Sentences with phrase «stars as playwright»

Christopher Reeve (Superman, The Remains of the Day) stars as playwright Richard Collier, who is visited as a college student by a strange old woman telling him to come back to her, giving him an antique time piece.

Not exact matches

Though subsequent performances in Better Than Sex (2000) and Russian Doll (2001) earned Wenham even more critical acclaim overseas, it was his role as a transvestite playwright in director Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge that gave the rising star his first true taste of international success.

Written by playwright Bill Bozzone, Full Moon in Blue Water stars Gene Hackman as Floyd, the owner of a small bar in a coastal Texas town.

Julianne Moore stars as an English teacher who decides to mount a play — and romance the playwright

John Turturro stars as the tortured playwright trying to maintain his lofty stance in a cut - rate commercialized world.

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when a former star student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City.

Under Pam MacKinnon's ruthlessly incisive direction, Tracy Letts and Amy Morton — playwright and star of the celebrated «August: Osage County» — reunite as a particularly well - matched George and Martha, whose epic battles are as dangerous as their need for each other is palpable.

Wisely, Allen doesn't cast himself in the lead role of the neurotic playwright, and he doesn't ask Cusack to mimic his mannerisms to the point where he's doing an all - out Allen imitation, as he has other lead actors in films where he doesn't star.

He is back at the A. R. T. as playwright and star in a furry, floppy - eared hat, a bemused expression, and a whale of a performance in NICE FISH.

Also in attendance were the stars of the play Billy Carter, Johnny Flynn, Mark Addy, Reece Shearsmith, Gaby French and Sally Rogers, as well as playwright Martin McDonagh, director Matthew Dunster and managing director Jeffory Lawson.

The story of Riggan Thomson's (Michael Keaton) effort to be taken seriously as an actor / director / playwright after having starred in three superhero movies twenty years ago — Birdman is directed as a continuous shot (which is difficult because the film takes place over a considerably longer period that its two - hour running time).

One of the funniest comedies ever, «The Producers» stars Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel as an accountant and playwright who do everything they can to produce a Broadway flop.

In addition to the family interviews and archival material, the film does include new interviews with two luminaries — playwright Tony Kushner and the late director Mike Nichols (who staged the somewhat controversial 2012 revival of Salesman starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman).

The Daily Show alum Jessica Williams stars as an aspiring playwright in New York City who is on the rebound.

The words «TEXAS REDNECK» jump off the poster for «Killer Joe,» William Friedkin's neo noir / Southern Gothic black comedy written by playwright Tracy Letts and starring Matthew McConaughey as a hitman who's also a cop.

Wiig stars as Imogene Duncan, a once - promising playwright in NYC who finds herself in the unenviable position of returning home to return to her childhood home in New Jersey following being jilted by her handsome Dutch boyfriend (Petsos, MacGruber), finally breaking down after a fake suicide attempt gone awry.

From the directors of American Splendor and The Nanny Diaries and based on a novel by Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames, The Extra Man stars Kevin Kline as a poor, eccentric playwright who takes a young writer, played by Paul Dano, under his wing.

Erstwhile elf and occasional pirate Orlando Bloom returns to the West End for the first time in a decade to star as a cop who moonlights as a killer - for - hire in this revival of US playwright Tracy Letts's 1993 play.

Prick Up Your Ears sees Gary Oldman star as the provocative playwright who went from working class Leicester lad to the toast of London's swinging art scene in the 1960s.

It all started on the festival's first day with «La La Land»» s Emma Stone, who stars in Damien Chazelle's dizzyingly lovely, boisterous musical as Mia, a starlet and playwright with big dreams.

WHILE WE»RE YOUNG Writer / Director: Noah Baumbach Starring: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin When writer / director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) uses a quote from playwright Henrik Ibsen as the setup for his story, I knew right then and there this was going to be up my alley.

Also nominated were Julie Harris, recreating her stage role as the young girl in The Member of the Wedding; Bette Davis, again playing a fading actress in The Star; Joan Crawford with her final nomination as a playwright in Sudden Fear; and Susan Hayward in the biopic of World War II entertainer Jane Froman, With a Song in My Heart.