Sentences with phrase «screwball romp»
, has a lot to live up to as the follow - up to 2013's masterful Inside Llewyn Davis, and quite shrewdly the Coens have chosen to move on from that soulfully sad rumination of a folk singer on the brink by providing what could be their zaniest film this side of The Ladykillers, a screwball romp through the backlots of Hollywood at the height of its power and influence.
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When the very first scene is a fortune teller attempting to get her customer drunk in order to make her vague prediction seem more impactful, the tone is set for a screwball romp.
What follows is a screwball romp in the time honoured, mid -»80s «Adventures in Babysitting» mould: the brats run wild, Hill freaks out, crooks get involved and everyone runs around yelling.
Frequently laugh - out - loud funny and tangibly tender where it ought to be, the immensely satisfying screwball romp feels freshly contemporary even as it largely conforms to genre conventions.
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The birds, the bees and the bullets Not content with simply riffing on «Raiders of the Lost Ark's popular style of popcorn adventure, Robert Zemeckis took inspiration from another classic Hollywood source, the screwball comedy, for this likable South American romp.