Sentences with phrase «smart screenplay»

Tom Stoppard (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, BRAZIL) provides the very smart screenplay, which is remarkable considering the level of detail required, while having to create suspense with what might be a dry subject otherwise.

Throw in a great cast, a rousing score, and a smart screenplay and you've got one of the finest sci - fi / action / horror hybrids ever produced.

A smart screenplay (by Linda Woolverton), a gifted voice cast (that, it must be noted, is free of the marquee names that now clutter animated feature credits), and superior animation work would have already made for a good film, but what makes Beauty so justly beloved is a generous helping of magic — namely the divine music by the legendary team of composer Alan Menken and the late, great lyricist Howard Ashman.

It is, without doubt, a transcendent endeavor, from its exhilaratingly smart screenplay - director David O. Russell's adaptation of the novel by former South Jersey teacher Matthew Quick - to the unexpected and moving turns of its two leads.

«With the combination of a great cast and a smart screenplay, we're excited let audiences experience Arizona this summer.»

Together they bring a smart screenplay to life, and convey an unusual and important message.

Thankfully, it also has a very smart screenplay by Tom...

Critic Consensus: Waking Life's inventive animated aesthetic adds a distinctive visual component to a film that could easily have rested on its smart screenplay and talented ensemble cast.

Critics Consensus: Waking Life's inventive animated aesthetic adds a distinctive visual component to a film that could easily have rested on its smart screenplay and talented ensemble cast.

Not exact matches

These references are just the outer layer of a compulsively referential screenplay that tries so hard, it sounds like a classroom smart aleck reeling off answers before the questions are finished.

The smart but vague screenplay is a generic manifesto for the U.N.'s mission of using talk instead of violence to resolve problems facing the international community.

Both films feature clever screenplays with smart characters, and go about their business with good humor.

Incredible in its verisimilitude, Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay is smart, incisive, and passionately written.

Shane Black brings his trademark smart wit to the screenplay and Samuel L. Jackson bosses his role as Henessey.

A smart, hair - raising satire about prejudice and race relations, «Get Out» won Best Film, as well as Best Original Screenplay for writer - director Jordan Peele's provocative script.

What easily could have been the formula for a run of the mill romantic comedy is heightened and finely tuned by a smart script that has clearly been helped by nine years of rewrites since the screenplay was first conceived as «Divorce Comedy» in 2003.

Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, William Lee Scott, Elden Henson, Eric Stoltz, Melora Walters Director: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber Screenplay: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber Review published January 29, 2004

Cast: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Steve Buscemi, Zach Galifianakis, Ray Liotta, Fred Willard, Adhir Kalyan, Justin Long, M. Emmet Walsh, Mary Kay Place, Rooney Mara, Jade Fusco, Jonathan Bradford Wright Director: Miguel Arteta Screenplay: Gustin Nash (based on the novel.

Cast: James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Chris Cooper, Amy Smart, Christopher Lloyd Director: Bob Gale Screenplay: Bob Gale Review published January 3, 2003

One of writer / director Noah Baumbach's many smart career moves was to collaborate with actor Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplays for both Frances Ha and Mistress America.

A Sorkin screenplay = smart people saying smart things really quickly, over top of each other, often while walking.

Any film that actually has the guts to show dumb teenagers referring to films like Doctor Zhivago, Tender is the Night, and The Way We Were, is already of a different breed, If you love anything 80s, and especially if you like the teen comedies of the era, Secret Admirer gets a solid recommendation for some genuine laughs and a smarter - than - average screenplay.

But while Manchester By The Sea has the whip - smart chatter and structural ambition of an Original Screenplay winner, it's hard to shake the sneaking suspicion that La La Land's winning streak might continue here, even if the writing isn't really what anyone loves about this movie.

Attributed to the once - accomplished Ed Solomon (Men in Black, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Charlie's Angels), the underachieving Boaz Yakin (Prince of Persia, Safe) and novice Edward Ricourt, the screenplay is as smart as it needs to be, steering clear of obvious plot holes while keeping you guessing in a good way.

As in every Sorkin screenplay, the dialogue cascades at a frenetic pace, but Chastain nails each beat she's given with a performance that's sexy, smart and mesmerizing to behold.

But his latest feature, «Suburbicon,» provides reason for hope: for one thing, it's based on an»80s Coen brothers screenplay (rewritten by Clooney and his long - time writing and producing partner Grant Heslov) and it's a dark James Cain «Double Indemnity» story starring Clooney's «Oceans» co-star Matt Damon as a hapless miscreant — no one plays dumb and funny better — and an adept cast of smart comedy actors, including Julianne Moore as his wife and Oscar Isaac as the suspicious insurance man hounding them.

