Sentences with phrase «stars as the salesman»

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Specializing in playing shambling, cantankerous cynics, Walter Matthau, with his jowly features, slightly stooped posture, and seedy, rumpled demeanor, looked as if he would be more at home as a laborer or small - time insurance salesman than as a popular movie star equally adept at drama and comedy.

But Last Days works only when it deviates from this pattern, as it does in a hilarious scene depicting the rock star's friendly yet indifferent agreement to buy space in the yellow pages from a clueless door - to - door salesman (Thadeus A. Thomas, the movie's only perfectly cast actor), or when it focuses on other members of Blake's entourage, or when the camera retreats at a snail's pace from the mansion for what feels like eternity.

The film stars Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, a salesman from the Midwest who partners with Richard «Dick» and Maurice «Mac» McDonald to franchise a burger chain owned by the brothers.

Vaughn wrote the screenplay with Jared Stern, and he stars as Billy McMahon, a middle - aged watch salesman who, along with his buddy Nick (Owen Wilson), is left unemployed when his company closes.

I wrote a feature review of Sony's DVD release of Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana, starring Alec Guinness as a meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana who concocts fictional intelligence reports for the British Secret Service, for Turner Classic Movies.

With his own money, Rodriguez filmed a three page short story titled «The Customer is Always Right» Starring Josh Hartnett as the Salesman and Marley Shelton as the Customer.

Liam Neeson stars as an insurance salesman whose commute home suddenly takes a dangerous turn.

In Promised Land, Matt Damon stars as Steve Butler, a corporate salesman whose journey from farm boy to big - time player takes an unexpected detour when he lands in a small town, where he grapples with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors.

Smith stars as Christopher Gardner, a struggling salesman in San Francisco during the early 1980s who sells luxury medical equipment that most doctors and hospitals have deemed unnecessary.

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 film stars Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, a salesman from the Midwest who partners with Richard «Dick» and Maurice «Mac» McDonald to franchise a burger chain...

Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, and Tommy Lee Jones star as boardroom casualties in what, at times, resembles a cross between «Up in the Air» (minus the fun parts and the romance) and «Death of a Salesman.»

It stars Dustin Hoffman (74) as a weary gangster, his first lead role in a television series (he won an Emmy in 1986 for his performance as Willy Loman in a television adaptation of Death of a Salesman), Nick Nolte (70) as a trainer for whom the word grizzled appears to have been created and eye - catching supporting roles for Michael Gambon (71) and Dennis Farina (67).

Vince Vaughn (who wrote the story) and Owen Wilson, two Hollywood actors that have made a career playing aging adolescents, star as a couple of recently unemployed watch salesmen.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway star in the rom - com which revolves around a Viagara salesman (Gyllenhaal) overcoming his history of sordid relationships so as to land a woman who suffers from Parkinson's disease (Hathaway).

Farhadi's screenplay, also awarded at Cannes, weaves its plot around Arthur Miller's «Death of a Salesman» as the onscreen couple stars in an amateur production of the play.

The Commuter (PG - 13 for profanity and intense violence) Liam Neeson stars in this suspense thriller as an insurance salesman who finds himself caught up in a criminal conspiracy on his way home from work after being offered $ 100,000 by a mysterious stranger to uncover the identity of a passenger hiding on the train.

Jason Statham (War, Crank) stars as Terry Leather, a two - bit car salesman who is being harassed constantly by thugs sent by the local loan shark for payment.

Adapted from Laura Hillenbrand's book, «Seabiscuit» stars Jeff Bridges as the charming car salesman - turned - horse owner Charles Howard, Chris Cooper as reclusive trainer Tom Smith, and Tobey Maguire as bulimic over-sized jockey Red Pollard (he's also ginger, hence the moniker).

Pegg stars as a lovelorn English salesman who slowly realizes those blokes stumbling about his neighborhood aren't drunk but rather dead.

HOLY MAN Eddie Murphy stars as a spiritual seeker in this utterly dreadful, rudderless, sort - of comedy about a homeless man who becomes a famous salesman on a home - shopping network.

Starring: Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow, Jonathan Winters as Wilbur Glenworthy, Anjanette Comer as Aimee Thanatogenos, Dana Andrews as Gen. Buck Brinkman, Milton Berle as Mr. Kenton, James Coburn as Immigration Officer, John Gielgud as Sir Francis Hinsley, Margaret Leighton as Mrs. Helen Kenton, Tab Hunter as Whispering Glades Tour Guide, Rod Steiger as Mr. Joyboy, Alan Napier as British Club Official, Robert Easton as Dusty Acres, Roddy McDowall as D.J.Jr., Robert Morley as Sir Ambrose Abercombie, Barbara Nichols as Sadie Blodgett, Lionel Stander as The Guru Brahmin, Bernie Kopell as Brahmin's Assistant, Paul Williams as Gunther Fry, Chick Hearn as Space - Burial Funeral Announcer, Ayllene Gibbons as Joyboy's Mother, Liberace as Whispering Glades Funeral Salesman

Danny DeVito and Richard Dreyfuss starred as feuding aluminum siding salesman in 1963 Baltimore, and once again Levinson demonstrated his flair for capturing the vernacular of a particular species of American male, effusive about work, food and pop culture, clueless about the women around them.

Michael Keaton («Spotlight») stars as Ray Kroc, a struggling salesman, who gets a life - changing phone call from Dick and Mac McDonald (Nick Offerman, «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» and John Carroll Lynch, «Ted 2»), two Californian brothers who sell hamburgers and make great milkshakes.

John Ritter (Sling Blade, Tadpole) stars as Roy Knables, a mediocre plumbing supplies salesman by day, a couch potato at all other times.