DVD Report: This week's new releases (Oct. 5) Oct 5, 2008
Richard Jenkins ("Six Feet Under") is Walter, a college professor who's drifting through life numbingly uninspired, but who finds new purpose in sharing the joys and troubles of a couple squatting in his Manhattan pied. -terre. (Boston Globe)
‘Burn After Reading' has the perfect characters Oct 3, 2008
We meet a charming but needy and sex-hungry philanderer, Harry Pfarrer (Clooney); a gym manager, Linda Litzke (McDormand), who frequents online dating services and who imagines several plastic surgeries will help her find love; the boss, Ted Treffon (Richard Jenkins), who loves her without her notice; a personal trainer, Chad Feldheimer (Pitt), with an Elvis hair-do and the enthusiastic innocence of a child; a self-important snob, Osbourne Cox (Malkovich), with a bone to pick after being ousted... (Cedar Park Hill Country News Weekender, TX)
Flick: Comic strip puts area's wind farm neurosis on national stage Oct 3, 2008
Late in the movie, the character played by actor John Malkovich murders the character played by actor Richard Jenkins on a Washington, D.C., street. Jenkins. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Step Brothers Sep 20, 2008
Brennan Huff (Ferrell) and Dale Doback (Reilly) have to share a room when Nancy Huff (Mary Steenburgen) marries Dr Robert Doback (Richard Jenkins). These are indulgent parents but their boys are the monsters that ate Star Wars: full-grown men with the socialisation of lazy 13-year-old brats. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Acting a highlight in 'Burn' Sep 19, 2008
Ted (Richard Jenkins), painfully in love with the oblivious Linda, gets shot and then bludgeoned to death on the sidewalk. Osborne - the same Osborne who shoots and bludgeons Ted to death - doesn't live, either. (Juneau Empire)
Grow up? Never Sep 16, 2008
When their respective parents (played by Mary Steenbergen and Richard Jenkins) marry, Brennan (Ferrell) and Dale (Reilly) are forced to live together as stepbrothers. "My scrotum is a hot topic," Ferrell says in relation to the movie. (The Age)
'Matchmaking' decides films' fates Sep 13, 2008
You hear someone mention a movie in the same breath as last year's "The Visitor" with Richard Jenkins, and you crane your neck to catch the title. Some films, such as Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna," arrived here with name recognition and director, writer, composer and actors in tow, along with the marketing muscle of Disney. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Review: Spy vs. morons in 'Burn After Reading' Sep 13, 2008
With George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins ... Over at Hardbodies Gym, man-hungry Linda (Frances McDormand) is desperately dreaming of the cosmetic surgeries that will change her luck with Internet dating, working on her boss (Coen regular Richard Jenkins) to advance her some cash since the "crummy HMO" won't pay for the procedures. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Burn After Reading review: Actors really tied the film together Sep 13, 2008
Perhaps the biggest surprise is Richard Jenkins (part of my Six Feet Under family) as sweet, wonderful Ted, Linda and Chads manager at Hardbodies. He may be to Burn what Donny was to Lebowski. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
'Burn After Reading': Mixed Nuts, By Kurt Loder Sep 13, 2008
This is heartbreaking news for Ted Treffon (Richard Jenkins), the Hardbodies gym manager who is truly smitten with Linda and has already confided to her that before getting into the buffness industry, he spent 14 years as a Greek Orthodox priest. (Linda's response: "That's a good job!"). (VHI.com -- Music News)
'Burn After Reading' full of Coen brothers' fireworks Sep 13, 2008
Richard Jenkins, the skillful actor from The Visitor and TV's Six Feet Under, is the fitness center manager who pines for McDormand though she's too busy online meeting men. With merely a glance, he creates a note of sadness, as he did in The Visitor. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Coens Ask the CIA for a License to Laugh Sep 12, 2008
With the exceptions of the hard-working supporting cast notably J. K. Simmons as a C.I.A. bigwig and the equally reliable and welcome Richard Jenkins as a lovelorn gym manager the characters have been conceived as variations on self-deluded boobishness ... WITH: (Harry Pfarrer), (Linda Litzke), (Chad Feldheimer), (Osborne Cox), (Katie Cox), Richard Jenkins (Ted), Superior (J. K. Simmons) and Elizabeth Marvel (Sandy Pfarrer). (New York Times)
Wonderfully acted `Visitor' deserves a warm welcome Sep 12, 2008
