Want to See A Movie With Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, and Olaf the Snowman’s Josh Gad?
Posted on March 21, 2015 at 8:00 am
I am quite fond of a little film from 2008 called “The Rocker,” starring Rainn Wilson. And it’s even more fun now, as three of its actors have become big stars. Wilson plays a drummer who was let go just before his group became hugely successful in 1998. Twenty years later, his life is a mess and he is living with his sister and her husband (Jane Lynch and Jeff Garlin). His nephew (Josh Gad) has a rock group called A.D.D. that will be performing at prom, and they need a drummer. The group takes off — in both senses of the word. Emma Stone plays the group’s bass player. And Bradley Cooper is unrecognizable under a massive wig in a brief but funny as a member of Wilson’s original band, along with Will Arnett and Fred Armisen. The cast also includes Demetri Martin as the director of A.D.D.’s music video, Jason Sudeikis as their manager, and Christina Applegate as the mother of A.D.D.’s frontman, real-life musician Teddy Geiger. It’s a lot of fun and the music is great.
she plays a fiercely independent but free-spirited teacher whose efforts to have her students live out her fantasies results in tragedy. In 
ensemble comedy from Neil Simon, she was heartbreaking as a movie star herself up for an Oscar, escorted by her husband, a man she loves and who loves her, but who is gay in an era where he could not be honest about it. I also love her in 
as the spinster aunt who does not see much but who can tell everyone sees her as fussy and in the way, in 
as the loyal secretary who saves the day for the boss she secretly loves, and in 
, a wild story based on the book by Graham Greene.
. They all take place at the same time, one in the living room, one in the garden, and one in the dining, so an entrance in one of them is an exit in another. She co-starred with Helen Mirren in 
(based on the true story of a group of middle-aged women who pose nude for a fundraising calendar) and with Maggie Smith in 
and its sequel.
. You can also find him as Hugh Grant’s inept and awkward friend in 
, as the foolish Mr. Rushworth in 
, and as the unfortunate M. Bovary in 
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as a high school student and romantic interest for the main character played by Timothy Hutton. She was touching and funny in 
as real-life performer Evelyn Nesbit, whose wealthy young husband shot and killed her lover, the renowned architect Stanford White. In 
she played the white widow of a black man, fighting his family for custody of his daughter.
Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hughes) is in 
, Richard E. Grant (Simon Ricker) is in 
and 
, and Lily James (Lady Rose) is in this week’s live action “
This Best Picture Oscar winner stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford — along with the Oscar-winning ragtime score.
Michael Caine and Steve Martin play con men outdoing each other in this remake of “Bedtime Story” with David Niven and Marlon Brando.
David Mamet is fascinated by con men, and both this film and 
are about characters caught up in elaborate cons.
The FBI did actually collaborate with real-life con men in a sting operation that ended up taking down Members of Congress. David O. Russell’s film stars Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and an unforgettable Jennifer Lawrence as one of the few people in the story who isn’t conning anyone.
John C. Reilly, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Diego Luna star in this remake of the twisty con story 
.
Professor Harold Hill sells band equipment and then skips town before it arrives, until he meets a pretty piano teacher named Marian in this most glorious of musical comedy romances.
Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn star in the story of a farm community during a drought and the man who says he can make it rain.
A con man struggling with OCD meets his daughter for the first time.
Orson Welles is something of a con man himself in this documentary about two of the 20th century’s most notorious cheaters.