Sentences with phrase «screwball road»
JUMP TOMORROW (Grade: B): This story of a shy, buttoned - down, Nigerian - born man who falls for an impulsive young Spanish woman is an old - fashioned screwball road - trip romance with a modern flair and a funky lounge score.
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A screwball road movie set in a middle - of - nowhere town, Kwik Stop suggests «It Happened One Night» as reimagined by David Lynch or Hal Hartley.
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Writer - director Jeff Lowell could have gone many different ways with this idea — the screwball comedy of Heaven Can Wait, say, or even the wistful, unabashed romanticism of Ghost — but he takes the low road more often than not.
A screwball family takes to the road and wondrously finds itself in this crowd - pleaser at Sundance.
Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie is many ways his best and certainly his most enjoyable, a screwball fling that takes a road movie turn into darkness.
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.