Widowed college professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) seems to lead a quiet life that's as uneventful and predictable as one of the economics classes he's been teaching for decades -- that is, until he stops in at the New York City apartment he hasn't visited in a while and meets a couple of tenants who weren't supposed to be there. That might seem like the set-up for a horror movie, but writer-director Tom McCarthy's ``The Visitor'' generates shocks of a different kind. (Kalamazoo Gazette, MI)
Bunch of dunderheads make 'Burn' a winner Sep 12, 2008
At left is Richard Jenkins ... Burn After Reading* * * (out of four)Stars: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Richard JenkinsDirectors: Joel and Ethan CoenDistributor: Focus FeaturesRating: R for pervasive language, some sexual content and violenceRunning time: 1 hour, 36 minutesOpens Friday nationwide. (USA Today -- Life)
Wind power speed record bid fails Sep 12, 2008
The Greenbird team's Richard Jenkins and Dennis Bassano testing the craft across a salt lake ... Britons Dale Vince and Richard Jenkins had hoped to see their carbon-neutral vehicle, Greenbird, beat the record of 116mph (187kmph). (BBC News -- Science)
'Burn' has Coen brothers' antic ways Sep 12, 2008
If only she didn't see the gym manager (Richard Jenkins) who pines for her as a loser. If only she didn't see Chad's find as the financial solution to her surgical needs. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY MORONS Sep 11, 2008
She disregards flattery from her boss Ted Treffon (Richard Jenkins) and shares her dreams with the airhead trainer Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt). None of these eccentrically named characters are likable, and yet each one embodies a familiar plaint. (New York Press)
Coen brothers cant get enough lovable dopes Sep 10, 2008
Yet they may have topped themselves for siring simpletons with the dark comedy Burn After Reading, which stars usual Coen suspects George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins and new pals Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Pitt, Clooney dumb down for Coens' `Burn' Sep 10, 2008
Yet they may have topped themselves for siring simpletons with the dark comedy "Burn After Reading," which stars usual Coen suspects George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins and new pals Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton. They're like the Hole in the Head Gang, this bunch that blunders its way through the motions of a spy game touched off by a missing computer disc with some modestly sensitive CIA secrets. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Brad Pitt Rocks to Madonna Sep 7, 2008
The Coens already won the Oscar this year for "No Country for Old Men." This movie could have been called "No Country for Smart Men and Women" although it boasts a cast of Oscar nominees and winners including Pitt, Frances McDormand (winner for "Fargo"), George Clooney (winner for "Syriana"), Tilda Swinton (winner for "Michael Clayton"), John Malkovich, (nominee for "In the Line of Fire" and "Places in the Heart") and Richard Jenkins (the dead dad from "Six Feet Under," probable nominee this... (Fox News)
Industry Buzz Sep 7, 2008
The Coens wrote the film for George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins and Brad Pitt. It's not the brothers' first foray into political satire. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Seasonal Cinema Sep 4, 2008
Among other big-screen reunions: Brad Pitt reteams with "Ocean's Eleven" accomplice George Clooney for the spy-game black comedy "Burn After Reading," from Joel and Ethan Coen (who are reuniting themselves with Clooney and co-stars Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins); Pitt rejoins "Babel" co-star Cate Blanchett for David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who ages backward toward infancy; and Nicole Kidman is back with "Moulin... (North County Times)
Baffled By Burn After Reading Sep 1, 2008
" Deceit is very much the job of the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen. It's as if, after winning two fat Oscars (best picture and director) for their fairly straightforward adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, the brothers needed to reassert their old capricious cunning, their weasily larkishness, their independence from easy acclaim. "Just because you agree with the Academy that we made the best film of 2007," they seem to be warning their fans, "don't think you're any... (Time.com)
The Step Brothers *** 15 Aug 30, 2008
