Sentences with phrase «thankless role»

Nia Long is wasted in the most thankless role of Cole's love interest, who, as par for the course in films such as these, tells Cole that she can't be with him as long as he's on his case.

Fine performances are included, young Asa Butterfield is commanding throughout but some, like Emily Mortimer, Ray Winstone and Christopher Lee, are wasted in thankless roles.

Also in the dock is trusty co-pilot Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart sporting a mighty moustache), while Laura Linney has a rather thankless role as the fretting wife back home on the other end of the kitchen phone.

Tammy is about the adventure that spirals out from one very bad day for the title heroine: In quick succession, her car hits a deer, she gets fired, and she catches her husband (Nat Faxon) wining and dining their neighbour (Toni Collette, in perhaps the most thankless role of her career).

There are no waterworks on the shore from Miriam, who spends much of her time prodding Bernie's commanding officer Daniel Cluff (a rather thankless role for Eric Bana) for information.

Quality character actors Sam Shepard and Joe Morton are given thankless roles as government brains.

Estevez is stuck with the essentially thankless role of the guy who has to wait across the street and react to everything, but his reactions provide a lot of the movie's humor.

And as hyper - competent writer's assistant Penny Escher, Queen Latifah does marvels with an utterly thankless role, providing a strong, implacable wall against which Thompson can bounce.

Woodbine, as the troubled brother, has a more thankless role - it's not easy to be the source of all a plot's problems - but the way he gets us involved with the character is to show that his Joshua does love Jason, and their mother, and doesn't want to hurt them - although in his drinking and violence he is obviously the heir of Maddog.

Even Coach Haskins, who provides the entry point into the story, is little more than a caricature of the tough but inspirational coach, and his wife — a typically thankless role in such movies to begin with — simply appears briefly in scenes to look concerned, supportive, or a combination of the two.

This is an especially large shock considering that she's set up to inhabit the largely thankless role of the «loud funny guy's boring hot wife.»

Like Jones, she is too recognizably herself; but where the script furnishes the former with countless opportunities to deploy his mordant wit, Field's relatively thankless role offers few compensations for her failure of mimesis.

Theater veteran Ben Shenkman gives a phenomenal performance in the often thankless role of Louis.

; Jesse Plemons and Lola Kirke get thankless roles as a dim small - town Arkansas sheriff and his wiser wife; and Caleb Landry Jones, that guy who perpetually plays a creepy ginger snot, plays Barry's half - witted brother - in - law, a creepy ginger snot.

Upon being quarantined herself and interrogated (by Benedict Wong, who is always a pleasure to see, however thankless the role), Lena is rapidly — suspiciously rapidly — recruited for a mission into the «Shimmer,» a mysterious honey - rainbow curtain blanketing Area - X.

Those looking for character development, despair: Gangster Squad is not the motion picture you seek (although Enos as O'Mara's wife is allowed to be a tad more proactive than might be expected from such a potentially thankless role).

In fact, in Jean - Marc Vallée's new comedy drama Demolition, he's lumped with a particularly thankless role, as if the director overlooked him entirely.

Amidst all the «police work,» Terry falls for a woman (Tessa Thompson, in a predictably thankless role) and eventually adopts a young kid caught up in a nasty crime scene.

Sutherland has the marginally less thankless role as a man entering his second childhood: a snowy - haired babyface of blankness.

Driven by an innate showmanship, cash - strapped Barnum whisks his long - time beloved — the aristocratic Charity (Michelle Williams, in a completely thankless role)-- away from her rich, domineering father so the duo can be together while he pursues his dreams.

And Aidan Quinn, in a somewhat thankless role as the movie's reality base and opponent of love, never plays a scene simply for its obvious point, but lets us see that his love for his sister underlies all of his decisions.

It's Alice Creed who's been kidnapped, and Arterton plays this rather thankless role brilliantly.

Mendelsohn, Pickup and Stephen Dillane are fine as the traditionalists grated by Churchill's brusque populism, and Lily James gets another someone thankless role in 2017, trading in her Baby Driver name tag for a typewriter.

