Sentences with phrase «town sheriff»

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in Jee - woon Kim's action project about a small town sheriff who takes on a Mexican drug cartel.

There are encounters with a comical predecessor of the KKK (led by a terrifically over the top Don Johnson), a small town sheriff who is not what he seems and, of course, the very proper southern gentleman / Mandingo fighting aficionado and plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio)-- and his right hand plantation man, house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson, stealing every scene he's in in a scary, mean, dangerously funny role).

But conflict arises when small town sheriff with adequate midriff (Jackie Gleason) fears this will result in severe shortage of GSCs in the south.

High Noon (1952): Gary Cooper won an Oscar for his role as a small town sheriff on his wedding day with Grace Kelly, facing a revenge - seeking outlaw.

Cop Car Rated R for language, violence and brief drug use Available on DVD and Blu - ray Kevin Bacon stars in this indie thriller about a small town sheriff whose cop car is stolen by a couple of pre-teen runaways.

A puzzling blend of talky, character - driven Western drama and sickeningly realistic cannibal horror, Bone Tomahawk explicitly nods to The Searchers as a group of frontiersmen, including small - town sheriff Hunt (Kurt Russell), his drunken deputy Chicory (Richard Jenkins), Arthur (Patrick Wilson), a cowboy sidelined by a leg injury, and dapper gunslinger Brooder (Matthew Fox) go in search of a prisoner, a guard, and Arthur's wife after they go missing from the jail late one night.

The actor will play the villainous town sheriff «Berringer», starring opposite Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton.

The main plot of the film explicitly nods to Ford's 1956 film The Searchers, with fair - minded, paternal small - town sheriff Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell) leading a team of Western archetypes.

A small town sheriff retires his badge to avenge his brother's murder, but finds himself tempted into the criminal lifestyle by a beautiful killer in this gritty crime thriller.

Darl (Thornton) is a small - town sheriff enduring a losing streak who finds himself at the end of his career investigating the death of a transsexual in his parish.

She is beautifully matched by Woody Harrelson, as the exasperated but grounded town sheriff; his character benefits from an extraordinary sequence involving the writing and reading of letters, which might not sound stirring but very much is.

While there he meets town sheriff Bobby LaGrange (Bruce Dern) who also sells bat houses («very different from bird houses,» LaGrange intones), and is also an aspiring horror novelist.

And she seems to be heading for her second statuette with her thunderous role in Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, in which she plays Mildred, a woman deliberately provoking a small - town sheriff for not doing enough to catch the person who murdered her daughter.

It features Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a small town sheriff trying to stop the assured demise of Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) at the hands of a ruthless hitman Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem).

Peter Stormare plays the creepy town Sheriff.

Revenge against the Clantons soon quickly takes a back seat, however, as newly minted town sheriff Earp soon finds himself embroiled in a ever - fluctuating friendship - cum - rivalry with Doc Holliday (Victor Mature), a black - clad local powerbroker.

Two Men in Town (R for profanity) Unlikely - buddies drama, set in New Mexico, about the friendship forged between a Muslim ex-con (Forest Whitaker) and his idealistic parole officer (Brenda Blethyn), much to the chagrin of a border town sheriff (Harvey Keitel).

THE LAST STAND probably won't be very good, we might as well not kid ourselves, but it gives us the chance to see Arnold Schwarzenegger back in full force as a small town sheriff with an implausibly American name and a thick Austrian accent.

And Tommy Lee Jones, who was born and raised in the state, is Texas personified as an aging small - town sheriff on the hunt for a killer.

The first potential downfall here is that Josh Hartnett plays our lead, the small town sheriff whose «burg goes haywire just after the last flight for a month leaves town.

Clancy Brown, a veteran at playing cops and stooges, delights in portraying a classically corrupt small town Sheriff.

Here's a brief summary: You play as a small - town sheriff's deputy in Montana, where a violent religious cult has taken over.

Rather than face a return to prison, Charlie is escorted by the town sheriff to the Mexican border to freedom / exile.

It's the global equivalent of a town sheriff telling his officers not to put people in jail for taking drugs anymore.

The State Police CCERT Chemical safety team assisted the Cortland County Sheriffs Department in the Town

The Newlywed Game host Bob Eubanks produced this action film, starring his son Corey as a convict who escapes prison to exact revenge for his brother's death and ends up romancing a small - town sheriff's daughter.

After an explosive prison escape, Clinton teams up with a town sheriff to get revenge on the drug - dealing killer who put him behind bars.

The teens lose their innocence when they become involved in the corruption and seediness that exists about their town after its leading citizen, the town judge and the town sheriff begin working on the latter's re-election campaign.

Willis is pegged to play the town sheriff having an affair with McDormand, while Norton will play the scout leader of a troop searching for the kids.

Returning home after searching for the men who ruthlessly killed his father, a small town sheriff is immersed in a brutal and bloody land war.

Before McDowell begins shooting his role as the town sheriff in the horror remake (that will now only be titled) SILENT NIGHT, he will next be seen in HOME ALONE 5: ALONE IN THE DARK, SILENT HILL: REVELATIONS and serial killer biopic MONSTER BUTLER.

Still, it's fun, at least for a while, to watch the humans — who also include Keith Carradine as the town sheriff, Adam Beach as Dolarhyde's Indian cowhand, and Olivia Wilde as the requisite (sort of) love interest — go up against the aliens and be entirely mismatched.

However, sandwiched in between we get to see him as a small town sheriff, fending of a Mexican drug - cartel in THE LAST STAND.

When she settles with a small - town sheriff (Liv Tyler), Anna finds difficulty adjusting to the real world because of secrets from her past.

The film is about two inept, small - town Sheriff's Deputies who catch an escaped prisoner that they believe was wrongly convicted.

Bruce Willis plays the town sheriff; two - time Academy Award nominee Edward Norton is cast as a camp leader; Academy Award nominee Bill Murray and Academy Award winner Frances McDormand portray the young girl's parents; the cast also includes Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman.

Enter the town sheriff (Bruce Dern), whose purchase of a book serves as an opening to collaborate on a novel that he wants to write about the murder of a local girl.

However, late in the night, the town sheriff shows up with an emergency case.

Still, the performances from a strong supporting cast that includes Sam Shepard as the brothers» uncle and Forest Whitaker as the town sheriff always give the film a sense of substance and heft.

From R. Lee Ermey's degenerate small - town sheriff to Andrew Bryniarski's hulking Leatherface (the chainsaw - wielding killer, now with a mask fashioned out of human flesh), the villains are either too grotesque or too remote to invite easy assimilation.

The ideal of law enforcement, the town sheriff, is a travesty of authority, easily manipulated and scared.

Bill Paxton has a great turn as the small - town sheriff.

She then proceeds to lob expletives like grenades at the town sheriff (Woody Harrelson) and his second - in - command (Sam Rockwell).

SKIP THIS MOVIE IF: you are expecting a serious movie about a small town sheriff — this one is closer to trashy B cinema than Oscar.

Willis is in talks to play the town sheriff who's also looking, and who is having an affair with the missing girl's mother, the role McDormand is in talks to play.

Cop Car Maybe it wasn't such a great idea for Kevin Bacon's corrupt small - town sheriff to leave the keys inside his unlocked patrol car.

Sam Shepard also wanders through as the town sheriff, grousing about his kidney stones and high cholesterol.

A corrupt small - town sheriff is on the hunt for two runaway kids who took his car on a joy ride in Cop Car, an unnervingly funny thriller now available on Digital Read More →

A highlight of the film is a scene at the top of a ferris wheel on which Danny shares a ride with the town sheriff.