Sentences with phrase «title character bilbo»

Michael Fassbender has the title role in «Steve Jobs,» a highly offbeat, sharply scripted, well - acted attempt to capture the essence of the title character.

The film's title character is one of many such characters in «Mr. Turner.»

The followup to Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick, Universal's R - rated Riddick reteams Vin Diesel as the title character with director...

«Lady Bird» is broken up into extended segments, portraying the title character's relationships with her misfit best friend, a new boyfriend, the pretty and popular girl who becomes her ally and daily verbal combat with her family.

Netflix has acquired the live - action feature film rights to Carmen Sandiego, attaching Golden Globe winner Gina Rodriguez (the CW series Jane the Virgin to star as the title character.

Happily, Scott's cinematic fiction captivated me as completely as its title character won the soul of Rome.

Eddie Murphy plays the title character, a club owner who must... who has to... um.

It will surprise no one that, although Johnson does a capable job flexing his biceps as the title character, his performance is less than memorable.

Armed with Seann William Scott's gloriously over-the-top turn as the title character, Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach almost manages to overcome its tedious storyline and hopelessly erratic pace to become a minor comedic masterpiece - yet there eventually does reach a point at which Scott's performance, ingratiating as it is, simply proves unable to compensate for the film's myriad of deficiencies.

The title character of «Saint Ralph» believes he is, in his own words, «destined for greatness.»

Saoirse Ronan (as the title character) was the perfect choice to bring the quirky story to understandable life.

In this Hallmark Hall of Fame TV film set in the post-war era, Kyra Sedgwick is the title character, a New Yorker who has long kept her Jewish heritage under wraps.

The selection of Vincent Gallo as the embittered title character is Coppola's bravest stroke for this new film, since the mercurial New York actor has earned himself a reputation of being difficult to work with and consequently hasn't landed many primo acting gigs.

The film's title character, a «night nanny» played by a lightly pixie - dusted Mackenzie Davis, hired by Marlo's wealthy brother - in - law, Craig (Mark Duplass), to help her through the first few sleep - deprived months of motherhood following the birth of her (unplanned and only grudgingly welcomed) third child, is a figment of her client's imagination.

Andy Stitzer, his awkward title character, is the sort of figure that most have more in common with than they'd care to admit.

An overlong disaster, Mortdecai follows the quirky title character (Johnny Depp) as he embarks on a quest to track down a stolen painting - with Mortdecai's efforts assisted by his manservant (Paul Bettany's Jock) and a police officer (Ewan McGregor's Martland) fixated on his wife (Gwyneth Paltrow's Johanna).

There aren't many films which introduce the title character, having a snooze, almost two hours into the movie.

But the Miyazaki film with the strongest connection to his latest is 1992's «Porco Rosso,» in which the title character was an Italian WWI flying ace transformed into a pig and the landscape is the rise of European Fascism in the years preceding WWII.

Instead, though, he teeters between realistic and surrealistic, with the main result being that the title character makes absolutely no sense, despite Hayek's game performance.

As daffy father Clark, Chase turned the film into a huge hit, harnessing a likable befuddlement that kept the series going even as the sequels were increasingly less well received and tiresomely slapstick.Chase's other big hit came in 1985, when he starred as the title character in Fletch, the film widely considered the actor's best and most complimentary of his sharp talent for wordplay.

The title character, played by Freddie Highmore («Finding Neverland») is a musical prodigy on par with Mozart, able to teach himself to play any instrument he comes across in a matter of hours, and with a preternatural compositional ability, literally hearing music everywhere, even in the movements of everyday life.

In contrast, Personal Shopper's title character, brilliantly played by Kristen Stewart, succumbs to her imagination and colludes with a murderer who plays cat and mouse with her via cellphone; she gets a little lucky.

That leaves us with our final major player, George (Donald Holden), the sort - of title character (his last name is not Washington, but he does dream of being president) who doesn't really say much at all.

