Sentences with phrase «uptight characters»

It's especially enjoyable to see DiCaprio cut loose after so many uptight characters recently.

500 Days of Summer isn't exactly a romantic comedy; it has nothing to do with an uptight character falling in love with a carefree character and then the two fixing each other.

Not exact matches

Monty has gone from being a boring, uptight, old man to a fresh and beloved character who is the soul of the party and glues the family together.

No one likes a character that is uptight and relies solely on the level of maturity through arrogance.

David Starsky is just the sort of uptight, anal retentive stick - in - the - mud that Stiller's has a lot of success with in films like Meet the Parents and Along Came Polly - while Wilson's Ken Hutchinson is reminiscent of virtually every character in the actor's repertoire (with few exceptions, including his rare dramatic performance in The Minus Man).

Moving from an uptight funeral director on SIX FEET UNDER to a serial killer on DEXTER, to Beat Generation figure David Kammerer in KILL YOUR DARLINGS, Michael C. Hall continues to illuminate humanity in transformative, complex characters.

It had the elements of the New Age mysticism but they led nowhere when the going was tough - it tried to be uplifting but most of the characters finished where they started... I have to say that there were fascinating performances from most of the cast, especially from Josh Pais as Abbie's uptight (slightly autistic or neurotic) brother, spending most of his time in the floundering dental practice which receives new life when clients seek out his healing touch.

As his wife Emma Darwin, Jennifer Connelly initially comes across simply as a disapproving and uptight obstacle but as the film evolves her character is more fleshed out.

All of these male characters find a Manic Pixie to help them out of their depressed, uptight and doom and gloom state so that they can be happy functioning members of society again.

Shannon, who's so good playing creepy characters like the wacko in Revolutionary Road (which earned him an Oscar nomination), and the uptight Federal agent in Boardwalk Empire, is completely convincing here as an --

Stock characters abound: a predictably bitchy Hollywood producer, a prima donna host, a lovestruck straight out of film school camera boy, and uptight religious parents.

A ’12 Berlin Film Festival winner (Silver Bear for Best Director), Barbara, sees Hoss embody the title character, an uptight physician banished to a rural village in East Germany in 1980 as punishment for an unknown deed, with a subtle fragility that only peaks through her callous guise.

As a buddy comedy it is undernourished, making only feeble efforts to draw out the humour of the situation and allowing the characters to flounder as vague sketches of classically comic opposites — Alvin, somewhat repressed and uptight; Lance, libidinous and irresponsible.

Equally - annoying, are the colorful supporting characters displaying an array of increasingly bizarre behaviors, ranging from Sheeni's uptight, Bible - thumping parents (M. Emmet Walsh and Mary Kay Place) to her rebellious big brother (Justin Long) whose idea of a practical joke is to lace Thanksgiving dinner with hallucinogenic mushrooms which cause their father to smear mashed potatoes on his own face.

The characters evolve with the uptight Angel loosening up while Butterman becomes more than just a bumbling drunk.

It's as if he's fused the uptight consternation of Tony Randall's Felix Unger with the cantankerous flare of Jack Klugman's Oscar Madison, giving us a one - man Odd Couple — a character forever incapable of feeling comfortable in his own skin.

The body count is kept high by some stock characters such as a skeevy boss, uptight office workers, and sexy ladies in tight blouses and short skirts destined to be ripped away for some gratuitous shots of boobs and butts.

But as for Dr Watson, being back in Victorian Britain will cause Martin Freeman's character to be «more uptight», according to Moffat.

Director Nicolas Roeg and screenwriter Yale Udoff exploit the character as a whipping boy for the heartlessness and moral cowardice of uptight intellectuals.

According to Variety, Kristen Wiig is in talks for a supporting role, and will most likely portray uptight neighbour Audrey, who is at odds with Blanchett's character.

We've seen all these characters before — the nerdy dentist with the shrewish girlfriend; the inappropriate fat guy; the schoolteacher who's about as mature as his students and yet happily married; the slightly uptight groom - to - be — but we've never seen them from quite this angle before.