Sentences with phrase «story of a love triangle»

«A Royal Affair» tells the true story of the love triangle between the mentally ill Danish King Christian VII (played by Mikkel Boe Folsgaard), his young, but strong, wife, Queen Caroline Mathilda (portrayed by Alicia Vikander) and their royal physician, who was a man of enlightenment and idealism, Johann Friedrich Struensee (played by Mads Mikkelsen), in the 1760 - 70s.

With its story of a love triangle gone sour, the unintentionally comic result was a masterpiece of inept moviemaking — inane, non-sequitur-filled dialogue, hilariously melodramatic acting, gratuitous sex, and a nonsensical narrative rife with inconsistencies, red herrings, and plot holes.

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Nearly 10 years after publishing Middlesex, Eugenides will publish The Marriage Plot — the story of a love triangle that takes place after the three main characters graduate from college in 1982.

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The Edge / Big Show / Vickie Guerrero love triangle was the centerpiece of this story, but Cena butted in due to Edge taking the title off him in the first place at Elimination Chamber.

The official Danish Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entry, «A Royal Affair» charts the story of a passionate and forbidden love triangle that has consequences for an entire nation.

At this point, the movie transforms from a (gefilte) fish - returning - to - water story to a love triangle, in which Esti must choose between a relationship stuffed with scream - inducing sex or a cold coupling that confers a place of respect in the community.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Disney Releases Finale of Depp Trilogy on DVD Who cares that this might be an incoherent, overplotted mess, when it comes stocked with an intriguing love triangle, plus enough swashbuckling action and spooky special effects to make you forget the fact that the story is almost impossible to keep straight?

The unfortunate part of love - triangle stories is ensuring that each thread of the entangled relationships is given enough depth.

It is a story of youth that transcends time, a gothic romance, a love triangle that involves a dark passenger and we are tremendously excited to have such an exciting cast onboard this wonderful project.

Yes, it's the story of a very complicated love triangle, which might limit its appeal to audiences...

Set in WWI Russia by way of claustrophobic sets transformed into Maddin's dreamland imagery, this story of a one - legged soldier (Maddin regular Kyle McCulloch) caught in a romantic triangle between his lovesick landlady and a married nurse (Kathy Marykuca) who resembles his dead lover is less a parody of silent cinema than a loving crackpot tribute.

After all, the story does have a love triangle and some scenes of societal decay that Hollywood disaster movies specialize in and hey!

The story — a mishmash of Romeo and Juliet, Orpheus and Eurydice, and about a dozen other sources — involves a love triangle between gentle Manolo (voiced by Diego Luna), lovely Maria (Zoe Saldana) and vainglorious but good - natured Joachin (Channing Tatum).

The story begins to struggle as Valjean takes a backseat to accommodate the rise of subplots that involve love triangles and a French uprising that takes all the focus for a good chunk of time but lacks the emotion pull of Valjean's tale.

ROBBERS STUDIO: Sony Pictures TV and Timberman / Beverly TEAM: Christopher Cook (w, co-ep), Michael Dinner (w, d, ep), Sarah Timberman (ep), Carl Beverly (ep) LOGLINE: Described as being in the literary - noir tradition of Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, it tells the story of a cop, two «running buddies» on a crime spree across Texas and the girl who becomes the complication in a very unique love triangle.

Final Verdict: Eclipse finally cracks the formula, extending the back stories and supporting cast, but never losing sight of the love triangle at the beating heart of Twilight.

Alan Rickman stars in this simmering early 20th - century love story about a triangle between an aging factory owner, his young bride (Rebecca Hall) and his handsome protégé (Game of Thrones» Richard Madden).

Bill Murray was very convincing as FDR, the King & Queen of England were perfectly portrayed, the music of the film was wonderful, the color stunning, and I enjoyed two odds aspects of the story; that the wife of main character need not be an Earth - shattering presence and that love triangles don't necessarily always shatter.

The ensemble will tell the story behind the genesis of «The Room,» about a love triangle set in San Francisco.

The story itself begins as a love triangle melodrama of star - crossed lovers ripped apart by war and transforms into a veritable love story between two men, comrades in arms brought together by battle and the mutual love of the same woman, but this is no romanticized portrait of courage and comradeship forged under fire.

Because the film features con artists at work it is easy to anticipate the lies on top of lies procedure, therefore, the love triangle that forms between the three leads becomes the real emphasis of the story.

The story does, however, concern a kind of fallout: the aftermath of a messy love triangle involving a philandering publisher (Kwon Hae - hyo), his mistress (Kim Sae - byeok), and his enraged wife (Cho Yunhee).

And if you know much of Cohen's backstory (he avoided sex because of his OCD disorder), it's hard to buy into the love - triangle element of this story, which is only very loosely based on fact.

A love triangle becomes a love quadrangle, every inner thought of the trapped Melanie is conveyed through grating narration, and the story is protracted well beyond its natural conclusion.

Lawless, which is scheduled to be released in 2013, is described as the story of «two intersecting love triangles, sexual obsession and betrayal, set against the music scene in Austin, Texas».

In the Shadow of Women — Philippe Garrel, France North American Premiere A Parisian documentary filmmaker becomes embroiled in a romantic triangle in this luminous love story from the great director Philippe Garrel (Frontier of Dawn, Regular Lovers).

I saw films with stories about finding happiness even with cancer (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), the struggles of addiction (I Smile Back), transgender women in Los Angeles (Tangerine), post-apocalyptic love triangles (Z for Zachariah), a teenage girl's sexual awakening (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), relationships between interviewer and interviewee (End of the Tour, True Story), washed up Olympians (The Bronze), two kids who go for a joy ride (Cop Car), psychological studies (The Stanford Prison Experiment), lesbian lovers coming - of - age (The Summer of Sangaile), being a single parent (People, Places, Things), and geeky kids learning how to grow up (Dope).

If I look, most of my books include some form of love triangle, because it just makes for such a great story.

Thankfully, Rowell avoids the played - out chick - lit love triangle and creates a much more interesting story of the tension between friendship and love, and between a successful woman's work life and her family life.

In the midst of the league championship match, the intertwining stories of those gathered at the 411 club reveal Russell's dangerous debt to a local drug dealer, his teammate Tristan Mackey's involvement in the disappearance of a college student, and a love triangle with a former classmate.

A doomed love triangle is destined to end in disaster in a haunting story of passion that can never be reciprocated.

Unable to secure studio support, Wiseau personally invested more than $ 7 million in production and marketing for the film, which tells the story of a tragic love triangle between Wiseau's greasy - haired banker Johnny, his «future wife» Lisa (Juliette Daniel), and his best friend Mark (Gregg Sestero).

There is no romantic subplot, but a maturely handled love triangle at the core of the story.

Finding out it's who you are rather than where you came from that matters, learning to trust other people no matter their background, navigating tricky love triangles and attempting to get the girl even when she's busy conjuring monsters out of living statues - those are the story beats to remember.

The game was named after the de facto villain, a gorilla (which was named after the classic 1933 movie monster King Kong), instead of the player - character Mario (or «Jumpman», as he was named at the time), because designer Shigeru Miyamoto felt Donkey Kong had to be the strongest character in the love triangle displayed on - screen - the game used then - innovative techniques to tell the on - screen story of how the stubborn pet gorilla of «Jumpman» the carpenter steals away his girlfriend, Pauline, and it is up to the hero to save the damsel in distress.

A Vicious Undertow (2007) tells the story of a love - triangle between a middle - aged woman, a younger woman, and a man.