There is also a ghost, a spectral symbol of the emotional, psychological and circumstantial burdens that are too unwieldy for the characters to manage.
The first "Best Exotic" film was adapted from the novel "These Foolish Things"; the new film has the unwieldy credit of "characters created in Deborah Moggach's original novel".
It's all too easy to end up, as here, with an unwieldy cast – 16 named characters, none adequately established – and drowning in exposition.
Unfortunately, "Ocean's 8" gets saddled with unwieldy exposition and not enough character development, depriving the audience of standout moments from its murderers' row of actresses who are criminally underutilized — save for an unexpectedly juicy turn from a never better Anne Hathaway.
Its characters — a rather unwieldy group of Pakistani villagers — were idiosyncratic individuals, not stand-ins for weighty issues.
As related by Guy Gugliotta and Jeff Leen, reporters for The Miami Herald, this extremely complicated story with its unwieldy yet fascinating cast of characters began in the mid-1970's, when a group of ruthless young Colombian thugs from Medellin prepared themselves to lead the rapidly expanding cocaine trade.
(Zinoman) 'THE GUT GIRLikeLike the large unwieldy carcass the Victorian-era characters must tackle in a slaughterhouse, this preachy British play by Sarah Daniels doesn't yield to either the director or the dialect coach in this revival, though several actresses manage to surmount the obstacles in a fashion (2 45).
Reviewers called it poor, clumsy and unsatisfactory, complaining that Bloodlines favors melee combat; firearms were weak, unwieldy and slow, even for characters specializing in guns.
The crux of it was a meme, the relatively unwieldy #swapawordinafilmforMartinAmis (you're down to 110 characters by then).
The ones that aren't being produced, because they're unwieldy (i.e., more than five characters), or dangerous (i.e., offensive to the subscription theater audience)?
Burdens are just about equally distributed among the eclectic characters in "Storefront Church," John Patrick Shanley's unwieldy but affecting new play about a handful of Bronx dwellers whose lives become tangled in unexpected ways when a mortgage goes sour.
