Sentences with phrase «something of a curmudgeon»
Not exact matches
He's a curmudgeon with a heart of... not quite gold... but something like gold.
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Even Baumbach, the most caustic of the three, ends «The Squid and the Whale» with Jesse Eisenberg's Walt Berkman realizing that his father's toxic worldview isn't something worth aspiring to, while «Greenberg» gives some hope that Ben Stiller's titular curmudgeon might stop being such a jerk.
However, he is unlucky in that her dad (Jack Black) is a curmudgeon who pops out from windows and in between the slats of fences to warn Zach to stay away or else something bad will happen.
DJ (voiced by Mitchel Musso, «Hannah Montana») is a precocious young boy on the verge of turning teen that is sure something is amiss about the ominous house across the street, owned by the cantankerous curmudgeon, Nebbercracker (Buscemi, The Island).
Beautifully shot Bahrani's homeground of North Carolina, the film charts the tentative friendship between two very different social outsiders: Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), a Senegalese immigrant taxi driver struggling to make something of his life, and William (Red West), an elderly curmudgeon who appears to have given up on life altogether.
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