Sentences with phrase «uptight younger»

Reversing the duo's Baby Mama dynamic, Poehler is well cast here as uptight younger sister Maura, who focuses on everyone else's needs so she never has to think about her own.

The topic comes to mind partly because of this year's transcendent moment of joy in Cannes, the scene in Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann in which an uptight young corporate woman is persuaded by her father to sing Whitney Houston's «The Greatest Love of All» at a party and ends up pouring her entire soul into it.

Not exact matches

Such exuberant practices might be delinquent in the eyes of the uptight establishment, but they celebrate a condition of liberated empowerment in opposition to the traditional family's tendency to subordinate the natural, and often enough creative, delinquency of the young to the needs of social order.

There are signs that the old - school group led by veterans such as Velasco and Palmer and Corbett are being overrun in the larger events by younger, uptight athletes coming off a background in Ironman competitions and road marathons.

Chirlane McCray said Thursday that she «loved marijuana» when she was younger and that she backed legalizing weed — putting her at odds with her more uptight hubby, Mayor de...

Her neighbor Edie Britt also had her fair share of young guys, and even an uptight Bree Van de Kamp had a more youthful boyfriend later in the show.

Apatow regular Paul Rudd stars as pompous, uptight Alvin alongside Into the Wild's Emile Hirsch as Lance, the young brother of his girlfriend.

Along the way, these uptight Westerners will impose just enough of their own worldview to help a sympathetic young local achieve his own dream.

With the help of pot - laced brownies, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas» groovy free spirit Leigh Taylor - Young helps transform uptight Jew Peter Sellers from a stone - cold square to a swinging proponent of free love and sense derangement.

A Russian prostitute in St. Vincent and part of an uptight couple in Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, her insecure Lesley is a certain standout in a sea of names.

The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.

The Gist: Two years after «Frances Ha» debuted on the fall festival circuit, Noah Baumbach re-teams with «Greenberg» star Ben Stiller for a $ 10 million Scott Rudin production («While We're Young») about an uptight documentary filmmaker (wait, Ben Stiller playing someone uptight?)

They choose to spend their afterlife haunting Grant's uptight boss Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) and teaching him to enjoy life again.

Hoyland, like many other young British artists at this time, benefited from that ever so slight relaxation in the «entry rules» to a snobbish, uptight, class bound, nepotistic art world.