Sentences with phrase «screwball situations»

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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.

It's a screwball comedy with nuance — typical Gerwig in other words — but the character's situation is markedly more adult territory.

Babbit attempts to make a sort of madcap, screwball comedy out of the entire situation, with Shannon and Martha carting their corpse around the city in a bin while resorting to desperate measures for cash.

Named for a physics - defying baseball pitch, screwball comedies put likable characters in ridiculous situations, where they behave like screwballs: erratic and unpredictable.

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.