderson to play a supporting role in the multi-award winning comedy The Darjeeling Limited in 2007.

For once a comedy in the Animal House school that knows what it's was about: the vulgarity of the gags matches the vulgarity of the subject, and this 1980 film becomes a fierce, cathartically funny celebration of the low, the cheap, the venal — in short, America.

This comedy presents the story of a white college student who desperately wants to enroll in the Harvard Law School, but since his wealthy father refuses to help him pay the $ 54,000 he needs, so he begins taking tanning pills to darken his skin so he will be eligible to win the Bouchard Fellowship which is only awarded to African - American students.

Rocket Science stars Reece Thompson in a genial comedy about a stuttering high school debater that will vanish before any reg «lar folk get to see it.

Melissa McCarthy goes back to school with heart and humor in the new comedy Life of the Party, in theaters this weekend.

John C. Reilly is an eccentric high school vice-principal in «Terri» (Fox), an indie comedy with Sundance credentials, Rhys Ifans plays «Mr. Nice» (MPI), based on the crazed true story of a wildly successful British marijuana smuggler, and «Beautiful Boy» (Anchor Bay) stars Maria Bello and Michael Sheen as separated parents who turn to each other in shared grief.

Wilson has cemented his modest legacy playing handsome, sometimes underachieving dudes in comedies such as «Bottle Rocket,» «Rushmore,» «Old School,» and «Idiocracy.»

Hayek doesn't necessarily disappoint on any front — her energy and cuteness are a fine juxtaposition of «acting» in the film, and Nick Swardson's psychotic, heavily drug - addled school bus driver breaches into some low echelon of physical comedy.

He dropped out of film school in the early»90s to make a documentary about the notorious punk rocker GG Allin, and by the end of the decade he was making his first mainstream comedy, the American Pie - lite college romp, Road Trip.

Upset by this turn of events, the sisters attempt to ruin the house sale by throwing a wild party for their old high school friends and new acquaintances, but what they discover is their deeply felt bond to one another in this R - rated comedy that conjures its share of juvenile funny.

Yes to absurdly perky Reese, as super-girly sorority sister Elle Woods in this Robert Luketic comedy of one woman's ludicrous journey through law school.

This latest whiffle ball from Team Apatow is a mildly amusing comedy in which Wilson plays a bodyguard hired by three well - to - do freshman high school nerds to protect them against a pair of bullies.