Sentences with phrase «stock girl character»

Jimmy's older sister, Donna, likewise served as Odyssey's stock girl character.

Not exact matches

«Hula Girls» (TBA): Fun little globalization comedy with heart about a small Japanese town that, when the factory closes, turns to a Hawaiian theme park stocked with the title characters to draw tourism.

Haven't even touched on the subplot involving a swarthy, hilarious French cowboy (Dante regular Robert Picardo), or Jack's own inamorata, a check - out girl the filmmakers so mishandle that she inadvertently becomes Innerspace's most complex character: her shifts in personality due to schizoid scripting result in actress Wendy Schaal — another member of Dante's stock company — creating a person in more emotional turmoil than even Jack and Tuck.

The great character actors of the Warner Bros. stock company fill in the supporting roles, with Ginger Rogers in a memorable role as the gold - digging chorine known as «Anytime Annie,» Una Merkel as her chorus girl buddy, and Ned Sparks as a wise guy investor dropping wry remarks with a cynical sneer.

Rosamund Pike might be a stronger actress, but she feels like she has been looking over what the last 19 films of Bond girls had done, rather than finding an original take on the stock character.

A»90s - obsessed high school senior and self - confessed nerd who falls into a get - rich - quick scheme by accident while also pining for the older girl to whom he hopes to lose his virginity, the central character in Rick Famuyiwa «s «Dope» sounds like a stock role for a high school comedy.

So basic, instantly recognizable and well - worn is the trail being blazed here before us that the film features, amongst other overdone stock characters as a doting mother, a keenly aware and far too observant pre-teen little girl, and not one, but two Manic Pixie Dream Girls (MPDG).

Cynical attraction A post-modern post-mortem of love — or something like it — «(500) Days Of Summer» introduces us to Tom (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) and Summer (Zooey Deschanel), a lady since invoked in countless discussions of that stock indie romcom character, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

It's a rote and bathetic production from top to bottom, from Douglas's successful man violated from without (The Game, Fatal Attraction) to Murphy's all - too familiar turn (see her unbalanced character in Girl, Interrupted); from Esposito's underwritten cliché of a cop to the laughably stock band of cardboard cut - out villains.