Sentences with phrase «screwball charm»

The proceedings suddenly pick up some screwball charm, the writing improves (with several truly inspired one - liners tossed in here and there) and the secondary characters begin to click.

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A charming cast, headed by Tracy, Harlow, William Powell and Myrna Loy, elevates this screwball comedy, a typically glossy MGM fare of the Depression era.

Stuck between screwball comedy that allows Alex to emerge unscathed from a high - speed collision with a car and honest romance that features Alex and Juliette staring longingly into the sunset, Heartbreaker is a mixed bag that is charming and funny when it's good and insufferably sophomoric when it's bad.

A charming proto - screwball comedy, it's about a marriage of convenience between a rich playboy and an impetuous adventuress that ends up destroying planes, boats and nightclub aquariums.

Carrell and Fey have terrific chemistry and the script allows us to see their intelligence, wit and charm develop as they are pushed further and further onto kinds of preposterous situations that a good screwball comedy demands.

Neurosis and charm co-mingle, taking the shape of a screwball - lite romcom about domesticity, marriage and monotony.

There's no attempt at drama here, just good, old - fashioned screwball comedy abounding with double - entendres and sight gags and anchored by two charmingly presentational and presentationally charming lead performances.

It's like a screwball Hitchcock film reworked for the freewheeling eighties indie culture (including cameo appearances by John Waters, John Sayles and The Feelies as the high school reunion band), and as their baggage tumbles out along the way, her past catches up in the form a creepily charming bad - boy ex.

Silver Linings is one of the most charming movies of the decade and a delightful throwback to the zany screwball romantic comedies of the «30s and «40s, a better tribute than the previous years Best Picture winner The Artist.

And yet, on its own terms, The Terminal is charming, reminiscent of the sophisticated screwball comedy of Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch — neither of whom always cared whether their movies stayed rooted in reality.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Features Lisa Kudrow in Stop - Loss Comedy This charming screwball comedy generates plenty of laughter while simultaneously ever so subtly addressing several sobering themes.

by Walter Chaw An unlikely romance, an unlikely road movie, and an unlikely buddy picture all in one that somehow works (and with a surplus of charm and sweetness), Joel Hopkins's debut feature Jump Tomorrow could be described as either Harold Lloyd by way of Jacques Tati or Jim Jarmusch by way of Thirties screwball.

Once TSAM gives the charming Stiller and Diaz some space to themselves, it comes to life, at last approaching the screwball status to which it clearly aspires.

Toni Erdmann Directed by Maren Ade Germany, 2016, 162m German with English subtitles An audacious twist on the screwball comedy — here, the twosome is an aging - hippie prankster father and his corporate - ladder - climbing daughter — Toni Erdmann delivers art and entertainment in equal measure and charmed just about everyone who saw it at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

Intolerable Cruelty, for all its embedded scholarship and flashes of screwball humor, enlightens and charms more in theory than in practice.

You will recognize the influence of Frank Capra's charming screwball comedy on the Coen Brothers» The Hudsucker Proxy.

It works as a screwball comedy if you're willing to embrace its strange but strong charm, as well as its ridiculous scheming later on in the movie.