Sentences with phrase «uptight intellectuals»

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

But Linklater provides a wide array of personalities here, from the happy - go - lucky stoner (Rory Cochrane) to the uptight intellectual (Adam Goldberg), and we can latch on to any of them for the film's slow ride.

In Bruce Van Dusen's American indie road movie, «Backseat,» the uptight intellectual who digs into psychology and philosophy for his small talk and the 10 - watt buddy who embraces urban legend as cultural fact hit the road, in the ugliest car on the planet, to meet actor Donald Sutherland in Montreal.

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Together with her sister, Vinnie (Jennifer Ehle, in a rare role worth her warm talent), and an irreverently modern friend, Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), Emily bats guests, suitors, and uptight relatives around like a cat playing with its food — an intellectual game hunt that seems to fill her father (Keith Carradine) with a mixture of disapproval and begrudging pride.