Sentences with phrase «stock role»

Only The Brave does make an effort with the potentially stock role of Marsh's wife, Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), by giving her an interest beyond making or taking tearful phone calls — she's a rancher, and less deferential to her husband than might be expected from this sort of material.

The last significant piece of the puzzle is Harvey, a government operative played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who does what he can to bring sly Southern charm to this pretty stock role, which otherwise involves simply trading juvenile insults with Johnson.

The assorted supporting characters, all resigned to sad stock roles, fail to register, so much so that the actually evil king Tervin only has two scenes before the final battle.

Hela, the villain of the piece, is a vicious, unforgivable badass who takes no prisoners (okay, she crowns Karl Urban's Skurge as her executioner), but Cate Blanchett is too nuanced and magnetic of an actress that one wishes she were given extra shadings to play with this stock role.

Which is not to say that Battleship isn't filled with them, just that they feel fresh because of things like the clever way in which the film references the original board game, or the way Jesse Plemmons takes a stock role — the sailor who talks too much when he's nervous — and adds just a few quirks that make him feel like a real individual.

How is it that Tom Welling, the WB's new «Smallville» heartthrob, finds himself in the David from «Eight is Enough» role (another family drama coloured by the death of a parent), while the rest of the non-descript kinder fill the stock roles of pre-lesbian, frog - loving freak, princess, twins, and rabble?

It's a stock role, but Beetz plays it as if she's still on Atlanta, providing (improvising?)

Steinfeld has a command of all Nadine's complicated awkwardness, while Sedgwick and Jenner bring depth and great sympathy to what might have been stock roles.

It's the sort of stock role you get in these biopics when it comes to hearing what a wife has to say in the midst of a movie about men discussing all the essential drama.

However, these guys are likeable in their stock roles.

Only Meester seems to be trying, getting her Jennifer Jason Leigh stares down pat and showing a few subtleties, but she's wasted in this stock role.

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.

But she holds her own here, in the average love interest part, adding enough bite that you can see why she was cast over the likes of the usual suspects in this stock role, such as Rachel McAdams or Sandra Bullock.

What follows is another slapstick dose of hard - R ridiculosity with a soft - nougat center, but it also passes the Bechdel test maybe better than any other film this year, and its older generation of stars are too smart not to go to town on their stock roles.

Cranston pours himself into his stock role, bellowing accusations with scary conviction and mournfully sifting through the wreckage of his abandoned home, à la Walter White.

Gugino — never less than grounded — may be wasted on the stock role of a surrogate mother, but Oldman pops in his part as an ex-scientist whose guilt and responsibility for Gardner's circumstances might indicate a deeper concern.