Sentences with phrase «sorts of romantic comedies»

Nancy Meyers (Something's Got ta Give, What Women Want), who excels at crafting just these sorts of romantic comedies for more mature female audiences, delivers perhaps her most original premise for a film.

NNancy Meyers (Something's Got ta Give, What Women Want), who excels at crafting just these sorts of romantic comedies for more mature female audiences, delivers perhaps her most original premise for a film.

Phantom Thread is, in the end, a perverse sort of romantic comedy, a wicked tribute to the compromises and lovable madnesses of couplehood, all staged with elegant restraint by Anderson and given lift by Jonny Greenwood's lush and alluring score.

Music and Lyrics isn't the sort of romantic comedy that will wow anyone who doesn't already have a preference for them, but if you love Hugh (American Dreamz, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason), love Drew (Fever Pitch, 50 First Dates), and the types of movies they typically make, this is about as polished, efficient, and spot on as they come in terms of formula rom - coms.

In the theater he collaborated with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award winning play «700 Sunday,» Martin Short's Broadway hit «Fame Becomes Me,» and he wrote the off - Broadway play «Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner - A Sort of Romantic Comedy» which he adapted from his bestselling book.

Not exact matches

A handful of New Yorkers with little in common cross one another's paths as they try to sort out their romantic and emotional troubles in this comedy drama from writer and director Eric Schaeffer.

Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister, with Emily Blunt, was a sort of mumblecore Noel Coward romantic triangle comedy.

But it sort of fizzled, which is a shame because it's a smart, funny and affectionate romantic comedy that was billed as Rock's Annie Hall.

Too many romantic comedies witlessly hone in on the differences between men and women to create a heightened - stakes backdrop in which every interaction with the opposite sex is imbued with some sort of grand, gender - statement significance, which is of course then supposed to be neatly resolved and tidily put away by the time a paired - off happy ending rolls around.

If you're in the mood for a charming romantic comedy of a different sort, The Baxter won't leave you stranded.

Here, screenwriter Patrick O'Neill asserts, is the time we're supposed to realize it's not about the action but about the relationship between June and Roy, an on - again, off - again sort of love / hate relationship almost befitting a romantic comedy, except punctuated by chases by car, motorcycle, and foot.

«We wanted our leading lady to be very complex and not your traditional sort of bubbly, effusive romantic - comedy protagonist,» says Lister - Jones, co-writer, co-star and executive producer.

Sleeping with Other People, a romantic comedy of sorts about two wounded people, is smart enough to realize that the hopeless romantic is dead wrong.

It's a light confection, but well realized, as the laughs and pleasant tone is maintained throughout this sitcom premise (no surprise that director Sandrich («Soap», «Mary Tyler Moore») is a TV comedy vet) to overcome contrivances for the sake of a quality romantic comedy of sorts.

Although the studio buried it on video, it's still better than most theatrically released films of a similar sort, and if you find yourself watching all romantic comedies, no matter how dumb or contrived, you certainly won't be wasting your time with this one.

«' The Room» has been playing for 14 - and - a-half years, sort of like the new «Rocky Horror Picture Show» but, like, even worse,» Franco, 39, chuckles about the ineptly written, acted and directed tale of romantic betrayal that novice director Wiseau thought would be a Tennessee Williams - style, Oscar - contending drama, but since its laughed - at premiere has agreed with the world that it is a so - bad - its - great comedy.

It isn't all perfect, as there are moments of coincidence that defy suspension of disbelief, but in the world of romantic comedies, these sorts of serendipitous events are par for the course.

The former was as standard a romantic comedy as can be — beach walks, bumper car rides — with the improvised dialogue gimmick; Douchebag, an indie road movie, a sort of Sideways Greenberg with mumbling.

It's refreshing to see a film about an older man and younger woman that doesn't involve some sort of icky, Woody Allen-esque romance, because although «The Intern» isn't technically a romantic comedy, it features many of the same tropes reworked to fit Ben and Jules» platonic relationship.