Sentences with phrase «work as the script»

There are larger scenes that just do not work as the script is fairly disjointed.

She has written screenplays, worked as a script editor and is also a producer for Laid Back Films.

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We felt as if we had been playing parts in a fascinating movie that suddenly took a bad turn, in which we had worked like dogs for two weeks to produce something really spectacular and then were written out of the script.»

Express Scripts, which in its role as a pharmacy benefit manager negotiates drug prices and reimbursement on behalf of insurers and employers, «will work with health plans and plan sponsors to decide where they want [Luxturna] on their plans,» Miller said.

In June 2011, the HR team was working with a spreadsheet that relied on a bunch of scripts (known as macros) and some of them had malfunctioned.

Having spent decades working as a screenwriter in the studio system — credited on recognizable titles like «Hope Floats,» «Stepmom,» and «Kate & Leopold» — in the era where studios are through making romance movies, Rogers has reinvented himself thanks to the «I, Tonya» script.

LiteCoin's differences from Bitcoin include faster transaction confirmation, improved storage efficiency, script usage in its proof - of - work algorithm and the Litecoin Network, expected to produce 84 million Litecoins or four times as many currency units as will be issued by the Bitcoin Network, expanding its lifespan.

The good news is that our ambivalence as we stand between scripts is precisely the primal venue for the work of God's Spirit.

He was also earning his varsity A as student manager of the baseball team, working as sports stringer for out - of - town Alabama papers, writing scripts for the football coaches» radio show, playing sandlot baseball and announcing downs and yards to go on the P.A. system at Alabama football games.

The script that was rewriting itself had not finished though, there was one final twist to this story and thank goodness that worked out as a happier ending for the Gunners.

All of which means that before we tout the presumptive benefits of marriage for everyone, we should be willing to explore what's working for those who are happily living alternatively and whether what doesn't work for them is the actual arrangement or the societal expectation that committed couples marry and live together as well as the judgment they face if they don't follow the romantic script.

Unique to Hypnobabies: 5 somnambulistic hypnosis scripts in booklet form, for use by our Hypno - Couples to work with as a team.

This was a template script from four years ago cut and pasted as a starting point for working on this year's run of show.

Florian Coulmas, a linguist at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Germany, agrees that an evolutionary framework doesn't work well for written language, but says there's another, simpler explanation: Once a script is introduced, people tend to follow it diligently to avoid confusion — a concept known as path dependence.

Goal priming - accountability What it does: Planning exercise sessions can work against piking last - minute, as in the act of crafting a well - articulated plan, you're effectively programming your mind to follow the script.

She works with clients to up their confidence, fix their dating screw - ups, provide the right words over text and online dating and even creating scripts for phone and in - person conversations as their Cyrano, reality and hip check, and help them stay on their dating and relationship purpose.

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But as eHarmony staff worked with producers on the script, they decided to make changes to the actual service, so that it provided customized help like it does in the movie (making it a more accurate depiction).

So while working on the set of The X-Files guarding the honey wagons (while this can be interpreted as some sort of honey filled cart and while a search for this will give you a suction-esque type of machinery that literally sucks up human excrement but instead in reality is just a simple nice way of saying a trailer for actors and actresses) he was fired for following his dreams; writing out scripts in hopes that one day he would be able to put that film degree to good use.

New sugar shows in the works include Logo «s formerly named «Kept» (now titled «The Gay Socialites of New York»), as well as ABC's scripted «Cougar Town», starring Courteney Cox as a 40 year old cougar with a 17 year old son.

[Features] The usual fine performances from Bergman's regulars combined with a script that is not as ponderous as much of the director's other works.

It's a unique premise that's employed to affable (if entirely forgettable) effect by director Howard, as the filmmaker, working from a script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, does an effective job of initially establishing the movie's seedy, New York City - landscape and assortment of oddball characters.

But it's also far from a satisfying work as a whole, with a number of crippling script issues that no third - act rewrite could have saved and an uneven tone that prevents it from becoming the definitive zombie picture it hopes to become.

There's little doubt that Due Date gets off to an almost disastrously underwhelming start, as director Todd Phillips, working from a script cowritten with Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, and Adam Sztykiel, offers up a series of eye - rollingly broad comedic set pieces that are both unfunny and without any basis in reality (ie Peter receives a beating from a wheelchair - bound redneck, Ethan laughs hysterically after Peter tells him a sad story about his father, etc).

It's an unapologetically over-the-top premise that, although employed to exceedingly entertaining effect within the book, inevitably results in a middling cinematic endeavor, as Howard - working from a script by David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman - emphasizes a consistent tone of reverence that proves an incongruous match with the comparatively light - hearted nature of Brown's eponymous bestseller.

It's a low - key premise that's employed to almost prototypically deliberate effect by director Julie Lopes Curval, as the filmmaker, working from a script cowritten with Sophie Hiet, offers up an uneventful narrative revolving around the central character's subdued exploits (eg Alice goes to school, Alice deals with her mother, etc, etc).

