Sentences with phrase «thankless roles when»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

It's a thankless role, really, especially when the sage mentor becomes the man whose instructions drive an inevitable training montage before an equally inevitable final match.