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Example sentences for: miscast
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The play "is so wildly miscast and so haplessly misconceived that it is hard to figure out what its creators exactly had in mind," says the New York Times ' Brantley.
Critics call this courtroom thriller about a lawyer (John Travolta) on a crusade against a polluting company "perversely undramatic" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Some say a miscast Travolta fails to convey the finer points of his character's internal struggles.
Pans also for the normally sunny Ryan, miscast here as a leather-clad bitch bent on punishing her ex: "The same way a Care Bear is a teeth-baring grizzly" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). (The Addicted to Love site has a plot summary as well as stills and clips.)
Also treated kindly is Michael Schulhof, the miscast head of Sony's American operations (he had no background in the movie business).
Michael Hoffman, the director and "screenwriter" of the all-star movie called William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (evidently to distinguish it from Stephen King's A Midsummer Night's Dream ), has wedged the play into a weirdly inapposite setting, has stupidly cut and even more stupidly embellished it, and has miscast it almost to a player.