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237 examples of Farce in a sentence

With Biko dead the film rapidly descends into farce.
I expected the movie to be more of a farce than anything.
Why they couldn't make a movie of the real events doesn't make any sense since the real events are more interesting then this made up farce.
What begins as a fairly clever farce about a somewhat shady security monitoring company turns, almost instantaneously, into an uninteresting and completely inane murder mystery.
What is more this begins predictably enough as a sex farce similar in vein to the Confessions films but about a third of the way through (whilst we are beginning to enjoy the presence of the lovely Me Me Lai) the film asks us to start taking it seriously.
I personally think the show is one big farce the cast is equally bad.
This movie is a farce!
The bed room scene was over the top and reduced an intimate moment into a farce of biological functions akin to passing gas in public.
One could ask the question why do they live, they all seem to be on this planet a a member of a big farce, forced to live against their will.
When the folks at Kino Video assembled their fine "Slapstick Encyclopedia" collection, a multi-cassette selection of silent comedies, someone decided to kick off the first installment with ONE TOO MANY (1916), an obscure one-reel farce made in Florida starring the very young Oliver Hardy.
Like any typical farce, this one involves deception inspired by greed, panic when plans go awry, and complications escalating to the point of absurdity, but unlike the good ones, ONE TOO MANY is incoherent, unfunny, and downright annoying.
Larry Peerce's direction wavers uncontrollably between black farce and Roman tragedy.
Stick with the visually perfect silent farce as directed by Lubitsch or even the 2004 screen version with Helen Hunt as Mrs. Erlynne; or try reading the play for the pleasure of the words.
This was intended to be a comedy, instead, it turned out to be a vapid farce, full of predictable jokes and below-the-waist innuendos.
What could otherwise have been a wonderful story with actually a set of more or less decent actors became a total farce in my eyes.
According to Robert L. Park in his book "Voodoo Science", the whole meditation experiment put on by John Hagelin in Washington, D.C. was a farce, the numbers were doctored, and the murder rate was higher that year that any year before or since.
It isn't just about a linguistic translation, but certain absurd chains of events are skipped entirely, robbing the film of its original clever farcical nature and turning it into a cheap "oops there go my trousers" style of farce.
The movie is based on a french play and brings all the best qualities of that farce.
This movie is a ridiculous farce of film-making.
David Zucker has directed one of the most enjoyable comedies of the year with this goofy farce.
I happened on "Shower" in the foreign film section of my local video store and passed it over several times since from its cover it looked like a farce or comedy.
Superb comic farce from Paul Mazursky, Richard Dreyfuss, plays Jack Noah a fairly successful actor- who is On location shooting a film in a fictitious Latin American banana republic Parador,Ruled by the Fascist, Alfonse Sims who unfortunately has succumbed of a heart attack after indulging in too many local cocktails!
It's an especially unfortunate loss since he shows a truly deft hand at character-driven farce that makes the whole film irresistible.
It was all meant to be a farce, but once you see the pathetic lives of the people in the movie, you think to yourself "People like this are all around us" All attempts at getting the audience's sympathy are dashed as the actors do one stupid thing after another.
A genuine screaming situation comedy farce of the mid 70s this film was a HUGE hit for about 5 minutes and disappeared off the face of the earth.
Famous for being shot on videotape and transferred to film, an experiment at the time, NORMAN is a raucous politically incorrect closet slamming farce that The Farrelly Brothers should look at remaking today.
A delightful gentle comedic gem, until the last five minutes, which degenerate into run of the mill British TV farce.
This walks a fine line between being a farce, a comedy, and just plain good old fashion ghost story telling.
Perhaps the most polished and accomplished of all Indian films - Pakeezah does not fall into any of the traps commonly associated with Bollywood film (ie tackiness, farce, wholesale and unsuccessful imitation of western film themes/genres).
This one took me by surprise because i had often been disappointed by Adrian Pasdar in the past, but he caught the perfect balance in this performance, avoiding both farce and pathos while delivering humour and real emotions.
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