Sentences with phrase «subplots concerns»

Meanwhile, a subplot concerning the possible closing of the town's pencil factory causes more consternation, since both parents are employed at the plant.

He does that here, too, in a subplot concerning a bevy of villains controlled by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

by Walter Chaw Closer in spirit to Mystery, Alaska than to the similarly Olympics - inspired Cool Runnings, Men with Brooms is an underdog sports intrigue mashed together with a bedroom farce — and neither dog - eared formula is handled with very much originality, while uncomfortable subplots concerning adultery, alcoholism, and healing father / son rifts (see also Hoosiers) vie for a level of pathos that always feels out of place in what is essentially The Bad News Bears (or The Replacements, or Slap Shot) for curling.

Only a minor subplot concerning the Sheik's countrymen and their worries that he is becoming too «westernized» slows the film down.

No tension sticks for long enough to make a discernible dramatic impression; queasily, even the subplot concerning an abuse victim in Poppy's class merely serves as a pretext to hook her up with a cute social worker.

Subplots concerning cultural sensitivity and repatriation to the community of origin are a plus.

A subplot concerning a baby elephant and animal cruelty is especially heart - wrenching but educational.

A conventional subplot concerns your sleuth's home life, or lack of one.

Not exact matches

I agree with the decision to lift a pair of sequences concerning Laney's alcoholic sister, brilliantly essayed by Childress's sister Patricia though she may be: the uncompromising (or «heavy - handed,» to borrow Stiller's assessment) nature of this rehab - set subplot clashes with the film's poppy façade.

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

Unfortunately, Morning Glory is at its worst when it concerns itself with Becky's love life — her romance with Adam is lifeless, and this subplot is murder to the pace.

Screenwriter Kelley Sane generally does an effective job of balancing the various characters and their respective storylines, though there's certainly no denying that some of these subplots are far more interesting than others (ie there's a seemingly pointless digression concerning an illicit relationship between two young Arabs, the relevance of which isn't made clear until the film's final moments).

Still, not all of its elements work: Corman adds a romantic subplot involving Francesca and her lover, as well as a much stranger one concerning a dwarf and a ballerina.

He also starts a relationship with his real estate agent (Constance Zimmer) that ends almost as quickly as it begins (A movie less concerned with its characters would exploit this as a major subplot to bring about more conflict).