Sentences with phrase «struggling actor»

Greg (Dave Franco) is a 19 - year - old struggling actor living in San Francisco.

He plays struggling actor and divorced dad Daniel who tries to stay in his kids» lives by dressing up as an (unconvincing and slightly creepy) older woman and getting hired by his ex-wife (Sally Field) to be the children's nanny.

Confessions of a Superhero (Unrated) this is your life documentary chronicles the fledgling careers of a quartet of struggling actors aspiring for fame and fortune who are presently employed to portray Batman (Maxwell Allen), Superman (Christopher Dennis), The Hulk (Joseph McQueen) and Wonder Woman (Jennifer Gerht) on the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard.

Wish I Was Here / U.S.A. (Director: Zach Braff, Screenwriters: Zach Braff, Adam Braff)-- Aidan Bloom, a 35 - year - old struggling actor, father, and husband, is still trying to find purpose in his life.

Struggling actor trying to balance work, girls, and friends.

Zach Braff's first film in 10 years, Wish I Was Here follows struggling actor Aidan Bloom (Braff) as he's forced to reevaluate his choices after his father (Mandy Patinkin's Gabe) falls ill - with the film detailing the impact that Aidan's midlife crisis has on the various folks in his life, including his wife (Kate Hudson's Sarah), brother (Josh Gad's Noah), and two children (Joey King's Grace and Pierce Gagnon's Tucker).

Jordan is talking about the film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's beloved Off - Broadway musical «The Last Five Years,» about the beginning and the end of a marriage between struggling actor Cathy (Anna Kendrick) and successful novelist Jamie (Jordan).

Superstars are made in this town and that sign has been an inspiration to many struggling actors following their dreams.

Struggling actors subject themselves to stringent diet and performance schedules to pursue their theatrical dreams, while would - be executives embrace overtime grunt - work to scale the corporate heights.

An uneven yet affable piece of work, Due Date follows harried architect Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) as his ongoing efforts at getting home to his pregnant wife (Michelle Monaghan's Sarah) are consistently foiled - with his companion virtually every step of the way a loud - mouthed struggling actor named Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis).

But Chappell's triumphant comeback begins to spiral out of control into a wild night of comic misadventure after meeting struggling actor Spencer and his old flame Didi.

There is a story amid all this figurative and literal excrement: a dirty - minded Freaky Friday riff with Bateman's workaholic family man switching bodies with his best friend, Ryan Reynolds» irresponsible, uber - douchey struggling actor.

Struggling actor Andrew Largeman (Braff) returns to his tiny hometown upon the drowning death of his paraplegic mother.

2015 Emma Stone receives an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in «Birdman,» playing the daughter of Michael Keaton's struggling actor character.

The 27 - year - old Oscar - nominated actress said it was a tough time as she was uncertain about her destiny like any other struggling actor, reported People magazine.

Ashton Kutcher appears briefly as Perabo's self - absorbed struggling actor boyfriend Hank, and the marriage between actor and character meld perfectly when Hank admits, «I'm not that good of an actor.

The Disaster Artist depicts how writer / director / producer / actor Tommy Wiseau teamed up with struggling actor Greg Sestero to make The Room and while so much of what happens is hilarious, the film still acknowledges Wiseau's pain, passion and triumph of sorts.

The film is at its best when it focuses on the two struggling actors sharing grand delusions of becoming superstars.

Taxi driver and struggling actor Johnny Sullivan fits actor Paddy Considine like a glove.

Over two decades and 25 interviews we followed George Clooney's journey from struggling actor to major superstar and...

Riggan, store now a middle - aged struggling actor, view is trying to change that by directing, adapting and starring in a Broadway production of Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

The suspense picks up in the last couple of episodes, but for a show that's about a gun - toting hit man and a class full of struggling actors, Barry demonstrates something entirely unexpected: restraint.

