Sentence examples for earnest screen from inspiring English sources

Keith Gordon's painfully earnest screen adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel "Waking the Dead" grasps at a fusion of historicism and heartbreak that we normally expect to find in sprawling Hollywood epics, not in interior psychological dramas like Mr. Spencer's novel.

Waking the Dead Keith Gordon's painfully earnest screen adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel grasps at a fusion of historicism and heartbreak we normally expect to find in Hollywood epics.

Mr. Gordon's earnest screen adaptation of Scott Spencer's popular novel about a love that transcends death, aspires to be a kind of intellectualized "Love Story," set in the 1970's counterculture.

Around this central pair orbit a gaggle of malcontents: Paul Dano's earnest screen-actor Jimmy Tree, who hates being remembered for playing a robot; Rachel Weisz's daughter/manager Lena Ballinger, still mad at her father for mistreating her mother; and (briefly, late in the day) Jane Fonda's Brenda Morel, the diva for whom Mick is writing his movie.

Film FAIRFIELD Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University "The Importance of Being Earnest," screening of a filmed performance by the Roundabout Theater Company, directed by and starring Brian Bedford.

FAIRFIELD Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University "The Importance of Being Earnest," screening of a filmed performance by the Roundabout Theater Company, directed by and starring Brian Bedford.

The question in adapting Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest" for the screen, then, is how to turn this consummately theatrical lovers' joust, with its dazzling verbal games and dizzying confection of a plot, into a plausible movie.

In Texas, Bush selected Clay Johnson, a friend from Andover and an earnest former businessman, to screen his appointments.

The role of Roger is a small coup for Mr. Scott, who is normally the quintessence of earnest sincerity on the screen.

Writing in The Times, Stephen Holden described the role of the oily Roger as "a small coup for Mr. Scott, who is normally the quintessence of earnest sincerity on the screen".

He and Jackson might seem implausible buddies – the motor-mouthed extrovert and the soft-spoken recluse – but encountering the off-screen Tucker – earnest to the point of childlike – it makes sense.