Sentences with phrase «surprising pathos»

Elsewhere, Culkin injects some surprising pathos in the ever - terrible McCarthy, and his tearful exchange with his disabled brother Tommy (Connor Long) bruises in all the right ways.

That level of complexity lends the piece surprising pathos.

But Anton Yelchin brings surprising pathos to his final role as the small - time drug dealer the girls dupe into being involved in their grimly amusing plot.

Sheen, freed from West Wing presidential responsibilities, imbues his cop captain with a surprising pathos.

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Robbie and Stan elicit a surprising amount of pathos from the film's West Coast redneck environs in spite of Gillespie's incessant and strangely rudderless needle - drops.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

While there's humor in the performance, Murray also generates a surprising amount of pathos.

Whatever the case, the ape in silly sunglasses and people clothes scores a surprising amount of pathos in this bizarre, improbably moving film from directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley.

Justin Simien's film has a surprising amount of heart, and so much of that is down to Thompson, who finds the real pathos and pain of the character, while still being an eminently likable, warm and winning presence.

There are surprises along the way and while there is little respite from the action, there is plenty of engaging banter between the protagonists and even genuine pathos as the heroes journey into ever more challenging situations.

Director Craig Gillespie tells the story with all the nutso energy it demands and with a surprising amount of pathos.

A high - school wrestling comedy with perennial indie schlub Paul Giamatti coaching sounds like it could be an unbearable retread of recent bombs like Mr. Woodcock or Drillbit Taylor, but with a surefire ensemble cast and a tricky balance of humor and pathos more in line with Little Miss Sunshine, Win Win turns out to be one of the early sleeper surprises of 2011.

His first show at Kate MacGarry is a chance to catch up, or be surprised for the first time, by an artist whose work is full of life, humour and pathos.