Sentences with phrase «american girl characters»

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Consider how Christian Bale's character was able to hide behind his image in American Psycho with the help connections, and how the bad rap of Emma Stone's character in Easy A created an unnecessarily tough situation for a girl who actually had good intentions.

Seventy films were devoid of Asian or Asian - American speaking characters that were girls or women.

Playmobil, Little Kingdom play sets, American Girl outfits and accessories, Littlest Pet Shop characters and Barbie outfits all contribute to toy collections that we already have.

American Girl offers so many dolls, accessories and characters to choose from; every girl is sure to find a favorGirl offers so many dolls, accessories and characters to choose from; every girl is sure to find a favorgirl is sure to find a favorite!

We think the trendy Logan will appeal to both girls and boys, and look forward to American Girl adding more new characters to its diverse line.

A boy character doll has reportedly been a top request from American Girl fans for many years.

American Girl has changed a lot over the years but their characters remain classics, with both modern and historical stories that girls can relate to and learn from.

Some of our choices when they were about four to six years old were the magical «Faraway Tree» series by Enid Blyton; the AA Milne books about Winnie - the - Pooh and other characters; the «Sophie» series by Dick King - Smith about a small but determined girl who wants to be a farmer; The American «Ramona» series by Beverly Cleary, featuring another small but determined girl.

Ivy has been an American Girl Doll and a character on Gossip Girl and Downton Abbey.

In my favorite, All - American Girl, there's a scene where the main character attends art class and is chastised for painting a still life of grapes that looks nothing like the fruit they're using as a model.

American Dreamz tracks the lives of three characters particularly — the host, a Simon Cowell impersonation done half - heartedly by Hugh Grant; the star, Mandy Moore as a white - trash girl with dreams of fame and fortune; and the laughable, Muslim immigrant Omer, selected only to allow the manufacture of religious tension with a Jewish contestant.

While it is true that the unassailable main character who leaves a wake of bodies in their path isn't often a waiflike teen girl, and not all action flicks feature European scenery (a novelty for North American audiences), the gratuitous content is just like most other offerings in this genre.

Caught somewhere between girl next door and Middle American white - trash, her quiet strength and sympathetic nature make the character of Cherry more intriguing than one might think.

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl — Picturehouse, 91 min — Patricia Rozema directs this G - rater featuring a character based on the popular girls» doll products, written for the screen by Ann Peacock, based on stories by Valerie Tripp.

Labor Day is certainly a change of shade for writer / director Jason Reitman, who previously unearthed the humor in his American character dramas, however dark their content (such as with the dark but funny soul erosion of Charlize Theron's non-matured mean girl in Young Adult).

Disney tries a few new tricks with an African American cast of characters (the first time since 1947's Song of the South), a contemporary setting (New Orleans in the 20's), and a «princess» in the form of a working class girl with a dream, but more than that, an actual willingness to roll up her sleeves and do something about it.

Given the good looks the actress inherited from her real - life mother (her bio states that her father is Jewish and her mother Filipino, African - American, German and British Isles) coupled with her character, Nadine's intelligence, she could have been the most popular girl in her class.

Lavant, the lead actor, is familiar to American audiences from his lead performances in the first three features of Leos Carax — Boy Meets Girl (1984), Bad Blood (1986), and Lovers on the Bridge (1992)-- in which he plays essentially the same character, a guy named Alex, Carax's own real first name.

Slow, not terribly interested in lore or internal logic, and fatally hamstrung by the choice of actors like Billy Crystal and a zombified Emily Mortimer to voice its American dub, it's a regression for Miyazaki from his last two films (Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away) in almost every sense, starting with his decision to have a lonely young woman as the central character in place of the prepubescent little girls front and centre in most of his masterpieces (the last two films, Kiki's Delivery Service, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and My Neighbor Totoro) and ending with a gross simplification of his usually complex themes of confidence and actualization into a colourless, flavourless drone about the hard - to - dispute badness of war.

Author Stieg Larsson's «The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo» characters will live on in a new book penned by author Daniel Lagercrantz, but will the American movie versions continue?

So to have those characters and to be able to be that for young African - American girls or just young people in general is really empowering.»

Aside from pointed and repeated hints that the American gunslinger harbours a dark secret, Hartnett's character seems awkwardly grafted onto the story, serving mainly to keep his girlfriend (Billie Piper, again cast as a prostitute after her starring role in «Secret Diary of a Call Girl») in the picture — for reasons that become evident before too long.

More than twenty years later, director Jim McBride and co-writer L.M. Kit Carson relocated the story from Paris to Los Angeles and swapped the nationalities of the characters: the two - bit thief is now a callow American (Richard Gere) who loves Jerry Lee Lewis and «The Silver Surfer» comic book and the girl (Valérie Kaprisky) a French exchange student at USC.

Audiences include McDonald's Global Women's Leadership Network Conference, American Academy of Pediatrics, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Character Plus, Phi Delta Kappa, Character Education Partnerships, the Malaysia Ministry of Education, and La Leche League.

Hidalgo, a South American drug lord and Manuela, a mysterious girl will be the key characters in Leon's special mission in South America.

The North American version of SIX STARS!!!!!! will include the majority of its Japanese arcade counterpart content at launch, featuring new character «Minori Amanohara» and the Arcana «Ichor, Arcana of Blood»; funded stretch goals have insured the PC version will receive an exclusive new character and Arcana ability - «Shark Girl» and «Paracelsia» - though both items will be administered as paid - DLC to those who did not participate in the Kickstarter campaign.

Among the cast of characters in the movie is Sarah Jane, a light - skinned black girl who rejects her mother and passes as white to escape the fate of American second - class citizenship.

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