Sentences with phrase «shot at redemption»

The film stars Jeff Bridges as an alcoholic country singer named Bad Blake, who takes one last shot at redemption after meeting a journalist (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who is trying to get to the real story about his life.

The influx of unemployed men who've left their homes for a new, thoroughly American, and probably - doomed shot at redemption on the oil fields is the subject of Jesse Moss's Sundance - feted The Overnighters, a complex look at how this mass exodus and uneasy resettlement has brought the residents of Williston to the limits of their compassion and brotherly love.

That's one of the joys of the franchise: prequels notwithstanding, they're a deliciously simple story — it's about good against evil, an underdog upsetting the odds, a final shot at redemption for a corrupt character... It's a story we want to inhabit and make real in our lives.

By the time his inevitable shot at redemption arrives, we already know how it's going to play out (i.e. exactly according to convention).

From IMDB: «A washed - up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden - voiced young girl in Afghanistan.

What Detroit does with its umpteenth and perhaps final shot at redemption will determine whether American cars like the Vette are still around twenty years from now.

The Canucks ended up defeating the Panthers 4 - 3 in a shootout, ruining Roberto Luongo's shot at redemption against his old team.

A darker and smarter film could have explored Jim's ethical dilemma more fully, but Passengers is happy to have him wring his hands for a bit before offering an eleventh hour shot at redemption.

Oliver presents an understandable shot at redemption for him, which Vincent unwilling embraces as his interaction with the boy draws him out of his empty world, into a life promising something more than what he has settled for.

That would be the unexpected presence of an effective Jim Carrey as a disconnected Polish police officer whose shot at redemption involves the reopening of a cold case murder.

After botching up an audition for Kenneth Branagh (gamely contributing a cameo as a favour to director Sean Foley), an invitation to negotiate — in character — with a deranged murder suspect (Russell Tovey) offers him a belated shot at redemption.

Despite claims that the film is based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 stage play, «La Ronde» — a biting satire of class transgression in fin de siècle Vienna with heaps of sex — 360 offers us a prettily shot, carefree world where even generic Eastern European pimps and buzz - cut American sex criminals have a clean shot at redemption.

Based on the rumors for Samsung's Galaxy S8, the smartphone gives Samsung a great shot at redemption.

After hitting rock bottom, Charlie reluctantly teams with his estranged son, Max (Dakota Goyo), to build and train a championship robot for a last shot at redemption.

2016 is the Yellow Jackets» shot at redemption, and who doesn't love a good redemption story?»

Central Catholic denied a rematch of last year's section final while earning a shot at redemption after the Raiders lost to the Cougars in the 2012 D - V final.

After Alabama's thrilling 45 — 40 victory in last season's national championship, Clemson will finally have a shot at redemption on Monday night in Tampa Bay.

Everyone deserves a shot at redemption.

The two schools hold the same seeds in this year's field, setting up a potential rematch and a shot at redemption.

They'll get their shot at redemption on Sunday night as they get to open their 2017 - 18 postseason campaign with a rematch against this very same Team Jones squad.

Key to the shot at redemption is once again the old school offense with plenty of returning talent and some new pieces to plug into the scheme.

But his appointment at Sisaket has given him a shot at redemption.

However, Walcott and the rest of his attacking chums have a shot at redemption here, attacking a Blackburn defence that concedes on average two goals a game.

Spitzer has never been one to give opponents, real and perceived, another shot at redemption.

Former Rep. Michael McMahon: A shot at redemption could appeal to the only Democrat to hold the Island congressional seat in the last three decades.

The mayor said that if lawmakers don't act on reforms, they'll lose a shot at redemption after a year in which leaders in both houses of the Legislature have been arrested on federal corruption charges.

Suddenly, New York City Democrats have two fallen stars looking for a shot at redemption on this year's primary ballot — and they aren't sure whose sins are more offensive.

After whipping around the sun 10 times since then, the star - crossed probe will get its shot at redemption on 7 December, when mission control plans to use four small attitude - control thrusters to slow it on its latest approach to Venus.

As settlers moved west, in part because of the lack of arable land, the forests were given a shot at redemption.

Perfect never gets a shot at redemption,» the fighter says in the voice - over.

Then Micky becomes a contender for the world title and he — and his family — earns a shot at redemption.

Gad is often typecast as the screw - up slob (see: Love & Other Drugs) but recent choices such as Thanks for Sharing and this show he does have range when given the shot at redemption.

A thief who enters people's dreams and steals their secrets gets a shot at redemption when he is given the dangerous task of planting an idea in someone's subconscious.

His buddies are also uncomplicated — baddies with hearts of gold looking for a shot at redemption in the defense of small - town values against corporate acquisitional greed.

Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with her family.

The Lincoln Lawyer (R for violence, sexuality and profanity) Matthew McConaughey stars in the title role of this courtroom drama about a disgraced criminal defense attorney working out of the back of his car who finally lands a shot at redemption when he's hired by a Beverly Hills playboy (Ryan Philippe) accused of raping a call girl.

Taking one last shot at redemption, he is hired by the dead woman's grandfather (Robert Forster) and turns private eye to track down the killer.

Billy Bob Thornton is attached to reprise his role from the 2003 holiday comedy about a thieving mall Santa who gets a shot at redemption.

«We wanted Gary to be a walking car crash, but we also wanted to give him a shot at redemption, and it has to do with the idea of being flawed, of being human, and embracing that,» Wright said.

Guy Pearce stars as Snow, a former government agent who receives a shot at redemption by taking on a dangerous mission to rescue the President's daughter (Maggie Grace) from a high - security prison in space.

Meanwhile, father gets a shot at redemption while also growing closer to son.

Miles Teller co-stars as an unemployable junkie screwup who gets his girlfriend pregnant and sees this crew as his last shot at redemption.

Neeson gets to play the compromised hero set up as a patsy, and who gets a shot at redemption when he defies his place in the bad guys» script, but it's no Taken.

Directed by Return to Never Land perpetrator Donovan Cook and co-scripted by David Mickey Evans, whose name I haven't seen on a picture since The Sandlot, The Three Musketeers isn't one of Disney's loose literary adaptations so much as a riff on a household concept, with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy Wizard of Oz - ian screw - ups given a shot at redemption by the nefarious bloated - Goofy they call Pete, who hires them to guard Princess Minnie as part of a plan to steal the throne from her.