Sentences with phrase «tough drama films»

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The tough, satisfying French film Le Petit Lieutenant is an austere drama of the sort that rarely makes it to American screens except on cable television.

It's a film that's tough to capture in a capsule review, but trust me that it's a solid drama, elevated by truly impressive fire effects and a great cast, including Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, and Jeff Bridges.

This three - part drama looking at the childhood, adolescence and adulthood of a gay black man from a tough part of Miami has been getting rave reactions out of the Telluride and Toronto film festivals.

A four - hour western with only one semi-bankable star was a tough sell — so tough that Sony finally gave the film away to Miramax, who decided to push it as a romantic drama instead of character study.

This source material provided the basis for Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 film of the same name — a rare foray into drama by a master of comedy, and one which promises to be a tough act to follow.

Walter Hill made the jump from literate screenwriter of tough - minded crime films to director of elegantly - made bare - knuckle thrillers and action dramas with Hard Times (1975), a depression - era tale of underground fights with Charles Bronson and James Coburn as business partners in who aren't quite friends but become the first of Hill's guarded buddy teams.

Working alongside Wilson creator Clowes, Johnson has a tough time balancing the films tonal shifts between oddball comedy, life affirming drama and romantically tinged musings and it often feels like the film is uncomfortable in its own skin as we're taken along from scene to scene and scenarios that worked in the graphic novel don't quite come across as well in the film treatment.

Reliability can be tough to come by during the overstuffed holiday film season, if serious, sometimes bleak dramas dominate the screen.

Maryland is no stranger to movies and TV, but with the filming of the HBO political drama «Game Change» here, our small state has taken on its toughest role ever — Alaska.

The Shallows was a fierce shark attack flick with Blake Lively fighting for survival on a rock and when he works with Neeson, his films feel like throwbacks to 70's Clint Eastwood or Steve McQueen dramas, of tough guys playing cool cops.

The legendary director credits the «Mrs. Doubtfire» star - who passed away in August 2014 - for helping him through the tough filming for the period drama, which documents the persecution of Jewish people by the Nazis.