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly play Brennan and Dale, two spoiled 40-year old men still living at home with their respective single parents - Brennan (Ferrell) with his mum (Mary Steenburgen) and Dale (Reilly) with his dad (Richard Jenkins). When their folks meet and decide to get married, they are forced to share a room. (Glasgow Daily Record)
Step Brothers: This isn't funny - it just stinks Aug 29, 2008
Early on, there's a certain amount of enjoyment in watching middle-aged men (Ferrell and John C. Reilly) act like surly teenagers who still live at home and sponge off their respective mum Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) and dad Robert (Richard Jenkins). When Robert and Nancy move in together, the two overgrown teenagers have to share a room. (Daily Mail)
Burn After Reading Aug 29, 2008
Aug. 27, 2008, 8:47pm PT. 8/28/08 6:04pm 8/28/08 5:56pm 8/28/08 4:40pm 8/28/08 3:56pm 8/28/08 3:23pm A Focus Features release, presented in association with StudioCanal and Relativity Media, of a Working Title production. (Variety)
Fall movie preview: The Coens dumb it down with starry 'Burn' Aug 29, 2008
With a first-class cast that mixes and matches Coen regulars Frances McDormand, George Clooney and Richard Jenkins with newbies Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich, the pseudo-thriller is described this way in the press notes by Ethan Coen: "Like Advise and Consent, this is about the personal meeting the political, with melodrama. Burn After Reading is also our version of a Tony Scott/Jason Bourne kind of movie without the explosions.". Maybe, but no Bourne movie ever had clips of a fake... (USA Today -- Life)
Times staffers pick top fall films you should see Aug 28, 2008
" Look, Jason Statham is an OK action star, but is this guy capable of doing anything else but kicking the crap out of people? It's tired.Oland's picks5: 'Zack Make a Porno'Why it's gonna be good: This could be a terrible movie. But if you're a 20-something male like me, one of your friends is going to drag you to see this crude comedy. So you might as well go into it with a positive mind-set. And, hey, director Kevin Smith is always good for a dozen laughs, isn't he?4: 'Yes Man'Why it's gonna... (Carroll County Times, MD)
Film Reviews: 'Burn After Reading' and 'Jerichow' Aug 28, 2008
Meanwhile, in another part of town at the Hardbodies Fitness Center, a trio of employees are living out their obscure and humdrum lives: the gormless trainer Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), Ted, the gym manager (Richard Jenkins, an old Coen trouper) and an office drone, Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand, also Mrs. Joel Coen, a Coen muse ever since their first hit "Blood Simple" and an Oscar winner for her role as Marge Gunderson in "Fargo"). When a CD-ROM containing a draft of Cox's memoirs is... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Bond is back Aug 27, 2008
Among other big-screen reunions: Brad Pitt reteams with Ocean s Eleven accomplice George Clooney for the spy-game black comedy Burn After Reading, from Joel and Ethan Coen (who are reuniting themselves with Clooney and co-stars Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins); Pitt rejoins Babel co-star Cate Blanchett for David Fincher s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who ages backward toward infancy; and Nicole Kidman is back with Moulin Rouge... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
TIFF lineup an 'embarrassment of riches' Aug 20, 2008
Among the galas is Burn After Reading, the new Coen brothers CIA comedy starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins ... Among the other galas certain to fibrillate the pheromones is Burn After Reading, the new Coen brothers CIA comedy starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins; Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth, starring Kate Beckinsale, David Schwimmer, Angela Bassett and Noah Wyle; The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
A star at last Aug 15, 2008
Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins far left) in The Visitor ... He's Richard Jenkins and at the age of 61, he's made the unexpected but welcome move into leading man territory by headlining The Visitor, an acclaimed new US independent release. (Sydney Morning Herald)
New DVDs: catch Blu-ray reissues and some offbeat gems Aug 13, 2008
"Smart People" is about yet another middle-aged academic male (Dennis Quaid) who has been in an emotional dead zone since his wife passed away (shades of Robin Williams in "Good Will Hunting" and Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor"). But things pick up around the instructor's house after he suffers an injury that forces his ne'er-do-well adoptive brother (Thomas Haden Church) to come and stay for a spell. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
