Sentences with phrase «working class characters»

(On that subject, there's something tacky about such an extravagant production centering on struggling working class characters.)

The film, which might be semi-autobiographical and certainly influenced by Cassavetes» style, consists of a number of sketches painting a picture of the working class characters and their limited ambitions, and their resignation that their station in life is fixed by destiny.

Series creator Peter Berg has a knack for bringing working class characters to life (Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day, Hell or High Water), and Friday Night Lights may be the most authentic work of his storied Hollywood career.

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Robinson's memoir, A Game of Character, documents the lessons he learned from his working - class parents growing up on Chicago's South Side, and how he's applied them in life and in basketball.

No employer shall «discriminate between the sexes in the payment of wages for work of comparable character, the performance of which requires comparable skills» or «pay wages or other compensation to any employee at a rate greater than that at which the employer pays wages to employees of a protected class for work of comparable character»

The class character of their work is unquestionable, even in the age of universal compulsory education.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

Everyone must somehow put together his convictions about such matters as knowledge, the mass media, art, manners, work, play, nature, health, sex, class, race, economics, politics, international relations, and religion into a pattern for the formation of character through the curriculum.

The plot fails, but not before we've had an insight into the huge power disparity between the upper and working - class characters.

- them shtik always had something unpleasant about it, as in the servant - problem humor in which working - class characters exist solely as....

Watching the final made me realise Arsenal are miles behind catching teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern and Atletico these teams don't only have world class talent but also the desire, hard work, character and passion to win major titles!

While oversight and accountability genuinely help the democratic process, representing the proper style of character and the proper valence of emotion mattered more in this referendum than facts about the economic prospects of the UK and of the working class.

This was at a time when Little Britain's Vicky Pollard and Catherine Tate's Lauren Cooper were on our screens - characters that, in 2006, a survey found that 70 % of TV industry professionals believed were an accurate reflection of white working class young people.

I walked across town into Carlton (in the constituency) yesterday as a matter of fact, and it is certainly looking like the more tired, faded edge - of - conurbation territory which once would've been lower middle - class / aspirational working - class Tory heartland but is now very much more like an inner suburb of Nottingham in character (and psephology).

It tells the story of the Garfield character, growing up in a working - class family in the Bronx and breaking the social code by falling in love with the violin instead of the baseball bat.

This is not to insinuate that Haneke betrays any insincerity towards his characters, but one wonders how he might have conceived and shot a film about a lowly working - class couple dealing with encroaching death in a tiny one - room apartment.

Review I have seen this movie twice, probably the third romantic movie that compelled me to do that, and the reasons are quite simple: It's probably impossible that anyone can't relate to young Josh Hutcherson's character, an 11 year old with a normal middle class life and problems (parents initiating divorce); that its surprise by the rediscovery of a young classmate (Charley Ray) initially as an unexpected friend and later as something else... The well crafted work of director Mark Levin is based on the mutual discovery of all these feelings (mostly new and uncontrolled) that evolved in Josh's character and in another particular viewer: you.

The show is fast - paced and sexy, but perhaps its secret weapon is the authenticity of Tony's character as a young Latino resident of the working class, largely Mexican American Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

If making a claim for the «majorness» of Let the Sunshine In, we might point to its philosophical pedigree, or its class - consciousness — Fabrice drips poison into Isabelle's ear to undermine her belief in a possible future with Blain's working - class character, Sylvain, and, in perhaps the least sympathetic moment of a character given many of them, Isabelle carries this load of venom home to pass along to her lover rather than suffering through its effects herself.

British character actress Julie Walters has made a career out of playing working - class women with good hearts and sharp tongues — which should come as no surprise, given her background.

Above all, the film is a classic of «poetic realism,» that distinct brand of pessimistic»30s French urban drama that gave lyrical, sometimes even surrealistic, interpretations to working - class romances and underworld characters, settings and dramas.

To dull the pain of their rudderless existence, he and his friends drive around, smoke pot, burn down abandoned buildings, and generally behave like multicultural, Midwestern versions of the kids from Saturday Night Fever, another bleak working - class character study driven by a mesmerizing central star turn.

At just about the festival's halfway point, the Adam Driver drama about a bus driver with a gift for poetry could've seriously taken a snobbish turn — as the character is inspired by the working - class passengers on his New Jersey metro route.

Hamilton and D'Abo are both understated and terrific here, as are the character actors who served as Baumbach's rep company during the first phase of his career: Eigeman, unsmiling and hostile; the hilarious Jacott, all self - aware neuroses; and obligatory»90s indie mascot Eric Stoltz as Chet, the bartender who's still working on his thesis and maintaining an encyclopedic knowledge of classes and campus events.

Fassbender and Lawrence do the best they can with what little they're given, but the main reason that «First Class» worked as well as it did was because of the relationships between the three characters.

The titular working - class New Jersey suburb is the main character in this meandering yet captivating drama from director Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive).

