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This film has a rotting core of flexible morality, and yet a quirky sense of justice.
This is British comedy at its finest - dark, quirky and funny in ways that American films just never are.
Talk about a dream cast - just two of the most wonderful actors who ever appeared anywhere - Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith - together - in "Hot Millions," a funny, quirky comedy also starring Karl Malden, Robert Morley, and Bob Newhart.
It's another one of these modern-day British crime films that are quirky ("Snatch," "Sexy Beast," etc.).
Kenneth Branagh, a superb actor, lives up to expectations as the quirky artist who misbehaves and is forced to provide companionship to Helena's character as part of his "community service", an alternative to prison time.
John Stone(Bill Rogers), a quirky mundane business man,receives a couple of bottles of brandy that supposedly and unknown to him contains the spirit of Dracula's blood.
I even thought the end, reminiscent of The Sentinel, was just quirky enough to be interesting.
He's interested in photography and one day while taking pictures in the woods he runs into Satonaka Shizuru, a quirky waif and classmate, adorably played by Aoi Miyazaki.
The dialogue was inane and insipid, the situations completely unbelievable--particularly the pornography subplot, which I can only imagine was meant to be quirky, but fell very flat.
In the early 1980s, a young actress made her first appearances in television and films with an unforgettably quirky presence -- vulnerable and seductive all at once.
This quirky film has everything- lots and lots of comedy, a nice touch of romance, some violence and a hint of sadness now and again.
Judith has this gravelly high voice, a quirky sense of humor, and a vulnerability in the face of corporate America that makes her irresistible.
All the players are delightfully involved in their characters and all seem genuinely committed to this quirky little piece which is both lighthearted and eminently watchable.
He portray's his character, a somewhat eccentric, isolated writer, in his typically quirky manner.
He did a terrific acting job and, okay, I'm tempted to play a couple of parts again just to hear his quirky little jibes at himself and his wife and the boyfriend.. Glad I sat through it but I've seen better.
Allan Felix (Woody Allen) is a quirky film critic who has very minimal success with the ladies after being dumped by his wife.
As a quirky film promoting singers this movie is just fine.
This lodger has some quirky habits of going out on foggy nights and has them wondering who exactly this lodger that's living in their house really is.
"Futurama" generally has much superior story lines, the characters are far more quirky and enjoyable, the humour is way better, the animation is way better and the writing was most importantly much more consistent.
If Errol Morris, the wonderfully unconventional auteur responsible for such disarmingly offbeat documentaries as "Gates of Heaven," "Vernon, Florida," and "A Brief History of Time," decided to make a deceptively ordinary "average people who've been abducted by aliens and thoroughly examined by them relate their experiences on film" type of speculative UFO documentary it would probably be a lot like this engagingly quirky little winner.
The film consists of a day in life of teenagers facing everyday problems yet with a quirky depiction.
Pyper-Ferguson transcends the limitations of his role and Tracey Walter is, well, as quirky as ever.
The sort of show that simply wouldn't make it to television today, "Then Came Bronson" told quiet, lyrical, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic stories about a young man traveling through America in search of personal meaning; unlike many attempts at this theme, the show was never heavy-handed, offering intelligent, often quirky character portraits of the people Jim Bronson encountered.
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, an attempt to cash in on the quirky British teen book of the same name...no wait...that was called 'Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging', my mistake.
Waris Hussein is a talented director but not someone I would pick to helm a quirky, romantic comedy-drama.
Lots of great quirky characters and fun goings on, a nice mellow mood and a solid cast make Buscemi's film a really pleasant experience guaranteed to lift the spirits.
Television director Terry Hughes tried his hand at features with this improbable and uneven modern updating of "Marty", with magical overtones and quirky eccentricities--not the least of which is a miscast Demi Moore as a psychic sprite with absurd golden locks.
Bride Wars (2009), I potentially thought this movie could turn out to be one of those quirky, funny, well thought out and acted comedies that occasionally come out of Hollywood.
Surely, this story of quirky characters and the situation in which they find themselves was not meant to be taken seriously.
The story concerns a middle aged housewife in Brussels, who accidentally gets locked in a meat locker in the local fast food take away where she manages,has a traumatic experience as a result of it, and ends up leaving her family to take up in a quirky seaside village in (one supposes)Scotland.
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