New releases Aug 10, 2008
The stars play layabouts forced to share a bedroom when parents Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins marry. It's an "Oh, no, they didn't" comedy: For every gross-out joke that works there are three that just lie there. (Boston Globe)
Blockbuster stars give lackluster performances Aug 9, 2008
Step Brothers, rated R for despicable language and situations, also stars Richard Jenkins with whom I fell in love with in The Visitor and Mary Steenburgen. To them I say, shame, shame on you both, for choosing to take part in what I consider one of the more asinine, repulsive and pathetic showing in quite some time. (Cedar Park Hill Country News Weekender, TX)
'Step Brothers' is cruel, not funny Aug 4, 2008
Starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott and Andrea Savage. What is Ferrell thinking, or more to the point, what is Reilly thinking. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
MOVIE REVIEW: 'Step Brothers' is silly fun Aug 3, 2008
When Brennan Huff's (Ferrell) mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen), marries Dale Doback's (Reilly) father, Robert (Richard Jenkins), two 40-year-old men become stepbrothers -- and not only that, but because they are both still dependent upon their parents, they must move in together and share a room. When personalities clash, the family's living arrangement become more and more difficult, and Nancy and Robert's marriage becomes strained due to their sons' behavior. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
"Step Brothers" - Ferrell's Finally Back Jul 30, 2008
Their respective parents, Robert Doback (Richard Jenkins) and Nancy Huff (Mary Steenburgen), get married bringing Dale and Brennan under one roof. The film is not one for audiences who dislike vulgarity, since the two stepbrothers - who start off hating one another - conjure up the vilest things to do to each other. (Ohio State University -- The Lantern, OH)
Hollywood duos aren't what they used to be Jul 26, 2008
" "Step Brothers" casts Ferrell and Reilly as middle-aged losers - unemployed slackers, one living with his dad (Richard Jenkins), the other with his mom (Mary Steenburgen). When their parents wed, the two become instant family, sibling rivalry springing up from the start. Sharing the stage was the bread-and-butter for some comedy stars in old Hollywood. Along with duos, there were comedy teams such as the Marx Brothers, the Ritz Brothers and the Three Stooges that worked as inseparable... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Movie Review: Dumb And Dumber Become "Step Brothers" Jul 26, 2008
The two children are happily living off their parents backs, until their parents, Nancy Huff (Mary Steenburgen) and Dr. Robert Doback (Richard Jenkins) meet, fall in love, marry anddisaster. move into Roberts home. (eFluxMedia)
'Step Brothers': Baby Talk, By Kurt Loder Jul 26, 2008
Dale (John C. Reilly), the one vegetating at home with his father (Richard Jenkins), is 40 going on 14 he still owns (and wears) a big Chewbacca head, and he likes to be called "Dragon." Brennan (Will Ferrell), the one living with his mother (Mary Steenburgen), is 39, and partial to Pablo Cruise T-shirts, velociraptors (the coolest dinosaur) and, when angered, teabagging. Brennan also suffers regular humiliation at the hands of his obnoxious brother Derek (Adam Scott), the white sheep of the... (VHI.com -- Music News)
"Step Brothers" Jul 26, 2008
Brennan (Ferrell) and Dale (Reilly) are unemployed 40-ish guys who still live at home, Brennan with his mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen), and Dale with his father, Robert (Richard Jenkins) ... "Step Brothers" was directed by Adam McKay, who also made the very funny and the somewhat less funny -- although it's possible his real masterpiece is the widely circulated short ," in which Ferrell is hassled by a foulmouthed, 2-foot-tall landlady in a dress that resembles an oversize fairy costume. (She... (Salon)
"Step Brothers:" A "Brotherly" Love Story Jul 25, 2008
Reilly plays a "terminally unemployeed" 40-year-old, who lives at home with his father Robert (Richard Jenkins). What starts out as a story of two step brothers bumping heads, ultimately becomes a brotherly love story, Smith observed. (CBS News)
'Step Brothers' is crude, rude -- and funny Jul 25, 2008
meets Dale's dad, Robert (Richard Jenkins, gleefully working the opposite side of the street from his subtle turn in "The Visitor"), and after bonding over their mutual love of Rob Reiner movies, the two professionals are smitten with late-life lust ... Starring: Ferrell, Reilly, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott. (Boston Globe)
