Sentences with phrase «foster parents of the girls»

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Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Telling the story of a German girl, during World War II, who hides a Jewish man in the basement of her foster parents» home.

An adaptation of the best - selling novel by Marcus Zusak (it spent over 280 weeks on the New York Times» bestseller list), the film stars Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and «Monsieur Lazhar» youngster Sophie Nelisse, in the tale of a young girl, living outside Munich during WWII with her foster parents, who has to help hide a Jewish refugee in their home.

They have not had much, if any, experience outside of their back yard, and were treated horribly by their awful owner; after a few months with their foster parents both girls have made great improvements and is becoming wonderful family pets.

They haven't had much, if any, experience outside of their back yard and was treated horribly by their owner; but after a few months with their foster parents both girls have made great improvements and is becoming wonderful family pets.

He thought of the more minor offenders, agonizing over the young ones especially, whose lives were spiraling, the ones who perhaps had things left in them to do, the ones who wouldn't likely ever murder, but had been unable to extricate themselves from these spirals, from their deranged fathers or their addled mothers, from the lack of any parents, from sexual abuse, from the vagaries of the foster care system, from the sorts of daily hurdles that Walters would never have dreamed about — the boys (and occasional girls) who were at that corner, who could turn, the ones whose direction wasn't already set.

Kids Crossing was created BY foster parents FOR foster parents because of a little girl named Punkin.

The present study evaluated the efficacy of the Middle School Success intervention (MSS; now called KEEP SAFE [Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported]-RRB- for reducing substance use and delinquency among girls in foster care.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The current study examined the immediate impact of the Middle School Success intervention (MSS, now called KEEP SAFE [Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported]-RRB- targeting the prevention of internalizing and externalizing problems for girls in foster care prior to middle school entry.