Hader stars as the show's title character, Barry Berkman.

Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes and Tom Holland will provide their voices to some of the animals to which Downey's title character will speak.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt (above) is decent enough as the title character in Snowden, but there's a smug, self - righteous air to proceedings that makes it hard to warm to

Starring Tom Hardy as the title character alongside OFCS nominee Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road is about a post-apocalyptic world where water scarcity has led to intense conflicts.

The profanity in the film is fairly pervasive, especially from the potty - mouthed title character.

The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Joseph Gordon - Levitt as the title character, Edward Snowden, with Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall - Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage also starring.

Costner stars as the title character, a respected businessman who also happens to be a fearsome serial killer (William Hurt co-stars as his vicious, fun - loving alter - ego).

Based on a series of books by Sara Peretsky, V.I. Warshawski follows Kathleen Turner's title character as she reluctantly agrees to investigate the murder of a former football player - with complications arising as the daughter (Angela Goethals» Kat) insists on accompanying Warshawski on her investigation.

Although Mona dies during the film's opening moments, Midler's title character is revealed through the story's perpetual flashbacks, during which each character's theoretical motive for wanting to kill Mona is disclosed.

The title character - who has suffered through several tragedies of his own — must eventually decide whether or not he is willing to fight for the survival of this alien planet and its strange residents.

It probably doesn't help that Alexander Skarsgård, who was an inspired choice for the title character, plays him so grim - faced that he doesn't seem capable of emotion.

The title character — a war veteran — is a loner in the age of the Civil War.

McKeon went on to make his last teenage appearance in the 1985 comedy Mischief; that same year, he made his first grown - up appearance as the title character in the TV biopic Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story.

The other nominees are already critical favorites, although not many predicted that Bacon, who plays the enigmatic title character in «I Love Dick,» would be part of this tough category.

Disney will put the film into production later this year for release in 2013 with Chris Hemsworth returning as the title character.

Shockingly inept from start to finish, The Six Wives of Henry Lefay follows the womanizing title character (Tim Allen) as he attempts to juggle his former and present lovers under the watchful eye of his disapproving daughter (Elisha Cuthbert's Barbara Lefay).

There has always been a dark cloud over Harding, and while this film does nothing to lift it, it actually brings empathy to its title character rather than shame.

Newbie Auli'i Cravalho ably voices the title character, a young islander with a deep connection to the ocean and dreams of far away lands, colorful creatures, and mischievous demigods.

Mara plays Therese, a quiet, thoughtful young woman not yet sure what she'll do with her life; Blanchett is the poised, precise title character — we know, without being told, that this woman smells of delicious perfume.

If that sounds like a weird DVD extra, it surely seems a fitting tribute, in a way, to this movie's out - there title character.

These primo lines of Christopher Nolan - speak come courtesy of the cadaverous, cave - dwelling bloodsucker who grants the title character his malevolent powers.

Now here comes the first official one - sheet, which finds Charlize Theron as the stressed title character.

Dazzlingly strange art rock pours out of «Frank», both the movie, a dark comedy from the Irish director Lenny Abrahamson («What Richard Did», «Garage»), and the title character, a singer devoted to lyrics about random tufts of string and terrifying litanies that might have freaked out Joy Division's Ian Curtis.

Krisha, the first feature from writer / director Trey Edward Shults, centers around the Thanksgiving return of the title character, a sixtysomething ex-hippie, to the familial fold after a decades - long period of estrangement.

The film stars Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) as the spunky, street - smart title character,...

Meanwhile, no one image helped to sell the indie family drama Krisha better than its title character staring off into the middle distance, cigarette between her fingers, contemplating how she's going to survive the however - many minutes she has left with her family.

Mixing interviews with real life locals with a sardonic narrative that would do the Coens proud (comparisons to «Fargo» are apt), the movie is a concise, quick - moving breeze, anchored by the impressive, dialed down, yet distinctly fey, mannered and oddball pitch Black brings to the title character.