Sentences with phrase «motel life movie»

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The result is a movie that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, documentary and feature film, telling the story of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every day and featuring dozens of extras who live within miles of the set.

I unwittingly went to a movie at the theater that was in Risky Business and I drove by the motel from Planes Trains and Automobiles weekly when I was dating my now husband who lived only down the road from it.

A movie about some people who are staying or living at a dumpy Niagara Falls motel or eating at a nearby diner.

Director Sean Baker turned in one of the best movies of 2015 with «Tangerine,» and he's done it again this year with this slice - of - life drama set among struggling families residing in a run - down Orlando motel.

The intent was to use the movie as a backdoor pilot for a weekly anthology series of sorts, following the lives of individuals passing through as guests of the motel, but when ratings for the movie proved disappointing, the plan for the series was abandoned.

Behind the candy - cute surface of the movie are hard truths — behind them, substantial research into the real low - cost motels that ring the Disney empire, lived in by poor families since the financial crash of 2008.

Add in Willem Dafoe's stern but loving motel manager, torn between his desire to protect the children and keeping even a little sense of authority and propriety in the sideshow circus that is the transient motel living population, and you've got a movie with a vital and exposed beating heart.

For his new movie, the director takes the camera down to the level of the six - year - olds living in a budget motel outside Disney World.

A sensation at the Cannes, Toronto and New York film festivals (it opens Oct. 6), the movie is set at the Magic Castle motel near Orlando, a sun - kissed lavender flophouse where Halley (Bria Vinaite), a ne'er - do - well sexpot with exploding rose tattoos and hair dyed the color of fiberglass, lives with her 6 - year - old daughter, Moonee (the remarkable Brooklynn Kimberly Prince).

Can this movie about people living on the fringes in an Orlando motel crack the Best Picture race?

«The Florida Project,» a film about young children living in motels near Walt Disney World Resort, has collected the Intergenerational Award at AARP The Magazine's 17th Annual Movies for Grownups Awards.

Of her travels she shares that «my favorite experience is to drive and stop wherever I want to, take pictures, visit small, traditionally unattractive cities, stay in motels and live my own private movie.»