Sentences with phrase «wrenching scenes»

For example, in Hello Stranger, some of the most desperate and wrenching scenes also have some funny moments.

I really enjoyed his performance and has one of the movie's most gut wrenching scenes made made me tear up.

The truly memorable and most gut - wrenching scenes of the film come in the form of found - footage (truly found fooage!)

White starts to peal back the layers of these friends who Brad admires but vindictively envies, which leads to some genuinely wrenching scenes.

This gives way to some of the movie's most wrenching scenes, such as in a scene finding a mother hugging her child through prison - like bars (ringed in cheesy fake flowers, in at attempt to soften the harshness).

Owen pulls off some heart - wrenching scenes, although it's Liberato's revelatory performance as the emotionally confused teen that holds the film together.

Shocking and wrenching scenes abound — a Jewish worker is dropped to his knees as the Nazi commandant tries to shoot him in the head with a gun that repeatedly misfires, Jews are forced to strip and run around a compound in order to prove themselves healthy enough to live as workers, a soldier plays a piano in an apartment building as his comrades roam from room to room, randomly firing on men, women and children...

He's already racked with guilt from watching the costs of his education tear their marriage apart — in the film's most wrenching scene, we discover that David's father has slumped into a drunken stupor.

As the tears well up in her eyes, and she desperately asks Lili to have «Einar» hold her, it's the single most heart wrenching scene this year.

This is an emotionally wrenching scene that will leave moviegoers feeling as if they have just been punched in the stomach.

But just as gripping and painful are the scenes illustrating the strained familial bonds between the father and his two sons; Nolte is heartbreaking in an early scene with Brendan and in a humiliating late scene in a casino in which Tommy violently turns on him, culminating in the anticipated but gut - wrenching scene in which Paddy falls off the wagon.

He's also got an emotionally wrenching scene in the hospital with Bello that's just great, Brando - great.

Instead, describe the most gut - wrenching scene using as much emotion as possible in 200 words or less.

It was a heart - wrenching scene in Hurricane Katrina; 250,000 pets were abandoned, and an estimated 150,000 died from the storm.

I can't think of a more heart - wrenching scene as a player when you're the one who has to kill off a character you've spent nearly two decades with.

Mutu's and Walker's concurrent exhibitions call to mind a gut wrenching scene from Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.

Mutu's and Walker's concurrent exhibitions call to mind a gut - wrenching scene from Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.

Not exact matches

A private school - educated everyman who could play outrageous comedy and wrenching tragedy, Jack Lemmon burst onto the movie scene as a 1950s Columbia contract player and remained a beloved star until his death in 2001.

There is a scene where Gonzalez, the youngest member of the cast, delivers the most emotionally raw moment in the film, and it is gut - wrenching in the best way (think Hiro's «I'm satisfied with my care» moment in «Big Hero 6,» times infinity).

By the time we arrive at «the incident,» the filmmakers are simultaneously mainlining and distorting the scandal's iconic figures and moments: posing a bloodied Harding over Kerrigan's (Caitlin Carver) bruised body; imagining a scene of Harding and Kerrigan bonding over pizza, booze, and En Vogue in a hotel room; and introducing «bodyguard» Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser) and «hitman» Shane Stant (Ricky Russert), the moronic goons who wrenched Harding's narrative away from her and turned it into tabloid grist.

The cat - and - mouse nature of their relationship is the only thing in Red Sparrow that feels like a genuine throwback to the novel; the rest of it is all wrenching torture scenes.

Janssen, who reportedly did her own pool shooting, is [best] served in the scenes with Gulley, which are wrenching in a coolly understated way.

All or Nothing has some appealing performances, several scenes of absolutely shattering domestic drama and an uncanny aura of gut - wrenching, documentarylike authenticity.

The guys are staying at the modest Buck Wild Ranch, whose owner Clyde (Joe Stevens) has gotten very sick after the opening scene, in which he offs his slutty daughter's boyfriend with a thrown wrench for screwing on his tulips.

As convincing as Robbie is when playing the younger Tonya, these scenes of her as a middle - aged has - been are the most wrenching.

As to what happens next... let's just say that you should expect the most violent showdowns yet in the series, as well as scenes of wrenching emotion.

