main part
leading part / title role
box office success
box office winner / smash hit / commercial hit / good box office
gripping plot
weak / unconvincing / tedious and clichéd plot
to be ... one's best
at
to lack ... realism
-
loud applause
thunderous / enthusiastic / lengthy applause
produce a play
put on / stage a play
brilliant acting
poor / amateurish / mediocre acting
a trailer ... the movie
for
to break ... applause
into
stagehand
scene-shifter
scriptwriter
screen writer
responsive audience
unresposive / unsympathetic / listless audience
to enter ... the part
into
to play ... the gallery
to
to close the curtain
to draw the curtain / to pull the curtain
weak applause
polite applause / light applause
to be a success
to be a total (terrible) flop / an utter (complete) failure / a fiasco/ To flop
to gasp ... admiration
with
to rattle ... the lines
off
to click with the public
to get over the footlights / to bring down the house
a tear-jerking romance
a tear-jerker / a tear-tearing film
fabulous scenery
sloppy scenery
What's ... ... the cinema?
on at
to be short ... experience
on