Pressured by his devoutly Jewish father, struggling actor Aidan Bloom (Zach Braff) has had his children enrolled in a private Hebrew school.

Ironic that a film about and starring so many struggling actors would make stars out of most involved, proving that sometimes when you lose, you win.

And like his directorial debut, Braff also stars in the film about a 35 - year - old struggling actor, father, and husband, who is still trying to find purpose in his life, especially after the death of his father.

Like a struggling actor heading west to Hollywood hoping to strike gold with his first big role, I was excited to level up in the industry.

Brian «Kato» Kaelin was a struggling actor who lived in a guesthouse on Simpson's property, and was there the night of the murders.

«One day I was a struggling actor, and the next day, the media flexed their muscle and I became a celebrity, a pariah, the world's most famous house guest, a traitor, a dummy, a liar, a freeloader and even an assassin's target,» he wrote.

Twenty years ago he was a struggling actor, knocking around the same studio lot, just trying to find a job.

Hale and his wife met in New York City, when Hale was a struggling actor doing «every job under the sun of temp work» until he started landing a few commercial gigs, including the famous Volkswagen ad where he danced to «Mr. Roboto.»

❤️ In my 8 years as a struggling actor, I came to the realization that the hardest thing to obtain from another human being is their genuine interest.

Mary recounts her own path to becoming a world - renowned caterer, accidentally ending up on that career path after years as a struggling actor.

In a reflective Instagram post, the mega-movie star shared how 15 years ago, he ate sardines and hustled for gas money just to get by as a struggling actor, but encouraged everyone to «never stop believing.»

Synopsis: James (Jeff Garlin), a struggling actor, lives with his mother (Mina Kolb) and binges on junk food.

After 12 years as a struggling actor, Mark Ruffalo became the next big thing with his exceptional performance in the Oscar - nominated independent film You Can Count on Me (2000).

A struggling actor decides to quit the business in the most permanent way possible in this dark comedy drama starring Paul Rudd, Donal Logue, and Mackenzie Astin.

Synopsis: Aidan Bloom (Zach Braff), a struggling actor, lives in Los Angeles with his wife (Kate Hudson) and two children, Grace and Tucker.

In some ways this feels like a sequel to GARDEN STATE, with Braff once again playing a struggling actor.

Alan Tudyk plays Wray Nerely, a struggling actor who makes ends meet by attending science fiction conventions based on his performance in a cult SF TV series, Spectrum.

PLOT: Aidan Bloom (Zach Braff) is a struggling actor trying to juggle the responsibilities of fatherhood with the pursuit of his acting dreams of glory - while his patient wife (Kate Hudson) supports the family working at a menial data entry job.

Soon, Jake's parents Brian (Greg Kinnear) and Kathy (Jennifer Ehle)-- one, a struggling actor, the other, a psychotherapist — ask Leonor to sign a new, steeper lease on her store.

A sad man, Lester (Gabriel Byrne), and his quirky friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy, Boyd Gaines), all aging, struggling actors, spend their spare time in a New York actors» lounge while scrounging for small - time parts.

Braff plays Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor whose wife Sarah (Kate Hudson) is the sole breadwinner of the family, supporting him and their two children (Joey King and Pierce Gagnon) with her drab, government job while he's off pursuing his dream.

Omari Hardwick says Denzel Washington helped him when he was a struggling actor living on the streets of Los Angeles.

«Enemy» Synopsis: An antisocial college lecturer in Toronto discovers that he has a doppelganger, a struggling actor.

Otherwise, the plot revolves around the unlikely financial arrangement secretly struck between rebellious, aristocrat de Vere (Rhys Ifans) and alcoholic commoner Shakespeare (Rafe Spall) at a time when the former was a prolific, closet playwright while the latter was a struggling actor.

It is important to point out that James McAvoy was a true definition of a «struggling actor».

Wish I Was Here is about a struggling actor who can't afford private school for his two kids anymore, so he decides to home school them.