Sentences with phrase «than that dinner scene»

You'd think there'd be some perfunctory sleep analysis scenes, something more than the dinner scene, when Lili Taylor (a good actress who deserves better) tells us she can't sleep because she has no life (and a recently deceased overbearing invalid mother), while the others have too much excitement in their's.

The film is never more alive than a dinner scene where Gerwig's character forces everyone to say «menstruation» while Dorothea simultaneously is fed up with feminism and this new era of openness.

Not exact matches

So, we get a long scene of young Bilbo Baggins (now played by Martin Freeman, although there are glimpses of Ian Holm as the older Bilbo) hosting a dinner for a dozen or so dwarves whose facial hair is more inventive than their characterizations.

Small, incidental scenes contribute nifty insights and shading: the Post sends a young reporter up to New York to sneak into the Times offices to try to find out what Sheehan is up to; an elite dinner at Graham's home concludes when the men and women retire to different rooms, as if it were still 19th century England; when Sheehan's first Pentagon Papers story is set to break in the Times the next morning, it's none other than McNamara (Bruce Greenwood) himself who calls his old friend Graham to alert her.

... this isn't just a novel of ideas; Berne's scrutiny of upper - middle - class suburbia is also grounded in specific scenes that offer rich fodder for satire: a town meeting, a dinner party, and a book group (particularly ironic since Berne's novel itself is more than likely to spark heated discussion at countless book groups).

However, this isn't just a novel of ideas; Berne's scrutiny of upper - middle - class suburbia is also grounded in specific scenes that offer rich fodder for satire: a town meeting, a dinner party, and a book group (particularly ironic since Berne's novel itself is more than likely to spark heated discussion at countless book groups).