Sentences with phrase «mean girls character»

Not exact matches

In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.

One key reason, Bushman said, was that males who identified with their video game characters were more likely to agree with masculine beliefs like «It is OK for a guy to use any and all means to «convince» a girl to have sex» and «Boys should be encouraged to find a means of demonstrating physical prowess.»

You'll identify with or at least recognize some of the characters: There's the mean - girl cheerleader, Kara; the introspective mysterious foreigner, Jordi; the quirky girl who wears a trilby hat, Emma; and the leader, Leo, who is a teen heartthrob minus the hair (a side effect of chemotherapy).

Consumers are sometimes under the mistaken impression that if a Russian or Ukraine girl's photo and profile is on an agency's website means the agency vouches for the woman, for her character and trustworthiness.

Her speeches about sisterhood and self - esteem, though, are at odds with the movie's habit of humiliating female characters — a couple of campus mean girls, and particularly the frosty blonde siren (Julie Bowen) who intends to marry Deanna's ex.

Simultaneously preposterous and dull, Dear Dictator is the kind of movie where music and wardrobe choices — like the mean girls» stridently visible underwear — substitute for character.

By forcing these two characters — along with gumshoe Guy Lapointe (Johnny Depp), who also appeared in Tusk — to do battle with a malefactor from Canada's past, Yoga Hosers is meant, to some degree, to chronicle the two girls» increasing awareness of a world outside their narrow fame - obsessed purview.

Goldthwait, on screenwriting and directing duty for the fourth time, ups the ante of precocious C - bomb dropping teenage girls (an alarming number of these characters seem to be popping up, from Hit Girl to Boltie) with Roxy (Tara Lynn Barr) who might not have the best aim with a handgun, but does a mean Jeff Foxworthy impression and has an impressively long list of grievances (and Star Trek trivia) for one so young.

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.

«In the updated take, Heathers picks up 20 years later, with Veronica (Ryder's character) returning home to Sherwood with her teenage daughter, who must contend with the next generation of mean girls: the Ashleys: the daughters of the surviving Heathers,» writes THR.

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).

Radha Mitchell takes the role of the girl we relate to, as the main character is meant to be impossible to relate to.

If Albert Nobbs is meant to be a tender character study of a little girl lost (take your pick), there's a big, giant hollow in the middle of it where motivation should be.

(There is a bully character, a cardboard cutout mean girl played by Debby Ryan, but outside of throwing a few shady looks Deanna's way, she never poses any real threat to her.)

However, the action is best served when martial arts is employed, which is fairly often, meaning that Snake Eyes (Park, X-Men), Storm Shadow, and new movie character, Jinx (Yung, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), get plenty of screen time.

Though Debby Ryan was kind of tame for the mean - girl character, the film overall was very enjoyable.

To find a girl with such fortitude and moral stamina despite her upbringing and longings means the central character is both fascinating and easy to pull for.

There is no cartoon evil or sex comedy foolishness driving any of the characters, and even the meanest mean girl and the bro - est sex - obsessed bro dude have a couple moments that paint them as real people, or at least as real as high school kids can be.

Fandom KK Miller reports on the backlash in Japan against fujoshi (female yaoi fans; the word means «rotten girls») who draw themselves as boys - love characters and post the results on Twitter.

This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots arrives to change everything; Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late.

Dowell has given us a true hero in the character of Callie, a girl just realizing what segregation means in her life.

With the game having an immersive feeling and the characters around town you can get joy when you fix up the town hall and marry that cute awkward girl you may have had an eye on if you know who I mean.

Besides a unique (and clunky) melee attack, each girl plays exactly the same, meaning your character choice will mainly be a matter of personal preference.