Sentences with phrase «thankless role as»

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.

Far fewer people saw Troy than Warner Bros. had hoped (though its overseas box - office basically tripled its domestic take), which meant there was far less upside than expected for Byrne, playing the definition of a thankless role as essentially Bond Girl to Achilles.

His old CIA contact Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles, completing the cycle of her thankless role as the helpful provider of back story, although neither she nor Damon seems convinced about the premise this time) is now part of a WikiLeaks - style organization.

Only Diego Luna seems somewhat lost in a thankless role as an uncontrollable young lover of Milk.

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.

The deeply respected Jane Alexander turns up for only a handful of lines, and Bryce Dallas Howard gets an entirely thankless role as Connor's pregnant wife Kate.

Among the supporting characters, Piper Laurie does a good job with a thankless role as Matlin's mother.

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.

Laura Linney is the only actor who feels like she doesn't belong, stuck in a thankless role as Sully's wife Lorraine, whose few scenes with Hanks over the phone lack the emotional oomph that was intended.

Angelica Huston plays his worried mother with just the right amount of weight, though Serge Houde has a thankless role as Adam's father, suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's; he seems underdirected, looking around as if he were perfectly satisfied not knowing what to do.

There's also Bradley Cooper, playing his now - trademark unctuous sleaze as a legendary arms dealer on a terrorist watch list, and the ridiculously charming Ana de Armas, staking a claim as the Next Big Thing despite a thankless role as the long - suffering wife who finds a bundle of money taped to the bottom of a sink.

Scarlett Johansson shows up in a thankless role as the only female dog to have any dialogue.

But she's gone too soon, as is Kristofer Hivju — the red - bearded scene - stealer of «Game of Thrones» — in a thankless role as Cypher's trigger - happy assistant.

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

Felt's personal life is also a bore, including Diane Lane in a thankless role as his alcoholic wife distraught over Felt being passed over as the new FBI director.

Connelly, so thin she looks like a frigid spinster, has a thankless role as the neglected wife of a great man.

A pulse-less, predictable thriller which seats Denzel Washington in a thankless role as a decorated Philadelphia cop who is tormented by a demon who once possessed a serial killer (Elias Koteas) that the detective helped put to death.

Not exact matches

Be it Enos reprising her thankless wife role from «Gangster Squad,» to Ludi Boeken as an exposition - dumping Mossad agent, to Peter Capaldi and Ruth Negga as scientists so thankless they're literally credited as Scientists despite being central to the third act, most of the players that crop up on Pitt's travels are perfunctory at best (to say nothing of Matthew Fox, inexplicably fifth - billed in a part that's not so much a cameo as a day - player gig — presumably he has more left on the cutting room floor).

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.

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.

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.

French actress Elodie Yung looks uncomfortable as Bryce's Interpol agent ex, while Gary Oldman is hammy in the thankless role of an Eastern European dictator.

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.

I love Annette Bening's performance, too, as Lester's shrill, crazy wife Carolyn — a real estate broker, it goes without saying; Bening is given the burden of screaming and crying and tearing at her flesh in another thankless role.

In this competent but unremarkable drama, Liam Hemsworth and Michael Angarano pull off the crime, while Johnson takes a thankless supporting role as the cop hunting them down, who has no personality traits to speak of.

Monica Bellucci (Irreversible) and Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Color) show up as love interests (it's Seydoux who's saddled with that unfortunate amorous declaration), while Naomie Harris (28 Days Later) does her best in the thankless role of Miss Moneypenny.

Alicia Silverstone lends a hand as Batgirl, and Elle McPherson plays the thankless role of Batman / Bruce Wayne's fiancé.

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.

Bobby Cannavale isn't nearly as entertaining as he has been in other films this year (Spy, Annie) as the fiancée of Scott's ex-wife Maggie, played by Judy Greer... getting yet another small, thankless role in a blockbuster this summer (she was previously seen in Tomorrowland and Jurassic World).

Mainstream cinema hasn't quite caught on yet, with her most prominent studio role to date a somewhat thankless part as Ben Stiller «s wife in flop comedy «The Watch.»

This doesn't extend to the thankless roles everyone else has to play; chief among the offenders is Breaking Bad's Dean Norris in a broad middle - act appearance, stammering through his dialogue as the white supremacist son of one of Zev's suspects.

On the flip side, Tom Sizemore just phones in his performance as a police lieutenant, but his role is so thankless that it's hard to imagine it being played any more effectively.

Considering Corbijn's noted early career as a photographer, one would assume Stock to be an easy cipher, but while Pattinson's given all the right lines to utter about a man pursuing his dreams, it's never quite apparent, instead flatly drawn in interactions with boss Joel Edgerton (in a thankless role).

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marie - Josée Croze, and Rachel McAdams come and go in thankless roles that call for the actresses to sustain peeved expressions for as long as possible.

John is dating Rebecca (Anna Kendrick, playing the thankless role of a girlfriend, who only exists as the answer to her man's existential angst, with her usual charm).

Laura Dern is saddled with the thankless role of neglected wife here, and while she makes the most of her few scenes (as Dern always does), the movie is more interested in her for how Kroc treats her.

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.

The female relationships in this movie are as important as the romantic ones: Judy Greer gives the often thankless bitchy best friend role humor and humanity; and we both love and hate Malin Akerman as the sister bridezilla just looking for approval, which feels true to life.

But Dakota Johnson, Juno Temple, and, especially, Julianne Nicholson — as a baby mama, floozie - junkie, and a long - suffering FBI wife, respectively — apply themselves to thankless canned roles of actual people.

The lack of a compelling villain results in little contrast for the hero, who's thinly defined as a character to begin with, and the cast is left hanging in the wind with the exception of Geoffrey Rush in a brief, thankless role and a scene - stealing Mark Strong as the Green Lantern Corps» enigmatic field commander, Sinestro.

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.

Wahlberg turns in a solid performance as the courageous everyman, Russell continues his comeback tour with grizzled charm, and Hudson brings grace to a thankless role.

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.

The daughter is Stephanie (Zoey Deutch, whose natural charm, even in roles as thankless and generic as this one, hopefully will not result in her being typecast in such thankless and generic roles).

Red is the kind of lazily written, thankless curmudgeon role that uses the trials of advanced age for cheap laughs rather than harnessing a veteran actor's talent to engage our empathy; in this sense, Red's characterization as a belligerent, prostitute - loving coot is rendered so outlandish that the audience has no choice but to laugh at him.

Sometimes that's because the role is «thankless» like Kristofer Hivju's excellent juggling of tone as a perfect subplot foil for the A plot and characters in Force Majeure's.

Caught in the web of thankless supporting roles were Billy Crudup, James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis and Hadi Subiyanto as Ketut, the toothless guru.

Temple is better, if a tad affected, but is lumped with a thankless, thin role as one of Allen's favorite recurring characters: the young woman who needs an older man to save her.

The porn film that becomes a major component of the mystery seems like a silly thing to rest the plot on and Kim Basinger is sadly wasted here as well in a thankless supporting role as a Justice Department official.

In the clichéd climax, Teller is left with the thankless role of noting that Dr. Doom is stronger than any one of them but he sure isn't as strong as the four of them.