Sentences with phrase «who gets more than he bargains for»

I Am Love writer - director Luca Guadagnino follows up with The Reliable Wife, a romantic period drama set in 1908 Wisconsin about a widower and his mail - order bride who both get more than they bargained for.

Best Night Ever (R for profanity, graphic nudity, drug use, crude humor and pervasive profanity) Parody of the road trip genre about a bride - to - be (Desiree Hall) who gets more than she bargained for when she ventures to Vegas with her bridesmaids for a bawdy bachelorette party.

The Watch (R for violence, graphic sexuality and pervasive profanity) Sci - fi comedy about members of a neighborhood crime watch (Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade) who get more than they bargained for when they find themselves having to defend the planet from an alien invasion.

Deadline reports Friday night that Terminator, Rambo, and Basic Instinct exec producer Mario Kassar is assembling an English - language adaptation of Audition, the infamous 1997 novel by Japanese author Ryu Murakami about a lonely widower who gets more than he bargains for when he puts out a fake casting call to find a new girlfriend.

Don McKay (R for profanity and violence) Prodigal Son whodunit about a jaded janitor (Thomas Haden Church) who gets more than he bargained for when he returns to his hometown for the first time in 25 years at the beck - and - call of his cancer - stricken, high school sweetheart (Elisabeth Shue) only to find himself implicated in a tawdry murder mystery.

For instance, last year we had the fantastic Troll Hunter, a Norwegian fantasy film directed by Andre Ovredal about a group of students who get more than they bargained for when they attempt to capture the actions of a supposed bear poacher on camera.

However, writers - directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini apply some of the visual invention they displayed in (the vastly different) American Splendor to lend some freshness and style to this story of a slumming college grad (Johansson) who gets more than she bargained for when she takes up a nanny position for demanding, high - maintenance «Mrs. X» (Linney).

Catching Feelings This darkly comedic movie follows a professor and his journalist wife who get more than they bargained for after an acclaimed, hard - partying author moves in with them.

Coasting into gear alongside Amber Heard, Efron will star in AUTOBAHN; getting into trouble as an American backpacker who gets more than he bargained for in a drugs deal gone awry.

It's not your typical Soderbergh film, when described in outline form — an action thriller, with Gina Carano as a «covert operative» who gets more than she bargained for when sent to Barcelona to retrieve a hostage.

Leonard Abrahamson is directing this comedy about an aspiring musician who gets more than he bargained for by joining a rock band.

War on Everyone (R for violence, nudity, sexuality, drug use and pervasive profanity) Crime comedy about a couple of corrupt cops (Alexander Skarsgard and Michael Pena) who get more than they bargained for when they try to shakedown a strip club manager (Caleb Landry Jones).

Asked why so many students were leaving, Woodworth said, «We heard from the schools that there are people who got more than they bargained for» in the lengthy school days.

In Sakura Shrine Girls you step into the shoes of Toru, a young priest - in - training, who gets more than he bargained for when following in the footsteps of his grandfather.

Not exact matches

One journalist who filed a pretty standard Freedom of Information Act for government records on national white supremacist groups seems to have gotten way, way more than he bargained for when a Department for Homeland Security - linked agency sent him a file titled, and we quote, «EM effects on human body.zip.»

One journalist who filed a pretty standard Freedom of Information Act for government records on national white supremacist groups seems to have gotten way, way more than he bargained for...

Jacob Waddell, the man who threw the catfish during Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, likely is getting more than he bargained for.

But Denis Gebauer, who is now 34, got more than he bargained for during his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany.

There's no reason that you should get wound up and spend your time and resources on someone who may end up being a lot more than you bargained for.

Emily Blunt plays a young drugs enforcement cop who gets roped into an operation that is more complicated than what she bargained for.

«Where Soldiers Come From» is a heartbreaking and insightful view of group of kids from Michigan who join the National Guard and get more than they bargained for.

But at its core is the spectacle of a rational, down - to - earth individual who, faced with a career crisis that threatens the life of comfortable domestic affluence he has built for himself, succumbs with surprisingly few misgivings to an absurd New Age fix and gets more than he bargained for.

Winter's Tale follows the story of Peter Lake (Colin Farrell) who is thief that gets more than he bargained for.

Game Night Friends who get together for a night of games get more than they've bargained for, when they find themselves dealing with international criminals.

Who: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford What: Five friends head to a remote cabin in the woods for the weekend where they get more than they bargained for.

Spy photographers who sought out the all - new 2016 Ford Super Duty pickup got more than they bargained for last week when the truck showed up in heavy disguise, then burst into flames.

The third in the series, it's about zookeeper Iris Oakley, who gets a lot more than she bargained for when she shows up to help at a drug bust (presumably to take care of abandoned pets)...

All but one furry in my (Liv's) home are rescues, and even Daisy, who's papered», is pretty much a rescue as she was rehomed to Mom on Craigslist after her first family got more than they bargained for.

Two men who attempted to rob a store got more than they bargained for.

Originally created for the October Ludum Dare competition but not released until now, Endeavor is the story of a small dwarf who sets out on an epic adventure, and ends up getting far more than he bargained for, as he stumbles on an ancient secret.

The biggest issue of social media background checks comes down to this: Employers who venture their own path through an applicant's social media background are certain to get more than they bargained for.