Had he had a slightly less obvious, more subtle, and smarter script to work with; who knows what we'd be saying about Hopkins as it pertains to this movie.

the script is linear and actually makes sense, but it's such a cold film that it only works as a procedural film, much in the way The Day of the Jackal (1973) dealt with icy characters from opposing sides eventually converging in a climax.

There's more to Nostalgia, of course - as even Hamm's dealer is dealing with a few emotional losses of his own - but Pellington and Perry (whose script lacks the talkative confrontation of his previous work) inject every short story with a forced yearning for poeticism that's never really earned.

The other actors are wonderful support as well, and credit goes to Cody's script, which — in addition to Reitman's work — is also her very best.

Gillespie, working from a script by Steven Rogers, does an effective job of painting a somewhat less - than - flattering portrayal of the protagonist's hard - scrabble existence, with the strength of the film's opening stretch standing in sharp contrast to a middling midsection that grows less and less interesting as time progresses.

It's a promising setup that's employed to curiously (and consistently) uninvolving effect by director Stanley Kubrick, as the filmmaker, working from a script cowritten with Terry Southern and Peter George, proves unable to wholeheartedly capture the viewer's interest right from the get - go - with the movie suffering from a stagy, talky vibe that grows more and more problematic as time progresses.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, kicks Paths of Glory off with an admittedly less - than - engrossing stretch, as the movie boasts (or suffers from) a somewhat talky first act that doesn't contain much in the way of compelling elements - although, by that same token, it's clear that the film benefits substantially from Kubrick's stellar directorial choices and a host of above - average performances.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Arthur C. Clarke, has infused 2001: A Space Odyssey with a continuously striking visual sensibility that remains a highlight from start to finish, as the filmmaker suffuses the proceedings with one absolutely astonishing set - piece after another - with, for example, Dave's gravity - defying jog within the spacecraft's interior nothing less than jaw - dropping in its impact.

It's ultimately clear that The Finest Hours is at its best in its relatively propulsive first half, as director Craig Gillespie, working from a script by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson, does a nice job of establishing the the central characters and the dangerous circumstances in which they find themselves - with the screenplay, which also emphasizes the ongoing exploits of Bernie's girlfriend (Holliday Grainger's Miriam), generally juggling the various narrative threads to seamless effect.

It's an inherently compelling premise that is, in the movie's early stages, employed to familiar yet watchable effect by Craig Gillespie, as the filmmaker, working from Thomas McCarthy's script does a nice job of infusing the proceedings with a compulsively watchable feel that's heightened by Hamm's typically appealing work as the protagonist.

Sometimes a ballsy movie that is just ballsy for no reason can work, as long as the story and script are there to make up for it.

Ensemble films like this don't always work, but in the hands of a master director such as Meirelles, Peter Morgan's script comes to life in a vivid and evocative way.

The script visits the legendary Dashiell Hammett as a younger, struggling writer, and imagines him returning to the detective beat (he worked for the Pinkerton Agency prior to attaining literary fame).

The script clearly strives for Beckett-esque absurdity, defining Crick's life as an apparent work of fiction that he is helpless to alter or avoid.

Getting his start working on TV commercials, Mann took his rapid - paced, flash - cut approach into documentary filmmaking, producing an award - winning short on the 1968 French student riots, Janpuri.Mann's fragmented - image technique further manifested itself on such TV detective series of the»70s such as Starsky and Hutch and Vegas, both of which utilized his scripts (though they were directed by others in the standard conventional style of the period).

Even what's supposed to pass as dark comedy rarely works because the script (written by the film's first - time director David Veloz) never manages to capture the banalities of this industry town.

Later in the week, THR published further information on the split, which had Hunnam seeking script approval after submitting copious notes on Kelly Marcel's script as well as reports that Hunnam was to receive a mere $ 125,000 for his work.

Not thinking it could work as a feature film, they finally launched a revival series in the late 1980s with Peter Graves back as the head of the Impossible Mission force, but bad scripts, lack of energy and a writer's strike killed the show after two seasons despite an interesting cast.

As I often write, black comedy is a difficult genre to pull off, but thanks to Todd Phillips comfort with outlandish material working from a clever script by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, it all comes together to form a funny and satisfying movie that belongs next to Apatow's finest in the burgeoning «bromance» genre.

If he had a script, as such, to work it, he would have had a chance to shine, no doubt, but what we have here is a series of events strung together with baling wire and chewing gum.

What it doesn't have more of is inspiration, as director Shawn Levy (The Pink Panther, Cheaper by the Dozen), working from a script from Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Balls of Fury, Herbie Fully Loaded), is content to just throw everything but the museum's bathroom sink at the screen and watch the live - action performers merely run away from them all.

The script by Tina Fey is inspired by a work of actual ethnography and offers genuine insight and empathy as well as a hefty dose of putdowns and comeuppances.

John Hodge is currently working on a script and all the principle actors such as Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, and Kelly Macdonald, are expected to return.

Nicely directed with great visual flair by Jean - Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club, C.R.A.Z.Y.), working from a well - honed script from veteran Nick Hornby (An Education, Fever Pitch), Wild is a solid, cathartic work that asks us, perhaps indirectly, to examine our own lives and the things we need to overcome, using Strayed's own example as an inspiration.