(Abbie Cornish does a nice job with that pretty thankless role, but for real: How did an Australian woman end up in Ebbing, Missouri, married to a man 20 years older than her?)

This is a film so concerned with achieving the appearance of quality that it casts people like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright and Amanda Plummer in thin, thankless roles when a cast of unknowns would have been just as effective.

Faring less well is Ashley Judd, who is as convincing as always but is saddled with the very thankless role of Clay's love interest.

Some films that are based on true stories try to boast a big cast of actors but in turn have one or two leads while the others feel like names to fill thankless roles.

Justin Bartha gets the usually thankless role of the sidekick but proves to have a knack for comedy and timing without being grating or out of place.

He has been accepted at the police academy in Atlanta and hopes to become a cop and then propose to his live - in girlfriend Angela (Tika Sumpter, in the traditionally thankless role).

Aside from making its stars unlikable for far too much of the film, The Internship also wastes the talents of John Goodman, Aasif Mandvi, and Will Ferrell in thankless roles.

Meanwhile, one just feels sorry for Cast Away's Nick Searcy, who as a cross-dressing father throws himself into one of the most thankless roles in movie history and gets not even a smile in the process.

Ben's knowledge of artillery from his many hours on his videogame system is painfully foreshadowed, and if you are wondering why big actors are given thankless roles your brain will soon connect the dots.

Beane's detractors are given voice by fans and pundits on baseball talk radio, and on the A's own bench in the form of staunchly traditional field manager Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman, ever - effective, even in an essentially thankless role).

While Rachel Griffiths appears in an utterly thankless role, Hugo Weaving scores the only authentic non-combat sequence as a father who breaks down at the dinner table when he learns his elder son has enlisted.

The actors are all far more conventionally attractive professional actors (a baby faced Emmanuelle Chriqui shows up in one of the more thankless roles), most of them ill suited for the cinema verite» approach.

The jumbled, unfocused plot — such as it is — pulls in Hole's long - suffering ex-girlfriend, Rakel (Charlotte Gainsbourg, wasted in a typically thankless role), her teen son, Oleg (Michael Yates), Rakel's inexplicably understanding boyfriend, Mathias (Jonas Karlsson), a well - heeled cosmetics surgeon, along with the first detective, Rafto (Val Kilmer), who came close to discovering the serial killer's identity early in the killer's career.

If Born To Be Blue has a serious structural flaw, it's that Jane proves to be a largely thankless role, with long - suffering as her defining trait, accented by looks of disappointment.

Though the series» young leads all do an admirable job (particularly Salazar, in a relatively thankless role), their older counterparts tend to steal scenes right out from under them.

Bringing with her name and presence the aura of Italian giallo cinema, Asia Argento adds both dignity and pathos to the often thankless role of femme fatale.

Rappoport does a fine job of her rather thankless role, given she is allowed barely an ounce of natural appeal and her character arc goes from obnoxious to insane.

Don Cheadle takes over Terrence Howard's thankless role as «Rhodey» Rhodes, Tony's straight - and - narrow buddy in the military who pitches in for the final robot showdown.

Grant Shapps, housing minister, is tipped to take over from Warsi, in what is notoriously a thankless role due to interference from Conservative central office.

Being a Mom can sometimes be a thankless role but such a valuable one.

Steel has a solid supporting cast — besides Rebhorn, Hope Davis shows up for a small, thankless role and is good.

Penny (who seems to have reinvented the «thankless role») attends to Kay's general life needs, cleaning ashtrays in her spotless white - on - white apartment and offering encouragement toward completing the manuscript: «I'm available to you every minute of every day,» she says sternly, adding, «I do not abide narcotics.»

It is, more or less by common consent, a thankless role but not in Field's playing.

The actor's series - TV credits include the thankless role of «Frank» on the «Electra Woman / Dynagirl» segments of Saturday morning's The Krofft Supershow.

He has a good eye for actors; recent Oscar nominee Felicity Jones plays what could have been the thankless role of Finkel's girlfriend, but she eventually becomes a kind of lynchpin in the relationship.