I wish the rest of the screenplay had been that smart.

Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law, Lily Tomlin, Dustin Hoffman, Naomi Watts, Isabelle Huppert, Tippi Hedren, Angela Grillo, Ger Duany, Jean Smart, Talia Shire, Bob Gunton, Shania Twain Director: David O. Russell Screenplay: David O. Russell, Jeff Baena Review published February 5, 2005

The smart, twisty screenplay is constantly bringing new complications and characters into the mix.

Heckerling's screenplay is both funny and smart, a rare combination in mainstream comedy, especially one aimed at young audiences.

After watching many other directors do justice to his smart and funny screenplays, it would seem Curtis has learned the formula for success well.

Also like a Woody Allen movie, the film is almost entirely dialogue driven but beautifully written so that every line thematically reinforces the smart observations of Holofcener's own screenplay.

In 2007, director Reitman and screenwriter teamed up for «Juno,» the whip - smart teen pregnancy comedy for which Cody won the Oscar for original screenplay.

An existing property, with big names and a smart filmmaker, fresh from Ex Machina «s Oscar win for FX and nomination for Original Screenplay?

Although an obvious and atrocious failure whose Stallone - authored screenplay, the end - product of a series of rewrites Stallone took it upon himself to inflict on Beverly Hills Cop, Cobra manages still to deliver a few smart genre mash - up moments, a few topical reflections of late -»80s crime - wave paranoia.

Cast: Shawn Hatosy, Alec Baldwin, Amy Smart, Jon Abrahams, Tommy Bone, Richard Jenkins, George Wendt Director: Michael Corrente Screenplay: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Michael Corrente Review published September 8, 1999

Cast: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Jean Smart, Missi Pyle, Steve Harris Director: Adam Shankman Screenplay: Jason Filardi Review published March 8, 2003

AWFJ Narrative Jurors MaryAnn Johanson (Chair), Beth Hanna, Katherine Brodsky, Monika Bartyzel, Julide Tanriverdi and Laurie Coker commended the film for its «smart and sophisticated screenplay and beautifully sensitive cinematography that give us intimate access to the interwoven stories of several delightfully quirky and very engaging characters as they struggle to express their true identities and realize their dreams in a world rife with alienating challenges.

The screenplay also sees the group as being clever about the attention (since there's no such thing as bad publicity) and smart about framing the debate as an issue of free speech.

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Its screenplay is smart and its strong visual direction, unwavering.

Cast: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Amy Smart, Tom Green Director: Todd Phillips Screenplay: Todd Phillips, Scot Armstrong Review published June 19, 2000

The screenplay (by Andrew J. Cohen, Brendan O'Brien, director Nicholas Stoller, star Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg) pulls off what might be the trickiest of comic approaches: It disguises how smart it actually is under a veil of playing dumb.

Cast: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Snoop Dogg, Fred Williamson, Jason Bateman, Amy Smart, Carmen Electra, Chris Penn Director: Todd Phillips Screenplay: John O'Brien, Todd Phillips, Scot Armstrong

Featuring a screenplay by the king of quirky Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine is that rarest of beasts; a Hollywood film that is smart, creative and above all, original.

While including some smart dialogue, the screenplay suffers from unexplained leaps: The police arrive in the back alley at the moment White would have killed Joe (who called them?)

The screenplay, by a team of four writers, including Inarritu himself, is packed with witty, sharp dialogue, some dark elements, and smart, biting commentary on a variety of topics, including Hollywood vs. Broadway, movies vs. the stage, actors vs. celebrities, performers vs. critics, career vs. family, and «the biggie»: the true meanings of life.

Angela Workman's screenplay, adapted from Diane Ackerman's eponymous truth - based novel, presents a female protagonist who is sensitive, courageous, smart and effective — a gentle mother, animal lover and heroine.

«Wolverine seems like the obvious person to choose, but it wasn't for us — maybe because we're not that smart — but Matthew Vaughn, who was the director at the time and with whom I developed the screenplay initially, and I explored the idea of sending Bishop back, Cable being sent back, a new character being sent back.

Promised Land is smart to avoid staging a debate on fracking (The screenplay covers a lot of the bases on both sides, and it's difficult to ignore the movie's final stance) but instead to use that dispute as the springboard for a character study.