Once More to the Well of Goofball Comedy Jul 25, 2008
Richard Jenkins plays Dales crinkly father, Robert, while , as Brennans mother, Nancy, takes the fantasy parent role: shes saintly, sexy her relaxed, ready smile telegraphs satisfaction and endlessly patient ... WITH: Will Ferrell (Brennan Huff), John C. Reilly (Dale Doback), Richard Jenkins (Robert Doback), (Nancy Huff), (Derek Huff) and Kathryn Hahn (Alice Huff). (New York Times)
It's Ferrell vs. Reilly in raunchy farce Jul 25, 2008
When Brennan's mom, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen), marries Dale's dad, Robert (Richard Jenkins), the overgrown adolescents are forced to live under the same roof -- exactly why Nancy and Robert continue to support their kids' lackadaisical lifestyles is a mystery -- and the feuding begins. Ferrell co-wrote the screenplay with director and frequent collaborator Adam McKay, and it's probably safe to assume they left a lot of room to accommodate Ferrell and Reilly's off-the-cuff goofiness. (Kalamazoo Gazette, MI)
Reilly, Ferrell are more like the wrong 'Brothers' Jul 25, 2008
Step Brothers** (out of four)Stars: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins, Mary SteenburgenDirector: Adam McKayDistributor: Columbia PicturesRating: R for crude and sexual content and pervasive languageRunning time: 1 hour, 35 minutesOpens Friday nationwide ... Adding to high expectations: an eclectic supporting cast, with Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) as Reilly's father (and Ferrell's stepfather) and Mary Steenburgen as Ferrell's mom (and Reilly's stepmother). (USA Today -- Life)
Step Brothers has jokes that are good, bad, and silly Jul 25, 2008
Ferrell plays lifelong do-nothing Brennan, an immature goof whose mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen), has let him live at home for far too long. Reilly's Dale is a similar lifelong do-nothing, and as fate would have it Nancy marries Dale's father, Robert (Richard Jenkins), and soon the four are living together in Robert's house. The 40-something boys don't get along at first, but find a common enemy in Brennan's far more successful younger brother, Derek (Adam Scott). (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Ferrell and Reilly are off their game Jul 25, 2008
Richard Jenkins and Adam Scott ... The problem is the concept: Ferrell and Reilly play Brennan and Dale, loafing 40-year-old stepbrothers forced to share a bedroom when Brennan's mother (Mary Steenburgen) and Dale's father (Richard Jenkins) marry and move in together. (Globe and Mail)
Step Brothers: "Oh, Grow Up!" "Never!" Jul 25, 2008
" Thursday, Jul. 24, 2008 By Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in Step Brothers. Gemma La Mana / Columbia Article Tools John C. Reilly has just told his new roommate Will Ferrell that he must never ever touch Reilly's precious drum kit. So as soon as Reilly is out of the house, Ferrell tiptoes into the sanctum, opens his pants and rubs his scrotum on the surface of the snare drum. Taking revenge on a hated rival: it's a moral imperative for great warriors, 8-year-old boys, silverback gorillas and... (Time.com)
Comedy a distant relative to 'Step Brother' Jul 25, 2008
The two paunchy stars play dim-bulb 40-year-old losers (and virgins, I'm guessing) who still live at home with their respective parents (Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins). After Mom and Dad get married, they become stepbrothers who have to share a bedroom. (Florida Times-Union)
'Step Brothers' is a disappointing reunion of Ferrell, Reilly Jul 25, 2008
After Nancy Huff (Mary Steenburgen) and Robert Doback (Richard Jenkins) fall in love and get married, they combine households. Nancy's unemployed 39-year-old son, Brennan (Ferrell), and Robert's layabout 40-year-old, Dale (Reilly), are part of the deal as each still lives with his respective parent. (The Trentonian, NJ)
Review: 'Step Brothers' - 40-year-old goobers Jul 24, 2008
The premise, as any billboard will tell you, is that Brennan Huff (Ferrell) and Dale Doback (Reilly) are forced to live under the same roof when their parents, Robert Doback (Richard Jenkins) and Nancy Huff (Mary Steenburgen), get married. They spend the first part of the movie hating each other, then the second part loving each other, and then the rest trying to get their parents, who divorced in the wake of their friendship, back together. (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Step Brothers,' 3.5 stars Jul 24, 2008