Another oddity is the lack of information on each class; despite background stories being given for each character, players aren't told how each class works or their key abilities before purchasing and leveling them up.

In approximately eight weeks we see the chalet girl in question, a character named Kim Matthews transform from a working class CHAV Cockney being at the beck and call of some snooty banking family to a snowboarding champion getting the bloke in the process.

«She was playing a working - class character in that play and that was the only question in my mind,» he said.

It had to be someone who was a number of things: an intelligent actor who wasn't going to sentimentalise the part or make it Hollywood — because Fran's never been that — but also she's a working - class character and I didn't want to patronise that.

Disney tries a few new tricks with an African American cast of characters (the first time since 1947's Song of the South), a contemporary setting (New Orleans in the 20's), and a «princess» in the form of a working class girl with a dream, but more than that, an actual willingness to roll up her sleeves and do something about it.

The characters also discover that they have a variety of abilities and weaknesses (commonly referred to as classes in games), but what really works is the wise idea to place each teenager in a body that is their total opposite.

Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their Spanish writer - director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working - class black lives: the solidarity but also the standoff between parent and child; the series of low - ceiling jobs; the alienation from what few social services still exist; the yearning but also the wariness awakened by new romantic prospects; and the suddenness with which poor choices, ambient prejudice, or adolescent disaffection lead to intractable enmeshments in the penal apparatus.

The fact that Barton Fink uses working - class characters in his plays obliges him to be friendly to Meadows because if not he would show himself full of prejudice.

If I make Going the Distance sound like some grandiose study of the working class or a precise character study, then I am doing the film a great disservice.

On top of this, each main character has optional episodes to complete and there are mysteries to solve for each class and secret words to find that the game encourages you to work with people online to figure out.

Omega Force also tried to work in its own class system thanks to the presence of Mitamas — spirits that imbue your character with up to four unique abilities, replacing Monster Hunter's somewhat complex item system.

42nd Street (Warner Archive, Blu - ray)-- Released in 1933 by Warner Bros., which specialized in snappy, fast - paced pictures with working class heroes and street smart characters, 42nd Street launched a series of great backstage musicals that featured lavish production numbers in a Broadway culture where the depression was a reality just offstage and the dancers were one flop away from the breadlines.

Peyton spends much of his time exploring EDN III and doing jobs in his rig, and in many ways, «Gertie» is as much a character as anyone else — Peyton's working class attachment to the tool his life and livelihood depends on is contagious, particularly as you build her up via modifications and upgrades.

Though sometimes superficially seen as stuffy portraits of upper - class life, the recent and ongoing 4K restorations of their work by Cohen Media Group has only enhanced the films» intimacy of character and pristine economy of storytelling.

Unafraid to be unlikable as a calculating manipulator without scruple, he is every bit the formidable thespian Collette is, playing expertly off her character's insecurities as a working - class, single - mother of a certain age, trying to fit in with Trent's upscale friends (Robb Corddry, Amanda Peet).

Well done • Variety interesting report on a working class actor running for the SAF - AFTRA presidency • i09 12 things to love about The Lost Boys (1987) that have nothing to do with vampires • Coming Soon several characters from AHS: Cult revealed • NYT on the casting of indian actors for Taylor Sheridan's Wind River • MNPP Hugh Jackman and trainer - in - speedo spend soooo much time at the beach.

A sombre, lowbrow mood piece that's very much character driven and has an authentic feel for it's titular working class, Philadelphia neighbourhood, God's Pocket.

Alternately terse and elegiac, Shotgun Stories works best when it observes the lives of its main characters, three lower - class brothers from southeast Arkansas.

In a tradition ranging from the kitchen - sink realist films of the late»50s and early»60s to the contemporary works of Mike Leigh and Andrea Arnold, English movies set among the working classes have tended to have fatalistic trajectories and miserabilist aesthetics, underlining their drabness to reflect their characters» sense of hopelessness and to visually convey a lack of upward mobility.

Scenes in San Francisco, where Cate Blanchett's Jasmine is forced to relocate after she loses her riches, are somewhat more novel within the Allen oeuvre, but most of the working - class characters also seem stock, enlivened only by the acting skills of Bobby Cannavale and a surprisingly adroit Andrew Dice Clay.

Here he's working in a middle - class suburb of New York, where Marlo and her husband, Drew (Ron Livingston, playing a very Ron Livingston character), are slightly overwhelmed by everything: they have two kids, one with emerging special needs, and a baby on the way, and their lives have devolved to rote routine.

Loach and Laverty often find it hard to resist endings in which working - class characters teaming together in joyous solidarity prevail, sometimes comically, over the exploitative forces of conservatism and feral capitalism.

Richard Harris, famous for playing rebellious, rough - hewn characters, took over the role of King Arthur (originated by Richard Burton) with a mix of regal dignity and working - class origins and Vanessa Redgrave brought youth and unapologetic sexuality to Guenevere (played by Julie Andrews on stage).