Some of the most intense and wrenching battle scenes Kurosawa has ever captured are vividly portrayed here.

A monkey wrench is thrown in the works when the mission director is found murdered and Vincent's real DNA is found at the scene.

At times laugh - out - loud hilarious, at others heart - wrenching, and at others exhilaratingly graceful in it's action scenes.

Dern doesn't say much in the scene, but his performance is wrenching, particularly when he looks around his parents» old bedroom and quietly remarks that he would have been whipped if he'd been caught in that room as a child.

To play a profoundly depressed suburban mother — her face a mask of numbness yet somehow quite expressive — the actor drew from her own experience with the disease, digging deep in several scenes that are as gut - wrenching as they are difficult to watch.

Interpolating the last day of Mishima's life with scenes from his wrenching novels and his youth, Schrader evokes films like Kurosawa's Rashoman and Kobayashi's Kwaidan, while also exploring the themes of masculinity, honor and dedication that resonate both in Japanese culture and in the director's other work.

The scene in the river near the end was gut - wrenching.

Staunton's performance radiates with glazed, dewy shock as she teeters into the film's wrenching final scene.

Look no further than the emotionally brutal scene where David and Monica part; only a true heart of ice won't be affected by Osment's wrenching wails for Monica.

Even though it's mainly infamous for its three very explicit sex scenes, this is really an intense love story — girl meets girl, girl loses girl — and completely heart - wrenching at times.

But Barry Lyndon is, at its heart, a black comedy, and there are moments reined in just this side of Pythonesque lunacy — including a pair of duelling scenes that manage to be both hysterical and gut - wrenching.

From there, Watney must not only come to grips with the most dire situation any astronaut has ever faced, but also mend his own gory abdominal wound in a scene that is «Prometheus» - level in its gut - wrenching body horror.

And it builds to a beautiful, heartbreaking climax, with marvelous scenes from Ciaran Hinds and William Hurt as McAvoy's and Chastain's fathers, respectively, and a wrenching one between the two leads.

Watching Luke win over all the convicts, including the previous leader played by Kennedy is stunning, yet gut - wrenching when offset by the scenes with the guards who are hell bent on getting Luke to understand his place.

An assured piece of filmmaking, Cold Hell succeeds in mixing social realism with more standard thriller elements and scenes of gut - wrenching violence.

As an actress, McDormand is as unsentimental as Olive, and the scenes between her and Murray — who brings his own warm, rumpled humanity to his role — are both funny and heart - wrenching.

The ending scenes were heart - wrenching, but quite satisfying.

-- the opening scenes are 15 minutes of stunning, terrifying, and heart - wrenching emotion.

This time round his alter - ego Wade Wilson finds himself on the cusp of parenthood, only to have the chance tragically wrenched away during the film's unexpected opening scenes (a surprise neatly reflected in the James Bond - style titles sequence featuring credits such as: «Written By: the real villains of this film» and «Starring: someone who clearly doesn't like sharing the limelight»).

Kuri, at age 14, is one of the best things about the picture, as his emotional scenes with his parents and Father Christopher (a brief appearance by Peter O» Toole, «Troy «-RRB- are heart - wrenching and horrifyingly real.

It features brilliant performances from Brooklyn Prince, Bria Vinaite, and Willem Dafoe as well as a final scene that will wrench itself into your memory.

Live rounds, squibs and pyrotechnics are all in abundance throughout making every scene feel more punchy and gut - wrenching in its violence.

Berg's touch with the battle scenes is equally focused, filming with an intentional frenzy full of gut - wrenching stunt work.

Other recipients include Jean - Paul Rappeneau for his project Belles familles; Louis Garrel, whose Les Deux amis will team the writer - director with Vincent Macaigne; and Christophe Honoré... Michael Caine will star in Paolo Sorrentino's In the Future, a drama about «friendship between two old people»... Abdellatif Kechiche is contemplating another helping of wrenching romantic anguish with a movie version of Héloïse et Abélard... Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are currently shooting an adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's novel Ten Thousand Saints, with Ethan Hawke and Hailee Steinfeld, about a young man (played by Hugo star Asa Butterfield) who moves in with his estranged father in Manhattan in 1987 at the height of the East Village punk scene...