Sentences with phrase «screwball humor»

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

Below the surface of its brilliantly timed screwball humor, the German Oscar contender Toni Erdmann holds a tender story of staying true to family...

Laggies mixes screwball humor with romance with coming - of - age drama, and it all fits together wonderfully.

The movie plays into screwball humor and some plotlines we've seen in Date Night or Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn's Charade, but this is a sweet couple who brings out the lovey - dovey chemistry.

Featuring David Schwimmer, Cheech Marin, and Sharon Stone, the film was a satirical comedy infused with screwball humor, with a notable appearance by Woody Allen.

Not exact matches

10 Rules for Sleeping Around (R for crude humor, sexuality, nudity, profanity and drug use) Screwball comedy revolving around the attempt by an adventurous couple (Jesse Bradford and Virginia Williams) in an open marriage to keep their sex life fresh and exciting long past the honeymoon.

Beyond the ickiness of the relationship between an infamously predatory director (John Malkovich) entering into a relationship with the 17 - year - old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) of Louis» character, the juxtaposition of a black - and - white,»40s - screwball comedy setting with profane, raunchy humor just never works.

Anderson has worked in a variety of genres — noir, screwball comedy, historical epic, and straight - up relationship drama — but his films always bear his distinctive fingerprints: sharply drawn characters (some of whom are uneasily at odds with the world around them); a sense of humor filtered through dark situations; and a stable of actors with whom he works regularly.

The subversive use of humor feels like a distinguishing touch on its own — who else would have put the obligatory interspecies hang - out scene in a high - stakes casino straight out of a 1930s screwball comedy?