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She was a mother, a nurse, not that screwball who appeared on the screen like some dysfunctional figment of her imagination trying to find a life.

Not exact matches

«If he was playing in the 1950s with that pitch, they'd call it a screwball,» says Red Sox pitching coach Joe Kerrigan, who used to coach Martinez on the Expos.

Instead a new show, Pitch (Fox, Thursday 9:00 p.m. ET / PT), offers up a screwball specialist who can touch 87 with her heater.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on Sunday lashed out at ATV riders who illegally flood the streets in the summer, calling them «idiots,» «morons» and «screwballs» while vowing to destroy their...

A one - joke movie if ever there was, but the joke happens to be a good one — a Tracy - and - Hepburn - style battle of the sexes in which Kate can fly and blast through walls — and director Ivan Reitman (who made Ghostbusters) feels at home with the mix of screwball and supernatural.

There is, no doubt, a great screwball comedy to be made about adult children who won't leave home, and the mothers and fathers who collude in the arrangement — and not just for reasons of economics.

The good news is that some parts of this shopping list are checked off with style and grace: Tony and Pepper are still, at heart, the leads in a screwball comedy — and Downey and Paltrow are top form here; the new villain has the comics» Crimson Dynamo's name — Ivan Vanko [Mickey Rourke]-- but instead of wearing the hopelessly out of date crimson armor, wields a pair of plasma whips that can slice and dice even Stark's fancy suit; and finally, there's Justin Hammer [Sam Rockwell — who was a finalist in casting Stark], a hi - tech weapons manufacturer who got Stark's old Department of Defence contracts even though he's not nearly as talented.

Oscar - winners Cary Grant («The Awful Truth,» «North by Northwest») and Katharine Hepburn («The African Queen,» «On Golden Pond») star in this screwball comedy classic about a madcap heiress who upsets the staid existence of a straitlaced zoology professor.

This screwball biopic isn't aided by its four editors, who create a choppy storyline where many moments and years are raced past without a chance to register.

As with all screwballs, of course, there must be a fetching female to spar with, and she soon emerges in the person of Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger), a reporter who's gotten a tip that Carter's war record may not be quite as heroic as advertised.

Brooke's ex-boyfriend Daryl (Michael Chernus, who plays a similar role in PEOPLE PLACES THINGS) and ex-bestie Mamie Claire (Heather Lind) are both there purely as script devices for screwball - inspired shenanigans to ensue.

The second of 2015's collaborations with her real - life director boyfriend Noah Baumbach, Mistress America was one of the best films at the Sundance Film Festival, an old - school screwball comedy about a young woman who befriends her dad's new girlfriend.

In the «30s, there was a series of screwball comedies — cleverly disguised as mysteries — that revolved around a rich, happily married couple, Nick and Nora Charles [William Powell and Myrna Loy] who drank too much; engaged in something called witty repartee, and solved mysteries.

Due to vagaries of scheduling, A24 is releasing «While We're Young» March 27 after which Fox Searchlight will eventually open enchanting comedy «Mistress America,» which Baumbauch wrote with his partner and actress muse Greta Gerwig (who collaborated with him memorably on «Frances Ha»), creating Brooke, the most entertaining screwball heroine since Holly Golightly.

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.

There are vestiges of the classic screwball formula in Phantom Thread, where a workaholic nerd (like Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby) is overrun by a free - spirited dame who will not take no for an answer.

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.

Russell's penchant for barely controlled chaos just isn't funny in the context of diagnosed mental illness, and while Playbook's late shift into a conventional, crowd - pleasing rom - com works exceedingly well, it does so at the expense of all the previous manic episodes, making it seem as if men who suffer from bipolar disorder just need to find a screwball dame to nurse them to health via wacky dance routines.

Greta Gerwig, the one - time mumblecore starlet who wrote and directed the movie, has already established herself as a poet laureate of anxious youth, having co-authored and starred in Noah Baumbach's bittersweet, screwball study of arrested development, Frances Ha.

Gerwig pointed out in the post-screening Q&A that it's no coincidence she felt urgently compelled to start writing Lady Bird after working with Rebecca Miller, who directed her in the 2015 screwball rom - com Maggie's Plan.

Laurie Boeder is a lifelong movie fan and professional writer who especially loves the fabulous Hollywood films of the»40s,»50s and»60s, and has a soft spot for screwball comedies, cheesy old sci - fi, and old - fashioned patriotic potboilers.

This Friday, Fox Searchlight opens enchanting comedy «Mistress America,» which Baumbauch wrote with his partner and actress muse Greta Gerwig (who collaborated with him memorably on «Frances Ha»), creating Brooke, the most entertaining screwball heroine since Holly Golightly.

That philosophy came in handy once more when he decided to revive a long - dormant movie genre — the screwball romantic comedy — back when action flicks like «Lethal Weapon» and «Die Hard» were the rage, with 1990's «Pretty Woman,» an unlikely Disney fairy tale about a beautiful streetwalker who falls for her rich prince of a business - exec client that turned Julia Robert into a superstar.

George Clooney exhibits the right degree of screwball aptitude as Miles Massey, a hotshot divorce lawyer who may have finally met his match in the gold - digging Marylin Rexroth (Catherine Zeta - Jones).

While Davis primarily shined as a dramatic actress, she was also capable of delivering strong comic performances and her turn in the screwball comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner ranks as her best.

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.

Perhaps that's due to the fact that this is based on a novel by Winifred Watson from the screwball era — it was published in 1939 — and that screenwriters David Magee (who wrote the lovely Finding Neverland) and Simon Beaufoy avoided any urge to «modernize» it.

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?

Debut writer - director Gillian Robespierre springs an early surprise with Obvious Child, a screwball comedy that clears the decks for a breakout performance from Jenny Slate as Donna, an oversharing stand - up comic who will joke about everything from the stains on her pants to the abortion she has booked for the following day.

the 1939 screwball Cinderella story «Midnight» stars Claudette Colbert as a street smart showgirl who pulls into Paris without a penny to her name and lands in the lap of luxury, thanks to a most unlikely fairy godfather (John Barrymore).

Elle Directed by Paul Verhoeven France / Germany / Belgium, 2016, 131m French with English subtitles U.S. Premiere Paul Verhoeven's first feature in a decade — and his first in French — ranks among his most incendiary, improbable concoctions: a wry, almost - screwball comedy of manners about a woman who responds to a rape by refusing the mantle of victimhood.

The cast is a balance of Coen veterans (Brolin, Clooney, Swinton, Frances McDormand) and the sort of actors who seem destined to find an easy home on their unique wavelength (Johansson, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Allison Pill), and this would be the Coens» first screwball comedy since 2008's uneven Burn After Reading, a long eight year wait.

Same with Kristin Scott Thomas, who plays the Prime Minister's Press Secretary as if she were told this was a screwball comedy.

The cast is a balance of Coen veterans (Brolin, Clooney, Swinton, Frances McDormand) and the sort of actors who seem destined to find an easy home on their unique wavelength (Johansson, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Allison Pill), and this would be the Coens» first screwball comedy since 2008's uneven

A familiar plot turns into a delicious screwball comedy when a tough kid is exposed to a manic household and people who are willing to let him change.

And your party consists of the latest set of graduates, who are a bit on the screwball side.

Lucius, who also works in collage, works out of a studio in Screwball Space in Red Hook.