El Infierno is a dark comedy that doesn't so much glorify the drug world as it does satirize the politics surrounding it.
If the underside of banality is black comedy, the underside of dark comedy may be an almost limitless reserve of pity.
Ms. Ireland starts at the top of the board with "Murders and Acquisitions, " a dark comedy set in the world of high finance.
Rowling's first adult offering, a dark comedy titled The Casual Vacancy, is due to be published in the UK and US this September.
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This dark comedy, based on a true story, and directed by Richard Linklater, is a hybrid form part dramatization, part documentary, with interviews with actual people from Carthage.
In a Los Angeles-filed federal court complaint that reads like a Hollywood treatment for a dark comedy, the SEC charged Pacific Asian Atlantic Foundation (PAAF) and its president, Samuel M.
What is supposed to be its finest hour - the 1984 kidnapping of foreign diplomats at a Canadian National Day celebration at a Vienna hotel - turns into dark comedy.
Afternoon Delight (Jill Soloway): A Dark comedy about an L.A. housewife who puts her perfect lifestyle in jeopardy when she tries to save a stripper by hiring her as the nanny.
The sorority email is amusing when Michael Shannon reads it on Funny Or Die or when you think of it as a great dark comedy monologue for Parker Posey to recite.
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New director awards went to Canada's Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais for his dark comedy, Whitewash about a man trying to survive a harsh Canadian winter, and American Sean Dunne for Oxyana, set in a rural coal mining town riddled with an addiction to pain relief medication.
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Touchy Feely tells the story of a massage therapist unable to do her job when she suddenly has an aversion to bodily contact, while Jill Soloway's Afternoon Delight is a dark comedy about a lost LA housewife who takes in a young stripper as a live-in nanny.
Barry Levinson wrote and directed this dark, nervous comedy about fame and misfortune.
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The show combined dark, often absurd, comedy, with gritty realism.
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But Jordan manages to unite everything the florid imagery, the dark emotional undertones, the flaky comedy, the astonishing physical beauty of the Irish seacoast into a single, unbroken mood, a smooth arc connecting the past and the present, the familiar and the unforeseen.
While nominated for the role of the steely CIA operative responsible for the killing if Osama bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty, Chastain also has horror, comedy and an off-the-wall Terrence Malick flick on her recent resume making her just the kind of versatile actress audiences love.
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As she did then, executive producer Darlene Hunt continues to liken their attempt to lighten an otherwise dark topic to MASH, which was at its core a comedy about war.
Among the newcomers: Sons of Anarchy, a dark, gritty drama about a notorious motorcycle club, and Testees, a comedy about 30-somethings who earn their living as medical guinea pigs.
But the scriptwriters' attempts to tone down the comedy, made Dalton's Bond in The Living Daylights and A Licence To Kill, a dark, vulnerable, humourless man.
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