Sentences with phrase «filly brown»
«Filly Brown»: A hip - hop - driven drama about a Mexican girl who rises to fame and consciousness as she copes with the incarceration of her mother through music.
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The disc opens with thirteen minutes of trailers, promoting The Imposter, Wasted on the Young, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D, Life Without Principle, Sacrifice, Luv, and Filly Brown.
Her other credits include «Filly Brown,» «The Bold and the Beautiful,» and «Deepwater Horizon.»
The former star of Sundance standout «Filly Brown» is garnering critical adoration for her starring role on the CW's new dramedy, as a young woman who finds herself both a virgin and pregnant.
Following graduation, Rodriguez booked her first lead role in the feature film «Tiny Dancer,» before breaking out with her performance as the title character in «Filly Brown.»
She is known for her roles as Majo Tenorio in musical - drama film Filly Brown, as Andrea Fleytas in Deepwater Horizon and as Jane Villanueva in the CW comedy - drama series Jane the Virgin, for which she has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress — Television Series Musical or Comedy, winning in 2015.
Filly Brown plays out like a caricature of every stereotypical Sundance drama about plucky young heroines who overcome great adversity just by sticking to their guns and never abandoning their dreams.
Unfortunately, the filmmakers don't know how to dramatize the travails of a supposedly talented Latina rapper — «supposedly» because the song that's meant to prove she's a talented and soulful performer has laughably obnoxious lyrics that boast how Maria «Filly Brown» Tonorio (newcomer Gina Rodriguez) is true to herself because she doesn't have «fake tits» or that she's so fierce that she practically has two clitorises and will even take on «anyone with two tits.»
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The distal end of the filly's cannon bone in her left foreleg, just above the ankle, had snapped in half, and the shaft of it was white and bare and jutting, like a peg leg, from a thin brown stocking of skin.