Sentences with phrase «street magician»

Now he's in the Sundance spotlight with «Sleight,» playing a young street magician who turns to dealing drugs when he's left to care for his little sister following their mother's death.

The duo is also feeling the heat from Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), a self - mutilating street magician who's attracting the younger audience that Burt and Anton's employer Doug Munny (James Gandolfini) desperately covets.

He will always be Justified's Flex, the would - be street magician in my heart, but we've arrived at the next phase of Chadwick Boseman's career, the all - out movie star phase.

When Burt is overshadowed by popular street magician Steve Gray (Carrey), he must convince Anton to return to the act to regain his standing by all means necessary.

WHAT: Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carrel) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) used to be the hottest act on the Vegas Strip, but in recent years, they've been overshadowed by a self - mutilating street magician named Steve Gray (Jim Carrey).

After his mother's death, a young street magician turns to dealing drugs at parties to support his little sister.

Within each group, one person watched a clip of a talented street magician performing tricks for an audience, while the three others watched a low - budget animation video.

There was a belief in that day among street magicians and those who tried to practice sorcery and things of that sort that you could gain power over a person by naming them.

Director and co-writer Robert Zemeckis kills time with curdled whimsy as Gordon - Levitt, speaking in zee outrageous French accent, shows us Petit's early years as a Paris street magician, student of Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley) and lover of Annie (Charlotte Le Bon).

The four main characters are all different types of magicians: arrogant slight - of - hand artist Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), mentalist Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson); shock magician Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), and street magician Jack Wilder (Dave Franco).

The 2013 thriller Now You See Me was all about a team of varyingly intolerable street magicians who discovered that a mysterious figure was grooming them to join a secret society of supposedly «real» magicians — as in actual magic, not illusions.

Now opens by introducing us to four solo street magicians: the egotistical illusionist J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), his theatrical former assistant Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), hypnotic shakedown artist and mentalist Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), and young small - time pickpocket Jack Wilder (Dave Franco).

But as their friendship digresses into thinly veiled hatred, rising guerilla street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey) threatens to topple them.

J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), a flashy street magician, becomes the leader of the quartet, probably by virtue of being the mouthiest.

Sleight is about a young street magician living in Los Angeles that must fight off a drug lord using his intelligence and natural talent in order to save his younger sister and win over a girl.

It's a fitting start to Now You See Me — a snappy catchphrase for street magician J. Daniel Atlas (Eisenberg) and a warning for the whole audience.

After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, «hip» street magician appears on the scene.

That's the lesson that young Carter, a runaway street magician, learns in Neil Patrick Harris» debut middle grade novel.

But they are simple street magicians hoping to fool another mark and cash another check.

A young street magician is left to take care of his little sister after his mother's passing and turns to drug dealing in the Los Angeles party scene to keep a roof over their heads.

This is the kind of film that the less known about it the better, magicians are not supposed to reveal their secrets The movie starts with four street magicians who are all working in different parts of the world an on different levels of success.

And, worst of all, a vulgar new «extreme» street magician, Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), begins to steal Burt's thunder.

a street magician [Jacob Latimore] who starts dealing drugs to raise his sister [Storm Reid] after the death of their mom.

Sleight is about a street magician in Los Angeles who gives himself superpowers and takes on a local drug dealer to save his sister.

The film tells the story of an ambitious young New Yorker (Kristen Bell), disillusioned with romance, who takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a «foolish» fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate (Danny Devito), a street magician (Jon Heder), an adoring painter (Will Arnett) and a self - admiring model (Dax Shepard).

One is a street magician played by Jim Carrey, whose character's idea of magic is to engage in various masochistic activities, from hammering a nail into a table with his forehead to scalding his arm over birthday candles so that the blisters spell out «Happy birthday» to drilling a hole in his skull with a power tool.

Steve Gray (Carrey), the street magician with a propensity for grievous bodily injury, has changed the way people look at magic, whether they like it or not.

Despite the street magician twist, Sleight can't help feeling cliché in spots.

«Sleight» is an ambitious genre mash - up about a young street magician that pulls off a nifty bit of trickery itself.

Just take a stroll along the fashionable Champs Elysee towards the Arc de Triomphe, enjoy the café culture and be entertained by street magicians and singers.

Starting his career as a street magician, he was soon following in the footsteps of Houdini - seeking out that which seems physically impossible and doing it for real.