Sentence examples for modest movie from inspiring English sources
It is another modest movie, costing about $5 million.
This modest movie, with a side plot that looks unblinkingly at gay-bashing among high school students, deserves to attract crossover customers.
In 2004 Liev Schreiber, a well-regarded stage actor with modest movie credits — he plays the brainwashed son in the remake of "The Manchurian Candidate" — experienced an epiphany while watching the MTV documentary "True Life: I'm Living in Iraq".
The title, a misquotation from the most famous line of Robert Burns's poem "To a Mouse", directs us to John Steinbeck's novella, and indeed this modest movie is an urban reworking of Of Mice and Men in present day Nottingham.
"High Noon" is a modest movie that carries an impressive historic burden -- and not just because it provides the supreme illustration of the cowboy-commander in chief credo that "a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do".
And after a summer that saw musicals and biopics like "Hairspray," "El Cantante" and "La Vie en Rose," a modest movie called "Once," starring the Frames front man Glen Hansard, continues to play in theaters, powered by ardent word of mouth.
"L.I.E". is one of those deceptively modest movies that cracks open the familiar to marvel at the strangeness within.
Clooney's career has been more than a search for a still head, but his best performances, in these more modest movies, have involved constraint, one way or another.
While 2005's movie calendar was short on polarizing events -- no one tackled the Passion or excoriated the Bush administration the way Mel Gibson and Michael Moore had the year before -- it was teeming with modest movies making small statements about Important Subjects.
It's not, more's the pity, since the film is lesser in every degree to that modest B movie success.
Far more than the modest home movie it initially seems to be, This Is Not a Film is an act of courage and a statement of political and moral conviction: surprising, radical, and enormously moving.