Both still live at home, Brennan with his mom, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen), and Dale with his dad, Robert (Richard Jenkins) ... Cast:Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Hope & Crosby would face rocky Road today Jul 24, 2008
"Step Brothers" casts Ferrell and Reilly as middle-aged losers unemployed slackers, one living with his dad (Richard Jenkins), the other with his mom (Mary Steenburgen). When their parents wed, the two become instant family, sibling rivalry springing up from the start. (MSNBC -- News)
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly buddy up again in so-so 'Step Brothers' Jul 24, 2008
When Dale's father (Richard Jenkins) meets and marries Brennan's mother, however, it disrupts the status quo. Initially Dale and Brennan hate each other, despite their similarities. (New Haven Register, CT)
Ferrell and Reilly step down with `Brothers' Jul 24, 2008
Meanwhile, all Brennan's mom, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen), and Dale's dad, Robert (Richard Jenkins), can do is throw their hands up and sigh in exasperation. Often they scream back with expletives of their own _ because in theory, it's supposed to be shocking to hear dirty words flying from Steenburgen's proper, Southern mouth. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
When somebody needs a brother, here's Adam Scott Jul 23, 2008
So when he heard about Step Brothers, he thought "it was such a perfect idea." The plot finds two deadbeat adults (Ferrell and Reilly) forced to share a bedroom after Ferrell's mother (Mary Steenburgen) falls in love and marries Reilly's father (Richard Jenkins). Scott is Steenburgen's other, more successful son, who doesn't get along with either of the two. (USA Today)
Naughty but nice Step Brothers Jul 23, 2008
The adolescent grown-ups this time around are Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C. Reilly), who find themselves thrown together when Brennans mom Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) marries Dales dad Robert (Richard Jenkins) ... Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard JenkinsDirector: Adam McKay Run time: 1 hour, 35 minutesMPAA rating: R. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Ferrell, Reilly refuse to grow up in Step Brothers Jul 19, 2008
Reilly plays 40-year-old Dale, a perpetually unemployed slob who lives with his single dad, played by Richard Jenkins. After the two parents meet, fall in love and get married, Brennan and Dale are forced to live together as stepbrothers and immediately find themselves hating each other. (Vancouver Sun)
Brash Entertainment Presents a Small Hero in a Big Adventure in The Tale of Despereaux Jul 13, 2008
Directed by Sam Fell tevenhagen and produced by Gary Ross and Allison Thomas, The Tale of Despereaux features the voice talent of Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy, Tony Hale, Ciaran Hinds, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, Christopher Lloyd, William H. Macy, James Nesbitt, Stanley Tucci, Tracey Ullman, Emma Watson and Sigourney Weaver. The game will follow and extend the film's storyline in adventures spanning from the magical kitchen and colorful... (IGN PS2)
2008's top 10 flicks so far Jul 7, 2008
10 The Visitor: Director Tom McCarthy's film about a listless college instructor who dedicates himself to his friendship with a Syrian musician (Haaz Sleiman) is a coming-out party for Richard Jenkins, who's fantastic as the professor. It's also a withering look at U.S. immigration policy that will leave you angry and frustrated, as it does Jenkins' character. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
In cinemas this weekend Jul 5, 2008
The Visitor (15) (Thomas McCarthy, 2007, US) Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Hiam Abbass. 106 mins. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The Visitor (15) Jul 4, 2008
To this august crew you can add Richard Jenkins, and, before you say, "who?", be assured that you'll know his face from minor roles in at least half-a-dozen Hollywood movies ... This is where Richard Jenkins's performance becomes so vital to the film. (Independent)
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly Bond in 'Reel Comedy: Step Brothers' Premiering Monday, July 21 at Midnight* on COMEDY CENTRAL(R) Jul 3, 2008
COMEDY CENTRAL's "Reel Comedy: Step Brothers" is hosted by comedian Paul F. Tompkins, who visits the set of the film to get the scoop on the nasty on- screen family business of the film's stars Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen. Tompkins also talks to the film's director, Adam McKay, who discusses why people can't live with their families but can't live without them. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
