This one just takes a chance on doing things differently.
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Kingsley takes a chance on him even though he can tell Danny's an alcoholic.
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I feel like the only way I'll get noticed or hired is if someone takes a chance on me.
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This point, hammered home everywhere from the dialogue to the cringey voiceover in the trailer that tells us that "sometimes you have to run out of chances, before someone takes a chance on you" is ironic on many levels.
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In "Assistant Wanted, Female," Mary's boss Lou Grant (Ed Asner) allows her to hire some help, and she takes a chance on her snobbish, conceited neighbor Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman) who has a hard time taking orders from someone she considers her inferior.
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Working as usual in beautiful Technicolor, Donen adapts Norman Krasna's play "Kind Sir" into a handsome chamber piece about a popular actress (Ingrid Bergman) who takes a chance on a married man (Grant), only to discover that he's not telling her the full truth, either.
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Simonson, Robert and Jones, Kenneth. "Musicals Tonight! Takes a Chance on 'Cabin in the Sky'" playbill.com, October 21, 2003"'Cabin in the Sky' Reviews" musicalstonight.
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The Electronic Banking Edition uses VISA-branded debit cards and a debit card reader for monetary transactions, instead of paper bills."Monopoly Takes A Chance On Plastic" from Sky News. Accessed July 24, 2006.
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As a jazz pianist, Paul Boyer (Gérard Blain) has lots of free time during the day. He spends those days with his son Marc, until he realizes that he is broke. Because of his nagging wife, Paul takes a chance on running counterfeit dollars to New York for a hefty profit. He gets caught, and spends nine years in New York prison.
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Army disapproves of Maish's plans and refuses to be a part of them. Just before he is scheduled to go into the wrestling ring in a humiliating mountain man costume, McClintock learns of Maish's betting against him, and parts ways with his manager and mentor. Though he feels that boxing can ruin men's lives, Maish finds another promising young boxer to train. McClintock takes a chance on working with children at summer camp.
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Race-car driver Gino Borgesa meets a ballerina, Nicole Laurent, whose pet poodle causes a crash at the track. She persuades an ex-lover to give Gino money for a new car. They begin a romance, although Gino warns her that his racing comes first. After winning a 1,000-mile race, Gino is hired by a successful racing team managed by Maglio, who is leery of Gino's reckless driving tactics but takes a chance on him at the urging of veteran driver Carlos Chavez.
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He has tried to do this several times before, and each time left a note to his girlfriend, photographer Connie Martin. When Donovan goes to Jones Beach to drown himself, he notices a swimsuit-clad woman who is the spitting image of the Randolph Girl. Before he has a chance to contact her, she disappears into a dressing room, and he doesn't recognize her amid all the women coming out. He takes a chance on a girl named Ruth Wilson, and follows her to her home.
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She coaches May to speak with confidence and provides her knowledge of the architect firm. Michael refuses to hire May at first but takes a chance on her when she reminds him of Gin. May who was only interested in the attractive salary of the position at first begins to take her work seriously when she gets to know Michael better and learns how important his current project is to him. Gin who finds herself able to enter May's body uses this advantage to physically connect with Michael.
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The narrator, Tommy (Scott Porter), is young, clever, charming, and attractive. He's got a smart, pretty girlfriend, Beth (Alexis Bledel), a young Manhattanite and urban conservationist. He's also very good at his investment broker job, impressing his ruthless, cynical boss, Cash (Andrew McCarthy). When a key member of Tommy's sales team suddenly leaves for a competitor, Tommy needs to fill his spot quickly, and takes a chance on the bumbling Daniel (Bryan Greenberg), a former avionics engineer and computer geek who seems a bit naïve about high finance and a bit nervous around women.
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