Sentences with phrase «successful as a comedy»

As well as Boogie Nights works as a drama — and it certainly gets dark and dramatic as things go bad for its characters — it's even more successful as a comedy.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, the actress is not alone as a believer with a successful comedy career.

Critics Consensus: Baggage Claim hits the same notes as a number of successful romantic comedies without establishing much personality of its own.

The physically stunning actress Emma Stone first made her mark among American audiences as an ingenue, via her involvement in the massively successful comedy Superbad (2007).

Not only did that make it the most successful «R» - rated comedy ever, it took over the crown as the third - biggest «R» - rated picture of any genre.

The actress's combination of deadpan comic timing and undeniable beauty made her an instant hot property in Hollywood, and she was soon appearing in comic fare like The House Bunny and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, as well as the hugely successful horror comedy Zombieland (2009).

An intelligent, lovable robot known as «Number 5» escapes from a secret research facility and learns to interact with the world at large in this successful comedy.

After appearing in The Waterboy (1998) and Big Daddy (1999), two wildly successful comedies starring fellow - SNL alum Adam Sandler, Schneider starred as the titular hero of Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, a fish tank cleaner who assumes the identity of a high - living gigolo.

Engvall acted in local productions as a child and adolescent, then launched a series of successful routines at the Dallas Comedy Corner.

A successful male - focused «dialog movie» (ie, lacking in explosions and not specifically marketed as a comedy) typically makes twice those numbers («Sideways», «Up In the Air», «The Descendants»).

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

He kicked off the most successful decade of his film career with a performance as Wimpy in the much - maligned Robert Altman musical comedy Popeye (1980).

John C. Reilly is an eccentric high school vice-principal in «Terri» (Fox), an indie comedy with Sundance credentials, Rhys Ifans plays «Mr. Nice» (MPI), based on the crazed true story of a wildly successful British marijuana smuggler, and «Beautiful Boy» (Anchor Bay) stars Maria Bello and Michael Sheen as separated parents who turn to each other in shared grief.

Island of the Alive, part of a package deal for Cohen that included Salem's Lot 2, is damn successful and — as it is a tonal shift into comedy — revisits the creepy crawlies territory of the original through a brand new lens.

He says his $ 30 million vampire spoof, starring Leslie Nielsen as the bloodsucker, will be «in the spirit» of his «Young Frankenstein,» made in 1974 and one of the most successful horror comedies of all time.

Odds are you have seen Entourage, HBO's successful 2004 comedy - turned - drama, which is loosely based on Mark Wahlberg's experiences in Hollywood as depicted through the life of star actor Vincent Chase.

The idea of «obviously» envisioning a comedy as part of a trilogy is a little bizarre, since there are very, very few examples of successful comedy trilogies and there's nothing in the original Hangover that looks like they're really setting things up for a sequel

This comedy stars Wyatt Cenac as a struggling novelist, constantly confronted by the fact his wife is a far more successful writer than he is.

And like Judge's 2006 dystopian comedy (which feels less and far fetched each passing day, as the meme goes), «Downsizing» is rife with witty visual touches and inspired comic premises but never quite comes together as fully successful whole.

Roberts is coming off a string of hugely successful romantic comedies that solidified her as a bonafide superstar, and a film about polluted water is definitely not something one would expect.

John L. Sullivan, played by Joel McCrea, is a successful Hollywood comedy director — but he wants to create serious art, in the form of a movie called O Brother, Where Art Thou, and as research, he leaves all his money behind and, disguised as a hobo, goes out to live among «real people.»

Collider: After the most successful R - rated comedy of all - time, as the director, can you talk a little bit about the challenge of following that up?

Are these scenes as successful as the human comedy that has preceded them?

After several successful years appearing in various television («Fame,» «Hill Street Blues») and film («King of the Mountain,» «The Lightship») William Forsythe made an impact on filmgoers everywhere as escaped convict Evelle Snoats in the Coen Brothers comedy «Raising Arizona.»

Julia Louis - Dreyfus continues her run as the second most successful cast member from Seinfeld to keep her career going strong with the HBO comedy series Veep.

WA's first movie out of the gate was a largely successful attempt to produce a straight comedy (though perfume of melancholic tragedy seen in his later films are certainly present) first made headlines as a mis - marketed box office bomb, the pundits pointing and laughing as this purported Reservoir Dogs knock - off plummeted into obscurity.

Laurel and Hardy, probably the most successful movie comedy team of all time, made the transition from silent to sound quite effortlessly, as their personas»; so recognizable as the bullying and boorish Oliver Hardy, and his sweet man - child partner, Stan Laurel, had voices and speech that mirrored their skills at mime perfectly.

Cowboys & Aliens is marketed as a cheeky comedy, the kind that director Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Iron Man 2) has been very successful in bringing to the big screen in his prior films.

Vince Vaughn follows up his hugely successful romantic comedy Wedding Crashers with what's best described as an anti-romantic comedy.

But Extras is, in its own way, a very successful comedy, a meditation on the lust for fame and its attendant perils, as well as a canny meta - commentary on the form itself (in the form of big guest star cameos).

As a «Friday «- style comedy, the film's not wildly successful — it's broad to the extent that it sometimes feels like a 1970s sitcom, with a stereotype - happy approach to comedy, and while Ekragha has a good feel for local flavour, the lo - fi production values really show.

Elkhart, Indiana native Jessica Hardy takes comedy seriously as the founder of the long - running and increasingly successful Chicago Comcomedy seriously as the founder of the long - running and increasingly successful Chicago ComedyComedy...

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bridesmaids was on track to pass Knocked Up «s $ 148,768,000 domestic gross last night as Judd Apatow's most successful movie to date and Universal's most successful R - rated comedy.

Following on from the surprise hit, 40 Year Old Virgin, Apatow's second feature as a writer and director works as a neat one - two punch of comedy gold, a wildly successful entry into the American comedy banks.

Most ad campaigns have focused on the comedy aspect — especially Ryan Gosling, an erstwhile «serious» actor, hamming it up as a successful lothario.

Less commercially successful than its predecessor, The Lady Eve, it has nonetheless become a true classic, standing the test of time as an example of great writing, great directing, and great «serious» comedy.

Mark, you note that even very successful comedies like Postcards From the Edge and When Harry Met Sally are rarely showered with the same kind of awards and acclaim as more serious prestige fare.

Pleasant enough romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two successful but romantically unhappy women who meet online at a home exchange website and agree to swap their homes in London and Los Angeles during the Christmas break.

It sounds as though it would stumble mightily by virtue of concurrent storylines and the dichotomy between love in the States and in the UK, along with the inclusion of said roadblock Diaz, but I'll be darned if the whole thing doesn't stand out as a successful and endlessly charming romantic comedy.

The duo still earns its share of laughs with their usual shtick, but while the movie's goofball tone is successful to some degree, «The Campaign» would have worked even better as an edgier, darker comedy in the same vein as Alexander Payne's «Election.»

Although audiences have come to know him as the stern and authoritarian Special Agent Phillip Broyles on the hit Fox series «Fringe,» Reddick showed off his comedic chops with a very successful guest - star turn on the FX comedy «It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.»

«As the topic of this book, one Ms. Elizabeth Stamatina Fey, is one of the most successful funny persons currently in the world, and comedy is entirely subjective, I'm not going to do that,» he says.

He previously served Fox as a Senior Vice President before this whole Snap channel Shutdown massacre, and has worked on developing successful comedies like Bob's Burgers, The Mindy Project, Brooklyn Nine - Nine, and the New Girl.